yep. that did it. now something else is going on that I don’t understand. when I try to move folders to this one from my other drive, it says there are locked items in the trash: do I want to move everything or just the nonsecure items or the items that aren’t locked or whatever it it calls them. I don’t know how to make that choice. all I see are “cancel” and “continue” buttons. I pressed continue and then got an ok button so I pressed that but the folder wasn’t moved. I’m not aware of a trash on that drive that I’m moving stuff from so I don’t know what’s going on. how would anything get locked?
I figure I can just copy everything. that seems to work but then I’ll have to erase the older drive before I give it to its next owner. is there any way to monitor the progress of a large folder being copied to the new drive? any access to the progress bar? Many Thanks. > On Jan 30, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > When in Disk Utility, select the name of the actual HD, not the volume that > exists on it. It may say something like 2 TB WD blah blah blah. Stop > interacting with the table and select the Partition tab instead. Set the > number of partitions to one, set the format to XFAT or whatever you prefer, > then press the Apply button. That should do it. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > >> On Jan 29, 2015, at 17:08, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> somehow I set it as a partition so the erase failed because the media kit >> doesn’t think I have a partition. how do I fix this? >>> On Jan 29, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> First you need to Interact with the Disk selection table, navigate to the >>> external HD, stop interacting with the Table, select the Erase tab, change >>> the format to XFAT, give the volume a name other than Untitled, press the >>> Erase button and confirm that you really want to do that. >>> >>> Let it do it’s thing and you’re all set. >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>>> On Jan 29, 2015, at 16:48, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> what is the process called for doing this? I see first aid, erase, made or >>>> rate or something like that and restore. I set it to the format I want but >>>> I can’t figure out how to activate it. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> Lorie >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
