Can I register a seagate wireless plus external drive as one of my iTunes devices to fix storage problems

Can I register a seagate wireless plus external drive as one of my iTunes devices to fix storage problems?

And or use it at the same time my ipod is using a public wifi source for the internet doing my homework?

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  • I would like to transfer the movies purchased in iTunes to my Seagate wireless plus external drive.

    Hello,
    I had purchased movies from Itunes on my iPAD 2 and when I ran out of space I simply deleted them. When I open my itunes on my Macbook Pro, I find these movies under "purchases" with a cloud icon. This means I can re download them. But what I essentially want to do is download these movies or transfer my itunes movies library on my newly acquired Seagate wireless plus, which I understand is compatible with Itunes. What I would like to know is, will I need to redownload the movies on the macbook pro first before transfering my itunes library to the SWP EHD or is there an alternative?

    Is it your intention to move the whole library to the external (easy) or just the movies (not so easy but possible)?
    Alternatively, make two libraries, one for music the other for movies.  I don't really see the need to have them all in one library since I know I rarely want to play a song, have it jump to a movie, then another song without interruption.
    Let us know your druthers.

  • Windows 7 can't recognize my Seagate GoFlex 3TB external drive

    I can create backups using the Seagate go flex home software, but I want to do a windows backup and image on my Seagate.  I've connected it via usb as well, but windows doesn't see it in device manager or computer mgmt.

    Kindly go through the following link:
    External drive troubleshooter for Windows 7/Vista
    S.Sengupta, Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP

  • Can I have two Time Machine backup external drives on one Mac?

    I have been using Time Machine for over a year and like it very much. The thought occurred to me that I should buy a new external drive that I can backup to and store at a remote location. I plan on making a backup each week, then taking this new drive to my office. That way, if my house ever burns down, I have a backup at my office too that will be a fairly recent backup.
    When I unplugged my older external drive and tried to launch a backup using the new one, my Mac said it couldn't find my Time Machine drive. Won't it let me backup to two different drives? Or does it always need to backup to the same one?
    Thanks!

    polishedstaple wrote:
    Won't it let me backup to two different drives?
    Yes. All you have to do is tell it you've changed destinations, via +Time Machine Preferences > Select Disk.+ (Use different names for the drives, so you know which one is which.)
    Try not to go too long between "swaps," though. After several days, especially if there's been a large volume of changes, Time Machine might do a new, full backup, instead of an incremental one.
    However, I've learned over the years (mostly the hard way, of course ), never to trust my backups to a single app or piece of hardware: no app is perfect, and all hardware fails, sooner or later.
    Like many here, I keep both full Time Machine backups, plus a "bootable clone" on a separate external HD. I use CarbonCopyCloner, many use the similar SuperDuper. That gives me the best of both types of backups, plus of course a completely separate, independent backup.
    CCC is donationware; SD has a free version, but you need the paid one (about $30) to do updates instead of full replacements, or scheduling. Either is easily found via Google.
    And/or, see Kappy's post on Basic Backup, complete with links to the web sites of each product.

  • Can my music on my I Pod Touch be uploaded to a Seagate Wireless Plus. My computer was fried so I am without right now.

    My computer was fried, my music is now only on my IPod Touch. Can my music be
    Uploaded to my Seagate Wireless Plus (mobile device storage). I am with out a computer right now.

    No, you can't export music from the iPod's music app via the Seagate wifi device.
    You can export both iTunes purchases and none-Tunes purchases via USB connect to a computer
    Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities

  • Has anyone used the Seagate wireless plus with an iPad?

    I would like to use this wireless external drive to store videos and then stream them to my iPad.  Has anyone used this drive and if so how do you like it?

    Hi everyone,
    I am frustruated with the Seagate Wireless Plus. I think most of you just download movies in it and then watch it on your tablet. I thought this can be my external storage for everything including the content of my iPad. Not so easy!!! I can't see anything from the content of my iPad when I connect it wirelessly to Seagate. I wrote to Seagate and apparently there is another thing called WebDav in order to do it. I think Windows are winning here how easy it is to connect devices. Simply, I can see the demo stuff from the Seagate on my iPad but nothing the other way, no pictures, no music, no videos stored on my iPad can be seen from the Seagate. If there is somebody who can explain to me how to do it before I will return the Seagate to the retailer please do it in a way normal people understand. Don't say "I think" as most of people in these forums do, please say only "I know" and lead me step by step what to do. I have the latest iPad mini with iOS7, 32GB WiFi & Cellular with Retina display. I've already updated the Seagate OS to 2.2.0.005 exactly as they advise by installing the 2.1.0.014 prior to that.
    Please forgive me for the tone but those 10 hours I spent so far without any results are too valuable to me.
    Thanks in advance. Danny.

  • Want to backup a Seagate Wireless Plus to my Time Capsule via Time Machine

    Hi,
    I currently have my macbook and an external drive with movies backed up via time machine to a Time Capsule.  I want to replace the storage device with a Seagate wireless plus in order to both store and stream data with other platforms in the house.  I still want to regularily back up this wireless storage device to Time Capsule as a safety net.  Can I do this wirelessly or does the new Seagate drive need to be physically connected to my Mac or to the USB port on the TC?  I don't want it to be part of the TC, I just want it to be a disk available for back up to the TC.

    Have a long hard think about this.
    Reading the review of the seagate, the problems with using a wireless device like this are great..
    This device is trying to be a network device.. that is the only way you can connect to wireless.. but at the same time, provide some access to the internet.
    Wireless on your computers/idevices cannot connect to two wireless AP's at the same time.. That makes the Seagate useless.
    Read the review. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/seagate/wireless_plus_1tb_hard_drive/457705 /
    What it is apparently doing is providing a link to your main wireless router.. ie the TC.. so you can have internet at the same time.. but note.. this is extremely slow.. as noted in the review.. the internet speed is really poor due to the lack of proper networking. You are using a box which is effectively a hotspot.. but is linked by wireless to your main router.. If you want a definition of how NOT to use wireless in a network this is it.
    Without ethernet connection forget it. To simply have a wireless hotspot to carry around with you.. IMHO there are lower cost and superior ways.. since wireless is not of much use and will be slow.. plug a 2.5" drive directly into your computer. Or use cloud services with a 3G or 4G modem or tether to your phone. Don't forget you can carry around a pretty big store of files now in SD cards.
    I also like the idea of being able to take the wireless portable drive wtih me so I can edit photos or view photos from my other laptop on the road.
    So you cannot plug the USB drive into the other machine?? Wireless hotspot usage without 3G connection for on road seems to be an expense for not much gain.. but of course if you want it for this great.. just don't expect to put it into the network easily other than by USB. And for that to work I would need to study the specs more closely.. but if you cannot format it HFS+ don't bother. Using iphoto on non-HFS+ drives is not recommended.
    If I go with a NAS drive - I can connect that to the TC for connectivity, but then how to incorporate the data on that NAS drive onto the TC as part of the backup.
    CCC is $40 software.. it will do whatever you like.
    but losing the photos and home videos would be:(
    You must be very careful with iphoto library.. and videos more than likely.
    iPhoto: Issues with FAT32-formatted drives
    iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
    This article states..
    It's recommended that you store your iPhoto library on a locally mounted hard drive. Storing your iPhoto library on a network share can lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss.
    You are playing with fire using the Seagate to edit iphoto library.. and it is important you realise the risk.

  • Using webdav to save from Pages to seagate wireless plus

    Hi, I would like to save directly from pages (iPad) to my seagate wireless plus. I know it should do it but I cannot seem to make the connection to the webdav server. Can anyone help?

    Hi,
    this depends on the Wireless Plus model. There are new models which were introduced in 2014 (having Firmware Version 4.0.0.x) where I can't tell you how it works because they have changed it obviously.
    For the older models, the webdav connection data is:
    IP address: 172.25.0.1
    username: leave empty
    password: leave empty
    path: /dav

  • Trying to download movies to seagate wireless plus

    II'm trying to download movies and songs to seagate wireless plus, but only thing that is transferring is pictures

    Image Capture should work. You can also try importing it thru iPhoto. Connect your device to your computer, launch iPhoto, select your iPhone from the Devices list, an Import window should open.

  • Seagate Wireless Plus / Ipad and Sky Go?

    I'm thinking of buying a Seagate Wireless Plus device for use with my iPad. Does anyone know if you can use this device to store and watch content from Sky Go? (I already have a Sky Go Extra subscription but no room on the iPad!)

    Yep, that's about it. That's why it's advisable to buy as much storage as you can afford.
    You can offload other pictures and videos to your computer and delete apps that you no longer need, or at least don't use often. Check in Settings > General > Usage to see what is using the most space on your iPad and go from there.

  • I have a Seagate Freeagent 1TB external drive that ejects it's self in the middle of the time machine backup, then disappears and can't be found unless I turn it off and back on again

    I have a Seagate Freeagent 1TB external drive that ejects it's self in the middle of the time machine backup, then disappears and can't be found unless I turn it off and back on again. Any ideas?

    Hmmm.. sorry to jump in but...
    I Wish I had seen this before I got mine.
    Mine has been doing this auto eject stuff too.
    I think I just plugged it in and TM let me select it but is it possible
    I should have reformatted it with DU first, like with all the WD drive problems ?
    Is it too late for that ?
    Or just try to return it or get rid of it ?
    TIA

  • Using an external drive with shared files (iPhoto, iTunes), attached to a Time Capsule, can the contents of the external drive be backed-up to the internal Time Capsule drive? Perhaps a RAID1 mirror to a partition?

    Using an external drive with shared files (iPhoto, iTunes), attached to a Time Capsule, can the contents of the external drive be backed-up to the internal Time Capsule drive? Perhaps a RAID1 mirror to a partitioned Time Capsule? I understand that the Time Machine (software) cannot backup a networked drive (the external) and that Time Capsule (the router/wireless hard drive) does not have its own backup software... so it won't backup the connected drive. What I would like is an alternate solution for having an automated backup of a networked drive. A 2TB Time Capsule has more than enough space for Time Machine backups of my family of Macbooks, so I had hoped to mirror a 500GB external drive (with shared media files) to a portion of the Time Capsule internal hard drive. I assume this would require a partition of the Time Capsule drive. If not, would the sparse file from the various computers being backed up need to be copied to the external drive as part of the RAID1 setup? This seems like overkill for the Time Machine backup, but it would cover the media files.  

    The complexity with this idea is the software has to run from a Mac computer on your network.. so you need a Mac turned on, probably most of the day.
    It isn't possible to partition the TC although you can create a image area.
    The software would have to copy the material, that means all files to be copied, go from USB drive, back to the Mac, then back to the TC, and written to the drive. In other words you have just added Network congestion, although a proper incremental backup type software will not actually use a lot of capacity.
    Finally it will be slow.. network drives are slower than internal drives. Well USB connected drive is much slower than the same drive connected directly to the computer.. and if the drive is connected directly to a computer it can be shared with the network.
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/4
    Read carefully the speed of the USB drive plugged into the TC.

  • I am using a Seagate backup plus portable drive on my iMac 7 with OSX 10.9.2.  At startup up I always get a popup window stating "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer.  I click ignore and everything seems OK. Is it?

    I am using a Seagate backup plus portable drive as my time machine backup on my iMac 7 with OSX 10.9.2 Mavericks.  At startup I always get popup window stating "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer..?   I click ignore and everything seems to be OK.   Time machine seems to be backuping up to the seagate.   I can open time machine and see the history of backups.    Why does this message come up at startup of computer????

    If you installed the Seagate software, remove it according to the manufacturer's instructions.

  • I have bought a Seagate Backup Plus 1TB drive, first time I have selected Mac Windows option which excludes Time Machine to work on it, but now I want to go back and select Only Mac option to activate my Time Machine application. I request you to help me

    I have bought a Seagate Backup Plus 1TB drive, first time during plug-in, I have selected Mac Windows option which excludes Time Machine to work on it, but now I want to go back and select Only Mac option to activate my Time Machine application.
    I request you to help me with the procedure of the same?

    IMPORTANT - This will reformat your Seagate drive and hence wipe it.  If there is anything on your Seagate drive you want to keep, save it somewhere else FIRST.
    Plug the drive in.
    In Finder select Applications > Utilities > Disc Utilities.
    Select the external drive, select Partition option, give it a name (I call mine Mac Backup), select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the Format and under the drop down menu "Partition Layout" select the number of partitions you want (so if you want the drive to just be for Time Machine, select 1 Partition, if you want part of the drive to be for Time Machine and the rest for something else, select 2 partitions and so on).  Click apply and the Disc Utility will partition and reformat your drive ready to use.
    When this is complete, open Time Machine in System Preferences. Use  Select Disc to select the drive (or if you have multiple partitions, the partition of the drive) you want and you are good to go.
    This may be a long way round, but it gives you the option to partition your disc which you may want.

  • Issues with Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drives

    I had posted earlier about how the new Mac Pro I had been working on was really struggling.  I isolated and discovered that the cause was some sort of incapability with the external drives I was connecting to the computer.  Whenever a Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive Model: SRD00F1 was connected it would cause major errors and communication, the computer would eventually crash and would not work again until we did a SMS reboot.  Regardless of how the drive was formatted or mounted, the computer and drive were not compatible. 
    The purpose of this post would be to let users, Apple and Seagate know that there is an issue when using these drives.  This happened using dozens of different portable drives over three different new Mac Pro towers.  Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

    What format is the Seagate drive?  What do you see on the iMac when you select the drive and bring up it's Info window?  For best compatability it should be formatted and setup as shown in this screenshot:
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