PC to Mac Ext HD

I have a external hard drive connected to my iMac and i am in a dormitory in college and i am trying to get one of my friends PCs to connect to my external HD b/c thats where all my music is at.
he can connect to my computer via \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\name but it will not show the external at all...or atleast i dont know how to find it
was wondering how i could do that
iMac Duo 17in Mac OS X (10.4.7)

HFS of any form is fine. Even FAT32 would work with limitation, but what you have is fine.
In Sharepoints, just select the Normal Shares tab, give it a name like Exteral, click on Browse to get the drive in the Directory part, click AFS and or SMB sharing enable, click add share... set any users/groups you need..

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Prep for Migration from PC to Mac (Ext Drive)

I plan to purchase a Mac desktop in a few months. I need to backup my PC files (cause I never have!) and create some hard drive space on my sluggish PC. Can I do the following: 1) Use an external hard drive and back-up all files 2) Upon Mac purchase, transfer all files to Mac from PC (plug ext HD to Mac?) 3) After migration is done, reformat external drive to use with my new Mac. I'd hate to buy an external HD and not be able to use it with new Mac. Is there some 3rd party migration software that would make this process easier?

Would it be helpful to get MacDrive 7 to enable seamless sharing between the PC and Mac? If I use that software, would I not have to reformat the drive once I go 100% Mac?
I'm a bit confused. You first say that you want to go 100% Mac, but then say that you want to share the drive with a PC and a Mac. Could you elaborate a bit on exactly what it is you're hoping to accomplish? It is possible to share an external drive between a PC and a Mac without purchasing extra software; just format the drive as FAT32 (MS-DOS format through Disk Utility on the Mac; the drive may well ship that way).

Why can´t I install system on ext. disk??

Why can´t I install my system on an external firewiredisk to have an alternative boot disk? My dealer said I can do. Now I tried to install Tiger from original DVD to an external firewire 400 disk from lacie, that was originally formatted to mac extended in two partitions. Before installation now, I formatted one partition to mac ext. journaled. Installer didn´t accept that. Why?

I'm not sure that's correct. "Not sure" because of the 10.2 issue, but I can say definitively that you can boot a both a G4 PB running 10.3 and an Intel MBP running 10.4 from the different partitions on the same external drive.
The two issues are partition scheme and the formatting of each partition. For my example, both partitions can have the same format, but that shouldn't matter for this since partitioning is "above" formatting in the drive architecture.
PPC machines must have an Apple Partition Map (APM) partition scheme on the boot drive to boot (they can't boot from a GUID drive). The Intel Mac OS installer requires a GUID-partitioned drive to install onto, but Intel Macs don't require GUID drives to boot. In other words, the Intel flavor of the Mac OS can't be installed directly onto an APM-partitioned drive with the install discs, but the OS can be cloned to the APM-partitioned drive. I have a LaCie external, APM-partitioned, and I use SuperDuper to backup my MBP and my wife's G4 PB running Panther. The external drive successfully boots my MBP and her PB.

Got a new ext drive,now iMovie locks up when I turn Cam on to import film.

iMovie has been great up until I got a new Blackstar 250gb
sata 800/400 external hard drive.
as soon as I turn my Conon GL2 camera on, iMovie locks up and the computer is acting up.
I'm using the fire wire 800 for the Blackstar hard drive
and the camera imports with the 400
If I get it to try to import It will import for 2 seconds and then a 5 second lock up and another 2 sec with a 5 sec lock, so on and so forth.
I have a 200gb VST hard drive for my music that has been fine.
I have used the internal drive for iMovie with the VST plugged in and I wanted another external for my Movies but the system does not like the Blackstar.
As soon as I unplug the Blackstar hard drive, it will import fine.
Whats up with that?

Hej Bo
Well 800/400 indicates that You bought a FW disk - That's GOOD. USB =NONO
Now did You format it as Mac OS Extended ??
NOT AS Mac OS Exchangable or DOS or UNIX. Will not work.
Some Canon Cameras want to be Daisy Chained with the hard disk:
Mac <-> ext Hard disk <-> Camera
Some other doesn't like this at all (like my Sonys)
I would free up space on the internal drive by moving files out to the ext. disk
then disconnect it and do the Capture/Import
then move the movie project out to the ext disk (if it really is necessary)
If in Göteborg - Check up Göteborg Film och Video-klubb
Yours Bengt W

Can't copy files to hard disk

I have been having trouble copying/moving files to an external hard drive from my Macbook Air 3,2. I have moved and copied files from the MacBook Air many times to the external hard disk but this time I am having a lot of trouble.
I tried to move 2 movie files but it was taking an incredibly long time. So I clicked the "x" to cancel the transfer. However, it didn't stop it straightaway. The transfer just remained in limbo. Then I got a message saying something about how I didn't disconnect the hard disk properly and the hard disk just seemed to have disconnected itself from my computer even though I didn't eject it.
Then it caused problems for my MacBook Air. When I went to check on the disk in Utilities, it told me I had to use the installation disk to start it up. Other strange things happened like my desktop picture just disappeared and suddenly I had an extra 10GB on my hard drive.
I repaired the disk successfully using the installation thumb USB drive.
(I also repaired the external hard disk).
But I am having the same problem again when I try to move files onto the hard disk. It doesn't seem to work, as it's incredibly slow and when I cancel it, it says I ejected the hard disk wrongly. And the drive does not appear in the Finder Window.
I don't know why this is happening to me. I repaired the MacBook Air HD and I also repaired the external disk and I can't copy movie files onto the hard disk. I have enough space and both disks are Mac Ext Journal formatted. I copied lots of movies the other day (about three days ago and last night) onto the hard disk without any problems.
I really need to move the movies from my computer as I will runn out of disk space on the computer soon (I have about 12 GB left right now).
I tried copying a jpg picture as a test, and it copied it OK but it took a long time. Much longer than normal.
I got an error message just now:
The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Elechxxxxxxxxxx.mp4” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)
I never got this sort of error message before but now I am getting this message today several times when I try and copy the movies. I don't think it's the files themselves because I copied the same sort of movie files last night without any problem.
And as I said, the jpg file took a really long time to copy, like 2 minutes even though it's only a very small file.

This is not about saving the data on the external drive but I found this information to be helpful in case people have problems ejecting a drive:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1322931
I threw the following:
sudo umount -vf /dev/disk1s1
and the drive umounted. -v is verbose, just in case there were any errors thrown I wanted to know, and -f is force umount, which forces the drive to unmount. Check 'man umount' from terminal to see more info on these.
After doing this a couple times (I was doing some testing with some other things to find a faster solution than having to open terminal and umount) it just started umounting correctly. I have no idea why, but it did. So just keep that command in mind, just in case.
Gryyphyn, out.
This may prevent the drive from being damaged by incorrect ejection. Because I could not eject the drive using force eject, restarting the computer etc, I unplugged the drive, which damaged the hardware of the drive.
If I had known about the command window method, I might have been able to avoid all these problems now that I have with a damaged drive and trying to rescue the data on that drive.
That being said, I think Apple should try and resolve this problem they have with users not being able to eject drives. It seems to be a VERY common problem, and has nothing to do with users' negligence but to do with a systemic fault of Apple's.

Existing Windows network and a new MacPro?

I am currently running a home network as follows:
2 ea. Dell PCs running XP Pro, ethernet wire connected to a LinkSys cable modem/router, connected to Comcast for internet access. I also have an HP color laserjet 3500 printer hardwire connected to the LinkSys as part of the network. I have external hard drives on each PC connected to USB ports on the PCs but made available for accessing to either PC for storage and/or retrieval. I run MS Office 2003 on each PC and use Outlook for my email on each PC.
I am contemplating replacing the older PC with a new MacPro and have the following questions:
1. Will I simply remove the old PC from the network and connect (ethernet cable) the new MacPro to the LinkSys cable modem/router? Will I have internet access at this point oon my new MacPro or will I have to do something else (configure the MacPro or whatever) to gain this internet access?
2. Will the new MacPro see the networked HP printer and will I be able to print to that printer thru the network from my MacPro? Any special software needed on my MacPro to print to that printer?
3. I assume that it is possible to physically connect my current external hard drives to the new MacPro thru a USB connection, but will the MacPro see the files on these ext drives and can I access them?
4. I plan on installing MS Office on the MacPro. If I create a file (Word, Xcel or PowerPoint document) and email it to a non-believer (PC-user) will they be able to open and use the file, assuming they are running MS Office 2003 on their PC?
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6. I understand that I can download BootCamp and run Windows programs on my MacPro. Can I run BootCamp and MacOS concurrently? Can I run BootCamp and MS Office for Windows on my MacPro, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, store it on my MacPro hard drive, then run Mac OS X, PowerPoint (MS Office for the Mac) and open the recently created PowerPoint file that I had created under BootCamp, MS Office for Windows? Can I go back and forth between the two operating systems creating files, opening and storing them? Or is this all a moot point in that any MS Office for Mac file creeated on the MacPro will be fully compatible with any PC system should I email them the file and I don't even have to worry about BootCamp?
7. I understand that Apple will release their new operating system, Leopard, next spring 2007. Should I wait to buy a MacPro until that new OS is on the market? If I did buy the MacPro now, is it a big deal to upgrade the MacPro to new OS?
Thanx in advance for any advice you can give me.
Harry
PC Windows XP Pro

1. Should work as soon as you plug in the network cable.
2 Just install the drivers and setup the printer
3. Yes. Macs can connect to Windows file shares.
4. Yes. Office files are Office files, no matter the platform.
5. "I assume that I would NOT be able to access files from the Mac ext hard drive from my other PC."
Use SharePoints fro hornware.com to share the drives to your PC.
"That is - should I go with two internal hard drives or one internal and one external"
How you want to configure your backup scheme is up to you, as your computing needs are different than ours. Internal drives are cheaper, while external drives are portable.
6. "Can I run BootCamp and MacOS concurrently? "
No. If you want to run Windows and OS X at the same time, use Parallels.
"Or is this all a moot point in that any MS Office for Mac file creeated on the MacPro will be fully compatible with any PC system"
Yes.
7. "Should I wait to buy a MacPro until that new OS is on the market?"
Your call. We can't make that decision for you.
"is it a big deal to upgrade the MacPro to new OS?"
No.

HT1449 How do I find out which file iTunes actually needs/uses?

I have recently transferred my iTunes libary to an external hard drive (Migration Assistant didn't work, so I dragged and dropped the whole iTunes folder from my other, Windows, external hard drive straight to the new external hard drive, and added the other file that does playlists etc by e-mailing the library file to myself, and 'importing playlist' on the new mac... I still don't have ratings, but that's not a biggie). This is to use as a central library for all users. Works ok, both users face it, all ok... However, the total size of my music library is some 40gb, according to my old laptop and itunes on the new Mac... but on the external hard drive, there is now some 139gb of data (the only other stuff is about 80 pictures, so not much in data terms). This isn't a pressing need as the new external drive is 2tb, backing up to a 2tb Time Capsule, so still plenty of storage left for my wife to add her photos and her music.
So how do I know what to delete? There's each album listed separately, and some old temp files (have deleted the latter), but I'm scared of deleting things I do actually need. I'm at work now, so can't give exact descriptions. Anyone have any clues?

Have read up a bit more, and I think I've found a solution... my wife's music is very much smaller than mine, and I'd like to preserve the ratings on my collection. She's not bothered.
So here's the plan: broadly following iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer, using external drive.
1. delete the iTunes folder previously placed on the new, Mac ext HD (what will be the joint library). No media hopefully now on this machine.
2. copy her iTunes folder from the old ext HD to the desktop of the new Mac. This was consolidated before copying to the ext HD. This will essentially become the backed-up 'previous content' to add back in later.
3. Delete her iTunes folder from the old ext HD to avoid confusion.
4. Copy my old laptop's iTunes folder to the old ext HD
5. Drag the itunes folder from the old ext HD to the new mac ext HD, both showing on the desktop (which should preserve rating etc, right?)
6. add back in the itunes folder on the desktop that I placed there earlier, using file> add to library in iTunes. (ratings not preserved)
Both users iTunes are already instructed to face the new ext HD for their library.
Will this work? Why is one set of ratings etc preserved but not the other?

Copying Macbook iPhoto '09 library to Macbook Air iPhoto '11

Good evening,
I was hoping somebody might be able to help me with a problem I am having with my new Macbook Air.
I initially set up my laptop which automatically created a User Account\. I realise now that I should have used Migration Assistant before I set up my new laptop as this has now resulted in me having 2 User Accounts.
I used Migration Assistant to copy all of the files from my old Macbook to my new Macbook Air.
I can view all of the pictures that came across using Migration Assistant in the Temporary User Account but when I try and move them across to the User Account that I want to permenantly use, the photos become corrupt and I cannot view them all in iPhoto or Preview.
I have tried putting the pictures onto a USB stick from my old computer and putting them onto my new laptop but this too doesn't work and the pictures are corrupt on one user account but not the other.
Another interesting thing to note is that when I swap user accounts on my new Macbook Air, the pictures ARE NOT corrupt on that half, it is just when I move on to my actual user account on this laptop that they do not open.
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Assuming that these backs ups are good - and lets hope they are - pick one, restore it to the Pictures Folder on the new machine and launch iPhoto.
Get iPhoto working. Then think about Aperture. You're making a simple procedure wildly complicated.
Regards
TD

Need to use CUCM locate user location in the office

hi guys
quick question is , is there a log/or SNMP/ for extension mobilty user signin to which phyical phone?
we are planning ask users to use laptop and extenstion mobility to let user work at any desk in the 4 floor office building.
however currently user not able to find where their colleage are everyday,
since we know every phycial phone location in the office, i can do a search in the CUCM and find externsion number and signin phone MAC-(ext tell me who it is, and phone MAC tell me the lcation)
i can make a excel sheet of all the phone in building and externsion with names, however is there a log in cucm i can auto populate which ext signin to which phone?
currenlty user are doing this maneully via lync location
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thanks

did the RTMT provide you with the functionality required?
Are you able to create reports? with these?

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I am Installing Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 on my late 2012 Mac Mini. I have the S/W on my desktop as an .iso format, and my test to check if Boot Camp would find it worked. Now I will be getting an USB drive (my 4GB wasn't big enough so will use it for the drivers), so before going on this process trying to cover all bases. I'm assuming an 8GB thumb drive should be enough. I'm also assuming the 4GB drive formatted in FAT should be ok since Windows 7 has to read it, does the drive for the disk image have to be MAC Ext'd or FAT?
Any help on this is appreciated, I'm pretty new to all this stuff and hate running into problems during this process will be hairy! Any other pointers is greatly appreciated.

Got Win 7 64bit installed with a few problems.
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After getting the wireless keyboard synced & working had a number of updates to install. After that the keyboard is not functioning and can't be synced.
Any suggestions, not of the questions I put into this section came back with a solution, might be the question I ask? Can someone link a post in the discussion forum to solve this.
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Okay I give. Whats the secret to getting google ?
I downloaded Imap. I am using my Domain name www.myname.com (I do not have a .mac ext.)
Google Filename ? I can't even get verified. I have a google acct.
I tried uploading the HTML tag by creating a folder and dropping it into my site folder and also tried putting it on my page by using the snippet box but still no verification. Any ideas ?

The first step is to let Google, Yahoo etc. know that your website exists...
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18
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http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Google.html - and go to step (10)
Get rid of the standard iWeb navigation and build your own...
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebNavigationmenu.html
Create, upload and verify your sitemap ......
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Google.html
You mentioned that you use iMap. With software, you usually get what you pay for. I use, and recommend, Rage Sitemap Automator. This application will automatically enter your site to the four main search engines - not everyone uses Google! Update your sitemap every time you add content, new pages and links.
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http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html
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Interlink your website with as many others as possible.
Test your website on a PC using Internet explorer. Unfortunately, most web surfers use this pathetic browser and, if your site does not look good or locks it up, then you are wasting your time!
A lot of IE problems can be solved by optimizing...
http://www.tonbrand.nl/ - fast, efficient and highly recommended.
http://www.ragesw.com/products/optimize-web-sites.html - easy to use.

Having trouble moving files to external hard drive

I have a freeagent pc&mac ext. hd that i usually use on my pc. I have used it on my mac in the past but i tried trasnfering all of the music from my macbook to my ext. hd and i got the following error message: "The item could not be moved because FreeAgent" drive cannot be modified". Does anyone know how i can resolve this issue? Thank you.

I'm guessing that you can only WRITE files onto your ext in windows. But you can only READ files in ext from mac.
FAT32 would support writing files in windows and mac, but I doubt that you can format it to FAT32.
So if you want to write files to your ext from mac, then simply reformat it using DU

Strange storage problem... hidden files?

Hi all...
I am using a new G4 PB 1.67GHz, 1Gb RAM, 75Gb HD. Connected to the firewire port is a Rocstor 300Gb drive. Conected to the 2nd firewire port on the external drive (the computer only has 1 FW port) is my Canon Optura 60. I have been importing to the external drive 3 versions of a show to be edited and it looks great. Then I noticed that my PB HD is being filled just as fast as the Rocstor! I have all the project folders and clips on the Rocstor, but cannot find any on the PB HD. Rebooting and Disk Utility didn't help. It's as though another set of hidden copies of these imported films has filled my hard disk completely and I can't find them to get rid of them!! The console.log files are also recieving large amounts of spew from Core Graphics. Help!!
Andy

Hi Andrew
Don't know what's happening but I know that I don't do it Your way. I usually
got problem that way.
- I do not Daisy-chain Mac-ext.HD-Camera
I do: Load down material from my int. HD to my external so that I free up space.
Disconnect the ext. HD and connect my Camera and import my material
to a project folder/icon on the desktop.
If I have to then move the project to my external HD. This require that the
ext. HD is formatted as Mac OS Extended journaled. (PC or UNIX or older Mac
WILL NOT WORK)
Yours Bengt W

I need Parallel advice, will I be able to...

I just bought a iMAC and want to use Parallel to load Windows Vista next month. Will I be able to:
1-Transfer data from my old PC to Windows on the Mac using transfer s/w such as Laplink or Intellimover?
2-Will the OS and Vista both recognize the same USB connected printer.
3-Will I be able to fax from WinFax s/w using the MAC ext modem.
4- Any other things I should look out for.
I keep reading that Parallel has some interface problem and I'm trying to plan ahead.
iMAC Mac OS X (10.4.8)

not sure about 1. 2 or3 but I had problems installing XP on Parallels
I would purchase it online the version I bought at the Mac store was the wrong
build, even though it said for Intel based Mac's on the box. I emailed Parallels
and they set me a link to the correct build and everything is fine now.

Backup drive failure: "Cannot allocate memory"

iMac early ’09. 8GB RAM. OS 10.6.8, 8. Apps and OS auto-update, so should be current.
Backup disk 2 TB Hitachi Touro Desk Pro HTOLDNB20001BBB (USB 2.0). New Nov 2012, initialized and worked until now. Hitachi lists my Mac and OS as compatible. No firmware updates available.
I have screen shots mentioned in post, but no way to attach them here? Links follow post.
Morning message from Time Machine saying hadn’t backed up in 10 days, so investigated. No sound from Touro but on and connected. Disconnected>reconnected power and USB, then rebooted iMac. During reboot message box “..doesn’t recognize disk,” w reformat as an option.
Touro not listed as a device in Finder window and doesn’t turn up on desktop as before. But, Sys Profiler (screen shot) and Disk Utility (screen shot) do see it; First Aid doesn’t offer Verify, so can’t test. Tried to reinitialize as Mac Ext. Journaled, Zero Out Data (exctly as initialized when new). Initialize failed. Tried to initialize repartitioning to one partition, and again two partition, GUID scheme. Partition failed with error: POSIX reports: Operation could complete. Cannot allocste memory. No sound from Touro during any of this.
Rebooted from CD and ran all of the above again with identical results.
Have reviewed related threads without much success.
I’ve done no disk image restore because I don’t understand how to work with them.
Also haven’t gotten into Terminal to try anything from there.
I’ve attached 3 screen shots of some Activity Monitor info, plus the Sys Profiler and DU page. Rare as it is, I’m suspecting the Touro HD, based mostly on the fact there’s no sound of a disk in there. Never any problems using a 5 GB G-Drive x4 years until size forced a replacement backup drive.
A couple of threads here suggest upgrading to Lion/MLion, but I won’t do that without backup and really don’t want it yet, anyway. Do not use or want iCloud, either.
At the moment I’m completely without backup and uncomfortably exposed. Any assistance sincerely appreciated.
Screen shots:
file://localhost/Users/Susan/Library/Application%20Support/SnapNDrag/disk%20mem% 202:27:13.jpg
file://localhost/Users/Susan/Library/Application%20Support/SnapNDrag/sys%20mem%2 02:27:13.jpg
file://localhost/Users/Susan/Library/Application%20Support/SnapNDrag/Partition%2 0failure%202.27:13.jpg
file://localhost/Users/Susan/Library/Application%20Support/SnapNDrag/Sys%20Profi ler%20detected.jpg

It wasn't a dismissive chuck it -- simply pointing out that buying a new disk and making a new time machine should be Job #1. Figuring out whether the old disk is defective or just needs a few rounds of fsck can wait until you are no longer "flying without a net." If the disk does turn out to be ok, you can use it to periodically make a bootable clone of your drive. You really should have both -- a bootable clone brings you back up quickly from one kind of disaster (an upgrade that goes bad being the most probable of that type) while regular Time Machines are your best protection against a disk that goes bad.
I speak from some experience -- after a few months of occasional hangs, and a disk that would not fsck clean, my disk failed yesterday morning. Fortunately my backup was from Saturday night. A trip to the staples to buy a new disk, to the Farm King for a #6 torx wrench, digging around for a tiny screwdriver, and I had the drive in. Then I had to install 10.6.0 on it from my install disks, and restore the TM backup, and run all of the updates, and it took about 10 hours total. If I had had a bootable 10.6.8 clone it would have knocked about 6 hours off of the job...
Once you migrate to 10.7, a bootable clone is an absolute necessity. I have heard stories of people having their installs go bad, and then the booting off of the recovery partition and re-downloading the os software and loading the TM backup taking DAYS. Which means not happening if their network is too flakey to stay up for days.
But to repeat -- your most important worry right now should be making sure you have a backup. Then when you are covered, you can go about figuring out if your old disk is reliable or not. If not, then you will want to buy yet another disk to use for your clone.

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