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jahel318 Author

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Transfer of data from external drive

How do I transfer photos and music from external drive to my macbook? These file were saved off my older mac onto the external drive.

Posted on Aug 15, 2019 6:27 AM

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BobTheFisherman

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Posted on Aug 15, 2019 8:06 AM

Connect the external drive to the computer and drag and drop the files to where you want them.

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BobTheFisherman

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Aug 15, 2019 8:06 AM in response to jahel318

Connect the external drive to the computer and drag and drop the files to where you want them.

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Aug 15, 2019 7:15 AM in response to jahel318

Have you plugged the drive into the new one & you can see all the files?

How were they saved to that drive?

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