No, I want to transfer some of the data backed up from my iMac onto the portable drive to my laptop - so that the laptop has more function when I'm away from home - which I hope will become more of a regular thing! On 10 Dec 2009, at 6:35 pm, Jason Davies wrote:
> > > On 10 Dec 2009, at 18:29, andrew lancaster wrote: > >> 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? > > > huh? You want to transfer some of your back-up to the original disk? that's > called 'not having a back-up'! or plain old 'having duplicates'. > > I suspect there is a different question lurking here. Do you want to use the > external drive for something else? or reorganise your files somehow (or both). > > describe the final set-up that you want and why it makes sense (eg 'need to > make room on the MB' or 'want to save space on the TM backup disk as it's not > big enough') > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > 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 > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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.
