I want to move a file. HOW ON EARTH??

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I want to move a file. HOW ON EARTH??

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grant_whittaker

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I'm not doing that for a start!!!

That makes no sense at all - but thank you, I'll try it in a mo!

Where on earth did software writers get that from!??!

Surely, select the file, "Copy", find the destination and "Paste" or "Move" would make sense !!!

Anyhow here is what is happening

1) Find the recording,
2)hover over it so it's blue,
3)press OPT+,
4) Select "Move Copy"

a box opens saying "Move copy files" and the HDD or my external drive.
At this point HDD is blue selected and my ext drive isn't and "Move" is highlighted in red at the bottom.

The moment I select the ext drive the "Move" changes to "Copy" but the red button grey's out....

If I go to a subfolder the red button is no longer red and I can't move it

| Fri 5 Dec 2014 21:02:35 #11 |
grant_whittaker

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Ok - some very minimal success now - Have managed to "Select the file" and move it into a folder - so that's an improvement.

However it still won't allow me to move it to the ext hard disk.

Whoever wrote this particular part of the software needs shooting!

| Fri 5 Dec 2014 21:05:14 #12 |
MontysEvilTwin

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Is your external drive in NTFS format? If so the vanilla HDR-FOX can only read from, not copy to this drive.

| Fri 5 Dec 2014 21:19:40 #13 |
grant_whittaker

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Aha, that's an idea - however I feel I've moved recordings to it before.

Perhaps I haven't - I'll try a mem stick..

| Fri 5 Dec 2014 21:20:23 #14 |
grant_whittaker

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When you say "Vanilla" - what do you mean?

| Fri 5 Dec 2014 21:22:15 #15 |
Martin Liddle

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grant_whittaker - 22 minutes ago »
When you say "Vanilla" - what do you mean?

If you use the custom firmware you can install a package to enable NTFS read and write support.

| Fri 5 Dec 2014 21:45:29 #16 |
grant_whittaker

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I'm not sure I'm good enough at this stuff to do that!!

I can't even move a file!

| Sat 6 Dec 2014 9:13:50 #17 |
Martin Liddle

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grant_whittaker - 1 hour ago »
I'm not sure I'm good enough at this stuff to do that!!

It really isn't more difficult than applying a standard firmware update via USB and then using a web browser to point and click.

| Sat 6 Dec 2014 10:20:02 #18 |
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On a related note is there an easy way to tell if it is still copying? It seems as if copying a movie could take a long time, over five minutes, and unless the drive had an activity light it wasn't obvious when it could be removed safely.

I say this in the past tense as it has been six months since I last tried. I want to teach my Father to use flash drives so I need a simple answer to the question: when is it safe to pull the USB drive out?

| Wed 31 Dec 2014 11:16:02 #19 |
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oliverb - 9 minutes ago »
On a related note is there an easy way to tell if it is still copying? It seems as if copying a movie could take a long time, over five minutes, and unless the drive had an activity light it wasn't obvious when it could be removed safely.
I say this in the past tense as it has been six months since I last tried. I want to teach my Father to use flash drives so I need a simple answer to the question: when is it safe to pull the USB drive out?

Press the Media Button - It says * copying top right under the pie chart

| Wed 31 Dec 2014 11:34:03 #20 |