Clive This is probably obvious, but worth mentioning. It sounds as though this disk is used for occasional backups (plug it in, do a backup, disconnect it), rather than as a permanently connected backup drive. Keep in mind though that Time Machine likes to run frequent incremental backups, so if your daughter completes a backup and then leaves the drive connected, an hour later TM will start another (albeit small) backup. One possibility is that unplugging the drive during a backup might be causing problems. Make sure your daughter checks the little TM icon in the menu bar before disconnecting the drive - if the arrow is going round she should either wait for the backup to finish or cancel it before unplugging. Also make sure that she 'ejects' the drive before physically unplugging it.
I'd also echo the advice to use Disk Utility to format the drive as 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' - I don't profess to know all the details, but it seems likely that the OS will handle problems on the drive better if it's a native format. -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89000 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
