Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-10 Thread FIOGKOS
Thank you again very much, and by the way if I didn’t mention it before I did successfully move files to the drive without any problem. Have a wonderful day. Regards Zoe God the father chose her God the sun dwelt in her God the spirit overshadowed her Most holy mother of God save us through your

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Yes, that’s exactly why that message is coming up. Go ahead and eject both. In the future, you can just navigate to one of them, then press cmd-option-e and it will eject both at once. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swif

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-10 Thread FIOGKOS
Hi everybody, I just sent a thank you message that everything went well. I renamed my drive Zoe‘s movie drive. I went to the volume on my desktop and clicked VO shift M. I used the arrow keys and went down to eject. A window popped up with the following message that is now severely confusing me.

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-10 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Hi again Tim and all. Thank you very much for all your help, everything went well. Success, the formatting was very quick and easy and I am now moving my files on to the drive. Regards Zoe > On Jun 10, 2021, at 2:07 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > It sounds like it

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, It sounds like it is already formatted if it is asking you about using it for a Time Machine backup device. I would erase it anyway though using my instructions. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognitio

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-10 Thread FIOGKOS
Good afternoon Tim and all, hope you are well. Today I plugged in the new external drive. As soon as I plugged it in a window appeared asking me if I want to use this drive for time machine back ups I clicked do not use. The window and disappeared and nothing else popped up. On the desktop I see

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-09 Thread Eric Oyen
Believe me, it’s not all that complicated. In fact, what I detailed is actually fairly simple. Now, if you want complicated, try partitioning that drive with multiple logical partitions, then formatting them for a different Filesystem each and then mounting them under Linux. *THAT* gets complica

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-09 Thread FIOGKOS
Once again thank you very much Tim, I will save your instructions and hopefully everything goes well. Regards Zoe God the father chose her God the sun dwelt in her God the spirit overshadowed her Most holy mother of God save us through your intercessions Twitter @FiogkosZoe Love Isn't butterfli

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-09 Thread FIOGKOS
Thank you very much Eric, for a beginner user like me that sounds terrible and complicated. Having said that I will save your instructions and hopefully I will not run into any problems. Thank you for all your help. Regards Zoe God the father chose her God the sun dwelt in her God the spirit ov

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-09 Thread Eric Oyen
Well, The answer should be yes, that it is relatively easy. Sometimes, However, things don’t work quite that way. So, if the drive doesn’t come up as it should, you can go into DiskUtility, choose the drive from the sidebar, press VO+SHIFT+M and choose erase. Name it in the edit box, choose the

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-08 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Yes, .mov and .mp4 are both fine for completed projects. Both are readable by QuickTime and both are upload able to YouTube. In normal circumstances, Those do sound like completed projects, so moving them to the external should be fine. There may still be project components left within

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-08 Thread FIOGKOS
Hi Tim, again thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I will save the email as I am not ready to do all of this quite yet. I’m thinking in a few days. I may have more questions, I hope you don’t mind. I read your email twice and I have two very simple questions. I have not uploaded any

Re: Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-08 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, With respect to formatting the drive. It kind of depends on if it is already formatted from the factory. If it is, it may be formatted and show up on your Desktop, but be formatted in a format that is read only to the Mac. I suggest that you do the following before connecting the drive t

Help with new external hard drive

2021-06-08 Thread FIOGKOS
Hi everybody hope you’re doing well. I have a 2013 late I Mac running Catalina with a 1 TB hard drive. I am starting my own YouTube channel with cooking episodes. I am using iMovie to edit and join my Clips together. I am using my iPhone to tape my cooking shows and transferring the clips to the