At 6:29 AM -0700 10/15/11, Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre 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.
You have to do it through Time Machine itself. Unfortunately, that's all I know about it! My son-in-law, who understands computer set it up for me, using my desktop Mac Mini as the Server for the external 1.5 tB drive. So what you need is a smart son-in-law!! John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
