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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2012 08:03 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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HI There I have an iMac and a 300gig drive that I used as a backup for my photos on my old PC. my question is how do I import the files from the drive to the mac? I got it to see it ,then it was gone never to be seen again It looked like it was going to import the files, but instead it locked up in (preparing to import files ) Of course if it is possible to mess things up I can do it with no trouble. at this point I have shut everything down and am going for a cup of strong coffee Thanks for any help, if any is possible at this point  Ed 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2012 09:35 |
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jk
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Need to ascertain if the drive is dead. Is there a power light on the 300GB drive casing, is it on? Is the drive spinning? Is the drive Firewire or USB? If you unplug it from the computer without Ejecting, do you get an error message ? If Yes then you need to re-plug in the drive and select the drive from within the Lightroom drives (I presume you are using LR). Open the folder with photos making sure that the 'Include sub-folders' checkbox is ticked.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2012 09:48 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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Hi JK It is not dead, it is a usb drive ( the only connection on the old PC) I do not have LR, I have had problems with Adobe so NOT. I do have Aperture ,and iphoto . I had shut all off, I just booted the iMac back up and I now have a Icon on the desktop for the drive, I was trying to import the photos from the drive to the iMac. Now at least I am back to square one lookink at the void LOL Thanks for your help JK  Ed
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2012 10:26 |
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Robert
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Sorry Ed, JK got there first. I would say don't move too much at once. Don't be tempted to simply lift all the data from the external and dump it on the internal. That can cause the sort of lockup you describe. I tend to move folders of not much more than a Gig at a time when I am moving large dollops of data. Powering down and re-starting usually sort's any glitches. If you go to the finder pref's you can turn on the icon for the main hard drive. I have no idea why Apple turn this off by default, it's one of my most used features to access my data. Screen shot of my drives and pref's Attachment: Screen Shot 2012-11-07 at 16.32.37.jpg (Downloaded 65 times)
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2012 11:20 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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Hi Robert I have a nasty bad cold so my eyes are watering makes typing fun like braile, but I did what you said and now have an icon for the internal hdd. using the old PC for this so the iMac is on its own wow holy tech Batman two computers at once who would have thunk it. Thanks for the help Robert  Ed
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2012 12:41 |
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jk
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Hope you get over that cold soon Ed. Good luck with the new machine.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2012 13:04 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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me too the weather has not helped, we had over 100 days with no rain now it seems we will have 100 with oh oh could it be 40 days and 40 nights HUMMMMMMMMM! and I had to sell my arc when I was forcibly retired oh well get out the zip lock bags and save the photo gear  Ed
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2012 06:40 |
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jk
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Well it gives you more time to get that hard disk issue sorted! Tell Mrs Noah that you might need a larger boat and if the budgets dont get passed in the Senate/HOR then you can always sail away.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2012 07:17 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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at least the photo gear will survive and me with water wings, and she who must be obeyed walks on water anyway (glass bottom boat) the hdd thing is a total foobar or snafu at least for now I think, I will just format the thing and use it for a back up drive, and move the photos another way. probably on a flash drive. that way I can move only the most important and leave the rest to fate the cold took revenge last night and got very nasty, I have yet to think of a way to get even so I think I will try to get ahead of it  Those that go over the edge are the only ones that know what it is  and if you are not living on it then you are taking up too much spacetake care and be well Ed
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2012 12:14 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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hdd problem solved it is now a backup drive and happy to be one all is right somewhere in the universe at least one can hope so Ed
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