BAcking up only Photos
I would like to backup just the photos on my macbook pro. I am using Appeture. I have used Time Machine to backup my whole computer, but I would like to have my photos backed up to a separate external hard drive.
When I click on preferences, I can click on what to exclude, (which is everything but my photos) but I can't quite figure out how to do that.
Is there a way to tell time machine to only backup what I want instead of exclude?
Thanks for a quick response. I am traveling and will be away from internet for a while. Thank you
Would it not be about just as easy to set up a Automator action that moved a specific folder to a specific location, and deleted the old folder?
The catch with that is that it won't work in increments. So, everytime you back up your photos they all get copied. With Chronosync or DejaVu or any of a plethora of utilities you can find on MacUpdate you can simply back up the changes.
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TD
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There are a few things that are confusing in your question.
As far as I know, you dont have to install Time Machine on this OS as it is already installed for you. You only need to connect a hard drive to your computer via firewire or usb, click on the Time Machine icon, Open Time Machine Preference in the drop down menu and select a disk: your connected hard drive.
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Just to clarify a couple of points in your post.
RAM (memory) is different from hard drive space. You have 4GB of RAM, but that has no bearing on the amount of drive space you have, of which we know that 79GB are photos.
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I was trying to back up my iphotos
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