My understanding was that a time machine drive is just an ordinary Mac
formatted disk. The main issue is that TimeMachine keeps making
incremental backups until the entire volume is filled. So if you copy
those movies to the disk first you should be ok but later if you delete
one TM might suck
MacVisionaries
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
My understanding was that a time machine drive is just an ordinary Mac
formatted disk. The main issue is that TimeMachine
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions
My understanding was that a time machine drive is just an ordinary Mac
formatted disk. The main issue is that TimeMachine keeps making
incremental backups until
Hi,
In the past, there was a limitation with Time Machine drives that affected
their ability to remove old backups as they got full. It had to do with the
occurrence of additional files on the HD. That removal didn’t work properly
when other files existed besides the Time Machine sparse
If you don't mind a little terminal hacking and your TM volume can be
500GB or less then this article talks about how to create a sparsebundle
disk image on an exFAT formatted drive. exFAT means you can read the
drive on Mac or Windows and the sparsebundle hack means time machine can
mount its
Hey all. Today I bought an external hard drive because of that freak accident
with my Mac a few weeks ago. So I got a few questions about it.
1. I want to do a time machine backup of my entire HD. However, I have a whole
bunch of youtube videos I copied onto another system other than my Mac.
from my limited experience with this sort of thing I don’t think you’d have to
partition your external hard drive but you might need to reformat it before you
start putting stuff on it if it doesn’t work for multiple operating systems.
Lorie McCloud
lorice...@gmail.com
On Feb 12, 2015, at
