you gotta reformat it one way or another. you could get one of those cute passport drives that hold huge amounts of data and copy it to that… On Oct 2, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Lu, I can confirm that my External HD is formatted as NTFS. It was previously used for Windows so as you mentioned this appears to be why I can't paste things over to it. The make is Philips if that's any help. So since this is the case, what can I possibly do? You see to be honest, I wanted to have an external HD that would be able to copy and paste from Mac and Windows if this at all possible. I don't really want to re-format it because it has all my documents and a heck of a lot of music on it that I've ripped from CD's from iTunes over the years. So as you can see, its quite an important drive to me. lol It is 500GB in size . David, I did post how I currently copy and paste my information from computer to external. Please re-read my previous post or let me know what you are having trouble with understanding and I will try to clarify for you. Thanks Daniel On 2 Oct 2013, at 22:47, Edward Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote: > If you're copying a folder from a window, select, copy, then upen the drive > you're migrating it to and paste it. this is so you can confirm the folder's > then in place. > > lew > > On 2 Oct 2013, at 22:44, john Harden <jharden01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Remember that when you paste to a drive or folder do not open that drive or >> folder. Nav to it and then press Command V to paste or Command Option V to >> move the hilighted item. >> At 05:29 PM 10/2/2013, you wrote: >>> Hi all, subject line says it all. Of course I would like to do this with >>> Voiceover. >>> >>> Currently, when I try to do this, I copy . any file or folder but when it >>> comes to pasting it I get the lovely dong sound. Not what I want. >>> >>> Work around >>> Copy to dropbox and use the rest on Windows. Wait for all information to >>> sync. Plug in external hard drive and copy whatever I want to to the >>> clipboard. Paste it into the desired location on the external hard drive. >>> Done. >>> >>> Obviously this would be cumbersome to backup this way so I want to no and >>> please no body mention Time Machine because that's not what I want and >>> remotely not interested in. A method, using Voiceover to manually copy and >>> paste files from Mac to external hard drive without the crazy work around I >>> have detailed above using windows. Yes sorry folks I have mentioned the >>> other beast it's because its the only way I can move stuff manually so I... >>> not the computer is in control. >>> >>> Sorry if I've offended anyone from talking about the other OS but I hope >>> you can understand and appreciate at times we just have to use other >>> operating systems to get a job or task done and this is my comparison and >>> the way I do it at present. However, if you stop and think about it that's >>> not necessarily a bad thing. One has then the best of both worlds. :) >>> >>> Look forward to learning how its done ;) >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Daniel************ >>> >>> >>> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >>> >>> >>> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >>> their list subscription is: >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >>> >>> The list archive is located at >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >>> >>> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >>> >>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> ************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >> their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-On Technolog(eye)s touching the internet Reducing Technology's disabilities One Byte At a time ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx