Force Move - finder is copying ; (
I have been using it to search all my folders - imported from a "pc" organization - for all images so that I can archive these off my hard drive. Since iPhoto has basically duplicated this data on import I want to archive the originals to a couple of external drives. Also, it is taking up a large amount of additional space.
I am part way through the process of moving images from one folder "Folder 1" to a folder at the same level of heirarchy "Folder 1 IMAGES". I was doing this by selecting the images that Finder found and dragging and dropping them to the new IMAGES folder.
There are a large amount of images and when I tried to do them all at once I got an error that said the operation could not be completed because one of the files was in use. Obviously this also sometimes happens when a file is locked.
The problem is that I was part way through a move-drag and dropping /groups/ of files (so I could isolate the problem file) when Finder seems to have switched to COPYING these groups of files. I could tell this was the case because I started seeing the green plus icon.
Now I can't really even tell where I am at with this but I would like to start to FORCE moving the rest of the images from the original folder to the new folder so I know that I have not deleted any data. After all, these will be archived off of the hard drive and I believe they are all in iPhoto already.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks Much.
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Mac OS X (10.6.3), Mac Pro, MacBook Pro