Trouble moving files to external harddisk

Hey guys, anyone can advice me why can't i move files to my xternal hdd even though my xternal hdd has lots of space? I tried to change the sharing permissions of the external hdd but i can't even though i'm logged in as an administrator. Can someone help?

Mac OS X at its current version (10.6.7) can Read NTFS, but not write it.
NTFS is Windows New Technology File System, first used in Windows NT implementations on mainframes.
If you need Read/Write for Macs only, use HFS+ Journaled. If you need Read/Write for Windows as well, FAT-32 works.

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I'm guessing that you can only WRITE files onto your ext in windows. But you can only READ files in ext from mac.
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iPhoto problems should be posted in their forums.
I also have trouble downloading photos to the internet.
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I'm moving a client's video files to an external drive so they have the original files. I'm moving both the DV files (always usable with program that accepts DV files) and the Mac project files in a separate folder (in case they ever work on them in a mac - includes all the referenced files). I know they won't be able to open the latter on a PC but I'd still like to include.
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Don't have a solution for you, but I did encounter a very similar bug.
I was moving files from one iMac's external drive to another's internal drive, using a drag'n'drop move command on a directory. The move generated an error message, maybe the same as what you saw (I'm not sure), then aborted the move. Only one small file had been moved, and the source directory was gone! Not in the trash. Mac OS X 10.4.8 on both systems, an iMac DV and an iMac 24. The external drive was formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)."
This sure seems to be a basic programming mistake. So, for me, it's back to doing 3 steps: copy, verify, delete. It's lousy not to be able to rely on proper execution of a basic command, but I've never won an argument with a computer.

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Hi,
Having a real problem maneuvering some files around.
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If the files are pointing to that particular folder for the images and the css, but there is Nothing in the folders, then there is a major issue I think.
This means that the updating of the links didn't work as you expected - if the files are not in the relevant folders, but the images and css are pointing to them, then you should be seeing broken links...
What you could try:
Backup what you have now - so it doesn't get any messier :-) (hopefully you have a backup copy of the original before you starting moving files !)
If you are sure that the files are all within the root of the site and not within that 2009 folder, then maybe do a find and replace and remove the beginning of the url, so that it points to where you moved the files to. Try it on one page and see if it makes a difference.
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Update
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I am in desperate need of help. I bought a new external hard drive to move all of my MP3 files to. I had about 40GB of music on my desktop hard drives and moved them all to the external hard drive. Not realizing that I had to configure iTunes first, when I opened Itunes, I found that there was a duplicate copy of EVERY song in the list (one that would not play b/c it could not be found) and that none of the songs on my many playlists would play (b/c could not be found.)
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.0/en/600win.html
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301509
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When I run the sudo command it doesn't seem to tell me anything.
If nothing matches the parameter of the "grep" command, you won't see anything.
When I add the file name after the sudo command does it stay in quotes, and do I leave the extension?
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or
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