Can I save files to the external hard drive if I am time machinging to that hard drive?  Not while time machine is doing it's thing of course, but any other time.

I have a 2 TB Toshiba external hard drive that I want to save files to and also time machine to it (is that called making it a time capsule?).  I want to know if this is possible before I reformat the drive to the 'journaled' format to make it usable for time machining.  And if it is possible, how do I do it?  Just save/transfer stuff to the external hard drive like I normally would or do I have to di something different?  I just can't afford to have all 77 GB of my pictures on my internal hard drive anymore.
Also, I am mainly trying to set up time machine so I can have a backup before I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks.
Thank you!

KP. wrote:
I have a 2 TB Toshiba external hard drive that I want to save files to and also time machine to it (is that called making it a time capsule?).  I want to know if this is possible before I reformat the drive to the 'journaled' format to make it usable for time machining.  And if it is possible, how do I do it?  Just save/transfer stuff to the external hard drive like I normally would or do I have to di something different?  I just can't afford to have all 77 GB of my pictures on my internal hard drive anymore.
Also, I am mainly trying to set up time machine so I can have a backup before I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks.
Thank you!
Time capsule is an Apple product, a combination router/HD specific for wireless TimeMachine.
You can use Ext HD for saving files to etc as well
Time Machine needs it own partition and needs to be the first partition on the Harddrive.
Reformatting the drive GUID, extended journeled
Done through DiskUtility

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