MacBook Air :: Why Can't Drag Or Add Files To Hard Drive
Sep 12, 2014I have a Seagate hard drive, and when i plug in to Mac computer, it doesn't let me add or delete files, it says read only.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have a Seagate hard drive, and when i plug in to Mac computer, it doesn't let me add or delete files, it says read only.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
So I have a friend who is a pc who gave me his hp hard drive with simple save, one of those hard drives with software that com pies things automatically. When I plug it in it show up fine and I can look in the folder and I have read write access as you would expect on any hard drive. But when I try to drop stuf in I can't, and I obviously can't reformat it because he needs to use it. Any idea to work around it or what may cause this issue?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I plugged my empty(4 GB) thumb drive into my mac and it wont let me drag files into it because there is not enough space, even though the thumdrive is empty!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Can I copy text and drag it to the hard drive to create a .txt?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
How do i play media files from my external hard drive without transferring the files to my mac hard drive? I have a lot of media files and want to be able to play them soley from my external hard drive.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.1.1
if i delete files off my internal hard drive (Macintosh HD), will it still be on my external hard drive or will it just add to it?
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But get this, I hook it up to my old Dell and I can do whatever I want. I am friggin pissed that I spent all this money on Mac equip and can't get it going. You may have seen my other post where I posed my issue of: 1tb ethernet drive hooked to airport extreme. Above mentioned 1tb hooked up to back of it via usb. I am completely unable to copy, move, or add files using my mac. But guess what. my pc handles it easily and quickly.
I had a Sony Vaio desktop computer and about two years ago I installed a system update from Windows which completely corrupted my hard drive. It wouldn't be such a big deal except I had about a year of photos which I had not backed up. I purchased around $300 of various (and supposedly reputable) data and photo recovery software; however, none of them worked. I could recover thumbnails and that's it.
I currently have a Macbook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running OSx 10.5.8. I also have Parallels with Windows XP. My question is: If I buy a suitable adapter to connect my Vaio's hard drive to my Mac, could I potentially try something else to recover the photos? Or would it just be a waste of time?
I just signed up for Liverdrive in the hope that I could smoothly access every file (music, photos, films, documents etc) from any of my devices.
I used Carbon Copy Cloner to transfer all the files from my MBP to the Livedrive Briefcase drive (stored online, not locally), but to my surprise I found out this morning that something strange had happened:
Before my HD (240 Gb SSD) had around 120Gb free space, but after the attempted transfer I get a warning that my startup drive is almost full (500 Mb free space).
My problem and subsequent question is:
I cannot see those files that were supposedly copied anywhere on my MBP, but in Finder I can see that the HDD is indeed full.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 15" 2.4Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 240 SSD HD
I plug my external hard drive through usb, I try to drag and drop files to icon but it refuses to save there, my memory is filling up and i need to save important files and photos to external memory I can drag and drop under windows parallels but not mac.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Word is telling me file is "write protected" and other files tell me I don't have "permission" to save them.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iPad, iOS 7.0.2
I cannot believe I am actually in this position, but I accidentally reformatted my lacie 1TB external HD. The files were not overwritten as it was the most basic and quick format option, but they are not accessible.
Can anyone recommend a good data recovery app that works for OS X?
Anyone know what the best course of action would be?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
When I try to drag a folder from a DVD-R to my MacBook Pro, i get the "can't do this" icon, a circle with a diagonal line thru it. i also can't drag any of the files inside the folder to my mac either.
(It's a pro tools project folder containing pro tools files and audio files.)haven't run into this before. a colleague tried to do it and it failed on her computer too.
my 4 month old IMac 1TB hard drive is full of log files
1. Why is the Mac storing so many?
2. How can clear the files
3. How do I prevent the machine from doing it
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Hard drive
This is what is says in disk utility? is this OK even after reformatting brand new MBP, that it still has 2 files, and used space is 447MB?
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1
I have a 250GB WD external hard drive. I formated it in MS-DOD(FAT)/ExFAT using disk utilities.I have problem copying files from MacBookPro to an external hard drive. when i try to copy it says "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data can’t be read or written (Error code -36) " The info of the files is shown as read & write?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How do you transfer existing files from a removed harddive to a macbook pro? I need to transfer my files from a removed hard rive to my macbook pro. How do I do that?
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MacBook Pro
I've been backing up my MacBook Pro on an external portable hard drive. I need to delete some but not all the files from that portable hard drive permanently. When I highlight them and click to move them to Trash I get a message telling me this cannot be done because they are Read Only files? How do I go about it. I am required by work to delete them off this hard drive. Do I have to reformat the hard drive? If so how do I go about it?
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MacBook Pro
I recently converted over to a Macbook Pro from PC and had all of my PC data saved to an external Hard Drive. I can retreive the data fine, but I can't save anything to the Hard Drive. I have plenty of room on my Macbook, but old habits are hard to break and I like to back everything up at least once a week.
I do not want to reformat my External Hard drive as there is ALOT of information on there that would be lost. So, how can I copy things over there, or drag them over to the External? When I try, it gives me the circle with the line through it.
And if you have time, tell me about Time Machine. I am interested, but it seems like alot of work, because I would have to copy everything off the hard drive, let Time Machine reformat it, and then copy it back. Seems VERY time consuming.
External hard drive is 2TB and has approximately 90GB on it.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
How can i backup my computer files and downloaded programs to a generic external hard drive?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
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MacBook Pro
I don't know what's taking up so much room on my startup disk, I get an error message saying i'm full up and now a couple of programs are having trouble opening. I've spent two days dragging files into the trash and dumping them, wouldn't you think that would have cleared some space?
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Info:MacBookPro, iOS 5.1
I accidentally deleted an item on my make but it is on my external HD how to I transfer it from the Ex HD to the Mac. this was an IPhoto Library an Album also is there a way to see how many photos I had backed up on a certain day compared to what I have now-another words I did a back up on may 5th and had x number of photos and had lots of issues with adding more photos but was able to do so now I have more photos but I am not sure they all transferred without going through and counting them TIA?
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MacBook