2009/12/10 andrew lancaster <[email protected]>: > I've just bought a portable hard drive, plugged it in, and time > machine is backing up my files. Can I then transfer these - or a > selection of these - to my macbook? And files from the mac book to the > external drive? Or does it prefer to be kept as a back up of one > machine only?
Hi Andrew You can back up as many macs as you want to the same drive, obviously the more you add the less space there will be for backups. The files in the time machine backup are stored in a way you can navigate and yes if you want to move files from the backup to another machine you can just drag and drop. It's a good idea not to remove stuff from the time machine backup if you can avoid it. I have partitioned my external which is mainly for backup. One partition is the Time Machine drive and another I use to shuttle stuff from one mac to another. You can create a partition using Disk Utility, just be careful not to erase the existing stuff on the drive :-) Cheers B. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
