Hi! Yes, I am only copying my own photos folder - nothing to do with iPhoto because I've heard that the iPhoto files have to stay where they are.
I guess I'm stuck because I'm also finding it difficult to even move my documents folder. I'm not touching anything to do with system files. All I really want to move to the new drive is: pictures, movies, music, my own documents and an extra folder I created simply called downloads. I'll go home from work this afternoon and try out all the suggestions so far. I'll have a look at see how the firewire drive has been formatted and maybe start again. Isn't iTunes a mean when it comes to moving the folder?! Took me two goes! All 18GB worth of songs! Thanks for the suggestions! Michael -----Original Message----- From: Paul Kitchener [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 10:38 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Running out of disk space 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 I may be wrong but I thought only 'system' files and similar cause the need to use such utilities. I believe Michael is merely talking about photos etc. I did what he is attempting without issues. Michael, there may be some special files inside the 'photos folder' you mention that are causing this glitch. You could try a search on that folder for just your graphic files, try searching for .jpg .gif etc to isolate out just your media, then copy from that results list. It will however leave behind any directory structure you currently have under that folder. You can of course recreate those folders on the new drive once the pictures have been copied over. I'm an iPhoto virgin, so I know 0 about it but I imagine it could export those files or it's library to a nominated destination, any thoughts? Good Luck Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
