Thanks. I have reformatted the darn thing many times in the Mac extended Journaling. It just won't work and my computer was the only one using it. I even tried formatting the drive in a few other formats. I really believe something is wrong with the drive or it is not truly mac compatible. It's a Seagate usb external hard drive. I never had this problem with my other external hard drive that died on me because my son spilled my coffee on it.
I would still appreciate some feedback on Time Capsule before we purchase one. I did receive one kind response from someone on this list. He said that time capsule is working for him. We plan on purchasing apple care for it but I just want something that works and doesn't give me problems. I am not very technically proficient and therefore need something dummy proof. I won't be able to troubleshoot if something doesn't work. :)Thanks, Christina On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Not sure why you can't seem to backup to a local hard drive. Is it formatted > as MacOS Extended (Journaled) ? It should just be a set and forget kind of > thing. Just be sure you don't try to put anything else on the same drive > since TM will use all available space. > > CB > > On 7/1/12 12:49 PM, Christina wrote: >> Hello listers, >> >> My family was considering investing in a time capsule. I had purchased an >> USB external hard drive for my mac but I cannot get time machine to continue >> backups on it. I can reformat the hard drive then it MIGHT back up if I am >> lucky. However, it will not back up again. Anyways, we are also looking at >> time capsule because we have several computers. >> >> My husband had read reviews and some people have a lot of trouble with the >> time capsules and there were lots of complaints of the hard drives crashing >> and they lost all of their data. >> >> Can you please share your experiences with Time Capsule or a good >> alternative to backing up our computers. I would much appreciate it. >> >> You may e-mail me off list at [email protected] >> >> Thanks, >> Christina C >> Who is freaking out because her mac is not back upped at the moment. :( >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
