Can you download to a portable hard drive

Is it possible to download photos to a portable hard drive on I pad 2

The entire iYunes Store?!? That would require a very large hard drive and a lot of money.

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Can you set up a portable hard drive on airport extreme

is there a way to set up a portable hard drive on the AirPort Extreme using windows?

FWIW, I currently have a number of WD My Passport portable USB HDDs attached to both my AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule base stations.
In order for either base station to share out this HDD, the drive needs to be formatted in either HFS+ or FAT16/32. It can't share NTFS or ExFAT formatted drives.
Once a properly formatted drive is attached to the base station's USB port, you would use the AirPort Utility to configure it for sharing. Once that is done, Windows treats these drives just like any other network shared drive. That is, they can be accessed using the following format: //servername/sharename. In this case, the "servername" is the base station's Base Station Name, and the "sharename" is the HDD's volume name.

HT1657 Can I download to a Portable hard drive?

I have a WIFI hard drive, can I download rentals to this and watch movies from it?

The entire iYunes Store?!? That would require a very large hard drive and a lot of money.

Need help - downloading photos to portable hard drive

I've imported about 2000 photos from my iPhone to my Macbook Air. I want to export them now to a portable hard drive but it's saying I don't have enough memory. I was planning on deleting the photos on the MacAir afterwards anyway.
Two questions:
1.) How do I move these photos to my portable hard drive, so I can then delete them on the hard drive?
2.) How do I bypass downloading to the MacAir next time, and move photos right from iPhone to portable hard drive?
I'm tech savvy on all things Windows, and have had Macs in the past, so I'm ready to pull my hair out over these novice questions.
Help!

Have your recipients given you any more info than you've given us? The simplest thing for you to do is to capture your footage, get it in a timeline, then export as a QuickTime movie, which should be around 9 or 10 GB in size. Your PC friend would need to download QuickTime in order to view it.
There are tools available to convert to Windows Media or other formats. One of the best is MPEG Streamclip, which you can download here:
http://www.squared5.com/
You'll need to be certain to format the hard drives properly (do this in Disk Utility): Mac OS Extended for your Mac friend, MS-DOS for your PC friend. There are issues with some PC drives and files over 2GB, so you may need to break your QuickTime movie into 9-minute segments.

Where Can I buy a, external portable hard drive in MANILA?

Good day.
I am from the Philippines. I am thinking of buying an external portable hard drive for my ibook. Where in Manila can I buy this? What store? and what brand do you suggest? Should i get firewire or usb?
Thanks...

You can find them at numerous online retailers - model is Western Digital WD20NPVX and the spec sheet is http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771439.pdf
Amazon has them for about $160 - again, they are too thick to fit in any Mac laptop though. And I seriously doubt you will find a 2.5" 2TB drive for $100 - that size has only recently even become available.

Can you fit in a 7200rpm hard drive into a macbook?

mac book pro is expensive.
my main concern about the black macbook is that the hard drive is less than 7200rpm. music software pro tools says to use 7200rpm drives.
so is there a way to put one in? it doesnt seem to be an option to upgrade on mac shop.
pro is expensive!
thanks

Aaron Michalczuk wrote:
Personally, I would recommend you try newegg.com they usually have very good deals. All you need to look for is a 2.5 inch hard drive (usually called a notebook drive or laptop drive). It also should be SATA. Other than that you can just look for whatever specs you would like. I would recommend Western Digital, Seagate, or Samsung as excellent brands. However, for the most part it wont matter too much. I recommend newegg, because it is the largest online computer retailer in the world (i think) and all of their products have good reviews so you can read up on how the hard drives have worked for other people. The hard drive that came stock in my macbook is a Fujitsu which is just another manufacturer. I would base your decision off of the specs and the ratings, not the manufacturer. Just remember 2.5" SATA
I bought from my 200 GB Travelstar 7K200 from Newegg myself. That being said, I doubt Newegg is the largest online computer retailer in the world; they've got an annual revenue rate of just under $2 billion. I'd think Dell would be bigger, although their $68 billion per year may include store sales now that they have boxed computers sold at other retailers. CDW is also bigger.
You forgot the most important spec. The drive height can't be more than 9.5 mm. There are a few oversized drives that are thicker and won't slide into a MacBook.
Best Buy (if you're in the US) has a 200 GB Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 kit complete with USB enclosure for $159.99. It comes in a full retail package, while most of the drives at Newegg come as bare drives in an antistatic bag. I actually paid more just for my drive from Newegg earlier this year, although the price has gone down.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8682222&type=product&id=1197679249 375

Can you use the same external hard drive for Time Machine backups and as an additional storage drive?

I have an external HD that I've been using exclusively for Time Machine backups. I need to clear space on my hard drive, so I was thinking to move music & photos to an external drive. Wondering if I can use the same one I have (which I'll aslo keep using for Time Machine) or if I need to get another drive.

Hi Jossydtaylor,
Time Machine can use either an entire external disk or a partition of that disk:
OS X Mountain Lion: Disks you can use with Time Machine
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11171
You can use Time Machine with a Time Capsule, and with USB, FireWire, and Thunderbolt disks. The backup disk can be directly connected to your computer or be on a network. If the backup disk has been divided into partitions, you can use one of the partitions.
If the disk is partitioned using the Master Boot Record (MBR) partition type, some partitions may not be available for use with Time Machine. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition type is recommended.
For more info on partitioning, see this article:
Disk Utility 12.x: Partition a disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5845
Cheers!
- Ari

Can you transfer itunes to new hard drive????

Had 4th Generation ipod stolen and replaced with 5th generation 60gb ipod, laptop is only 30gb, which was fine with old ipod. Have recently bought a seperate hard drive 250gb. Is there a way to safetly transfer all my itunes songs, photo's, videos, etc onto my new hard drive to release some space from my laptop which is starting to work very slowly, took over 4 hours to install latest version of itunes

You could follow Apple's step-by-step directions on how to do this by searching on "Move iTunes library" or "move iTunes folder" in the Apple.com support search. They tell you how to do this, error-free if you follow their instructions to the letter.
Searching Apple.com or here prior to posting will get you the answer you need without the wait.
Please don't follow Slinger's advice, do it once the right way. He misread that you want to move to a new external HDD and thinks you are replacing your internal HDD. The part about copying then to a DVD or (yet another) hard drive so you can then copy them to the proper hard drive (vs. just connecting that new hard drive to the computer with all the files on it to begin with) made no sense as a result. Anyhoo... there is a way to do it, so good luck.
Here's the link, since I am now worried you may not get all of it right...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748

Can you partition the Time Capsule hard drive?

I would like to back up through AirportExtreme 2 different Macs with Time Machine
but obviously I would first need to partition the Time Capsule HD !
Is it possible and how would I go about this? I can't find no infos in the manual...
Thanks for your help.

First you do not have to partition the drive to backup multiple computers. Each computer creates a separate file for the backup.
Second there is no way (currently) to partition the drive without taking the TC apart, removing the hard drive, putting it in an external drive enclosure, and partitioning it.

Please help! The alias can't be opened because the original item can't be found. Portable Hard Drive, Macbook, OS 10.7

Hi folks,
Desperate for some help!
I have a very cluttered, slow Macbook Pro running 10.7.5. Bought a 2TB WD My Passport for Mac (2TB) with the intention of transferring my many, many files and folders over to it, to increase my memory and boost the performance of my Macbook. (Also handy to have files on the go).sktop
I transferred everything (all files off desktop, documents, photos etc) using drag and drop.
Then I trashed all the files, but did NOT empty Trash because I wanted to check the process had worked
Now, when I plug in my hard drive, and open it up, all my files and folders are there, but with little arrows on the bottom left of the file/folder. When I go to open any one of them, I get this message:
"The alias “X” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found."
I don't know what to do. Is this because of the way I dragged and dropped the files? I'm guessing so. Or is it because I still have the items in my Trash? (I'm obviously petrified of emptying the Trash now though) Is it because of my OS?
Apologies, I'm a novice to this (hence why my 4 year old mbp is running so slowly; it's got 4 year's worth of work on it, and now I obviously don't even know how to transfer files properly to an external HD) but I'd really be ever so grateful for your help. I just want to successfully back up my files to this HD so my mpb runs faster. I'm now terrified I've corrupted my files. I don't even understand what an Alias is.
Would love to hear from you! I'm totally new to these forums so hope I've posted right! Thanks!

sibby22 wrote:
...Now, when I plug in my hard drive, and open it up, all my files and folders are there, but with little arrows on the bottom left of the file/folder. When I go to open any one of them, I get this message:
"The alias “X” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found."
It sounds like what got created on your external is a collection of aliases which point to the original files and folders but aren't actually copies of the files and folders themselves. The original items have been moved to the trash so even if they could be found, they couldn't be opened. As a test, pick a file (not a folder) on the external that should be large and see what size it actually is (Get Info). Aliases are smaller so you can tell the difference apart from that little arrow (the Get Info box will also identify the file as an alias). Dragging the files to the external should have automatically created copies rather than aliases unless you held down the Command and Option keys while dragging.
In any case, you were wise not to empty the trash; to be safe get those important files back out of the Trash so you can start over. But this time, try moving a few at a time and let us know what happens.

Can you use a USB ext hard drive to boot from clone image?

I am not concerned about speed as much as having some kind of external drive to copy clone image to from my MacBook Pro. I know with older Macs you used to have to use Firewire connections for the Macs to boot from the external drives. I thought I saw something that said you now could also use USB. I'm pretty sure my MacBook Pro 17 (June 2009) has USB 2.0 version ports, so should I be able to do this? I know firewire would be faster but this is only for emergencies and until I could get my internal drive replaced. Also, any suggestions on brands (WD, Seagate, OWC) would be useful.

Yes, hold option booting from USB cloned boot drives work.
Although FireWire 800 is faster as you already know.
As always check to make sure you can.
Another secret, Mac's can be option/c booted off burned ISO of PartedMagic cd's too.
What's nice about this little gem, the whole Linux operating system loads into RAM and you can copy files from the non-boooting Mac's internal hard drive to a external drive, of nearly ANY format.
You can also burn disks, as the PartedMagic cd spits out after loading.
And you can get on the internet, and do malware scans and a lot of other niffty things.

Can you update from an external hard drive?

My computer's hard drive is too small to hold the amount of music I need, but it's inconvenient and overpriced to buy a replacement internal hard drive, so I thought I'd buy an external one. But before I did, I just wanted to make sure you could properly update your iPod with music all on the external hard drive. Thanks.
Dell Inspiron 8500 Windows XP

Susan,
You might want to have a look at this article in the Apple Knowledge Base when you're set to move your music to the external drive:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748

Can you tell me if this hard drive is compatible with MacBook Pros Intel

Looking to upgrade my MacBookPro to a higher capacity drive. Is this drive compatible with it?
http://macworld.pricegrabber.com/searchtechspecs_full.php/masterid=43232780/st=producttab

I don't think a 1TB drive will be available to you. Check this web site for drives and how to's:
http://www.ifixit.com/Products/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-2-4-GHz-Hard-Drives/7/110

Migration to Mac Pro , can you do it from a hard drive?

I guess if it is not an SATA drive it's a no go but what about and external case?

You have both the choice of installing it into an external FireWire enclosure or installing it into the 2nd optical drive bay as Hatter mentions. Unless you're intending to keep it inside your Mac Pro it'll be better to put it into an external enclosure?
By the way, you can always leave it in the Mac it came out of and connect to that computer via FireWire Target Disk Mode…
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
… else simple simple network sharing.
If you're intending to use the Migration Assistant then the need to boot from it is not required.

Can I backup to a portable hard drive?

I have a new mac and wish to transfer my itunes library to it from a work (new, 15" i-core5) laptop. Easier said than done. I have any number of portable drives, but the only option I seem to have is backing up the library and all the contents onto discs. I have done this before, a number of times, but the Mac Pro computer refuses to read the discs. This is such a simple request; there is obviously something I'm missing. And don't get me started on Time Machine.

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