Dear Listers, I've researched a little bit more, and Ive found an answer to my dilemma. It's rather complicated but hopefully the result will stick. I can see from the page I've found that Apple continues to discourage performing time machine backups onto an external drive connected to airport extreme but the same page has also offerred a solution. It was ultimately quite simple. I needed to mount the partition onto which I want to do backups on the desktop and then launch time machine preferences. Only then did it show the disk I wanted to choose for backups. It is backing up as I write.
I must admit that Apple's reluctance to support this method does worry me a bit. I hope that the airport extreme 5th generation is not going to let me down. I hope I've not cluttered the list too much with my dilemmas. With best wishes Andrew -- 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.
