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brenda m - Feb 15, 2010 2:20:43 pm PST #12858 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

On mine, you can insert a page break from the Insert tab.

Yeah, but not a section break. Random.


Jesse - Feb 15, 2010 2:24:54 pm PST #12859 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

For a regular page break, can't you just hit control-enter?


Liese S. - Feb 15, 2010 4:01:55 pm PST #12860 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Wow, so I really shouldn't migrate, huh? We are change averse.


DCJensen - Feb 15, 2010 6:36:24 pm PST #12861 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Typo Boy, what exactly are you trying to copy? Are you just copying the contents to a hard drive?

The easiest way to do that is to click on the disk, hold down "option" and drag it to a folder or the hard drive.

It will then copy the entire contents to a folder on the hard drive with the name of the disc.


Typo Boy - Feb 15, 2010 9:43:13 pm PST #12862 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I'm trying to copy an entire windows hard drive from a dead computer (Now successfully mounted as an external hard drive on the Mac) into a folder on the MAC. When I drag and drop it creates a pointer rather than making a real copy. The "duplicate" eventually generated an error and left a garbage folder which I deleted and emptied the trash. All I want to do is copy the windows hard drive onto a folder on the mac. But I want a real folder, so I can disconnect the windows hard drive and still have the files.


le nubian - Feb 15, 2010 9:44:32 pm PST #12863 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Can you trying copying a folder on the external hard drive to the mac?


Typo Boy - Feb 15, 2010 9:45:06 pm PST #12864 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

As opposed to copying the whole drive? Yeah that makes sense. This is for a friend whose windows machine died and bought a MAC. Salvaging her drive, moving it to an external case and attaching it to the Mac proved the easy part. I'll try that in the morning.


le nubian - Feb 15, 2010 9:46:17 pm PST #12865 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yes. just to see if you can copy anything at all.


le nubian - Feb 15, 2010 9:47:32 pm PST #12866 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

if that works, then I would copy the files over - folder by folder and see how that works.

You might want to focus on copying documents (music files, office, etc.) and avoid the applications and settings files.


Typo Boy - Feb 15, 2010 9:49:02 pm PST #12867 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I was talking to her while reading these suggestions. She can copy individual files, so I can try to do a file by file in the morning. I am going to have to try to migrate her email which is going to be a pain.