forgot to ask have you tried holding down the CMD while dragging the files to the external drive?
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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:353724 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
