Hi, For the source drive, how idd the items get put on it? From your Mac or from a Windows machine? If from a Windows machine, don’t copy the items that have a dot before the title if there are any and don’t copy items like “Recycler” or “Trashes”. These sorts of items are not necessary and could cause you grief. Try copying a folder or two at a time to determine which folder is causing the error. The OK button you pressed was probably telling you that the copy did not work and that’s likely why you didn’t see anything moving over to the new drive. A note of caution as well, please make sure that you read messages prior to clicking OK. Just clicking OK or entering passwords without first reading and understanding the dialog is leaving yourself open to vulnerabilities. With respect to progress bars, when files are being copied, the Copy dialog should be visible to VO and when you navigate around that dialog, you’ll find a couple of places that will tell you the status of the copy. Usually one stating the percent completed and one stating how many files have been copied and an estimation of how long the computer figures that it will take to finish the copy.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Feb 1, 2015, at 20:59, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. 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