Copy photos to external hard drive

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Copy photos to external hard drive

I have all my photos saved in pictures directory on Mac. I want to copy them to my external hard drive. I can copy them but cannot paste or drag into hard drive. How can I do this please. Thanks

Posted on Sep 13, 2013 8:06 PM

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Niel

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Sep 13, 2013 8:09 PM in response to megs.regs

If you're moving an iPhoto library, use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to reformat the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

If you're moving loose photo files, you can also use MS-DOS as the format or install software on the Mac which allows it to write to NTFS drives.

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babowa

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Sep 13, 2013 8:10 PM in response to megs.regs

If I understood you correctly: your photos are winding up on the external hard drive? And you're saying that they are still on the internal hard drive? That is how it is supposed to work: when you "move" things to another drive, they will be copied - you can make sure that they are really there, work as intended, and then delete the originals. If, however, you "move" pics or files from one folder to another on the same drive, then they will really be moved and removed from the original location.

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megs.regs Author

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Sep 13, 2013 8:12 PM in response to Niel

It is not in iPhoto but in my pictures directory. They are all in different 'dated' folders. I want to have a back up on my external hard drive but cannot copy any to it?

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