X on folder after transferring files

I transferred music, pictures, and video to my Mac book pro from an external hard drive. After the trAnsfer was complete it showed the folder with an "x" and a loading bar still. How do I resolve this or does it resolve itself?

Matt Bacon1 wrote:
Hi, all... I have an iMac with a 250GB drive,and a 500GB TC. Since I had about 30GB left on my Mac hard drive, I've added a WD Studio Firewire HD (2TB) to the set up. This morning I copied my iPhoto library (56GB) and Movies folder (64GB) to the external drive, and deleted them from the iMac HD. Now the TC is telling me that it's running low on space. I assume this is because instead of the 220 GB of iMac HD it is backing up, it is now effectively keeping two copies of the photos and movies in the same iMac backup - one for the Mac HD volume and one for the MyBook volume - in case I need to restore the original, now deleted files.
Correct.
I guess that eventually this problem will go away as the "internal" copy disappears into past history... will it?
Yes. But as you put more and more data on that new drive, you may fill up the TC's internal HD past the point where it can cope.
The question is, did it delete old backups (that may take quite a while) and do a new backup successfully, or did it fail with a message? It sounds like there should be enough space, depending on how much space the laptop's backups are using.
Note that Time Machine, running on the iMac, will not delete any old backups from the laptop, only from the iMac. If you want to reduce the amount of space used by the laptop's backups, you'll have to delete some of its old backups manually, then "compact" its sparse bundle, per #12 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
I suppose the other option is to use the WD 2TB drive as my back-up drive, and keep the TC as a NAS drive for the laptop backups. The only problem with that is that then my media files and the backups would be on the same physical hard drive, which defeats the point.
Also correct.
An alternative would be to connect another external to the TC and back the iMac up to it, instead of the TC's internal HD.

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