Files Marrooned on Desktop!!!

[Ian Denham]

Can Anyone help?

I transfered all the info from my External HDD to a file on my Desktop,

The intention was to transfer from Desktop to another External HDD,

Although I can open the files on desktop i am unable to move them anywhere!

I have tried to send to DVDRW and Flashdrive but no joy,

I have 40gb to move, I no longer have the first HDD as it is now fitted internaly to

someones laptop somewhere, this was the reason for moving the files in the first place.

 

[Walrus666]

Hello, forty gigs isn't going to fit on a DVD-RW. How much space is on the flash drive?

 

[Ian Denham]

Sorry, my new external HDD is 250gb, I was just trying to get a small part of the info onto flash drive or dvdrw to see if it was possible to move it bit by bit,
I have now solved the problem by formating the external HDD to FAT

Thanks for your help

IAN.

 

[Walrus666]

If memory serves, you can only transfer approximately four gigs of info to a FAT32 at a time. If the drive was formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled, you'd be able to transfer that forty gig folder to it in one shot.

 

[Ian Denham]

Thank You,
I will do that in the morning,

IAN.