d-bayless wrote:
hello, I am trying to move all the movies I downloaded to an external hard drive, also I would like to back up all my pics on this same external hard drive. It is a Buffalo HD-PCFU3 Media 1 terra bite. I would like to be able to put all of my important files on this hard drive. I downloaded a lot of movies off of bit tourant and since then my macbook pro 17inch mid 2010 is running slower. actually I think it started acting slower once I ran this program called " clean my mac 2 2.03 zip". Anyways I would like help on how to move these files to this external har drive. Thanks!
Mistake #1: Downloading illegally copied files from bit torrent, you can be sued.
Mistake #2: Telling people on a public forum you did so. (this site is spidered on Google immediately)
Mistake #3: Running a program from a bit torrent on your Mac. (no verification of the owner, could be malware)
Mistake #4: Running a cleaning app on a Mac if it first hasn't been verified by others as safe (I only recommend CCleaner for Mac and OnyX, then from trusted sources, not bit torrent.
Unless your SURE the content from bit torrent is not illegally copied content, then I suggest you erase it from your machine.
First off the external drive is likely not correctly formatted, movies are large files and usually go over 4GB in size.
If the external drive is formatted FAT (MSDOS) then it has a 4GB file size limit.
You will need to change the format of the drive first. Reformatting the drive will delete the existing data on the drive.
Format:
If your going to EVER use this drive with a Windows PC, then instead take it to the oldest Windows version and right click and format it exFAT.
If your using a XP machine, there is a free exFAT download from Microsoft, install and reboot Windows XP, then format the drive.
Always make sure to "Safely Unmount" external drives in Windows or OS X via software BEFORE physically removing.
In Windows 7 and earlier, it's a small icon in the system tray in the bottom right corner.
For OS X, it's dragging the icon to the Trash can, or pressing the eject key.
If your never going to use this drive with a Windows machine, then open Apple's Disk Utility and select the drive.
Click Partition 1 Partition, click the box and select Option: GUID and Format: OS X Extended Jouraled and click Apply.
Optional, but advised: Click Erase and Security Option: Zero All Data and click Erase. Come back in a few hours.
This maps off any bad sectors on the drive, which if one goes bad will cause you to lose movies as they are large files that cross many sectors.
.Drives, partitions, formatting w/Mac's + PC's
Once the files are copied over and deleted off your boot drive/Empty Trash, then fix your machine.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
or Reset it
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