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6 Replies Last post: Jan 27, 2005 3:13 PM by Nobody  
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Jan 18, 2005 3:49 PM

BIZARRE copy/move movie files to external drive

Help.I give up!!!!
I am trying to move some movies onto an external hard-drive but OS-X lies and tells me that it cannot as it says the file name is too long or contains characters, quoting a " Icon" file for each i-movie project (which i can't find in any folder). Any idea what's going on? and how i do move my i-movies? I dont want to share as they end up in uneditable quicktime movies.
Thank you very much. simon in UK.
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1. Jan 18, 2005 8:03 PM in response to: Nobody
Re: BIZARRE copy/move movie files to external drive
"Icon" is a hidden file located inside a folder that saves the icon for that folder; an iMovie project, being a folder, could contain this file. OSX is complaining because "Icon" is actually named "Icon?" where "?" is some weird character or other.

in my opinion, not the best design choice here on apple's part, but that's another story.

is the external HD macintosh format? i'm not 100% sure if that has to do with anything though. i've never run into this problem before ... i thought i'd let you know what "Icon" is though, at least.

also, are you familiar w/ terminal? there are some easy terminal solutions if you are... let us know. if not, does anyone else have any ideas as to what is going on?
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2. Jan 19, 2005 8:13 AM in response to: Nobody
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thanks. just about to shoot off to work, late as always, but i will try to email later with more details. Thank you shrimppesto!
simon.
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3. Jan 19, 2005 10:50 AM in response to: Nobody
Re: BIZARRE copy/move movie files to external dri
As said above if the hard drive is not formatted for Mac that will cause problems for any file with non-standard characters like "/" or "*". I ran into the same issue with my external and I just reformatted and all went well going forward. Luckily it was the first time I tried to use it so I didn't have to move a lot of files.
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4. Jan 19, 2005 11:46 AM in response to: JackMac
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thank you. i really dont want to have to do that though as there are loads of other projects (all my images/itunes etc/ on there. it only seems to be imovie stuff that fails to move. how can i tell if its correctly formatted before i ruin my weekend on this?
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
simon.
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5. Jan 20, 2005 5:27 PM in response to: Nobody
Re: BIZARRE copy/move movie files to external dri
Just highlight the drive icon and "Get info".
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6. Jan 27, 2005 3:13 PM in response to: JackMac
Re: BIZARRE copy/move movie files to external dri
its Macintosh PC exchange (MS DOS). But i hardly care about that now as my harddrive failed on my powerbook before i could move the files. Ive posted this as a seperate issue on "dead powerbook. 11months old" as i cant believe they are related issues...

But sticking with the older query. What should i do with external harddrive?

Thanks.
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