Re: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Brian Moore
Hi. Okay, first question, do you have things on your external that you want to save? if yes, we have a problem and you can't use that drive for a timemachine backup as this will erase the content on the drive. if no, , then we can make this work but we will have to make changes to the drive

RE: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
isionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: ok got an external now what? Zoe, I think you need to be the one to start from the beginning and really get to know OS X before you go any further. Your flood of messages this week bears this out. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Ma

Re: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread E.T.
were true? On 11/20/2015 5:48 PM, Zoe Fiogkos wrote: Where do I find disk utility? -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 g

RE: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Where do I find disk utility? -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

RE: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
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

Re: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Chris Moore
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

RE: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
: November-20-15 1:49 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: ok got an external now what? Do the following Voice over and m m This is control option m m and you are in the extra menu across the top of the screen Now voice over and right arrow to you hear time capseul then voice over and

RE: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread george b
Subject: RE: ok got an external now what? Hi there, I connected the drive to the mac and I clicked the mac instal dmg file and it asked me if I want this drive for the mac and the pc and of course I said yes. Anyhow long story short I restarted the computer and according to the mac the install

RE: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
on this drive? And how do I start the back up? Anyone have ideas? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Vaughn Brown Sent: November-20-15 1:08 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: ok got an external now

Re: ok got an external now what?

2015-11-20 Thread Vaughn Brown
Zoey, I could be wrong but you use TimeMachine to back up your system. Think of it as a Windows Backup. I hope someone can give further clarification. Vaughn On 11/20/15, Zoe Fiogkos wrote: > Ok never mind the hard drive is 2 tb and I have a lot of space on it. > So what do I do now? How to I b