Am trying to transfer my photos from external hard drive onto photos, some are ok but others I am getting message saying "unable to get metadata" can anyone help as to what I can do please?
OSX El Capitan 10.11.3
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)
what is the file system of the external drive? Is it MacOS Extended (Journaled)
I think so, looking at this:
Seagate Expansion Drive
Kind: Volume
Created: Friday 8th August 2014
Modified: Thursday 28th January 2016
Format:Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
Capacity: 3TB
Available: 1.73TB
It is allowing them to transfer 20 at a time but with over 20,000 photos, this could take me some time to do, surely there is some way quicker?
is your internal system drive also formatted "case-sensitive"? If not, it is risky. If you craete files there with filenames that only differ in the case of the characters, you may not be able to copy them back to your system drive.
It is allowing them to transfer 20 at a time but with over 20,000 photos, this could take me some time to do, surely there is some way quicker?
Try to create a folder on the drive and export to this folder and not directly to the toplevel of the drive.
When you reformatted the drive for MacOS X, did select GUID partition table?
I have no idea I'm afraid I am being a bit dense, how do I find out about internal drive? Also create a folder on what drive, the external? And I'm really sorry but I have no idea about the last bit either? 😟
Is this of any help?
Vendor: Intel
Product: 8 Series Chipset
Link Speed: 6 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Physical Interconnect: SATA
Description: AHCI Version 1.30 Supported
APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662:
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model: APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662
Revision: JA0AB5D0
Serial Number: JD8002EZ093WYD
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Rotational Rate: 5400
Medium Type: Rotational
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
EFI:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
Volume UUID: BDC1974F-6B8C-3DAE-9DB2-3AA3C17BF506
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 999.35 GB (999,345,127,424 bytes)
Available: 960.95 GB (960,953,024,512 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
Content: Apple_HFS
Volume UUID: 9BC54104-78BE-3703-8839-66226E047518
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
Volume UUID: 8CBB0885-4A87-3185-8779-C698A3C39BC2
No problem Heather, I was a bit short, sorry.
To check the file system of your system drive, select your MacintoshHD in the Finder and use the command "File > Get Info" from the main menu bar. The Info panel will show you the file system of your System drive.
Also create a folder on what drive, the external?
Right. I meant, don't try to export directly to the top level of your external drive. Create a folder on that drive and try to export the photos into that folder.
You could also first create a folder on your Desktop, exportta large batch of the photos to this folder, then drag this folder to your external drive. Does that work better? This would test, if your external drive is to blame or Photos.
but I have no idea about the last bit either?
I'm not sure about this either, but my experience with drives, that have been originally formatted for use with PCs, may have a wrong partition table.
You can check the Partition scheme with Disk Utility.
In Disk Utility select your drive in the sidebar and click the "Partition" tab. The Partition Scheme should say GUID Partition Map.
I see, your System drive is correctly formatted, as it should be, and it is not case sensitive. It would be much preferable, if your external drive were also not case sensitive.
Okay, how do I change that? If that is done will that make transferring photos a simpler process?
If that is done will that make transferring photos a simpler process?
Perhaps. But it will definitely make reading the photos you are storing there safer.
If you want to change the format of the drive you will first have to copy all data you want to keep to a different drive, because reformattng will erase it.
Then launch disk Utility - it is in your Applications folder, subfolder "Utilities".
You format your drive from the "partitition" tab of the Disk Utility panel. Make sure, you have the external drive selected and not your system drive.
The procedure is described here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201909
The panel will look a bit differently in El Capitan (more like in my screen shot above), but it is basically the same.
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