On Friday, Feb 25, 2005, at 10:08 Australia/Perth, Robert Howells wrote:
On 25/02/2005, at 9:57 AM, Greg Sharp wrote:
On 25/2/05 12:06 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 ! ?
I suspect that Michael's new firewire drive is FAT / MS-DOS formatted,
which has restrictions on file name characters and length.
I'd suggest reformatting with Disk Utility (in your
/Applications/Utilities folder) as HFS+ and trying again. If you can
see the file in the finder, you _should_ be able to copy it wherever
you like...
HTH,
Steve.
