Make Shared Folder into External Hard Drive

For backup purposes I would like to disguise a shared folder as an external drive.
The best way I can explain it is move a folder in the Finder window from 'Places' to 'Devices'.
Let me know if you need more of an explanation...my Google-Fu is failing me.

Converting your shared folder to a disk image should do what you want. Mouunt the disk image and the data mounts in /Volumes, just like a physical drive.

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I put all my itunes folder on external hard drive, now I want to put it back on the mac how do i do this

put all my itunes folder on external hard drive, now I want to put it back on the mac how do i do this.

Drag the entire iTunes folder back to /Music.

Moved iTunes folder to external hard drive

I have a 40-gig iBook and wanted to create more space on the hard drive so I pick up a 160 gig external hard drive. I copied the iTunes folded onto the new external hard drive including the iTunes Library, iTunes Music and the iTunes Music Library.xml files. I then went to the iTunes reference folder and changed the location of the folder to the new external hard drive. My music shows up in iTunes but when I select a song I get the “The song “___” could not be found. Would you like to locate it” error message. How do I fix this problem without relocating each song?

OK try this. Warning, while I am hoping it won't this might lose all your ratings, playcounts, and playlists.
Exit iTunes. Go into the iTunes folder and make a copy of the two database files onto your desktop. These are the files that contain the ratings, playcounts, playlists, etc. If you don't care about those things, then skip this and go to the next step.
Now create a NEW iTunes library by following these instructions...
How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304447
Now, grab, drag, and drop the iTunes music folder where your music and other media already is, onto your new library. It should now add all the stuff to the library AND know where it is now. It may create a new copy of everything on your hard drive, so you need to have enough room to do this. When it is done, you can go ahead and delete the old location you just dragged and dropped if it was all copied into the new library's music folder.
Again, if you don't care about ratings, playlists, etc. you can stop here since you now have everything back in your library and working. If you want to try and save your ratings, etc. we can try this...
Exit iTunes. Go get those copies of the database files you put on the desk top. Move them and overwrite the ones that were created in your brand new library. Restart iTunes. Did you get them back?
Patrick

Importing a contact folder from external hard drive onto new iphone

It is kind of a long story...my mom was updating iphone on computer when computer crashed. iphone crashed. had friend move all info from crashed computer onto external hard drive. got new iphone.
so, she no longer has a computer and we have to share mine. she has her own itunes on an external drive and i have my own itunes on another hard drive. i got almost everything except the contacts moved back on her phone. i see the folder and contacts in a 'contact' folder on the external hard drive, but how do I move that to the new iphone without it being in outlook/google/yahoo. i tried 'adding folder' to the library containing the contacts, but that didn't work.
any suggestions? thanks!!!

thanks for the advise about the two users. so, i did that. but, now cannot seem to import the contact folder into the Address Book. the files in the 'contact'-hard drive are called CONTACT files (.contact). i don't know what that means. can i open those in the address book?

New folder for external hard drive?

How can I give myself permission to make a new folder on my external hard drive? Right now it is in a "You can read only" status.
Thanks, and Im new on here so I don't know if I'm posting this to the correct group.

Click on the drive, choose Get Info from the File menu, and check the format.
If it's formatted as NTFS, reformat it as MS-DOS, exFAT, or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as desired, or install software such as Paragon NTFS on the computer.
If it's formatted as FAT32 or exFAT, use the Disk Utility's Repair Disk command on it; this may also happen for a flash drive which is about to fail.
If it's formatted as Mac OS Extended, change the permissions on that specific folder in its Get Info window.
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Disk utility to make bootable Vista on external hard drive

Hi All,
I've browsed a bit in search of an answer to this question but I've not gotten anything definitive yet. I hope you can help...
My goal is to do turn a disk image (iso) into a bootable Vista install, on an external hard drive. I have successfully done this on the EHD using this process:
http://iuseapple.com/blog/apple-how-to/advanced-os-x/2007/10/29/how-to-install-l eopard-from-external-firewire-hard-drive/
My reasoning was that a similar process would work for Vista, but I'm hitting a wall. Some ideas of what may be the problem:
The Vista partition on my EHD is 2.5 gigs, which is just a hair larger than my iso of Vista. Should I make the partition more generous?
The partition is formatted in FAT32. I have had issues with this before, when trying to put over 2GB (or was it 4GB?) onto a FAT32 disk at once. I learned how to split dmgs/isos into pieces and move them over like that. Could that be the issue? If so, is it possible to accomplish my goal with a multi-part image?
I don't know that much about Vista. Will it just not tolerate a boot from an EHD?
The progress I've made so far is limited--I keep hitting a wall in Disk Utility. As in the Leopard approach, I attempt to Restore the image (Vista.iso) to the target drive (Win Vista). The computer thinks about it and then gives me a 254 error and a message along the lines of "could not validate source."
Any help would be appreciated. (Including a definitive "this won't work.")
Thanks in advance,
edge65

Windows will neither install on nor boot from external drives.

Impact of moving movie project folder to external hard drive

I am trying to free up hard drive space, and want to move my competed imovie project folders to an external hard drive.
I want to still be able to watch the movies on Apple TV, iTunes (via iPods) and Front Row.
I created mv4 files and QuickTime files to view on Apple TV, iTunes (via iPods) and Front Row.
So, my dumb question is (and the answer may be obvious): Does removing the imovie project folder for completed projects, which are quite large (5 o r 6GB) have an impact on my ability to watch the movies in the above formats?
One more piece of information is that I do not keep my external hard drive connected permanently as it is more of a backup drive. Also, if want to edit the project, I would simply edit it from the external hard drive.
Thanks in advance.
Russell

Before anything else, make sure that the external drive is formatted a 'Mac OS Extended', otherwise it'll be incompatible with editing your movies.
(..To check how it's formatted, Ctrl-click on its icon, and choose 'Get Info' ..to reformat it - if necessary - use Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility. BEWARE: reformatting a disc deletes everything that's already on it!..)

ITunes New Install into External Hard Drive

Hi There!
I downloaded itunes (itunes.dmg) install from the Apple site & when I tried to open it into my external hard drive, the disk utility window opens up. I've always had problems opening up downloads from emails & other sources & must be needing something in addition to open them up properly. My Windows computer easily opens anything up. WHAT ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE IS RECOMMENDED TO PROPERLY OPEN UP DOWNLOADS/ATTACHMENTS?
Thanks.
Rick

when I tried to open it into my external hard drive
What does that mean?
You should not need any other programs to open typical downloads. A .dmg file is as typical as it gets on a Mac.
If you double-click on a .dmg file and Disk Utility opens up, you may have inadvertently assigned .dmg files to be opened by Disk Utility. Try this. Right (control) click on the .dmg file. Select Get Info from the contextual menu. In the Get Info window, look down to where it says Open with. It should say DiskImageMounter. If it does not, select DiskImageMounter. Then click Change All... button to make all .dmg files open correctly.

Moving iTunes Library folder to External Hard Drive?

My iTunes Library folder is currently on my (internal) hard drive, which is very low on space. A great deal of my music is on my external hard drive, which iTunes accesses just fine (I've not, of course, chosen to copy the music into the iTunes Library folder). My question is, is there an easy way to change the iTunes Library folder to a directory on my external hard drive and ensure that new things I download such as purchased music or apps will download to that directory? I changed the folder as shown in the Advanced tab of Preferences to my external drive, tried downloading an app, and it still downloaded to the internal hard drive.
I'm starting to get a bit claustrophobic about space left on my main drive, and I'd like to relieve it if possible. Thanks!
EazyCheeze

In Windows, you go through File >> Library >> Organize Library. here you can choose to consolidate your library. this should do the job.. alternatively you could take a look at this blog..
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/19/how-to-keep-your-itunes-library-on-an-external-ha rd-drive/
Even though its step by step on mac you should be able to figure it out from there.
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Error message when moving iTunes music folder to External Hard Drive

I have followed the instructions in Apple support to move my iTunes music folder to an external hard drive. During the consolidate library step, only half of my music is transferred before I get the error message "Copying music failed. The disk could not be read from or written to."
Has anyone gotten the same message, and what was your experience correcting the issue?
15" Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

In Windows, you go through File >> Library >> Organize Library. here you can choose to consolidate your library. this should do the job.. alternatively you could take a look at this blog..
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/19/how-to-keep-your-itunes-library-on-an-external-ha rd-drive/
Even though its step by step on mac you should be able to figure it out from there.
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File transfer from MacBook Pro into external hard drive

I can't copy files from the MacBook into an external hard drive.
In the 'Get Info' section, it says read-only. However, the hard drive have just been recently bought.
I had the same problem with our previous hard drive. Although the previous hard drive was 'read-only' I was able to copy and paste files in our old HP laptop.
What can I do in order to copy and paste files from the MacBook into the hard drive?
Hard drive = Toshiba
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In my last paragraph, I said
"Note that Windows PCs cannot write natively to an HFS drive, so if you need to exchange files between Mac and PC, we need to talk about different options."
Windows cannot read Mac Extended (HFS) formatted drives; the Mac cannot write to Windows (NTFS) formatted drives.
The only formats fully compatible between Mac and PC are FAT32 (largely deprecated) and exFAT. If you need full read-write compatibility between Windows and Mac, and you can erase the drive (ie, it's a new drive or you have confirmed backups), reformat to exFAT using Disk Utility.
If you have a drive with files on it and you cannot erase them at the moment:
- if the drive is formatted for the Mac, you can purchase MacDrive for the PC
- if the drive is formatted for Windows (NTFS), you can purchase Paragon NTFS for the Mac.
Matt

Can't create folder on external hard drive from LR. or open images from LR in PS.

I just restored my mac back to factory settings and reinstalled LR 5. When I try to create a folder on the external hard drive it gives me this message
"The folder /Volumes/Leigh's/Picutures/2014 could not be created on disk."
Also, when I go to "EDIT IN" PS it gives me this message
"Lightroom was unable to prepare the selected file at /Volumes/Leigh's/Picutures/2013/Cypress/untitled-4-Edit_tonemapped.tif for editing.
It will not be opened."
Not sure what happened since I restored the computer and reinstalled LR. Might it have something to do with using the same HD from my Time Machine back up?
Thanks.

Selamat pagi, drakyu!
This document should help (ignore references to Carbon Copy Cloner).
Andreas

Why can't I make changes on my external hard drive?

I have an external hard drive that I set up through Windows XP that I can now access through Mac OS X on my MacBook. Unfortunately, I'm not able to delete or make any changes to any of the files through the Finder. Why is that, and can it be changed?

ld3mb wrote:
Thanks everyone. I suppose I'll just reformat for Apple. I need to use it for large files, and I suppose I could survive without editing ablities on Windows.
There's another alternative, format it as exFat, 4G limit does not apply and OSX + Windows will be able to read/write.

Moving Song folder to external Hard drive

I'm new to Logic Express, and just starting my initial setup. What's the smartest way to move all my song folders to an external hard drive. I tried just dragging and dropping it which moved the folder, but when I try to save any new work it doesn't automatically like to the external drive. Sorry for the silly question I'm just getting started.
Thanks

Hi Sheba,
Welcome to the forum!
Save as a Project!
It moves all data from the session to the new location.
Also in new sessions remeber to route the audio path
to the external HD.
best regards,
Jorge

How to view Library folder on external hard-drive user

Dear all,
Wanted your assistance with something.
Backstory: I have an External Hard-Drive which I used to use for Time Machine. I use it no longer (I use a different Ex-HDD) however I still have all my old back-ups on it.
Problem: There's a file I need to obtain from a user profile on one of the old back-ups, and to retrieve it I need to access the Library folder which is usually hidden unless toggled visible. Usually this is no issue as I can access it in the "Go To" option in Time Machine...but because I can't use this old drive with Time Machine, I need to find a way to do this manually.
Anyone know any solutions?
Many thanks anyway.
My current OS is: Mavericks 10.9.5

The full path would be:
/Volumes/Untitled/Backups.backupdb/*********’s iMac/2014-03-03-162737/Macintosh HD/Users/*********/Library
without the ~.
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