Hello Tony, Many thanks for the reply. The work you did on your WD drive sounds exactly like what I want to do.
I have never portioned a drive myself. I previously had a WD My Book which had the facility to create what it called “shares” built into it. I will search for instructions how to do this. Would I need to format the drive to APFS first, then portion it into two sectors for storage? Phil Sent from my iPad > On 3 Feb 2021, at 10:57, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, Phil, > > Big Sur requires APFS formatted drives for Time Machine I believe. So best > would be to use Disk Utility to reformat the WD drive as APFS and then select > it as your Time Machine destination. This is exactly what I have done with > our WD drive and I’ve got it portioned so that I can use the non-Time > Machine portion for other purposes, e.g. a Photo App Library destination. > > -- > Tony Crooks > [email protected] > +44 7428 706227 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CAHkKbUAxC%2B9qTCSiw9LwtO_dDhkpOoXE-aW2N_81b_LrzrRkrg%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/05D1A7D0-E4A0-4DEE-B960-88DE15C744D5%40btinternet.com.
