Let's start from the beginning. I have no personal files on the mac that I want saved. I have been trying to learn the mac and in doing so I've run into so many problems that it looks like no one on the list can explain accept to say it might be mavricks and older versions of pages. So I decided to upgrade to el capitan but to do so people on the list said I should back up at least my system. So I have a u s b stick capacity 64 gb and time machine says I need 28 gb of free space. Someone on the list said not to use a stick for a back up because they are slow. So I pulled out my external which at the store the guy told me I could use for a mac and windows. I've been using this drive for the last few years to back up important documents, mail messages, pictures, videos and music all with windows. I plugged the drive into windows and it said I have one and a half tb of free space. It said something in the properties ntfs. On the drive there is something called mac install dmg. I think the rest you guys no. now you guys are telling me something about disk utility. Please be patient with me, but what is that? What exactly are you guys telling me to partition? My external or my iMac drive?
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: November-20-15 8:04 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: ok got an external now what? Hi, We don’t know what the mac installer did to your drive. To use time machine you need a mac partition. One approach would be to use disk utility to create two partitions on the drive: one for TM backups (mac) and a second for your data files (ext fat). Let us know what disk utility tells you about the current partitions on the drive. Chris -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
