IMac (Intel) :: How To Move A Folder To External Hard Drive

Aug 23, 2014

I saved a folder on the desktop and want to move the entire folder to my external HD.  How do I do that?

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IMac (Intel) :: How To Move All Photographs To External Hard Drive

Jun 29, 2014

I have a 1TB external hard drive , and I would like to know how to move all my photographs to it and use that file when opening my photos . I have conflicting issues ( but I think the process will be the same ) , I use Nikon , my wife prefers Canon , and i try not to use iPhoto (it's the worst piece of software I have had the misfortune to use ) now that my memory is sparse i want to put our photos (raw and jpeg) into the external hard drive and open it from the Mac ...

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Intel Mac :: Move Files To External Hard Drive?

Apr 1, 2012

I have an iMac (Mid2011). I have too many files on my hard disc and am trying to move some over to an Elements Hard drive I have connected but when I try and move them over nothing happens and it just gives a can't do sign.

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Intel Mac :: Move All Files Onto External Hard Drive?

Apr 22, 2012

My mac is starting to become slower because its almost reached it 500GB limit. How can I transfer all of the files (*Excluding Applications) from my mac onto the hardrive, but removing them off my mac in the process so Im effectivly wiping my mac, and accessing all of the files off the external hardrive.

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Mac OS X 10.5.8, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Intel Mac :: Move All Music From Itunes Onto An External Hard Drive?

May 3, 2012

can i move all my music from itunes onto an external hard drive to free up some memory?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

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Intel Mac :: 2011 Time Capsule & External Hard Drive - Move Library Onto One Of These?

Apr 8, 2012

I'm a first time contributor so please forgive me if I seem a little "wet behind the ears"...I have a 2011 iMac (which replaced my 2006 G5 iSight model) and a 500gb Time Capsule.I have my iTunes Library (which is approximately 150gb) on the Time Capsule but, given the relatively modest 500gb on the capsule there is not enough room to back up my computer.I have been looking at 2tb external firewire hard drives and I am hoping to move my iTunes library onto one of these and then use the capsule to back up my computer with Time Machine (the Mac has an internal 500gb hard drive). I'm hoping this will be a relatively straightforward task! The downside with this is of course, I will not have a back up of my iTunes library...with the hardware that i have does anybody have any advise or better ideas!?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Time Capsule, External Hard Drive

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ITunes :: Move Folder To An External Drive?

Jun 30, 2012

how do i move my iTunes folder to an external drive?

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ITunes :: Move Music Folder To A New Hard Drive?

Feb 10, 2012

I've installed a new drive in my Mac Pro. I now have to move my iTunes Music folder into the new drive and junk the old one. I know that I can use iTunes/File/Add to Library menu item to get iTunes to locate the new Music Library; however, this is going to leave me with two entries for every track, one good and one broken after I remove the old drive. I think I should junk the old library and then have iTunes rebuild it from the Add To command...

Info:Intel Tower, MacBook, two mini's, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2x 2.66 GHz, 9 GB, 60 GB SSD, 3 ea 1-TB HD's

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OS X :: Can Move The Home Folder To Yhe External Drive Firewire 400

May 2, 2005

I recently purchased an external hard drive (firewire 400) and I want to move my home folder there. When I hold down the option key and click on the folder, it just copies my home folder to the hard drive. Is it possible to move my home folder to the hard drive? I'm using OSX 10.3.9.

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OS X :: External Drive As Another Folder / Move And Copy Files?

Apr 27, 2010

I have two Macs, a desktop PM G5 and a laptop Black Macbook, both running 10.5.8. Currently when using the laptop I can see and access the PMG5 and its files through my wireless connection. I'm planning on picking up an external drive, and I'd just like this confirmed, as in its access ability. If I hook up the external drive to the G5 so I can leave it there, and access its files through the G5. will my laptop also be able to access it through the G5. In other words, when I access the G5 from the laptop over wireless, will the external drive appear as just another folder and/or device on the G5 and I'll be able to move and copy files just like I already do?

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OS X Mavericks :: Move Movie Folder To External Drive

Jun 3, 2014

I need to move my 'Movie' folder to an external drive. I see to use Symbolic Links (I have Simbolic Linker). But do I need to delete original 'Movie' folder by command line? I've seen two different terminal commands- what the current one is since both those were quite old.

I want to make sure to do it correctly before deleting. I'm installing an SSD PCI 'drive' and need to make my startup drive smaller. 

Info:
Mac Pro (Early 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9), 14 gig RAM- 30" Cinema Display

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IMac (Intel) :: Can't Open File On External Hard Drive

Aug 29, 2014

I'm using an external hard drive for mac backup and also to store photo files.  I copied some photo files to the drive about two weeks ago and their icon appears, but when I want to open them, I get an error message: "The alias “...” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found."  There is also a small arrow on the icon.  My other files can be opened okay. 

What's also strange is that I found the icon of the external drive in the folder with the picture files, even though I did not drag it there (the main icon is till on my computer's desktop, where it should be.)  That icon also has a small arrow on it.  When I click on it, it opens and I can see my folders, but the photo folders with the arrow on it will still not open. 

I tried ejecting the drive and reconnecting it, but it didn't work.  Is there anything I can do to recover the missing photo files, or are they most likely gone?  I have deleted these pictures from my computer hard drive.  What should I do about the mysterious second external drive icon?  Delete it or keep it?  Can I somehow use it to restore the photo files? 

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.4 GHZ Intel Core Duo 6GB RAM

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IMac (Intel) :: OS X (10.5.8) How To Transfer Music To External Hard Drive

Jun 4, 2014

How do I transfer my music on an older iMac ( OS 10.5.8 ) to a external hard drive so I can put it on a newer iMac (OS 10.9.3)?

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iMac (17-inch Flat Panel), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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MacBook Air :: Drag Or Move Or Copy A File Or Folder From The Desktop To An External Drive?

Feb 24, 2012

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)

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OS X :: How To Move ITunes Library From External Hard Drive

Jun 22, 2009

I want to get a mac but one thing that concerns me is my itunes. I have a massive library and if I get a mac I will need to copy the library to my external hard drive from my pc then copy it again to the mac. How could I do this without losing my playlists, rating etc? And also if you have all your photos in iPhoto can you access them without opening iPhoto? If you can how? Because I have played around on Macs in the Apple Store and couldn't see where they would be!

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OS X :: Can I Move Adobe Applications To My External Hard Drive

Oct 4, 2009

I just got a second hand macbook pro which came with a full Adobe Suite. I very much want to keep all the programmes, but dont want them taking up space on my internal hard drive. Can I simply move them over to my 500GB external hard drive? Or would this damage the application? and would I be able to run them just the same from the external HD location?

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OS X :: How To Move .mbox From Desktop To External Hard Drive

Feb 24, 2010

I moved mail from an exchange server to my computer to get around using to much space at work. I then dragged that folder to my desktop which created a .mbox file. When I try to move the .mbox file from my desktop to an external hard drive it wont move. a grey circle with an exclamation point appears. I tried doing it with Entourage close as well and got the same issue. Does anyone know the proper way for me to move the .mbox file from the desktop to the external hard drive?

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MacBook Pro :: Can't Move Pics To External Hard Drive

Feb 27, 2012

When I import photos from my iPhone to iPhoto I created a folder for photos that I want to move to my external hard drive.  I hooked up my external hard drive to my MacBook Pro and tried to copy and paste the pics from that folder to my external hard drive and its not letting me copy anything to the external hard drive and I have no idea why.  How come I can't cut and paste to my external hard drive?

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MacBook Pro

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MacBook Air :: Move Pictures To External Hard Drive?

Mar 1, 2012

How do I move or save uploaded pictures to my external hard drive - as my mac is saying that my internal drive is getting full or something like that?

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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), external hard drives

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MacBook Pro :: Move A File To An External Hard Drive?

Apr 14, 2012

how do i move a file or folder from my mac book pro to an external hard drive? the hard drive is formatted just for the mac.

i backpacking and taking loads of RAW pics so i need to get them off my mac onto the hard drive. it seems i have to copy them, only some times then some pics dont work!! pain in the arse!!! im quite new to the mac and loving it, but on the old p.c it was easy as!!

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MacBook Pro :: Move A File To External Hard Drive?

May 1, 2012

I need to move a mpeg to an external hard drive, but I don't know how.

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Adobe Premiere Elements, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: Move Photos To An External Hard Drive?

May 7, 2012

How do I move photos from iPhoto to an external hard drive?

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

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MacBook :: Move Files From External Hard Drive To It?

May 9, 2012

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

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ITunes :: Move Just Music To An External Hard Drive?

Jun 13, 2012

I'm trying to set up our home network so that everyone can access our large music library through a hard drive attached to apple extreme, but manage all of their other iTunes media files (apps, podcasts, etc) on their own devices. Is it possible for iTunes to have this type of split personality?

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IMac (Intel) :: Movie Player (like QuickTime Or VLC) On External Hard Drive To Watch Movies?

Sep 2, 2014

I have an external drive to store all my movies since I have no room on my iMac. I'd also like to watch my movies on other computers and I was wondering if there's a movie player that can be installed on the external drive to watch some movies like (.mkv) and so on.

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IMac (Intel) :: Moving Files To External Drive Not Creating Hard Disk Space

Sep 2, 2014

My 500gb iMac (purchased April 2010) is about at capacity.  350gb of space is taken up by home movies (.mov) in iMovie.  I bought an external hard drive and have moved about 200gb over to that drive. 

After transfer, I deleted the original Events off iMovie and emptied the trash.  I checked in both iMovie and in Finder and no longer see those files present on the Mac.   

I thought this was going smooth and everything worked perfectly, but….when i went to check how much storage space i created on the Mac, the amount of available space barely budged (i moved 200gb of data to the new drive and i created about 30gb of space on the Mac). 

Are these "deleted" files hidden somewhere and I need to go delete from somewhere else?  How do I make sure I get back the storage that i need? 

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Applications :: Cannot Move ITunes From External Hard Drive To MacBook

Sep 29, 2009

My iTunes library got too big so I moved it to my external hard drive and now that I have space for it on my macbook, I want to move it back but cant. It keeps stopping saying that it cant move certain files then it stops the transferring process altogether. I've tried moving it several times but it keeps failing on me. Anyone have an idea as to why it keeps stopping the transfer on me?

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MacBook :: Move Screen Recordings To An External Hard Drive?

Apr 19, 2012

How do I move screen recordings to an external hard drive?

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MacBook

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Move/Archive Mail To External Hard Drive?

Apr 25, 2012

I have two mailboxes in Mail on my MacBook Air that I've been using to store old messages. There are 2 folders - In Archive and Out Archive - that I've been manually moving messages to for years. Combined there's more than 140,000 messages and it's taking up 17GB of my HD space. Can I simply move the mailboxes to an external drive and be able to access them when needed (which isn't often)?

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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

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MacBook :: Move Pics From Iphoto To External Hard Drive?

Jun 13, 2012

How do I move pics from iphoto to ext. hard dirive?

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