It's probably formatted as FAT32 (Windows File System). Open Disk Utility
and check it out. You may have to re-format it as HFS+ .


On 9/5/06 9:13 AM, "KEVIN Lock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have transferred lots of photographs to an external HD (Lacie
> 250gb).  When transferring I get messages saying that some names are
> too long.  Also on trying to open photos from the Lacie HD messages
> tell me that the file is damaged and possibly truncated.   Some pics
> show truncations.   I do not get those messages or problems  on the
> internal HD.     Wassup?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Kev
> 
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