Do you have a friend who can help you who is local? Sounds like you need a lot of training. I know this feeling for I experienced it when I first got my Mac four years ago... I think having someone in person train you would be less stressful for you. Vaughn
On 11/20/15, Zoe Fiogkos <fiog...@rogers.com> wrote: > That sounds correct to me even though I have no idea about these things. > What’s your opinion on all of this? Have you been following my threads? > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Gilland > Sent: November-20-15 7:58 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: should it be taking this long? > > Oh, you probably have paragon ntfs installed, and I’ll bet you anything that > your drive is partitioned as ntfs instead of mac journaled extended. That > would explain it, if so. > > Chris. > > On Nov 20, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Zoe Fiogkos <fiog...@rogers.com> wrote: > > Thanks chris but unfortunately the back up failed because even though c gate > gives me the option for mac and pc it tells me something about paragon, > sorry I don’t remember exactly and it says its not compatible, and then it > tells me if I want to make the disk mac only but I cannot do that because it > wants to erase all my files. > I have my music, files, documents, etc. I view and use these files with > windows and I cannot get rid of them. So now I’m stuck again. Since I > can’t use the 64 gb stick I have and the 2 tb c gate drive is not > compatible, I cannot back up the mac, therefore I cannot upgrade to el > capitan either. So I spent 3 days killing my brain trying to figure out > things on the mac and now it looks like it was all for nothing. > Thanks > Zoe > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Gilland > Sent: November-20-15 6:56 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: should it be taking this long? > > I think it really just depends on how much data you are actually backing up. > I have a friend who backed up about 300GB of data to Time Machine, and from > what I vaguely remember her saying, it took somewhere around 5 hours. > > Chris. > > On Nov 20, 2015, at 5:54 PM, george b <gbma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Go to where you clicked backup and see if v o tells you it is dimmed > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Zoe Fiogkos > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 13:48 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: should it be taking this long? > > All most 3 hours ago I clicked menu extras, time machine, back up now. I > have an external drive connected should it be taking this long? 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