Transferring Home Movies on DVD to External Hardrive on a Mac Book Air

I have many home movies on DVD that I want to put onto a Hard Drive so hopefully they will last longer, how do I do this? I have just dragged from the external DVD player to the external Hard Drkve but it just gives me an alias

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 8, 2020 9:21 PM

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