Hi,
Just got morphOS registered and installed on mac min 1.5 GHZ. 1GB ram.

I have a lot of amiga and commodore programs on an external fat32 formatted drive. I want to move those to the morphOS internal drive. Problem is, I can't figure out how to copy files from the external drive. Drag & drop doesn't work, it only creates a shortcut to the drawer on the external drive. I tried using a backup program but it doesn't seem to copy recursively.

Anyone willing to offer a solution?

Thanks

Err.. it should work, I've just tested it with a fat32 external USB WD drive and, err.. drag and drop worked just as it should.

What if you try something like

copy Wd-external: all dh0:folder_for_my_files: all

?

jimh54,
Drag & drop doesn't work, it only creates a shortcut to the drawer on the external drive.

Maybe you've dragged items just on desktop? Then shortcut is create. Drop them to some desktop window with destination drawer opened.

> copy Wd-external: all dh0:folder_for_my_files: all

I'd rather suggest something like:

copy Wd-external: all dh0:folder_for_my_files clone

Err.. possibly, I think I added an additional 'all' in where it shouldn't be, I think Krashan is right BTW.


Also nice mac to be running MorphOS on, Hope you have some fun with it!

[ Edited by stephen_robinson 28.08.2011 - 22:46 ]

Thanks everyone, Krashan gave the answer. I was trying to copy to the desktop. After trying to copy to a folder drag & drop worked fine. The real test is coming up I want to copy a HUGE!! directory (40+ GB). is seems to take forever to buffer before beginning to copy. I'll let it run overnight and see what happens. Perhaps the command line suggestion will work better.

I'll try that if D&D doesn't work.

I have a Lacie mini firewire that I planned as a back-up for data 42 GB.
Have any done this as yet?

I discovered that trying to copy large amounts of data did not work. I think the reason was because of nested drawers. D&D would never complete the buffering stage and begin copying if the files are no more than 1 drawer level deep. CAn anyone confirm this or am I just impatient?

Also, I tried the command line but got a response that the volume could not be found. Here's what I tried "copy Amiga_ext:dh2 folder_for_my_files clone"
Amiga ext is the name of my external drive, dh2 is the partition of MorphOS.
Could it be the _ character in the volume name?
Thanks

The underscore should be okay. But I think you miss a space before dh2: and have one to much after dh2.
copy Amiga_ext:#? all to dh2:foobar/ clone should definitely work.

Anyway, does cd Amiga_ext: work?
Fore ease of use you can just drag the icon of the drive or directory and drop it to the shell and press return. Should change the directory accordingly.
A copy #? all to my_destination/ clone should definitely work.

[ Editiert durch Zylesea 30.08.2011 - 13:38 ]

> got a response that the volume could not be found. Here's what I tried
> "copy Amiga_ext:dh2 folder_for_my_files clone"
> Amiga ext is the name of my external drive, dh2 is the partition of MorphOS.

Going by my suggestion frome some postings before, which was:

copy Wd-external: all dh0:folder_for_my_files clone

...I think your command line should read like:

copy Amiga_ext: all dh2: clone

If you want to copy to a directory on the destination volume like this:

copy Amiga_ext: all dh2:folder_for_my_files clone

...you'd have to create that directory first.

> Could it be the _ character in the volume name?

No. As a general suggestion, you should get yourself an AmigaDOS reference manual. You can as well use the AROS one as that's valid also for MorphOS most of the time.