MacBook :: Moving Files From One HDD To Another?

Feb 19, 2009

so im thinking of getting a new hdd, but i dont want to lose any files. and after i get the new hdd id have to install Mac OSX but is there anyway to move files without an external hard drive, like time machine?

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MacBook :: Moving Over Old Files?

Feb 1, 2009

I am thinking of buying a new MacBook (Pro). I currently back up using Time Machine and wondered when restoring when I first turn on the Mac, do I have to restore EVERYTHING or can I select what I want? Such as music and photos.

Also, does the 7200RPM hard drive in the pro create lots of noise and heat compared to the 5400RPM version? If I bought a 7200 RPM model and put it in a MacBook (Apple don't let you do this yet) would it be safe? Which models do Apple use?

Is the Pro big when carrying to school? Portability basically?

Some of you might have seen my previous posts, but judging by what I will use the laptop for, do you recommend 2.4, 4GB MacBook or the stock 2.5 Pro with upgraded hard drive?...

1. I use light bits of Photoshop CS3 Extended for school that work well on my original 2.0 Core Duo MacBook.

2. Light video editing, such as iMovie, maybe Final Cut.

3. Most importantly, music creation. I'm only a beginner on all of this, and the laptop should last me about 3 years at the least. Everybody I have spoken to about the missing FireWire on the MacBook - including people at apple - has advised me that the gap between USB and FireWire is pretty half and half. As a beginner, recording voice, guitar, keyboard, maybe drums... will the lack of FireWire be too much of a problem?

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MacBook Pro :: Moving Files From Mac To PC?

Jun 21, 2010

I have my Macbook Pro and i have a lot of large 4gb+ files that i need to get onto my PC, i have a 16gb USB stick and want to just transfer them across a few at a time to my PC (running Win7) But either my PC wont recognise the format, or when it does i cant copy files to my usb stick because of a file size limit of 4gb.

So in short, how can i get files from my mac to my pc, is there a program i can download for my PC to read Mac formated drives or something like that?

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MacBook Pro :: Moving Files To A New Folder?

Feb 5, 2012

I was wondering how come I can't move my videos to a new folder? For example in my 'Downloads' I have a few episodes of The Office and I can't move them altogether into a new folder...?

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Jun 21, 2012

I have a mac book pro 13 inch with 300 or so gig of disk space. I would like to upgrade this to 1 tb. Can you use time machine to restore all your photos, videos, music and files to the new hdd after the os is installed on the new hdd?

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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1

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IMac (Intel) :: Moving Files From MacBook To New One

Dec 5, 2014

I have a 4 yr old macBook Air with solid state disk capacity 120 GB. It has loads of music and about 12000 photos on it and the disk is getting full.I also have an iPhone 4s.I am treating myself to a new iMac with 1 Tb drive.I guess it would be sensible to move most photos and music to the new iMac.(I have a 500Gb hard drive I use to back up the macAir)

Re photostream - does it store photos on the Macbook itself? Can I set up my phone to send photos to the iMac instead of the current macbook air? How?How do I keep duplicates of some of the photos on the macbook?

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MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

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Mar 12, 2009

I need to import my movies via firewire, but can only do it through my brother's macbook, as my new macbook does not have firewire. Therefore, I imported 100 GB worth of movies onto his computer, then transferred the iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folders onto a hard drive, then transferred them from the hard drive to MY macbook. Now they are sitting on the desk top. How do I get them into iMovie on my macbook, now that I have transferred the files from my brother's macbook onto my macbook's desktop?

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Aug 23, 2009

So i've just started using Mac and i've downloaded a few tunes into the downloads folder and then moved them to music. I cant remember what the file names were so can no longer find them. Is there a way to organise the files in the music folder to show the most recently added? If not what do you recommend

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Oct 21, 2010

This is my first Mac...On the PC I used MS Office and continue to do so..I bought the Office for mac 2008 until the new one comes out. Would like to know if I need an Antivirus software for protection since I have and will be receiving word and other office files? Also would like to know how to move all my pst files from outlook onto my new mac? I have about 12GB archived that I need access to.

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Applications :: How Can I Stop Moving Location Of Music Files On Macbook?

Dec 29, 2010

I have a 46 gig itunes music folder that I had moved from my PC to a NAS several months ago. I set up itunes to have the music folder on the Macbook that I use day-to-day point to the songs on the NA. The songs link to the respective folder on /Volume/Music/Artist/Album/song The NAS has been having issues staying connected so I just moved all new songs (I had kept at least 44 gigs on the PC as a backup when I did this 6 months ago) from the NAS to the PC. I finally figured out a way to reliably connect to the PC (running Win7) from the Macbook via SMB. The songs are now located on Volume/iTunes Music/Artist/Album/Song My question is - how do I instruct itunes that the songs are now located on the PC rather than the NAS? Should I just 'delete' all files in iTunes and then add the PC's folder? Is there a better way??

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MacBook Pro :: Why Doesn't Disk Space Free Up After Moving Files To An External Drive

Feb 28, 2012

I have a 750GB internal HD but film a lot of movies. To free up space, I have moved my iMovie clips off to a secondary hard drive, but I have not seen my free disk space free up on my Macbook pro. Why is this? I moved, not copied the files. They only show now on the external hard drive. I am looking at the free space in Finder > Get Info. I have easily moved a few hundred GB off to the new drive, but my internal HD still shows as over 500Gb used. 

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MacBook Pro

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OS X :: Moving Files One Hdd To Another Hdd?

Aug 31, 2009

I have a new hardrive and I'm using the time machine with it. I have a couple old hardrives with old but important stuff on it. I want to consolidate ALL my files, etc into one (new) hardrive. How do I select all the files in my old hardrive and transfer them to my mac, and then eventually to my new hardrive?

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Apr 16, 2010

My grand father is the king of all pack rats as he still keeps all his taxes and personal files on a powermac 600/66.

He wants to move the files off that computer and onto one of his newer macs so that the older powermac can finally be laid to rest.

The power Mac has a floppy drive which I am hopping I can use in tandem with a USB floppy drive for one of his newer macs so that no data is lost.

It seems like a viable plan I just want to know what issues I might run into as he is convinced the only way to transfer the documents will be via printer to scanner.

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Sep 23, 2010

I like to keep my Applications directory tidy, so I have my software in several sub directories. I haven't had any problem moving the .app files around until I installed Virtual Box. It installs under Applications without asking anything, and if I just plain move the .app file somewhere else, the program doesn't run.

So, coming from Linux, my first instinct when a sw doesn't work from it's GUI launchers is to try run it from command line to see any potential error messages, and sure enough:

Code: sakus@MBP13 /Applications/Utilities/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS $ ./VirtualBox

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyDir: Failed to open "/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS": No such file or directory (2)

So my question is - as I'm still not too familiar with these .app bundles - based on that error message, which file should I look for to try and edit the hard coded directory paths ?

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Jan 4, 2011

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Is there a Mac program that would read my Publisher files so that I could work with my same template on the Mac side? Will Mac Office 2011 recognize Publisher files produced on the Windows side?

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Apr 16, 2009

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Now, however, on my new 10.5 computer, it seems every single folder is locked and protected in the windows partition I access from OS X.

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Apr 21, 2009

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Is this possible or do I need to format the USB disk to FAT32 and do the whole thing again?

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Jun 10, 2009

I have an External USB HDD formatted in Mac OS Extended ( Journaled ) connected to my iMac. on this external HDD I have approx 150GB of movies, ( avi ) that I would now like to transfer to my sisters PC's external USB HDD , which is formatted in NTFS .

I do not have any more external HDD's that I can use to transfer the files , I was trying to think of a way to directly by wire , transfer the avi files from the iMac's external HDD to the PC's external HDD

Can any one think of a way to do the transfer with out too much messing about ..?

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Aug 18, 2009

I had a PC laptop that was going out on me, so I backed all of my important documents (mainly my entire music library 30gb in mp3 format) onto my Western Digital external HD. It was formatted for PC.

I plan on buying a MBP today or tomorrow and I am afraid that I'll have to format my external HD to a MAC and in the process erase everything being stored on it right now.

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Apr 12, 2010

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So I am trying to move a couple of PDFs from my Documents folder to one I created within the Documents folder.

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Jul 19, 2010

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Moving Files On 10.7.2?

Feb 24, 2012

yesterday night I decided to moving (not coping) about 100 Gb of data (two WMWare virtual images of Windows XP)from an external USB disk to my internal hard disk. The process starts and I see it will takes about 3 hours. I decide to stop the process to start it again just before going to sleep.So I click on x button of the moving window.After few seconds the moving process stops. But opening the source folder I had a very unpleasant surprise: no files at all.I check the destination folder: just few files of about 50 MB (obviously). I immediately removes the external USB disk to avoid other damages. 

1. where are my data?

2. is there a easy way to recover them? 

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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Intel Mac :: Moving Files In It Over To A New SSD

Mar 27, 2012

I have a mid-2010 27" iMac, which I've just installed a new 256 Gb SSD (blazingly fast!!!) which I want to use as my primary hard drive.  The 1Tb Hard drive which I'm now using will continue to be in the machine, but will serve as the document storage drive.  I am using Lion and have everything backed up via Time Machine.  The SSD has a clean install of Lion. 

What I want to know is how can I move all of my applications over to the SSD while still keeping the documents on the 1Tb Hard Drive.  Should I use my Time Machine with the Migration Assistant to do this?  If I do, how do I then delete all applications off the 1Tb Hard Drive while keeping my documents?  Although I have everything backed up, I'm worried that as has happened before when migrating over to a new computer, the Time Machine backup drive will not let me access previous backups once I migrate everything. 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Nov 16, 2008

In trying to move my Iphoto or Itunes files to an external drive, I get the following error message: "The items cannot be moved because "External Data" cannot be modified". Can anyone explain what is going on and why it won't allow me to move these files?

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Apr 22, 2009

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OS X :: Moving Files To Network Drive

Jun 25, 2010

I was hoping someone could help me with this, what I have is a newer mac mini connected to a netgear wndr3700 router via ethernet port, and a W/D 1TB my book for mac external hd connected to the router by usb. I can access the hard drive no problems, but it will not let me move files to it. I'm logged in to the mac as an administrator, and into the router as administrator. it asks for password to move files, i enter it and it comes up with the message i've attached.

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OS X :: Moving Files In New Hard Drive?

Jul 15, 2010

I just got a new hard drive in my mac pro and i am attempting to move the files over to it so i can delete the old drive and reinstall new OS onto it?

I have looked for the solution but i can not seem to find anything. I can't drag and drop because after a while an error happens and the whole process stops and i can't seem to find out why that is happening.

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Dec 4, 2009

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ITunes :: Moving The Music Files?

Mar 11, 2012

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USER/ME/MUSIC (and then)
Folder - 8 Mile
Folder - Adele
Song 1
Song 2

[code].....

In this example "Adele" Sub Folder has duplicates of Song 1 and Song 2 of the Main MUSIC folder but doe snto have Song 3.

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May 9, 2012

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