Hi Corrina, What Windows version (XP, Vista, Windows7) are exporting from & what version of OS X on the Mac (Leopard or Snow Leopard)? What version of iPhoto are you importing your photos into? Did you format the External Drive FAT32 using Windows?
Choosing 'MS-DOS File System' (also known as FAT32) will make your drive completely compatible with both a Mac and Windows computer, but you cannot make a file any larger than 4GB. This is the same as formatting as FAT32 under Windows, however unlike Windows there isn't an artificial restriction which limits creating disks in FAT32 format which are bigger than 32GB. Microsoft Windows XP limits a FAT32 volume to 32GB it quits formatting when it hits the 32GB mark. If a maximum file size limit of 4Gb doesn't bother you, then use FAT32. Use the Mac to format the FAT32 volume, not the PC. I have done a PDF Tutorial (with screenshots) for Transferring from WindowsXP & Vista to a Mac. This is a tutorial for transferring your files, music, and photos from Windows to Mac using an external hard drive. Transferring your Files in Windows to your External Hard Drive and then transferring your files from the External Hard Drive and placing everything in the correct places on the Mac. It explains how to ‘consolidate’ your Windows iTunes Library for moving your music across into iTunes Library on the Mac. If the Tutorial would be helpful to you, email me 'Off List" & I'll email the PDF to you. I'm logging off very soon as I have a very early start with a client tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni On 27/09/2010, at 8:35 PM, Corrina Olivieri wrote: > > Thank you Ronni. > > I restarted the computer and iphotos has since opened. I also followed your > instructions and it is all set to read and write. The problems started when > the hard drive was still connected. I have disconnected it from the finder > icon and clicking on the eject symbol. I just closed the iphotos program down > and it flashed a 'critical error' message but the messaged disappeared > quickly. I do need to transfer more photos from the hp lap top to the hard > drive but am afraid something else might go wrong. Could it be the formatting > from the microsoft operating system? I should mention it was 3000 photos I > transferred the first time! > Thank you for your help. > > Corrina. > > > On 27/09/2010, at 7:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> >> On 27/09/2010, at 7:05 PM, Corrina Olivieri wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all, we have just purchased an imac 21.5 inch and a WD my passport >>> portable hard drive. We tried transferring our photos from our windows hp >>> lap top to the portable hard drive and then importing the photos to iphotos >>> on the imac which seemed to be successful until i was browsing through the >>> photos and it froze, i then 'force quit' the program and now when i try and >>> open iphotos it tells me that 'the iphotos library is locked, on a locked >>> disk or you do not have permission to make changes on it". We did follow >>> the online instructions to format the portable hard drive but are thinking >>> something went wrong there. >>> Can anybody help please? >> >> Hello Corrina, >> >> Did you eject the external drive correctly after importing the photos into >> iPhoto? >> If you did try this: >> >> 1.Click in the Finder icon (square blue smiley face) to bring up a Finder >> window. >> 2.It should open to your Home (if not, click on your user name on the left >> column). >> 3.Double click on your Pictures folder. >> 4.Select IPhoto Library by clicking on it once. >> 5.Select Get Info from the File menu (or click Command-I) and look for >> Sharing & Permissions at the bottom of the Get Info window. >> 6.If you only see the name, click the black triangle to its left to open the >> section. >> 7.Select your user name on the left and set your privileges to "Read & >> Write". >> >> You may need to click the padlock icon on the lower right and enter your >> user name and password to enable the change. >> >> Let us know your result please. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 >> 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm >> >> OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> -- 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]>
