Hi, In order for Time Machine to work, the external HD must be formatted MacOS Extended Journaled. You should have either an HD dedicated to these backups or a partition on the HD dedicated to the Time Machine backup. There should be about twice as much space available on the backup drive as space on your internal HD. Time Machine does backups on this HD and will get rid of older portions of backups as the drive gets full. If there are other things on the drive besides the Time Machine backup, it cannot do this properly and thus when it gets full, your backups will just stop happening.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-23, at 9:46 PM, jean parker <[email protected]> wrote: > All: > I want to use time machine to back up my computer. I opened it up and it > wants a disk drive connected. I have an external disk drive for backup > files. What is the procedure from there? What else do I need to know? > Jean > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
