My Powerbook is now completely full to the point where there isn’t much space left for updates. That’s what I get for adding all those mp3’s. I’m trying to copy the contents off onto an external drive so I can wipe it and then start again. I’m using Tiger, not Leopard, so no Time Machine. The problem is that copying the files off is turning out to be a bit of a pain in the backside, because I am having to transfer files via a PC. The external hard drive is NTFS, and that has caused some accessibility problems. It would probably be so straight forward otherwise. Whenever a long file name is found everything stops. It doesn’t give you the option to skip that one file, everything comes to a grinding halt and then you don’t know what has been copied over and what hasn’t. Start again… Grrr!
Earlier I watched the Big Brother launch. I probably won’t watch the rest but this evening’s telly has been quite entertaining.
Kernos said,
July 11, 2008 @ 1:10 am
You can reformat the external drive as HFS+ using Tiger’s Disk Utility and copy directly from your Powerbook to the drive.
Kernos
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