[mac4theblind] Re: Deleting a file from an auxiliary drive.
- From: John Harden <jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:01:12 -0400
Here is what I found in disk utility. Is this information helpful? Had company
this afternoon and just am getting caught up now.
Mount Point : /Volumes/Seagate Backup Plus Drive Capacity :
999.86 GB (999,860,912,128 Bytes)
Format : Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
Available : 784.3 GB (784,297,730,048 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : Yes Used : 215.56 GB (215,563,182,080
Bytes)
Number of Folders : 172,944 Number of Files : 822,032
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 2:20 PM, Edward Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
>>> touching the internet
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>>> 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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