On 25/2/05 12:06 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I simply drag the photos (not iPhoto) folder to the new drive I > either get a message "Some files could not be copied. Do you want to > skip these and continue?" When I click Yes, files are transferred but > about half of them (approx. 800MB worth) haven't been copied across and > I can't work out which are on the new drive and which are still on the > original drive because the original folder on my existing hard drive > contains all of them. I've gone through the image files as best I can > and removed and / or & in the names of the files. Mind you, I would have > thought that if I can have names of files on my HD with such characters, > why wouldn't I be able to on the new firewire drive? Because of permissions in OS X you can't just drag files from one disk to another. You will need to use Carbon Copy Cloner or some other similar backup utility to maintain correct permissions. Wipe your firewire drive and try again using one of these utilities.
All the best Greg Sharp
