Help with floppy Drive

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 17 May 2010 12:48 pm

I got a external floppy drive , trying to get it to work with my IMac, running leopard... sometimes it will read the info on the disk, and I get this... and can't get the info...from the disk any ideas???

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 17 May 2010 1:35 pm

I'd try dragging the stuff from the floppy disk to the desktop. You might have to reformat the floppy drive.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 17 May 2010 1:51 pm

Cal,
Tried it... got this...how would you for mat the floppy??

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 17 May 2010 2:01 pm

You might need some Mac software that would open files from a Mavica camera, although I wouldn't think so. Preview or iPhoto oughta open them. It's more likely an issue with the floppy drive. Maybe you could open it on a Windows computer. That fileloc extension looks suspicious. Can you change that? It's just a .jpg, it shouldn't have that appended to the file name. Maybe it's a permissions problem.

If you reformat the drive, OS Extended (Journaled) is usually best. Do it in Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. You know you'll lose everything on the disk if you reformat it.

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 17 May 2010 2:35 pm

My wife had a Mavica camera, which used a floppy disk instead of film or a digital camera card, and she put the disk into a Windows computer, copied the files, and then copied them to a flash drive, which she connected to her Mac and then copied them to the Mac.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 17 May 2010 4:56 pm

Cal,
It read one disk, and now won't .I don't have any windows PC anymore, it says on the box it should work with mac..I have a bounce of floppy with pictures, i had that Sony that used floppies for file... theres got to be a easy fix, I've goggled it and of corse 1000000000 things come up

Keep thinking,

thanks ..

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 17 May 2010 9:34 pm

If these files are important you can take the disk to Kinko's or OfficeDepot or some such and have them copied to a CD. Otherwise, fuggitaboutit.