Why does Mac OX 10.6.8 keep making copies of a file anytime I download, copy, or move a file? It will copy, dowload or move the file, then begin making copies until I reboot. This makes it impossible to deal wit hfiles unless I want to spend a lot of time rebooting after every time, then deleting all the redundant copies.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
new user...how do you drag or move or copy a file or folder from the desktop to an external drive? I have tried dragging and copy/pasting.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
The first batch of videos was copied to an external drive from a Windows PC with MacDrive installed. When I came back to my Mac, I plugged the external drive into my Mac and moved those files to my hard drive.The second batch was copied using Connect to Server command right from my Mac.The funny thing is Final Cut Pro cannot recognize the first batch of videos.So I took a look at the file permissions using Terminal. All of the videos in the first batch have a file permission of -rwxr-xr-x@ but the others have -rwxr-xr-x. I tried to do a chmod 755 on every video file, but the @ sign still wouldn't go away.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 27" / i5 / 8GB RAM
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009)
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
why I am getting this error code in transfering over a file. I am using a Mac mini 10.5.7 os.
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