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October 24, 2017
Copying files off MacBook Air & SeaGate 1TB Drive
So, I want to get my photos copied off of the MacBook Air and the SeaGate 1TB drive before I leave home.
My MacBook Air is basically completely full. So, I just want to wipe everything and start off with a clean slate.
It gets a little confusing because I'm reasonably sure that I have some data redundancy, but not clear how to search for duplicates at this point. I figure it's best just to move everything off and sort it out later.
So, I'm assuming at this point that I've exported everything from iPhoto. Now, it's just a matter of moving it off of the Macbook Air and Seagate Drive.
On the MacBook Air, under Documents, I have the following folder:
2016_04_11_Evergreen lake. It has 14 photos in it. However, I don't see this folder on my seagate drive. So, I'm inclined to believe it's never been moved off of the laptop.
Now, before I go crazy copying files around, I need to figure out if I can copy the files off my my seagate external drive onto my DiskStation from my MacBook Air and, if so, how fast(or slow) is it?
Also, I'm curious if I can hook my seagate external drive up to my Windows laptop and copy the files onto the Diskstation that way. Because, this would be the fastest way, if it works, as I won't have to transfer a TeraByte of data over wifi.
OK. Copied the folder onto my external Seagate drive S:\_2016\. 14 items.
S:\_2016\2016_04_11_Evergreen Lake. It has 14 photos in it.
Now, let's move the folder from the external drive to the Disk Station attached to the windows laptop and see where we are. The folder moved over fine. The photos are on the S drive now. They have thumbnails. So, it looks like this will be the way to go.
I'll move all of my folders to the Seagate Drive while it's connected to the MacBook Air and then move them from the Seagate Drive to the Disk Station (Simon) with the drive connected to the Windows laptop.
So...first things first....let's move all of the photo folders from the MacBook Air onto the external Seagate Drive.
I could copy them straight to the S drive, but I'm reasonably sure that this will be much faster...using the SeaGate drive as a thumb drive, essentially.
So, I created a new folder on the SeaGate Drive called 2017_10_24_iPhoto_Archival.
Now, I'll move all of the iPhoto folders I've created on the MacBook Air(under Documents) under this one new folder on the SeaGate Drive called 2017_10_24_iPhoto_Archival.
It won't let me move, but I can copy...now I'm doing all of the 2017* folders...only 6.41 gig.
Next, I'll do the 2016* folders....I just did the rest of them....now copying 21.5 gig. Done.
So, it seems like I've copied over all of those subfolders from the Documents folder on the Mac. Let's check...should be....154 folders...yep...that matches. OK. There were 80 other items in the documents folder. I just grabbed those and copied them over also. Now, I have 234 items in my Seagate folder. 234 items in my Documents folder.
Looks good.
So, lets copy these off of the SeaGate drive onto my Simon drive. OK. 234 items. Looks good.
Now, let's move them over onto the Simon drive at:
s:\_2017\2017_10_24_iPhoto_Archival
OK. Moving 7,264 items. 26.4 Gig. About 1 hour remaining.
So, once this completes, I should be able to delete the folders under Documents on my MacBook Air.
Hmmm. For some reason, I don't see all of the folders on the left-side on the screen in Windows Explorer. Hmmmm.
OK. I see all of the subfolders on the left now. It just took a second to index them, I think.
I did a search on the folder S:\_2017\2017_10_24_iPhoto_Archival and it says it found 7,303 items. So, this seems about right.
So, I think now that I can delete them off of my MacBook Air.
Now...I'm looking at the MacBook Air, and I still see some things I need to move off:
University of California folder
I also exported all of my iphoto library to a new folder named iPhoto_Library_Export_10_24_2017
2,932 items
Lord. It's exporting now. Currently at about 1200 pics exported. OK. It exported 2,932 items. Let's get those copied over from the Seagate drive to the Simon drive.
Moving 2,932 items (iPhoto_Library_Export_10_24_2017) to the S drive at \\DISKSTATION\Simon\_2017\iPhoto_LIbrary_Export_10_24_2017
So, this is the export of the photos in the current photo library in iPhoto. The previous folder(s) were created to copy photos off of the macbook air that weren't in iPhoto. They were just in the regular directory structure.
So, this folder was moved over successfully, with 2,934 items in it. Good enough.
So, at some point, I'll need to empty the trash on the MacBook Air:
Select Empty Trash from the Finder's Finder menu.
Activate a Finder window and press COMMAND-SHIFT-DELETE.
CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the Trash icon and select Empty from the menu.
My goal is to have this MacBook air basically completely empty when I start out on the road trip. And the GoPro's also. Cameras. SeaGate External 1TB drive. iPhone. Everything should be basically completely empty.
The reason is that I'll be shooting lots of pics, and then, with the GoPro's...they suck up huge amounts of disk space if you even turn them on at all.
OK. So, after deleting pretty much everything off of my MacBook air, it still shows that I have about 100 Gig locked up by who knows what. I seem to recall downloading an app for this very issue before.
Sure enough, my app is called OmniDiskSweeper. Supposed to free up some disk space that Apple is so stupid they can't figure out.
I also see an app called CleanMyMac 3.
Hmmmm.
So, I ran CleanMyMac....he found like 10 gig. Not enough to even worry about.
So, I'm going back to this post to see how I did this last time...
I restarted my laptop, and it's applying updates for an app....
Now, I want to figure out how to empty the trash. I hate this fucking computer. Seriously.
OK. I emptied the trash. It was already empty. It looks to me like I have 400 Gig free out of 500 Gig. I guess that's the best I can do. God I hate fucking Apple.
I'm moving everything off of the Seagate drive onto Simon. So, it's moving about 40,000 files (400G) over the next 12 hours, it looks like, to some folder ... I'm not clear which folder, because the fucking window doesn't say. I think it must be:
\\Diskstation\Simon\2017
s:\Seagate_External_Drive_Backup.
39,309 items 351 gig About 8 hours remaining.
So, it looks like the photos I shot over the last year ended up here:
S:\_2017\2017_10_24_iPhoto_Archival\
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Posted by Rob Kiser on October 24, 2017 at 11:27 AM
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