Icons flicker and external drives don't work
anyone having this issue? It just started today.
the icons on the Late 2009 iMac desktop will flicker and when i try to copy a folder to one of my extarnal Seagate HD's the icons flash and the transfer stops.
thanks for any help. I looked on some boards but not seeing the flicker problem yet.
Thanks for your input AppleMan1958.
1) Make sure VIEW/EVENTS BY DISK is selected.
Check, had already tried this but nothing shows no matter what I do.
2) Make sure the iMovie Projects folder and the iMovie Events folder on the external drive are at the top level of the drive. If they are within another folder, iMovie will not see them.
Check, all 4 drives have these folders at the top level.
3) If you open iMovie within another user account, and everything works fine, then this is probably a corrupt preferences file. You can correct by trashing your preferences, as described here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4061
Tried this, no difference I'm afraid. Also, all four accounts on this computer exhibit the same behavior. All drives and projects show in the Projects window but nothing shows in the Events window. I even created a brand new account and it's doing the same thing.
One other little detailed I should have mentioned. I had a hard drive "failure" just before this started but managed to coax all the information from the failing drive on to a new one before it failed completely (interface issue on the external case and not a problem with the hard drive itself, I am now using the drive in a dock as a backup drive). I now realize it would have been preferable to copy the movies to the new drive within iMovie but at the time was just focused on trying to save the information so did it through the OS. As it was I had to resort to copying individual clips from the old drive to the new because copying more than a couple of Gig at a time would fail.
I'm starting to consider picking up a new internal drive and re-installing everything from scratch and then manually copying over the user data files to make sure nothing corrupt gets copied over ?
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