ey up, OK firstly as you mentioned windows, is your external HDD windows formatted? if so, this may be the start of the issue. if the drive is NTFS formatted but mountable, you won't be able to cross data over. if however your drive is mac formatted, here's what I do, OK it's a little Tedious but I am not much of a time machine fan. If I'm doing a drive backup, I grab the folders concerned, select, then command C, then go to the drive and command V to copy over data. simple as that. if you're having any hickups, it's useful to know what your external drive is set up as, what partitions are available, etc. lew On 2 Oct 2013, at 22:29, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 >
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