Hi Tony, My comments in Situ below
On 8 Sep 2014, at 8:55 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ronni > > Now to answer your questions, my goodness listen to the rain, my query is in > regards to our older laptop, which I have taken over. > > Due to other Mac’s in the House this Lap top has been ignored for a while. > Not wanting to lose any photo’s I want to back up iPhoto and leave the > computer to back up to the external hard drive on a regular basis. How large is the External Drive you have formatted 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' - Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table? If there is nothing on the external drive, and if it is 1 & 1/2 to 2 times larger than the hard drive on the computer use Time Machine to backup the whole system. Time Machine will regularly backup everything on the Laptop... including iPhoto NOTE: iPhoto must be closed 'Quit' when Time Machine does a backup, if iPhoto is left Open TM will not backup iPhoto. > Last Back up was 3 years ago, approximately. > > > Running OSX 10.9.4 > > > iPhoto 08. Version 7.1.5 (378). > > > The external Hard Drive has been formatted. > > > One question, aside from the iPhoto request Ronni, how do I delete rubbish > that is ‘Locked’?? I have 2 Movies in the bin and cannot delete them despite > saying yes to “Do you want to delete the locked files”, I can’t seem to be > able to delete them. Hold down Shift + Option key while choosing 'Empty Trash' If that doesn't empty the trash Open Terminal.app Paste this command rm -r ~/.Trash hit return key Cheers, Ronni > > Thank you Ronni > > Kindest Regards and best wishes > > Tony > xoxo > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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