Thank you for the tips on what to do with my aging G4 and lack of disk space...so I went out yesterday and bought myself an external/firewire drive.
So last night there I was ready to transfer my music, photos, movies and documents to the new drive. Maybe you could help me with this: When I simply drag the photos (not iPhoto) folder to the new drive I either get a message "Some files could not be copied. Do you want to skip these and continue?" When I click Yes, files are transferred but about half of them (approx. 800MB worth) haven't been copied across and I can't work out which are on the new drive and which are still on the original drive because the original folder on my existing hard drive contains all of them. I've gone through the image files as best I can and removed and / or & in the names of the files. Mind you, I would have thought that if I can have names of files on my HD with such characters, why wouldn't I be able to on the new firewire drive? Another weird one is when I try to move my documents folder I get a message saying "Could not copy "icon " and the copying process stops (yes, there's a gap). What else can I do to move these folders to my firewire drive? Thanks people! Michael K. Schmidt
