@MABALI
Instead of moving then why not copy and then delete after the fact? Just to make sure that you have your files still - rather potentially losing them in a move?
Your iMac might just have USB 1 or USB 2 ports - are you using FireWire drives? I doubt that there's any way around your move/copy to external drive speed issue.
Your best bet is to try and let the copy run its course.
You can, should you want to, try the (now free) iDefrag from iDefrag and license to each version is at the bottom of the site beyond the History part
See if that could help in any way.
But, essentially your ports can only give so much through-put via USB or FireWire.
Might be faster to upload photos online via some trusted service and then re-download to external drive if your internet connection is really fast.
Also, can you drag out your videos from Photos app to the, let's say, Desktop and see how that pans out?
In the case that you have a newer iMac from 2011 with the possibility to run High Sierra then you can try out various File managers such as the older ForkLift 2 or some other filemanager available for your OS X version.
There's always the Terminal command called just 'copy' you can use after you have dragged out videos from PhotosApp your command could look like this
or with superuser access(your Mac code is to be entered)
Instead of moving then why not copy and then delete after the fact? Just to make sure that you have your files still - rather potentially losing them in a move?
Your iMac might just have USB 1 or USB 2 ports - are you using FireWire drives? I doubt that there's any way around your move/copy to external drive speed issue.
Your best bet is to try and let the copy run its course.
You can, should you want to, try the (now free) iDefrag from iDefrag and license to each version is at the bottom of the site beyond the History part
See if that could help in any way.
But, essentially your ports can only give so much through-put via USB or FireWire.
Might be faster to upload photos online via some trusted service and then re-download to external drive if your internet connection is really fast.
Also, can you drag out your videos from Photos app to the, let's say, Desktop and see how that pans out?
In the case that you have a newer iMac from 2011 with the possibility to run High Sierra then you can try out various File managers such as the older ForkLift 2 or some other filemanager available for your OS X version.
There's always the Terminal command called just 'copy' you can use after you have dragged out videos from PhotosApp your command could look like this
Code:
cp -Rv awesomevideo.filename /Volumes/AweSomeSeaGateDrive/or with superuser access(your Mac code is to be entered)
Code:
sudo cp -Rv awesomevideo.filename /Volumes/AweSomeSeaGateDrive/
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