Re: my external hard drive

2018-12-06 Thread Lorie McCloud
> -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On > Behalf Of Lorie McCloud > Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2018 04:32 PM > To: 'Dan Eickmeier' via MacVisionaries > Subject: my external hard drive > > my 2 tb external hard drive makes some

RE: my external hard drive

2018-12-06 Thread dbarajas15
Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Lorie McCloud Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2018 04:32 PM To: 'Dan Eickmeier' via MacVisionaries Subject: my external hard drive my 2 tb external hard drive makes some unsettling noises when it's running. at first I th

Re: my external hard drive

2018-12-02 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes at least i should be very very concerned about that. Try to take a backup of it as fast as you can. /A > 2 dec. 2018 kl. 01:32 skrev Lorie McCloud : > > my 2 tb external hard drive makes some unsettling noises when it's running. > at first I thought it was my computer because my Dell use

Re: my external hard drive

2018-12-01 Thread Eric Oyen
If it’s making an unusual noise, try running some of the test tools available. There is a SMART Monitor utility you can download to check out the drive (might not support USB drives) and see if it’s showing indications of a probable failure. In leu of that, start pricing a new drive and be ready

my external hard drive

2018-12-01 Thread Lorie McCloud
my 2 tb external hard drive makes some unsettling noises when it's running. at first I thought it was my computer because my Dell used to sound like that when it was booting up or otherwise working hard but I haven't noticed my Mac doing anything like that. it makes these sounds for awhile after

Re: seems like i cant modify my external hard drive

2014-01-31 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
ything otherwise. > On 31 Jan 2014, at 10:23 am, Dionipher Presas Herrera > wrote: > >> can somebody tell me why cant i modify my external hard drive? i try to >> delete something o my hard drive and it dont do anything. thanks! >> >> -- >> You received th

Re: seems like i cant modify my external hard drive

2014-01-31 Thread Piotr Machacz
r. And obviously, if you'll be reformatting the drive you'll first need to copy the files off of it before you do it since you'll lose everything otherwise. On 31 Jan 2014, at 10:23 am, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: > can somebody tell me why cant i modify my external hard dr

seems like i cant modify my external hard drive

2014-01-31 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
can somebody tell me why cant i modify my external hard drive? i try to delete something o my hard drive and it dont do anything. thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: My external hard drive attached to airport extreme often disappears

2014-01-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
irport extreme in this way and it should work in theory. Has >>> anybody else noticed this behavior? It’s annoying because I sometimes do >>> not know whether time machine is backing up as it should or not, and then >>> when I check manually when the last backup was perf

Re: My external hard drive attached to airport extreme often disappears

2013-12-31 Thread Angelo
That’s how mine works, too, how about when you just restart? Angelo a.rock...@gmail.com On Dec 30, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Hi Angelo, > > I can’t find any particular pattern to the disappearing. I’ve just restarted > my macbook air and was able to find the external driv

Re: My external hard drive attached to airport extreme often disappears

2013-12-30 Thread Kayaker
oying because I sometimes do not >> know whether time machine is backing up as it should or not, and then when I >> check manually when the last backup was performed, it might be a few days >> prior. Is the way I have my external hard drive connected unstable in your >> op

Re: My external hard drive attached to airport extreme often disappears

2013-12-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Angelo, I can’t find any particular pattern to the disappearing. I’ve just restarted my macbook air and was able to find the external drive attached to the airport extreme in finder without any difficulties. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

Re: My external hard drive attached to airport extreme often disappears

2013-12-30 Thread Angelo
whether time machine is backing up as it should or not, and then when I > check manually when the last backup was performed, it might be a few days > prior. Is the way I have my external hard drive connected unstable in your > opinion? I know that Apple prefers us all to have the time

My external hard drive attached to airport extreme often disappears

2013-12-30 Thread Andrew Lamanche
backing up as it should or not, and then when I check manually when the last backup was performed, it might be a few days prior. Is the way I have my external hard drive connected unstable in your opinion? I know that Apple prefers us all to have the time capsule but that’s expensive. I wonder

Nature Sounds App and my External Hard Drive

2012-07-10 Thread Harry Hogue
asant and relaxing, as he demonstrated the way to adjust the Mac volume separate from the VoiceOver volume. My completely frivolous question is, does anyone know of this app or one like it? And on a completely unrelated note, my external hard drive may simply be dead. It was unable to part

Re: how do i transfer music from my external hard drive and my i-phone 3 gs to my mb pro:

2010-11-09 Thread Joshua Loya
You're very welcome, Chenelle. That's what this list is all about, right? -Joshua On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Chenele Hancock wrote: > > hi joshua, > I wanted to say thank you for your help with copying my music from my > i-phone 3 gs and my external hard drive

re: how do i transfer music from my external hard drive and my i-phone 3 gs to my mb pro:

2010-11-09 Thread Chenelle Hancock
hi joshua, I wanted to say thank you for your help with copying my music from my i-phone 3 gs and my external hard drive to my mb pro. i really appreciate it. sincerely, chenelle Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-10 Thread Courtney Curran
The thing is, mine's not slow. It makes me wonder whether it's an NTFS drive or not. On 10/05/2010, at 3:36 in the morning, Sarah Alawami wrote: > It works really good but the thing I find is browsing ntfs drives is deathly > slow on the mac. drives me nuts when I'm trying to attach a file from

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-10 Thread John J Herzog
s.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Courtney Curran Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 5:21 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full? I did use it with Windows, so I don't know what NDFS is. Whe

RE: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-10 Thread Simon Fogarty
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Courtney Curran Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 5:21 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full? I did use it with Windows,

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Really? Wow. That sounds like a horrible experience. For me, it's just as quick as browsing Mac OS Extended Journaled drives. It might be worth reporting. That doesn't sound right. Regards, Nic On May 10, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > It works really good but the thing I find is

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
It works really good but the thing I find is browsing ntfs drives is deathly slow on the mac. drives me nuts when I'm trying to attach a file from said drives in an email and it takes me 5 minutes to do it. On May 9, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > Paragon NTFS costs 39 dol

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Well obviously. ;) Having more than one solution is always a good idea, and Terminal and Paragon NTFS are just one of those I chose to outline, regardless of Paragon NTFS costing a bit of money. I know of MacFUSE but never got to mess with it, nor the NTFS 3G you're talking about. Regard

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Paragon NTFS costs 39 dollars. However, I've never messed with MacFUSE myself (which is the free product), but I'm sure someone can point you in the right direction. Regards, Nic On May 9, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Oh it's free. I had a blog post but google ntfs3g and macfus

RE: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Simon Fogarty
- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Eickmeier Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 5:32 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full? Here's a thou

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
Nope. I downloaded and installed it and I can easiuly copy and paste to ntfs easily. Talke care. On May 9, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > If I get this program, would I have to reformat my hard drive and lose all my > stuff? > > On 09/05/2010, at 2:10 in the Afternoon, John J Herz

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Courtney Curran
If I get this program, would I have to reformat my hard drive and lose all my stuff? On 09/05/2010, at 2:10 in the Afternoon, John J Herzog wrote: > Hi Nick and all, > There is a free program that ads NTFS read and write support to mac. It is > called NTFS 3g. You can get this program and it c

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
I did it with macfuse and ntfs3g not through the terminal. I guess both ways work eh? On May 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > If you are new to the Mac, you probably do not want to do this. However, if > you still feel like attempting this, you can enable the read/write t

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh it's free. I had a blog post but google ntfs3g and macfuse. Take care. On May 9, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: > I did use it with Windows, so I don't know what NDFS is. Where can this > software be purchased? > On 09/05/2010, at 1:31 in the morning, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > >> Her

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Nick and all, There is a free program that ads NTFS read and write support to mac. It is called NTFS 3g. You can get this program and it costs nothing. The coolest part about it is that, in your disk utility, you have the option to format drives in NTFS if you so desire. hth John On May

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, If you are new to the Mac, you probably do not want to do this. However, if you still feel like attempting this, you can enable the read/write to NTFS through Terminal for a particular volume. That's the free way, but if you are not careful, you could get potential problems. I'll repost th

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread marie Howarth
it's the way a drive is formatted. On 9 May 2010, at 18:20, Courtney Curran wrote: > I did use it with Windows, so I don't know what NDFS is. Where can this > software be purchased? > On 09/05/2010, at 1:31 in the morning, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > >> Here's a thought, could this harddrive possib

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Courtney Curran
It just beeps at me like I can't copy. It doesn't give me any errors. On 09/05/2010, at 12:45 in the morning, Sarah Alawami wrote: > What error do you get if any? > > Take care. > > No trick command v should work. > On May 8, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > >> Hi, >> I was wondering

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Courtney Curran
I did use it with Windows, so I don't know what NDFS is. Where can this software be purchased? On 09/05/2010, at 1:31 in the morning, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > Here's a thought, could this harddrive possibly be formatted in nTFS? If so, > that's probably why. I believe there is software you can

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
Youc an copy and paste to ntfs files wiht macfuse and ntfs3g. but what errors are you getting? On May 8, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > Here's a thought, could this harddrive possibly be formatted in nTFS? If so, > that's probably why. I believe there is software you can get, so

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
What error do you get if any? Take care. No trick command v should work. On May 8, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if there is some kind of trick for copying something from the > hard drive of my Mack to my external one with mixed content. I tried to do > comma

Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-08 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Here's a thought, could this harddrive possibly be formatted in nTFS? If so, that's probably why. I believe there is software you can get, so that you'll be able to write to NTFS formatted drives. On May 8, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if there is s

Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not even half full?

2010-05-08 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I was wondering if there is some kind of trick for copying something from the hard drive of my Mack to my external one with mixed content. I tried to do command-v, but it didn't work. It's not the hard drive I use to do my time machine backups on. Any help would be appreciated. Courtney --