Moving a sparcebundle from TC drive to TC ext drive

I have 3 macs backing up to TC. I want to move 2 of them to backup to a TC ext drive and retain the sparcebundles already created. Dragging the sparcebundles to the ext drive seems to result in a 6602 error message. Superduper cannot 'see' the sparcebundles. Suggestions? Also, tested starting fresh on the ext drive with one mac and it worked fine. thanks, gib

I've never tried this, but what about using AirPort Utility -> Time Capsule -> Disks -> Archive? Once you've created a clone of the TC HDD onto that drive, delete the sparsebundle you do NOT want. Again, just a suggestion as I've never tried this before.
Note: Since it is a clone, all content on the external HDD will be erased (including that new sparsebundle you've just created).

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Do some testing to get your method working right with some less than important footage.
Copy/paste files where you want then.
Use the FCE Reconnect feature to tell FCE where the newly copied files reside.
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I moved My Music from C drive to E drive and then all my problems started

My C drive was very full, so I moved My Music to E drive which had lots of spare capacity.
Unfortunately after the move itunes opened but my library was empty. I discovered from the itunes help that I should not move the library file. I reversed the move by moving back My Music to C drive and recovered my library by following the instructions in this link http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732.
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Here are typical layouts for the iTunes folders:
Ideally your library would be in the layout on the right and stored either at <User's Music>\iTunes or the top level of a different drive, e.g. D:\iTunes, with all content inside the iTunes Media folder.
iTunes usually doesn't cope well if you move files around by hand so getting from where you are now to where you want to be might take a few steps. How easy it is also depends on whether you can afford to let iTunes copy every song you have into the correct location before deleting the originals. If not I can offer a script that can move files around instead of copying them. The first thing to establish is the current locations of your library files and your media folder. The script iTunesInfo can help reveal this if you're not sure.
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I think you're missing the point - it's a question of where the images are, and it sounds a lot like the images are on the hard disk you used to own.
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Apple instructions call for locating the file where iPhoto library is kept, and tells you where it is on your hard drive. But I've recently moved my iPhoto library to a dedicated external hard drive, and copied my i photo library there. when i click on it, all the photos are there, but it's an iPhoto library, not a file.
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Thank you!
I am trying to retrieve photo uploads from my Android phone. When I last updated my OS, most of these vaporized, leaving only thumbnails. I have had two lengthy sessions with Apple phone support, but still haven't solved the problem.
Apparently I can't go back to July '14 iPhoto in time machine and browse files; i have to copy the entire library.
Which I just did, taking 2 hours.
In order to open the iPhoto library from July '14, I had to first update iPhoto.
When I went into the files, the same problem existed -- photo files gone, only thumbnails there. So now I'm thinking that it's the update that was the problem. This scares me to death, because when we're asked to update, we don't get a menu of preferences to make sure something has been unchecked, like the copy option i had enabled when opening photo files from my phone, which i store in a dropbox folder.
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Moving RAW files from one drive to another without loosing all your work in Lightroom

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MOVING mp3-files from external drive into iTunes automatically

Hi all,
for historical reasons (mainly because I was coming from Windows years ago) I have stored all my mp3-Files (audiobooks, songs, etc) on an external harddrive. My iTunes library is stored on the external drive, too and all media content in my iTunes library is manually linked to the external drive. Today the option iTunes >Setting >"Let iTunes manage your library" ias well as "Copy filed to iTunes Media folders" is UNchecked.
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Moving playlists/selections from one drive to another:

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