[mac4theblind] Re: how to manually copy and paste to external hard drives?

  • From: Edward Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 22:47:31 +0100

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
>> 
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