Moving videos? Macbook Pro

[Gary86]

I downloaded some movies and songs last night and they are in my "videos" folder. I'm trying to get them to my external HD but won't let me, any thoughts/ideas?

 

[scathe]

lots of questions pop into mind, like what sort of a hd is it? what filesystem does it use? how are you trying to copy?

 

[Gary86]

its a WD (western digital) and made for PC and MAC. It works fine with the MAC(that's how I got all my stuff from PC -> MAC. I'm trying to click and drag/ copy n paste. Not sure of another way

 

[Gary86]

no other thoughts

 

[mrplow]

What's happening? Are you getting an error/changed cursor?

Are you able to copy the files to another location on your mac? Say the desktop?

How did you download them? Perhaps they are still in use by that app?

 

[Gary86]

maybe it's be my permissions on my EX HD say 'you can read only' how do i change this, that shouldn't be right since it's MY HD

 

[mrplow]

What file format does the external HD use? (You can find out using Get Info)

What version of OSX do you have?

 

[Gary86]

Says Windows NTFS. and I just bought it so i think 10.6.2

 

[mrplow]

OSX can natively just read NTFS drives. That's the problem.

But you can enable read/write in Snow Leopard (10.6). I can be done in Terminal but this is an easier way to do it NTFS Mounter

 

[Gary86]

ahh ok thank you. How would I go about doing it in Terminal, this way I don't have to download anything

 

[mrplow]

I'd use the download personally. You can end up in knots if you're not careful in terminal.

Just Google "activate NTFS read/write in snow leopard" There's loads of info out there. Use at your own risk etc tec

I don't want to copy and paste anything here and get it wrong. As I say I'd use NTFS mounter (as have several others on this forum).

 

[Gary86]

ok I'm no MAC genius like i was on Windows so i will take ur advice, once again thank you for all the help, much appreciated.