[mac4theblind] Re: Deleting a file from an auxiliary drive.

  • From: John Harden <jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:46:48 -0400

The disk shows up twice in disk utility. Here is the information on the other 
time it shows up. I don't know why a disk shows up twice or if there's a 
difference in the two bits of information.
        Disk Description :      Seagate Backup+ BL Media        Total Capacity 
:        1 TB (1,000,204,885,504 Bytes)
        Connection Bus :        USB     Write Status :  Read/Write
        Connection Type :       External        S.M.A.R.T. Status :     Not 
Supported
        USB Serial Number :     NA5A5D9W        Partition Map Scheme :  GUID 
Partition Table

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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Jonnie Appleseed
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>>> 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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