I have several external hard drives, each of which show up on my desktop with a different colored icon and specific name. I have just purchased a 1T mirrored RAID set-up, and want to back up each of the individual hard drives onto the RAID but maintaining it's icon and color so when I open the RAID, I see the hard drives as I am used to seeing them. Does anyone have a clue how to do this? thanks so much.
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As Dennis said, knowing the OS you're using is going to make it much easier...
1) In the root directory of your RAID volume, create one subdirectory (folder) for each of your external HDs using the drive name.
2) Set the color for each of the subdirectory icons (OS dependent)
3) Open a window for the first hard drive. Select all in the window, then drag the selection to the icon for that hard drive on your RAID volume.
4) Repeat (3) for each external HD
Chris, the more I read and re-read your original question, the less I'm sure I understand what exactly you're trying to do. My best guess is that you intend to shift the data from the external drives to the RAID drive and enjoy its mirroring capabilities. If you follow Mathew Lodge's steps, your new drive will have several folders in it, each containing the data from one of your old external drives.
Since the new drive is a single physical device, it will only appear on your desktop as a single icon. However, you can drag aliases for each of those folders to you desktop by dragging them while holding both the Command and Option keys down. (The folder icons will have a little bent arrow badge on them.) You can then assign colors to those alias icons by ctrl-clicking on them and choosing a color.
Did I get it right?
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
What I'm trying to do is plug in all the external hard drives - (each of which is represented by a different icon on my desktop), drag EACH of those hard drives onto the RAID, and have them LOOK exactly like INDIVIDUAL Hard Drives on the RAID, that is, maintainig the same color and icon as they have individually, but with their respective contents inside. Does that make sense?
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
What I'm trying to do is plug in all the external hard drives - (each of which is represented by a different icon on my desktop), drag EACH of those hard drives onto the RAID, and have them LOOK exactly like INDIVIDUAL Hard Drives on the RAID, that is, maintainig the same color and icon as they have individually, but with their respective contents inside. Does that make sense?
Well, ok, yes it makes sense in a very literal, grammatical manner, but this is not something you may do.
The icons that appear on your desktop that look like hard drives represent physical hard drives—“volumes”, actually, in Unix parlance. You cannot place one inside the other on the Desktop any more than you can physically place one hard drive inside another in the physical world. You can copy or move data from one to another. You may organize the data on each. You can assign simple colors to folders and files on these drives. With some circumlocutions that are probably more trouble than they are actually worth for you, you may even change the icons of the folders on your drives.
I recommend you go talk to this guy. Not only can he iron out this particular wrinkle, he can definitely point you in the right overall direction with your photo data management.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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