tomerfromholon
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Q: can't copy files to external HD on lion...

hello

what's up with lion??

i have 2TB external HD from WD

my HD work great on SL but now when i'm on lion

it try to copy file from my mac to the HD

i ear the copy noise that the file as been copy but the file wont show on the external HD

i try this with all diffrent files... nothing move...

 

please help me with this

 

thx alot

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 12:39 AM

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Q: can't copy files to external HD on lion...

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  • by snoofox,

    snoofox snoofox Jul 25, 2011 2:46 AM in response to tomerfromholon
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    Jul 25, 2011 2:46 AM in response to tomerfromholon

    Got a reply from WD:

     

    "The external drive model "WD Elements Desktop" (model number WDBAAU0020HBK) is supported with the following clients according to the specificaitons:

     

    - Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7

    - Mac OS® X, Tiger®, Leopard®, Snow Leopard™

     

    Furthermore this unit is pre-formatted in NTFS files system which is not fully compatible for Mac OS. If you did not has re-formatted your drive yet to HFS+ or MS-DOS (FAT) file system, you would either need to do so to be able to use the drive under the supported Mac OS."

     

    Does not seem to help much, though Lion not supported??

  • by zappleuser,

    zappleuser zappleuser Jul 25, 2011 6:55 AM in response to tomerfromholon
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    Jul 25, 2011 6:55 AM in response to tomerfromholon

    I have 3 USB external drives. Seagate and 2 WD's. And I can't copy to or from any. They were fine prior to Lion install. Haven't come up with anything that fixes. Sharing, rights access all seem correct and should enable copying. Haven't figured out the problem.

  • by zappleuser,

    zappleuser zappleuser Jul 25, 2011 7:18 AM in response to tomerfromholon
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    Jul 25, 2011 7:18 AM in response to tomerfromholon

    This I guess this will serve as a temporary fix for copying files to/from USB external hardrives.

    kill and relauch Finder....below are 2 ways to do this:

     

    1.) Kill the finder (pressing Option and click and hold on Finder icon (Dock) , then click on Relauch)

    2.) Go to Apple icon (top left) and Force quit Finder

     

    This worked for me and now I can copy to/from my 3 extenal HD's.

     

    Hope this helps...

  • by The MacGreg,

    The MacGreg The MacGreg Jul 26, 2011 6:01 PM in response to zappleuser
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    Jul 26, 2011 6:01 PM in response to zappleuser

    thanks for this, I have the smae problem sometimes Lion just pretends to copy files. Relaunching finder helped!

    funny bug.

  • by polarbreeze1,

    polarbreeze1 polarbreeze1 Nov 9, 2011 5:28 AM in response to tomerfromholon
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    Nov 9, 2011 5:28 AM in response to tomerfromholon

    I just had a similar experience and I found out what it was. Don't know if it's the same for you but here goes:

     

    Lion has a new "feature" in which the user's Library is hidden in Finder. I mean, VERY hidden so that you can't browse to it at all. The only way to see it is through the "Go" menu, holding down the Option key, or typing ~/Library.

     

    Here's how it's relevant to the OP: I copied my Library to an external hard-drive and, like the OP, I thought that it had failed to copy. However it had copied OK - it's just that the "super-hidden" attribute had gone with it to the hard-drive so I could only see it by doing a goto  /HardDrive/Library. Some tactic like that might solve the OP's issue...?

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