How do I move files into an external hard drive?

Chase

I recently bought a Seagate 3TB External Hard Drive, I plugged it into my Mac and attempted to move files into it. My computers internal hard drive holds 500GB and I was running out of space. However, whenever I try to move files into the external hard drive they only create copies of the files, I want to move the original file into it without creating a copy. The reason why I want to move the original files onto the hard drive is because I don't want to delete the files on my computer, because deleting the 250GB that I want on the external hard drive would take a while.

Answer
Hold down the Command key while dragging the selected files onto the external drive and they will be moved not copied.

With 3TB to play with perhaps setting up a 1TB partition to use as a Time Machine back up of the internal drive would be advantageous and use the other 2TB for general storage usage.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427

The initial backup will take a long time (leave it running overnight) but after that it will do hourly backups for any new files on the internal drive.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5845

USB 3.0 External Hard Drives that will work with MAC OSX 10.4?

Abair

So, I've a slight problem. I can't seem to find a 3TB External Hard Drive which will work with a Mac OSX 10.4. The reason being I've some editing to do for a project and can't find not one Ext.HD to suit the OS that I have in the editing suite. Another reason is that the new iMac 27" is due after Christmas and I'll want external storage for when I hopefully buy the iMac. Can anyone please help. Said editing project needs to be done before christmas. Thanks!

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