Remove files to another desktop drive

Hi, can anyone please help me with this? I want to move a lot of photos from another extern drive to another extern harddrive. I have to select the files I want to remove but what key do I have to use to do the replacements. Thanks and kind regards.

It's a simple copy and paste function. I suspect you may be new to Macs and/or OS X. If that is the case I'd recommend bookmarking and using Mac 101, Switch 101 & Find Out How Video tutorials.

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Updated to Mavericks OS X but can't use my external drive by WD My Passport. The Mac reads it but I can't add/remove files to the external drive. Help?!

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The WD My Passport, I purchased back in early December 2013 & I just used it the other day after I updated my Macbook... & of course it says in the online manual it works for Mac Lion, Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard but not this new Maverick update. Is there anything I can do?

I like the free demo of SuperDuper to make clones. It's free, Tiger and Leopard ready and is easy to use. If you buy the full version you can do incremental backups.
You should use Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, booted up on your install disk, before you make a clone of it.
I then partition my external disk, in Disk Utility, with a partition that is the same size , actually a tad bigger, as my system disk. I then use SuperDuper to clone my system disk over to that partition.
With a clone on an external FireWire drive (USB drives are not bootable on some Macs) you can bootup on it to do your repairs or just run your Mac anytime you have trouble with your main drive. Be careful, there are a few external FireWire drives out there that are not bootable on Macs. Check the drive's manual to be sure.
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How to move all graphic files to another hard drive?

Sorry that I do not even understand the program well enough to use the specific terms but my wife is using Photoshop Elements 4 and has thousands of graphic files. She wants to move them all to another hard drive to free up space on C drive.
1 - How do we move all the files without confusing the organizer? My wife found a move function but still has two problems: 1- Can't figure out how to tell the program where to put the files (seems like it may have just created another copy on C drive). 2- the organizer has to reconnect to every single file that is moved - a process that takes hours.
2 - How do we change the settings so that Elements will store files on the new G drive instead of continuing to put everything on C drive? Most of her new files are camera uploads and scans.
3 - After we get the files set up on G drive, is there an easy way to identify and remove the old files on the C drive? (Judging from the amount of space that is filling up on the C drive, it seems that the program must have duplicated the files on C drive in our previous attempts to move files.)

I can help with some of this...
The simple way to move the files is using Folder View. You can then simply drag and drop images - or whole folders - to the new drive. It will take a little while to sort out the catalog, but nothing painful. No reconnecting is necessary.
Go to Edit/Preferences. There is a setting there that determines where image files are stored.

System drive full want to move files to another internal drive

my sysytem drive is almost full it is only 52gb I have another internal drive that to 100gb and I want to move everything to that drive. I kow that I can do this by making a disk image of the system disk. however I need a bootable cd, which I donot have. can i use another mechine to boot with and make the disk image that way? if so how?
thanks

MDD G4s have room for four drives on two IDE buses (plus two optical bays). No reason to go through the disk image intermediate step that I can see though. Just use Disk Utility -> Restore to move or clone everything over. Or you can do same with CCC, or SuperDuper. Lots of ways.
No need for bootable CD (and CD is rather small) and while BootCD worked with Panther, no version is out for Tiger.
You can just boot from your Tiger DVD and use Disk Utility from there.
When copying between drives, it is a lot faster to copy from/to different IDE buses. If your OEM boot drive is in the ATA/100 cage on the right (in front of cpus) then copy to the ATA/66 bus on the left. You might want to zero the drive or test your 100GB (odd number, that, I have seen 80 and 120, but 100GB?).
If you don't have OS X CD/DVD, then I would suggest buying a retail 10.4.6 DVD now.

Is it possible to actually remove files from a hard drive? advice needed pl

Hey guys and gals. i have a G5 Dual 2GHz Power PC with a problem. I recently had to do an archive and install (my second one). after getting thru with this and trying to get back what had been lost i realized that i only had about 90GBs left on my System Hard Drive. I have two drives on my Mac, one for the system, programs and such and one for recording audio and saving Logic and GB songs. The one that is the boot drive and has all the programs on it is the one that is seriously depleted. It seems that i will have to replace a lot of programs to get them to work again after the A&I and i just don't have the room to do so.
So my first question is that if i move files off that drive do i get that space back? Does it actually "get rid' of those files or does it just make them unaccessible? My second and related question is that if i erase the drive does this actually "get rid' of the files and do i get that space back? The reason i ask is that i have heard that you can't actually completely get rid of files on a hard drive. That when you erase a hard drive it it doesn't really erase the drive it just makes them (somewhat) inaccessible.
If i can't get that space back am i correct that i will need to replace the drive to get more space? Is replacing the hard drive a difficult process? I know that i can by an external hard drive but i am uncomfortable with using one for other than back-up or storage space.
any opinions or advice would be appreciated-thanx-gospel

If you did archive and install, your old system files are most likely still in a directory called Previous Systems at the root of the hard drive - IF you don't need anything from there (i.e., your system is working fine), you can delete that folder - it has many files, so it will take a while to delete. Whenever you delete files, you get the space back. What you heard about data not being deleted is somewhat true (see next para), but you'll need special utilities to reclaim the deleted data, so from a normal usage perspective, you DO get the space back when you delete, so you can reuse that space for other files. Archive and Install of Leopard creates about 11 GB worth of files in the Previous System folder, so there is a lot of space you can reclaim on your system drive.
* Here's an over-simplified view of file storage. Normally a hard disk contains random 1s and 0s anyway. Storing a file organizes some of them (a file size worth) to the proper sequence of 1s and 0s. Think of the hard drive as made of many 'slates' on which file data is written. A master slate keeps track of which files use which slates. When you delete a file, the operating system (OS) normally 'deletes' the name off the master slate only and marks the space as free and available (even though the data may still be there on the slates the old file used - that is, the 1s and 0s belonging to that old file - it is marked as free/available). So the OS can reuse the space - this is what was meant by "you get the space freed up when you delete the file." The special data-recovery utilities know the method the OS uses, so they CAN reclaim the data if that space wasn't overwritten by storing other newer files. So really, erasing the whole disk means marking all space as available/free on the master slate. The disk elements always contains 1s and 0s - even when "empty" - just in a disordered way and known to the master slate. Storing a file just puts order into the sequence of the 1s and 0s.
Obviously I took too long typing all that!
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Can not copy files to another hard drive for backup

30May07
Apple Support:
I need to copy files from my home to an external hard drive because I need to do a complete re-install, and erase the laptop's hard drive.
When I try to either move the home folder the icon is a house, I get an question stating that some of my files do not have permssions, do I want to continue anyway (Yes, I do!)
A bit into the move, I get this message (dealing with permissions):
Can not copy 1528.emix . Error code -36 .
I have no such file or any .emix files either. I was able to copy to whole hard disk, not just the home to the same external drive two weeks ago.
How can I copy my HOME to my external drive so I can reinstall the OS?
Thank you for your help

07Jun07
I believe the problem was my computer's internal drive. It corrupted several files. I had a very hard time copying the files. The -36 error stopped any transfer cold.
I did a complete install of the OS.
I need a way to determine what files are corrupt so I can delete them. It took 24 hours to constantly keep trying to copy the files to the external drive. I ended up deleting a lot of un-corrupt files. How can I determine which ones are bad so I don't delete good data?
Thank you for your help. I am also grateful to the Apple Store in Tucson, AZ.
You are having a hardware problem - there's a problem
on one of the drives in this story.
This can be caused by extra hardware connected to the
computer, so if you have anything extra connected to
the computer (external iSight, iPod, USB hub,
anything) disconnect it.
If that doesn't help, try reformatting the external
drive and try again.
If that doesn't help, just rescue what you can,
because the next step is that you're going to be
reformatting the internal drive.

Any easy way to remove files copied to second drive on import that were later deleted from catalog?

If I do an import from my memory card, choose my external hard drive as a second location for the import, and then go into my catalog and delete the bad photos, is there any quick way to also remove those files from the backup on the external hard drive? I've got a ton of wasted space on my external HD due to things that I've deleted and don't know of any simple way to get rid of them short of formatting the drive and doing another export, which takes a long time and isn't something I want to do all that often. Thanks for your help.

I'm afraid there is no easy way to do that. The problem is that in using the "make second copy" option as your prime image backup, you're not using the function in quite the way the developers intended. Their purpose was to provide a method to take an immediate extra copy of the contents of the memory card, thus allowing you you reuse that memory card before your "regular" backup routine has been run. So yes, they have assumed that you would have a separate backup procedure for your image files, which allows for two things:
1. That separate backup process could use an incremental backup utility, which means after the very first run all subsequent runs would backup only new or changed files....and you could also set it to delete from the backup any files you cull from the Lightroom library. Thus your backup wouldn't take up any more space than your originals.
2. Once you've run the backup utility (after first cull so the duds never even get backed up?), the "second copy" can be deleted at your leisure.

What is the best way to remove files from the hard drive?

I'm donating one of my computers, and there are certain sensitive files (bank records, etc.) I need to remove. I want them completely removed to the point it's like they never existed, so any hard drive recovery tools can never find them.

Then you will have to get a replacement set from Apple.
Since the DVD are your license to OS X they really should be included with the Mac when you sell it.
Allan

Adding files from another desktop on the same computer

I am new to this discussion and I did a quick search to see if anything turned up similar to this question. My husband and I have our own desktops on our Mac; he has several songs that I want from his iTunes library and vice versa. We can't figure out how to add files from each other's library to save our lives. When I go to the import section of iTunes, I can get to his desktop, but there is a little stop symbol with a "-" sign next to his music folder. It is probably very simple, but short of burning a disc and doing it that way, I can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jill
Power PC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

The stop/- sign means the folder is read protected. You can only (by default) use his public folder. To transfer items via copying them over the network you would need to log in as an administrator (most likley as his account) remotely. This will give you acccess to all of his folders.
If you want to copy between folders on the same machine you need to be an administrator. Try logging in with the admin account.
If you want to just share the music you can do that too. In OS X Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall -> check the share iTunes Music checkbox.
In iTunes you would then need to go to iTunes Preferences -> Sharing -> Make sure both the share button and the "Looked for shared music" and "Share my Music are checked" are checked.
Do this two both machines.
And you should then see a folder in iTunes with the other music.
If you are on a network this works out well with out having to duplicate two sets of data/mp3s.
Hope this helps.
-J

I cannot remove files to the desktop (or to any other folders) from 'docked' folders, such as the Downloads and Application folders.

This is occuring on my wife's MacBook Pro Retina 15" early 2013 running 10.9.2
I've never run into this problem before, any helpt would be much appreciated.

I mean that I cannot move files from folders that are in my dock.
That is, when I try to drag something from my Downloads folder in the Dock to my Desktop, it doesn't go anywhere, but simply remains in the Downloads folder in the Dock.
A restart has cured the problem for a while, but it is not the first time it has happened and I worry it will return.

How can i import my itune files on to another hard drive...

I need to reinstall MAC OS X onto my iMac. This is the computer which has all of my itunes files. How can I transfere the itune files onto another hard drive (via my network) and re transfere it on to my iMac once the OS reinstalled? I have bought many albums from iTunes store and would hate to loose them.
Thanks for the Help

JLdM: Try moving the entire iTunes folder back, and if that doesn't work, reimport the music. The computer will need to be reauthorized.
jwhmd: Follow the instructions in this article.
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So I have a file on my desktop and I cannot open it, move it to a folder, or delete it from my mac. I dont know what it has in it, and that makes me suspicious. What can I do to remove this unremovable file from my computer? Is it a virus?

So I have a file on my desktop and I cannot open it, move it to a folder, or delete it from my mac. I dont know what it has in it, and that makes me suspicious. What can I do to remove this unremovable file from my computer? Is it a virus?

First, I would recommend repairing the hard drive with Disk Utility.
If that doesn't fix the problem, there's a very dangerous command you can execute in the Terminal. This is very hazardous, because a simple typo can result in very drastic consequences. I have seen people erase their entire hard drive by putting a space in the wrong place! So, please follow the directions I'm going to give you very carefully!
Open the Terminal, which is found in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. In the Terminal, enter the following:
sudo rm -f
Make sure to put a space after the "-f"! Then, drag the troublesome file from the Finder and drop it on the Terminal window. That should insert the path to the file in the command. Then go back to the Terminal and press return. You will be asked for your password, and when you type it, nothing will be shown as a security measure. Press return again after entering your password. The file should be deleted.

TS4498 Can i move my installation of Logic 10 to another hard drive, as its nearly full and i want to free up space so i can install the additional audio files too.

Hi All,
       ....i've recently bought and downloaded Logic Pro X.........the software is great.......i love it. But when i bought it from apple, it gave me no choice where to install it. It just went ahead and installed it in the drive which has my operating system in it. Which, in itself is not a problem........but, in my case, the hard drive in question is almost full...........so when i decided to add the additional audio files which come with Logic...........a message was displayed that not enough free space is available for additional audio files.......please remove files to free up space!
        I would love to free up space, but i only have a small 64gb SSD (which is where my operating system is installed). Normally, by moving files around (to another hard drive for example) would be the answer to this problem, but.........and here's the problem..........Logic, and my operating system cannot be moved to another hard drive, once installed it seems logic is there for good.
        Come on Apple!!!!!!!!!!.................i have a terrabyte of space on my other hard drive!! ready and waiting for some music files and or Logic!!!! .........why on earth could you not of given me the option of an installation disk choice!!!!!
      .......well, it seems i'm stuffed now, and £130 lighter in the pocket. I could be the next Mody or Fat Boy Slim............but alas............it's not even looking like i'm gonna even be a one hit wonder.
     ........if anyone knows how to move logic to another destination drive, please help and when i'm famous, i'll sing at your wedding :-)

The vast majority of applications must be install on the system drive in order to run correctly.
Generally the applications take up very little disk space. It is usually the files they produce that need the space. Seeing as how I don't use Logic I can't do this but you might want to check how to move the files generated by Logic to another drive.
Allan

How can I remove a downloaded file from the desktop?

Hi,
I downloaded an install Internet Call Director exe file from my internet privider then was told that their system couldn't run on Mac OS 10. There are two files on my desktop that I can't remove. When I drag either one to the trash i get this message. "the item installICD.EXE is being used by another task right now.(Other tasks include moving, copying, or emptying the trash.)" There is nothing else running. I have tried renaming the file,Clearing the download manager, and anything else I could think of. The files will not open and will not delete even using CMD delete. I am not a computer person! How can I get rid of the files??
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

If you haven't already done so, change the filenames so that they have an extension of .rtf, and then open TextEdit. Overwrite both files with blank TextEdit documents and then throw away the TextEdit documents.
If the TextEdit method doesn't work, open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and enter the following:
tell application "Finder"
set file type of (selection as alias) to "1234"
end tell
Select the file in the Finder and run the script. Repeat this for the second file; when done, try throwing them away again.
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Cannot drag or copy files on the desktop and hard drives

I cannot drag (and therefore copy or move to trash or other drives, folders) any of my files, folders, application, pics, etc. All my programs open fine, and if I have a file on the desktop or in hard drive (I have 2) I can double click on file and it will open fine, but I cannot grab hold of anything and drag it to trash or to another folder, drive etc.
I have run disk utility and repaired permissions, but no luck so far. Only thing I think I did different recently is downloaded dvd 4 updater and tried to install it - however, I only had dvd 2.1 which I had just updated from dvd 1
Also - nothing shows up in the recent items folder even after applications are opened and I cannot access finder controls to re-launch etc.
thanks, any suggestions much appreciated!

Drag & Drop not working...
You have a choice files to delete in ..... ~/LibraryPreferences
• com.apple.desktop.plist
• com.apple.dock.plist (your choice to delete this or not)
• com.apple.finder.plist
• com.apple.LaunchServices.LocalCache.csstore
• com.apple.LaunchServices. plist
• com.apple.LauchServices. UserCache.csstore
Also you have a choice of files to delete in........
/Library/Caches/
george

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