With your drive connected, go to Disk utility located in the utilities folder inside your applications folder. you can get details of the HD including the partitions used. if NTFS is shown, then initially you have a problem. you can push data to an NTFS drive but you can't modify, erase or mount. so you will need a product like Tuxera NTFS or Paragon NTFS for mac which are reasonably cheap. these work as driver / volume support tools. if the drive is set as Macintosh OS X extended journaled, you may be experiencing a volume error. if you can find out for us what your drive is formatted as, then we can continue from there. lew Moderator / Support On 13 Oct 2013, at 18:56, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John, > > It sounds like there is a problem with writing to the drive. this happens if > the drive is ntfs. You can investigate this issue by finding the drive on > the desktop and pressing either vo-m m to bring up the shortcut menu for the > drive and pressing enter on the get info item (be warned, this can lock op > your system), or directly press command-i to get info. > > On Oct 13, 2013, at 1:37 PM, John Harden <jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I tried both methods and neither of them worked. Again I locked the machine > up and doing force quit to get out. > John Harden > Quality Brailler Repair LLC > > For professional Perkins Braille Writer repair. > > 386-238-5871 > jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx > 145 N. Halifax Ave. #605 > Daytona Beach, FL 32118 > > > > On Oct 13, 2013, at 8:57 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> try command-shift delete. I know this seems somewhat counter intuitive but >> it may work. >> you can also try a copy and move item to here which is command-option-v. >> once the item has been transferred to the mac, it should be easily >> deleetable. >> >> >> On Oct 13, 2013, at 8:51 AM, John Harden <jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I copied my NLS books folder to my Seagate external USB drive. Now that I >> have read one of the books I want to delete it from the Seagate drive. I >> found it and pressed command delete and got a message saying preparing >> filename for deletion. After about an hour and no progress I aborted the >> deletion with quite a bit of trouble doing so. Because I had so much trouble >> with it I don't want to go back and try it again until hearing from someone >> on this list. Is there something I should do other than just find the book >> and press command delete? Any help will be appreciated. >> >> John Harden >> Quality Brailler Repair LLC >> >> For professional Perkins Braille Writer repair. >> >> 386-238-5871 >> jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx >> 145 N. Halifax Ave. #605 >> Daytona Beach, FL 32118 >> >> >> >> >> >> John Harden >> Quality Brailler Repair LLC >> >> For professional Perkins Braille Writer repair. >> >> 386-238-5871 >> jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx >> 145 N. Halifax Ave. #605 >> Daytona Beach, FL 32118 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonnie Appleseed >> With His >> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >> touching the internet >> Reducing Technology's disabilities >> One Byte At a time >> > > > -- > Jonnie Appleseed > With His > Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > touching the internet > Reducing Technology's disabilities > One Byte At a time >
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