Search is set up in finder preferences. You'd be wise to start using time machine. It is a wonderful and free backup program that has saved my bacon many...many times now.
Sent from my iSomething -- Eric Dannewitz Musician/Polymath/Evil Genius http://www.ericdannewitz.com/ iMessage [email protected] On Oct 15, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree on the advices given about using the fairly cheap external USB disks. > Overly confident I didn’t back up from a new computer bought in 2002. When > its disk crashed big time a year later, I had lost a year’s work. So I have a > couple of these external disks, actually 5, in various sizes, as there have > been accelerating drops in price and increases in storing capacity. > > Basically I only engrave music on my desktop Mac, but between work sessions > ideas will pop up, and I will want to refer them with my files by means of my > MacBook. To make that easier I attached my external disks to an Airport > Extreme wireless hub (also applicable as a router, but that function is > integrated in my cable modem). My back-up systems actually work via Time > Machine plus Finale asv & back-up. > > And here enters my question: > > How do I make my external disks hooked to the Airport Extreme searchable from > my desktop Mac and my MacBook respectively? > > Formally it is easily possible to do so. At least possible to set up the > search via cmd-F. But the search window changes and searches only the > internal disk of the Mac from where the search of the external disks is > attempted. > > Klaus > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
