First off can you see the external drive. I'm assuming here that its an external USB drive. have you tried reseating the USB? Assuming that's not the problem this tutorial may help.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2581/os_x_move_files_instead_copying/ Also learn the Terminal its your friend. You can do a lot more with that than the finder. Also David Pogue's book on Mountain Lion gives you some very good suggestions: http://www.amazon.com/OS-Mountain-Lion-Missing-Manual/dp/1449330274/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344914124&sr=1-1&keywords=osx+mountain+lion Since OSX is just BSD UNIX with a really good interface you may want to look at some basic Unix books. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ras Tafari <rastaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1. get totalfinder (great app to expand what finder can do) > > 2. you *may* just need to format it for mac (journaled) using?! > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> OK, so I am trying to move some files from my MAC to my external HDD. >> Normally in Windows you just expand the external drive and drag the folders >> or files where you want on it. Well it appears I cannot do that on the mac. >> So I thought I'd just copy the folders, then paste them onto the external >> drive, then delete the files on the mac. No joy on this one. I also can't >> open two finder's either. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bruce >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
