On Aug 13, 2005, at 5:54 PM, Christopher Dailey wrote:
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On Aug 13, 2005, at 4:15 PM, Dale Goodvin wrote:
Hi,
I have a 15" flat panel imac, OS 10.3.8 and just hooked up a newly
purchased LaCie 160 GB FireWire (400) external hard drive.
Seems to work great, very fast.
But..., sometimes, I'm getting a message about not being able to copy
files because the file name has unrecognizable characters or is too
long. In all cases I've had to change a "/" to a "_" to compete the
process.
How can I get the new hard drive to handle file names like a mac does
instead of like a pc does??
Also is it possible to move rather than copy files to the new drive.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Dale
When you got the LaCie drive did you use the Disk Utility program to
format it too Mac Extended or Mac Extended (Journaled)?
Chris D. (Badger)
Hi Chris,
I opened Disk utility and only saw the following options: First Aid,
Erase, Partition, RAID, and Restore. So I didn't do anything.
I sure wish "Format" would have been an option!
It seems my best option now is to choose Erase (after moving everything
out of the external drive) and then choose either MacExtended or
MacExtended (Journaled) and then put "stuff" back onto the LaCie drive.
What's the difference between the 2 above options.
Thanks,
dale
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