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Hi - I'm not sure what happened here, and I'm hoping someone can help. Basically, we are starting to film library programs for local TV. A colleague at the high school with a lot of experience was kind enough to buy us a mybook external drive (one terabyte!) to store our video and audio files. We use an iMac and two eMacs for the teen digital film club and have also just been given a white macbook specifically for production. So -
We (my teen assistant and I) had been able to move files over to the drive manually before. But, on getting the macbook, I got some raw film footage onto it, edited it, and then wanted to get that film onto the mybook in order to make room for a second hour of film to be edited on the macbook. But -
As I tried to show my colleague how to connect the external drive to the macbook, some message came up very quickly - did I want to use the mybook to back up the macbook using Time Machine? I tried to click "no" - there was a scary warning about losing all the info on the drive, and I did not want that to happen! I just wanted to be able to move stuff between the computers and the drive, as we have been doing. I don't know what I did wrong, but, after connecting the drive to the macbook, there is an empty file on the external drive which has the same name as the new macbook, and we can no longer copy anything manually. How can I correct this?

Just to let everyone know: my problem is solved - after a fashion.
When I contacted customer support, I got told the formatting of the drive was not a problem; they sent them out this way so they would be universally compatible. But, since we were sharing the drive between macs, the tech support person thought it would be a good idea to reformat it. He also explained that the original formatting didn't allow transfers of more than 4 gigs - a problem for us, since we are regularly working with larger files.
So he told us how to reformat using disc utility in Leopard. And then we discovered our second problem. The disc could not be reformatted. Nor could it be verified or repaired. It is too damaged to use.
We now have a case number and therefore should be able to replace the hard drive. So that's what happened.

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