I have just purchased an external hard drive for my mac as it is now full. its a toshiba store.e canvio. i have just transferred a movie from iTunes to the drive but it will not play and says file is protected. please help
This may be a permissions problem. In finder, click on the file, then go to File:Get Info (or type <command>-i). In the file info window, look for "Sharing and permissions." Click on the triangle to expand. Look for a padlock icon, then click on it and type in your administrator password when it is requested. Now you can change permission from "No access" to "Read Only" or "Read and Write."
If this is not available, you've run afoul of iTunes copy protection, or iTunes is not set to look there for files. In the first case, you'll have to work from inside iTunes to get a viable copy onto the external drive, perhaps as a backup copy. In the second case, you would open Preferences in the iTunes menu, then click the Advanced tab to get to the iTunes media folder location dialog. (Make sure the external drive is connected before opening Preferences.) Click "Change..." and browse to the proper folder on the external hard drive. You will have to change back to the original location if the external drive is not connected, so first copy the original location path name and paste it on a Stickies note. After you set the external location, do the same with that path name. Then instead of having to navigate to file locations every time you change, you can just copy the path from the Stickies note and paste it into the location box.
The preceding paragraph was written for iTunes 10.6.3. Your version may differ somewhat.
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What type of Mac is it? PowerPC G4, Laptop, etc? You can copy the files from the Mac partition to the mounted Virtual PC volume and have the XP side find the new files. It is duplication but it is the only way I have found to work without causing other problems.
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open the applications folder go to utilities folder open program called disk utility select the main disk in the list on the left and click repair disk permissions if that doesn't work please send me the error message
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Macs are incredibly simple to add drives.
Simply plug drive into your mac.
You can drag your movies, pictures etc to your new drive and place them where you want.
Or while running your program, choose "Save As" from the file menu. You'll get a dialog box and you should have a list of choices where you'd like to store your new files.
You can even create a new folder from that dialog box and name it whatever you like to separate your movies etc...
Do this with each program.
For iTunes it's a bit more involved because the program will attempt to always create a new library in your user files on your old drive.
Here is a mac article on how to do that.
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