On 25/02/2005, at 9:57 AM, Greg Sharp wrote:
On 25/2/05 12:06 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
Because of permissions in OS X you can't just drag files from one disk
to
another. You will need to use Carbon Copy Cloner or some other similar
backup utility to maintain correct permissions. Wipe your firewire
drive and
try again using one of these utilities.
All the best
Greg Sharp
Hmmm !
I thought files ( as in documents ) just copied when you dragged them
from one drive to another ! ?
In which case permissions would have nothing to do with it ! ?
We are not talking about dragging files from iPhoto the application
here !
" When I simply drag the photos (not iPhoto) folder to the new drive "
Or am I wrong ?
Bob
