New Mac
csno01
Community member Posts: 398 Empowering
Hi guys,
I hope all is well.
I have just bought a new Mac and I am trying to back up my files from my old machine onto an external hard drive using drag and drop technique.
I know this is the most easiest way going forward, although I have files on my old Mac and current one from my old Windows PC, each time I try and go to back it up, it prompts me for an Administrative password, during transfer. I am guessing that could this be due to something in connection with it being a different format?
Does anyone know how I could get past this please? I could perhaps try and back up my Mac files first?
Thank you in advance.
CSno01
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Sorry I don't fully understand the question
Do you mean when you drag a file from your old computers onto the hard drive, it asks for a password?
Does it do this with every file or just some files?0 -
66Mustang said:Sorry I don't fully understand the question
Do you mean when you drag a file from your old computers onto the hard drive, it asks for a password?
Does it do this with every file or just some files?Hi Mustang 66,Apologies about that.I am trying to drag and drop my files from my Mac to my external hard drive.I will try it again today and see how I get on and let you know.CSno010 -
All sorted :-)I don’t know what I was doing wrong the first time around? Probably selected the wrong partition format. Play and learn0
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gosh I wish I could have helped but I'm pretty awful at using my Mac and regularly have to google what I need so I can use it lol.
glad to see you fixed the issue.1 -
trashpanda said:gosh I wish I could have helped but I'm pretty awful at using my Mac and regularly have to google what I need so I can use it lol.
glad to see you fixed the issue.0
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