Very slow transfer's to USB sticks...

I've been having this for some time, so I thought I'd ask around.
When I try transferring a file from my Mac Book Pro to a USB stick, it takes a very long time. The files are around 3-3.5GB. It says 10 minutes but it takes longer and I get the spinning wheel thingy. If I walk away and let it go, it will evenly finish.
Any ideas/?

I do remember noticing something similar to what the OP has observed. And maybe it was with a lower priced USB stick. But I was able to copy smaller files to it without delay, however I gave up on using it with larger files. I think the last stick I bought was an 8 GB one. I wonder if we run into problems when copying files that are of a size that is a significant percentage of the size of the stick? Not sure. But I remember being able to copy 1 GB files easily but ran into problems at 3 or 4 GB.
Regards,
Steve M.

Similar Messages

  • How to transfer files from USB stick

    How can you transfer files from USB stick to ipad2?

    Buy a portable wi-fi router with file sharing such as MOCREO 5-in-1 Portable WiFi (not personaly vouching for this one it just happens to be the one I have and it cost less than the apple connection cables).
    Plug your USB stick into the router
    Connect your phone via wi-fi to the router.
    Log into the routers built in file managment or use any FTP capable app to connect (GoodReader, ifiles, etc)
    Transfer files.

  • Very slow transfer to Time Capsule (Ethernet)

    I am trying to transfer 80 gb to my Time Capsule (Ethernet) but transfer is very slow (100 kb/s). How can I fix it?

    Plug the TC into the Computer by ethernet and make sure the computer shows the link is running at gigabit.. if not replace the cable.
    Turn off wireless.. there should be only one data path.. ethernet.
    Turn IPv6 to link local only in the computer network setup for ethernet.

  • HT1349 very slow external HDD and usb drive connected to Apple Extreme Router

    Hello
    So I got a western digital USB drive (500gig) and western digital Live 2TB.
    I bought a new Apple Extreme router and connected them both.
    USB drive and external hdd (WD Live 2TB) very slow when connected to Apple Extreme Router, using Lion 10.7 and updated both firmware for router, western digital and Airport Utility.
    Slow means, it takes half an hour to copy 200 Mb of file to the WD Live 2TB, and its connected to my router with a gigabit ethernet cable!
    Is someone else having the same problem, I thought even over usb I should get around 2-5mb range.
    I am using Macbook Pro and 802.11n with Lion 10.7.2
    Please Help

    The USB WD 500 gig is connected to the Airport Extreme using a non-powered USB 2.0 hub, only two things a HP printer and the 500 gig is connected through it. I already formatted it to MAC OS Extended Journalled. ANd I think the speed didnt change.
    For the WD 2TB Live I didnt format it to anything, started using it out of the box. I just updated its firmware. I was having the same speed even when I directly connected it to my Mac Book Pro using ethernet gigabit cable.
    This WD 2TB Live doesnt have any USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 connectors, just the ethernet cable. I wasnt planning to carry it around. Just wanted to use it as a good ol NAS. So then I saw the fix somewhere and connected to this drive via AFP,  afp://MyBookLive._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Public and it become suddenly very fast. Just like how it should be, I easily copied 20 gigs in around 20-25 minutes. (This was dirctly connected to my computer)
    So then I thought my problem is solved and disconnected my WD Live and connected it back to the Apple Router again, and the speed became very slow again. Now both the USB 500 gig and this 2TB Live are slow.
    Time machine is also very slow.
    Thing is I also have a linux and windows machine(in repair, but should be up soon), Since apple is the newest computer I have, I want to make it work on this first. I dont want to use the MACosx journaled on the 2TB right now. Besides formatting the USB 500 gig to this format didnt help with my speed. So the problem can be elsewhere.
    - I will try to get a powered USB hub as woodmeister50 suggested.
    - I dont know how to connect via iCloud as cigame suggested
    Please let me know if you guys have any suggestions. I have tested and returned enough routers in past few weeks. I really want it to work on this combination LionOSX + Airport Extreme + WD Live.
    Thanks

  • HT4106 Can you transfer data to usb stick from an ipad using the camera connector?

    Can you download data to a usb stick using the cammera connector?

    The camera connection kit can only be used to import photo/video files form a camera, SD card or USB flash drive. You can't import other types of files. You can't export any type of files using the camera connection kit.
    Importing Personal Photos and videos from your iOS device to your computer.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
     Cheers, Tom

  • Very slow transfer speeds with external hard drives through Firewire and US

    Hi All,
    My external drives transfer very slowly on my MacPro. I've been searching for answers and have turned up very little. Apple support suggested I post my issue here. Just to make a note, I measured my disk speeds with both AJA System Test and copying files between drives and reading the Disk Activity in Activity Monitor.
    I have 3 external drives, all MyBook Premium or Professional, 1x 500GB, 1x 1TB and 2x 1TB in RAID 0. I had them on Firewire 400 and the RAID 0 2TB one on Firewire 800. My transfers on FW were all around 24MB/sec on all drives (much less than what I should be getting with FW400). I then read somewhere that the FW bus on the MacPro uses the slowest speed connected for all FW connections. So I unplugged everything but the FW800 Raid 0 drive and my transfer rate jumped to 40-60MB/sec. This is much better, but still about half or so of what I expect it should be producing from an external RAID 0 setup.
    To keep my FW800 backup drive faster, I've plugged the other two into USB2.0. The transfer speeds on both drives are now hideous, around 10-15MB/sec. This is so slow, but I'm not sure what to try to fix my speeds.
    The HD's in the external drives are all 7200rpm, and all should be transferring at a higher rate. Do you have any suggestions or ideas? Ideally I'd like to get everything transferring at rates they should be transferring at, but I'll settle with my current FW800 speed of 40-60MB/sec if I can get my other two drives transferring at a non-snail pace.
    Is this a common issue? I can't believe I'm the only one plugging multiple external hard drives into their Mac Pro. I hope someone has a fix or solution for this. I'm all ears!
    Thanks in advance.

    Hi Kappy, thanks for the information.
    So I rejigged my setup a tad. My RAID 0 is still FW800, the second drive is back on FW400 on the back port, and the third is USB 2.0 on the back as well.
    It's interesting to note that I saw the FW800 taking a bandwidth hit if the FW400 drives was being read/written to. For example, if I was averaging 50-60MB/sec on the FW800 drives and copy something large to the FW400 drive, each drive averages out to about 30/MB second, roughly half the FW800 speed I was getting. The USB while the slowest didn't cause any slowness on the FW drives.
    Here are my Xbench results. These results are from each drive being benchmarked individually with no other drives being tested at the same time.
    *MyBook 2TB in a RAID 0 configuration: Firewire 800*
    Results 75.42
    System Info
    Xbench Version 1.3
    System Version 10.5.5 (9F33)
    Physical RAM 16384 MB
    Model MacPro3,1
    Drive Type WD My Book
    Disk Test 75.42
    Sequential 80.92
    Uncached Write 69.16 42.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 110.79 62.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 53.66 15.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 136.76 68.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Random 70.62
    Uncached Write 36.38 3.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 140.55 45.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 93.26 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 88.38 16.40 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    *MyBook 1TB on Firewire 400*
    Results 47.73
    System Info
    Xbench Version 1.3
    System Version 10.5.5 (9F33)
    Physical RAM 16384 MB
    Model MacPro3,1
    Drive Type WD My Book
    Disk Test 47.73
    Sequential 52.47
    Uncached Write 48.45 29.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 53.76 30.42 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 43.69 12.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 70.91 35.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Random 43.78
    Uncached Write 17.29 1.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 98.83 31.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 76.33 0.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 97.01 18.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    *MyBook 500GB on USB 2.0*
    Results 40.60
    System Info
    Xbench Version 1.3
    System Version 10.5.5 (9F33)
    Physical RAM 16384 MB
    Model MacPro3,1
    Drive Type WD 5000AA External
    Disk Test 40.60
    Sequential 35.99
    Uncached Write 37.31 22.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 37.22 21.06 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 26.62 7.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 50.27 25.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Random 46.55
    Uncached Write 20.37 2.16 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Write 68.44 21.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    Uncached Read 93.55 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 86.71 16.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]
    So Kappy are you saying that those speeds look normal?
    Thanks

  • How do I fix the slow transfer speed over USB on my 24" iMac?

    I am backing up/cloning with SuperDuper, and running Lion.  The displayed transfer speed never gets past about 20mb per second.  Painfully slow....  Any suggestions?

    Actually that's pretty good for USB. USB is slow - there is nothing you can do about it. Firewire always has been faster. Personally, I only use external Firewire drives for cloning or backing up. Even then, if it's a fresh clone, it'll take moe than an hour for 160 GB.
    So, I schedule it when I have other things to do and walk away until it's done.

  • Very slow data trasfer to USB 2.0 external hard drive

    This might have already been here, but was not able to find anything.
    I have Mac Pro with 10.5.8 OS X version. I bought a 1.5 TB external hard drive formated it to HFS+ and plubbed it in. Drive pops up OK, but when I start trasfering files the transfer speed is some thing like 10-15 Mbits/sec which is quite a lot below the theoretical 480 MBits/sec. I know you cannot reach that but 10-12 Mbits/sec seems very low.
    HDD is and Iomega HDD.
    Could anybody suggest me somethig how to speed up the trasfer process. I edit HD video so the files tend to get rather large.
    Thanks !!

    hi,
    i have the same problem and i have a MacBook Aluminium 2.4ghz with 2GB ram on it and i have a Maxtor External hard-drive
    OneTouch:
    Capacity: 465.76 GB
    Removable Media: Yes
    Detachable Drive: Yes
    BSD Name: disk1
    Product ID: 0x7310
    Vendor ID: 0x0d49
    Version: 1.25
    Serial Number: XXXXXXXX
    Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
    Manufacturer: Maxtor
    Location ID: 0x26200000
    Current Available (mA): 500
    Current Required (mA): 2
    Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
    Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)
    S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
    and there is 2 partition on it, i for mac (format as Journaled HFS+)
    and the other for Windows as a FAT32
    and transfer to any of the 2 partitions seem to be slow about 2MB/s.
    but if i plug the external to a vista it transfers normally around 15Mb/s
    any suggestion would be very helpful!!

  • Very slow transfer speeds with Airport Extreme and MacBook

    I have been using a new Airport Extreme without problem at my home for the past six weeks. The speed and range was excellent with both my MacBook Pro and the MacBook which I purchased a few weeks ago. I came out to Greece with both laptops and a new AP Extreme box for my home network here. After set up I noticed that internet access was lethargic on the MacBook and file transfer between the two computers was extremely slow. The problem seems to be with the new MacBook (although it was working well in London). I've done some speed tests and the internet download speed is only 48 kpbs! I also notice that the range is very poor--in the room next to the router I am down to five bars. If I connect to the AP Extreme with cable I get the full 1Mbps I would normally expect here in Athens (ADSL nominal 2Mbps). The MacBook Pro has no problems with wireless access speeds or range, so I am assuming this has to be a problem with the AP extreme card in the MacBook. Is there anything I have overlooked? Perhaps something to do with setting up the new AP Extreme here in Athens?

    By process of elimination I realised that the only cause of the sudden slowness must be software that I had installed recently. The only software I had added was a wifi utility to detect available networks--open or protected. Unlikely as it sounds, quitting the utility (which I had set to load on startup) made a dramatic improvement in performance.

  • Very slow transfer to iPod....

    Hi Folks,
    I have a Macbook Pro and I'm trying to transfer a bunch of music to a video iPod. I've always used my windows machine in the past but now I'm switching over to just using the Mac. The problem is, on my Mac, it's unbearably slow! I'm using the supplied USB 2.0 cable and it takes forever. When I hook back up to my windows machine and use the same USB 2.0 connection it's MUCH faster, as the 2.0 should be.
    Any thoughts? Thanks for reading!

    HI,
    Make sure there is sufficient disk space on your PBook.
    Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you always have a minimum of 10% to 15% free disk space at all times.
    Carolyn

  • HARD DISK replacement because of very slow transfer speed

     i own HP G6-2005AX, i got it with TOSHIBA HARD DISK,Model - (MK5076GSX) my problem is that while transferrig data from C drive to any other drive, the speed is very vety low (6-9 MB/S).is there a problem in my laptop? i have bought it on 22 0ct 2012, i still have 1 year accidental warranty, can i get it replaced?,can i get hard disk of some other company?(same capacity)
    i can post scrrenshot if required.
    thanks

    Hi,
    If you weren't using USB, then were you were transferring data between partitions or to a multimedia flash drive?  
    Have you mistaken a partition (primary or logical partition) for a physical drive?
    Your notebook has four partitions, unless you have changed the original factory partitioning scheme. C: D: System and HP_Tools.
    The following image shows how my loaner  Envy17-3002ea is organized. It is a bit different as it has two physical 750 GB hard disks. Everything as showng inside Disk 0 is a partition. 
    What software did you use to determine the transfer speed? 
    Which CPU is installed in your notebook?
    ****Please click on Accept As Solution if a suggestion solves your problem. It helps others facing the same problem to find a solution easily****
    2015 Microsoft MVP - Windows Experience Consumer

  • Very slow boot due to USB controller?

    Hi all,
    I bought your barebone MS-6251 with combo DVD-RW. (other params are pentium IV 2.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 120 GB HDD Seagate, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra). I already installed your LiveUpdate software.
    I was absolutely satisfied with this product untill this monday (or tuesday) when my computer suddenly crashed. From that time I was not able to boot it again up, it froze after login dialog of Windows completely.
    I reinstalled windows again and I was succesful and now I am working on the computer but I have following problems:
    1. I am not able to install in windows FRONT PANEL with card readers?
    2. During start up of Windows, they seems to stop for 1 minute - black screen, HDD not operating, after this long 1 minute start up process continues normally.
    3. I noticed that it is somehow connected with USB controller - when I switch it off in BIOS, everything runs quickly - of course without USB support. Immediately as I switch it on, there is this huge delay during start up.BUT THIS WAS NOT BEFORE - BEFORE CRASH MY WINDOWS STARTED IN 10 SECONDS. If I switch moreover to enable  KEYBOARD SUPPORT (USB) or MOUSE SUPPORT (USB) in bios, the delay is really catastrofic - it takes 1-2 minutes for the initial MEGAPC screen to go away and then another 1-2 minutes starting windows.
    I checked my BIOS version, it was 1.0, so I tried to update to 1.1 but it is the same.
    This is very annoying, I believe that you have some solution for me, otherwise I will have to return computer to my supplier.
    Many thanks for you help and nice day
    Vladimir Buzalka
    Czech Republic

    Hi
    Thanks for the reply. After a lot more googling- it turns out this is a general Oracle problem and is not solely related to use of the GEOMETRY column. It seems that sometimes, the Oracle optimiser makes an arbitrary decision to do bitmap conversion. No amount of hints will get it to change its mind !
    One person reported a similarly negative change after table statistic collection had run.
    Why changing the columns being retrieved should change the execution path, I do not know.
    We have a numeric primary key which is always set to a positive value. When I added "AND primary_key_column > 0" (a pretty pointless clause) the optimiser changed the way it works and we got it working fast again.
    Chris

  • Very slow transfer speed between 2 computers in the same network

    I recently bought a new laptop (Lenove G510) with win 8.1 pre-installed.
    When i download files of the internet, my speed is ok, for wireless, but when tranfering files between computers (The other computer is a win 7), the transfer speed is really slow (2-4 MB/s). The transfers takes forever, and are relly unstable. It bounces from 1 - 4 Mb/s all the time and will not stabilize.
    The same applys when streaming to other devices (Media Center). The video being streamd will just go frame by frame, and it is no fun watching...
    Why is my transfer speed in local networsk so slow?? How can i fix this?
    I use AVG Anitvirus, and I have tried disabeling it before transer, whitout results...
    I have also updated BIOS, Chipset and the driver for the wireless network card...
    I can also mention that when I turn my computer on, the internet connection is lost to all other devices... I then need to reset the router, and then the connection is fine again. This was never a problem before I got Windows 8.1, and is not a problem while the computer is turned of.
    In advanced, thansk for any replys/tips
    Regars, Morten

    Just to be sure it's set up properly, please work through the steps on this page:
    http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/notes/sharing.html

  • Very slow photo download by USB with canon 6D

    Hi,
    As in topic I have problem with downloading the photos byt the usb. I am using the USB 3.0 port on Windows 8.1. Downlonding 8GB takes a few hours. This is inaceptable.  When I put the SD card directly to the card reader it goes very fast.  BTW my cards is 45/Mbs  fast. So is it normal or maby it is just my model. Anyway to fix it ?

    Skirball wrote:
    You don't need to use EOS utility at all.  Your operating system (e.g. Windows, whatever Mac uses these days, Linux, etc) can read the files on the computer and put them in a folder of your choosing to be read by whatever photo editing software you use.  Alternately, most photo editing software will import the files for you and put them in whatever filing system you choose.   When I put an SD card into my computer Adobe Lightroom automatically starts up and opens up an import dialog so I can choose what files I want to upload.  It will automatically put it in a folder titled with the date of capture unless I specify otherwise. 
    Before I started using Lightroom I just used Adobe Bridge, which is part of Photoshop.  I would manually copy my files from the SD card to the folder of my choice using Windows Explorer.  Then open the files in Bridge and edit in ACR and Photoshop as necessary.
    I'd just add that one thing the EOS Utility will do for you that the operating system won't is rename your image files on the fly. But that feature is usually of minimal value, since you can rename them with your photo editor (or the OS) as soon as you get them into a folder.
    Using a card reader, you can also rename the files on the card, but that may not be the smartest idea. Most people prefer not to make any change to an image file until they have at least one copy on the computer. It's too easy to accidentally delete something.
    Bob
    Boston, Massachusetts USA

  • Very slow transfer from TC to external drive (on ethernet)

    Hi all,
    I just bought a Lacie external 1TB drive which I connected via Ethernet to the TC. Started moving around 100GB of files from the TC to the drive and it seems it will take 35 hours! I don't think this is normal...does anyone know how to increase the transfer speed?
    Many thanks!

    Paolo da ROma wrote:
    Thank you Pondini. Unfortunately, this seems not to work. I have eliminated the spotlight thing, disconnected the cordless, but no change: 19 hours for 43 giga, and whats is worst is that after a while i get a disconnection from the timecapsule and I have to start from scratch again.
    That sounds to me like you're having WIFI problems. That's a bit out of my area, but you might try changing the setting of +*Use interference robustness+ in Airport Utility > Wireless > Wireless Options. Unfortunately, I think changing that requires the network to shut down and restart, so don't try it while the copy is actually running.
    You mentioned iPhoto Libraries; do you mean you have more than one? If so, can you do one at a time?
    I was wondering if there was a way to do sort of a clone to the TC without going via the file manger.
    If you mean from the TC to a USB drive, then there is, sort of, but I don't think it's going to work any better. See the green box in #Q6 of the Using TIME MACHINE with a TIME CAPSULE *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

Maybe you are looking for