dooleyd
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Q: cannot transfer folder to external hard drive in e capitan

I have upgraded to el capitan I have an external hard drive which I copy lots of photos to. it won't let me do it now, I honestly have too much on it to format it and quite frankly do not see the reason for it, it worked perfectly well until I  upgraded. any advice please?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 12, 2016 1:29 AM

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Q: cannot transfer folder to external hard drive in e capitan

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Sep 12, 2016 2:11 AM in response to dooleyd
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    Sep 12, 2016 2:11 AM in response to dooleyd

    How is the drive formatted? Select the drive and press Command + I.

  • by dooleyd,

    dooleyd dooleyd Sep 12, 2016 2:50 AM in response to dooleyd
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    Sep 12, 2016 2:50 AM in response to dooleyd

    It was done when I originally brought it for my Mac and when I was operating the OS or whatever it was it worked

    fine it has sooooo much on it, but like I say upgraded to this blinking El Capitan and it won't work  

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Sep 12, 2016 2:59 AM in response to dooleyd
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    Sep 12, 2016 2:59 AM in response to dooleyd

    I have a feeling based on your issue with Photos and what you did to fix it that you somehow created a new user or renamed the account when you updated to El Capitan which is why all your folders had the red icons on them.

     

    What you can try since this is on an external drive is with the info panel for the external drive open, unlock the lock and set all the permissions to Read & Write. Or you can check "Ignore ownership on this volume". Never do that on the internal drive or any drive with OSX on it.