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Do you mean "how to burn files from a portable device to the mac" instead? You will need burning software like Nero or other software that is compatible with your mac. The process includes copying the files from the portable device to your mac hard drive then use burning software to burn the files to a dvd or cd disk. I don't know about mac but with a pc, you simple drag and drop the files from the portable device to your hard drive using Windows Explorer.
Lynette, if data on hard drive is useless, erase it. If you have useful info and can use that drive in a newly replaced computer then only take the trouble to replace it because it is costly and time consuming. If the info is of no use to the buyer and can do no harm to you, let it stay. The buyer will delete.
The windows and mac operational systems are completely different. When you hooked it to the mac machine it reconfigured the hardware to work on the new system, now that you switced it back to windows there is a compatability issue leaving reformat as the only solution. To try and recover files you will need a tower computer, if this fails, the computer repair shop is your only hope since they have additional tools that can extract the files.
The short answer is: Drag the Skype icon in your Dock off of it and drop it - it will go *poof* and disappear. Then, drag the Icon for Skype from the Applications folder on your local hard drive to the trash bin on your Dock. This will effectively remove all of the application information from your computer minus some very insignificant preference files. If you need to know how to delete them, please reply and let me know! Further, if Skype starts up with your computer please let me know if you get an error upon reboot and I'll help you clean that up as well.
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my external HDD is not letting me drag and drop files from my mac. Is this my mac being secure? If so how can i remove it so i can store audio files on this device. thanks
Flashing question mark means that the Mac cannot find the operating system due to corruption of the hard drive or system boot up files. Install your original install disc 1 and press and hold down C to boot from disc. Then go into the disk utilities folder. Then click on your hard drive in the left box, and then click on repair disk permissions. Does it boot now? No?? Hook up to another mac by firewire to your computer. Then press power on your computer and hold option key while powering on the other computer. The other computer's hard drive should show up on your laptop screen. Select it and then press the right arrow. Then you can drag and drop your files into the other computer. Get you a new hard drive and re-install the operating system.
You can drag and drop your files on to an external hard drive or USB flash drive, burn the files to CD/DVD using an application called toast - you will need a CD/DVD writer to do that. If you can find one, you can save your files to a zip disk.
OK Where did the files on the drive come from if you can't write to it?
I'm suspecting that It's come from a PC and the disk is formatted NTFS.
Macs can read the NTFS but cannot write to it. They can read and write to FAT and other DOS formats.
If you are only going to use it on your Mac then you will have to reformat the drive.
First, copy every file you need to keep onto your HD (if you have room) then use Disk Utility (in the Utilities Folder) to erase and refomat as Mac OS Extended (Journalled).
Then copy all your files back on
If you need to use the drive on both Mac and Windows use the MS_DOS (FAT) option.
The Mac OS can't natively write to NTFS (it can write to FAT32 however). But if you install MacFuse followed by NTFS 3-G on OS X then you'll be able to write to your NTFS drive.
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