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File transfer from Mac to Element Hard Drive
- Thread starter Rbconway
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Is the file a single image, or more than that?
Try this:
- Navigate to where the file is.
- Click on it ONE time to select it
- Type "command-c" (copy)
- Click on the desktop (just on the desktop, not on any file)
- Type "command-v" (paste)
- A copy of the original should now appear on the desktop
- Does it?
If the file can be copied to the desktop (as you just did), can you now "grab it and drop it" onto the icon for the external Element drive?
If this doesn't work, do you get any kind of an error message at all?
If so, what does it say?
Try this:
- Navigate to where the file is.
- Click on it ONE time to select it
- Type "command-c" (copy)
- Click on the desktop (just on the desktop, not on any file)
- Type "command-v" (paste)
- A copy of the original should now appear on the desktop
- Does it?
If the file can be copied to the desktop (as you just did), can you now "grab it and drop it" onto the icon for the external Element drive?
If this doesn't work, do you get any kind of an error message at all?
If so, what does it say?
More than that...about 1100 images(pictures). Wanted to get them off my Mac onto elements
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Sorry didn't respond sooner I got pulled away for awhile. Copied to desktop ok but when dragging into element icon the picture file came right back to the desktop. no error message
Is this a new hard drive or have you used it on a Mac before? My initial idea is that its formatted to NTFS.
Did a copy appear on the Elements drive? The default D&D action from one volume to another is to copy, not move.