Can I use the disk on my time machine 2TB to store data from iPhoto. I want to take 250 GB and make it a disk

I have a time machine 2TB that is backing up my system. Attached to the time machine is a 1T apple drive. I would like to move the iPhoto file from my MacBook Air laptop to the time machine and use some of the disk as a storage area. I plan to keep a backup on the secondary disk that is attached to the time machine is this possible? How do I make another partition on the time machine to handle my iPhotos.

Actually, it is possible to partition a Time Capsule, but it is not a practical procedure for most users, so that is likely what Kappy meant when he said that you cannot do this.
Consider that in order to partition the Time Capsule hard drive you must.......
o Pull the drive from the Time Capsule (which voids the warranty)
o Install the hard drive in a separate SATA to USB caddy or enclosure
o Connect the caddy directly to your Mac to perform the partition procedure
o Reinstall the drive back in the Time Capsule
o Check to see if things work
In addition, the experts in the iPhoto support forum strongly recommend that you do NOT try to use the Time Capsule to store your working iPhoto Library. Apple warns against this as well in support documents.
Instead, as Kappy notes, the recommend solution would be to add a USB or Thunderbolt hard drive directly to your MacBook Air to store the iPhoto Library.

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VictorSMiller wrote:
I just started getting the same message. I'm using a Western Digital My Book 3TB disk. Normally I have the backups done with the disk attached to Airport Extreme.
I hate to have to tell you this, but backing-up that way is unreliable and not supported by Apple. See: Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk.
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Most likely, you got this message before all this started:
What that doesn't explicity say is, the backups failed the verification. When that happens, Time Machine marks the sparse bundle as damaged and won't back up to it anymore (even if Repair Disk can't find the problem). See #C13 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for details.

My external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive. Same thing has happened with Final Cut Express.

My new LaCie external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive.
The same thing happened recently between Final Cut Express and my other LaCie external hard drive used as the Scratch disk. It fixed itself.
I've run out of ideas. Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

have you done some searches on FCPx and time machine? Is there a known issue with using a TM drive with FCPx? dunno but ...wait...I'll take 60 sec for you cause I'm just that kind of guy.... google...." fcpx time machine problem" Frist page link
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/fcpx-bug-best-practices-for-using-external-hard- drives-and-final-cut-pro-x/
You cannot have time machine backups on your hard drive if you intend to use it in FCPX.
booya!

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I'm still a novice with Flash myself, but I have two comments.
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Can I use an external drive for Time Machine and storing other data?

At the moment I have one external drive, a 500gb LaCie. My internal drive is 160gb. I don't think I'll be using all 500 of those gigabytes for a while, so I want to put them to good use. Can I make a partition on this drive and use that for Time Machine, leaving the rest of the drive for my documents and other files? If so, how would I partition the drive? I'm not fluent in Disk Utility and even though I'm pretty sure I know how to do it, I don't want to screw up. Also, how big a partition would you recommend?
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videoCWK wrote:
Does that also mean that I could back them both up on a very big drive?
Yes. Time Machine will, by default, back up all of your external drives unless you specifically exclude them.
Also, will Time Machine backups eat all my space after a lot of usage?
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