Connect 2nd External Drive to TC

Is it possible to connect more than one external drive to the Time Capsule. I have connected one which works fine, but have another one lying around that I would like to connect.

Is it possible to connect more than one external drive to the Time Capsule.
Yes, if you use an USB hub with its own power supply.
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I have been storing my Aperture and IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive that recently died. Fortunately I've been using Time Machine to back up to a 2nd external drive. How do I restore my libraries to a new external hard drive?

I have been storing my Aperture and IMovie Libraries on an external hard drive that recently died. Fortunately I've been using Time Machine to back up to a 2nd external drive. How do I restore my libraries to a new external hard drive?

This is a tricky one.
Open up Time Machine and go back to a date using the timeline on the right side of the window when you know the drive was working and was backing up as part of Time Machine backups.
Click on the name of your Mac under the Devices heading on the left side of the window in Time Machine, and if things are working correctly you will see Macintosh HD (or whatever you have named it) and the name of the external hard drive that was backing up in the past.
Right-Click on the name of the external hard drive and then click on "Restore (name of drive) to....." You may be asked for your adminstrator password at this point.
It might be easier to restore the drive contents to your desktop if you have room on your Mac, and then copy things over to the new external drive where you want to store the Aperture and iMovie Libraries.
Once the libraries have been moved over the new external hard drive, you will likely need to "point" Aperture and iMovie to the location of the libraries on the new external hard drive.

When I connect an external drive I'd like to run a program which is on it. How could I do that?

When I connect an external drive I'd like to run a program which is on it. How could I do that?
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Interesting question. Others have provided the direct answer (no, massive security hole), and a little time with a search engine finds various existing discussions of autorun-related topics (eg: here and here and here), and a link to the Do Something When tool, and there is the DeviceListener example in the Xcode kit and to adding a folder action where the volumes are mounted. See the topics for details. Haven't tried this stuff, though.

Easy question I'm sure. imac hard full (500gb) mostly from iphoto. no capacity left. what are my options? I've thought of an external drive of 1tb and then a 2nd external drive of 3tb to back up both???? please help.

easy question I'm sure. imac hard full (500gb) mostly from iphoto. no capacity left. what are my options? I've thought of an external drive of 1tb and then a 2nd external drive of 3tb to back up both???? please help.

Those are the options - more space is more space.
Moving the iPhoto Library is simple:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

Error when using 2nd external drive

When I went to use Time machine on a 2nd external drive the following error came up:
+You do not have appropriate access privileges to save file “.0016cba062f1” in folder “Backup”.+
I rebooted and then erased the drive and redid the time machine backup, but now the 1st drive has the same error when trying to reassign as the TM backup. I have successfully done this a few times in the past, but no go today.
Anyone have any ideas on what to do with this? Thanks.

this is a bug introduced by 10.5.6 update. see this thread for a workaround.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8668421

Can't connect two external drives via USB hub to the same port.

I have two external hard drives connected to my MacBook Air, along with other USB devices, using a powered USB hub. When I connect both external drives to the same port via the USB hub, one of them disconnects with an error message saying it was improperly disconnected. The same thing happens when I connect one of the hard drives and an external DVD drive via the USB hub. The two drives work fine when connected to separate ports. Other USB devices coexist with one of the drives quite happily. Can anyone explain why this is?

External drives may well require more power than a port can supply. Also, many USB hubs cannot be used for external drives. It's always best to connect an external drive directly to the USB port. If the drive enclosure has a second USB port on it, then you can daisy-chain a second drive to the first, sometimes.

DVD errors since connecting new external drive-coincidence or problem

I've connected an external drive to home unit to store footage. I feel this external is a little slow compared to my Mac but not sure how to find out.
Anyway, I create mpv files for DVD authoring. Same process as always EXCEPT the external housed footage. Build DVD as always. Now my boss has these DVD locking up or pixelating. Yet, if she plays an older disc it still works fine in her system. Her other DVD player sometimes does not recognize the disc. I've even created the mpv files and went to FT work to build the disc. It eliviated the problem but did no cure it.
This problem does not happen on all discs.
All these problems happened with the very next disc and almost all the discs that have been involving the external. Coincidence or problem.
I intend on getting a LaCie external to use. We use them at FT job and never a problem. But until then:
I'm thinking of creating a QT file on the Mac hardrive and then compress.

This might be helpful:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8329630&#8329630

Losing connection to external drives, tried disc utility got a message "No live updatin...? Retried new connections; is there a way to test the external usb hub? The drives will occasionally display in Apple profile. Any help would be deeply appreciated

Losing connection to external drives, tried disc utility got a message "No live updatin...? Retried new connections; is there a way to test the external usb hub? The drives will occasionally display in Apple profile. Any help would be deeply appreciated

It's not just you, I can't authorise my phone. It seemed to go down just after I started the update (it wasn't my fault though). I am using chrome, and it does not seem to be a firewall issue, or the bannerblock issue that I read about else where, since I dont have that program installed. Strange though how the support forum is still running. If I go to http://www.apple.com/support I get nothing, but googling topics allows me to see em.

IPod Shuffle 2nd + external drive

Hi,
I've experienced a problem with connecting ipod to computer while using external hdd. First time it occured when i had my iAudio X5L (with Toshiba 30GB hdd) connected to a computer. Second time when i had my Toshiba 500GB external hdd drive connected. At the moment i plugged ipod in, drive became unavailable and ipod wasnt properly recognised. When i dont have any other drive connected to computer, everything works fine.Any help?

Help! I have exactly the same problem. Recently purchased an ipod shuffle 2nd gen but cannot get it to work.
I have more music files than my computer's internal hard drive has space for so have been using a USB external drive for more than a year with no problems with my 60GB ipod photo. When I plug in the shuffle and try to transfer songs however the hard drive shuts down and no files are copied. I have tried updating ipod and itunes software and resetting, then changing drive letters (external drive now Z:) and switching ports but none of this works.
So far I have been very pleased with ipod / itunes. Hope this issue won't end up changing my opinion.

Where Can I Learn About Connecting an External Drive to My Airport Extreme?

I'm having trouble find information on this. I want to know the pros and cons of connecting my LaCie drive to the FireWire port of my base station so that different computers in the house have direct access to it. I'd like to know whether there will be a big change in the data transfer rate, any security issues, and whether permissions will be assigned automatically by the computer creating new folders on the drive. Also, I'd like to know whether Time Machine works well this way.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

You're right about the USB. Must have been imagining things. Darn those meds. Thanks for the speed comparison too; I think I'll experiment a bit. Shame about Time Machine though. I thought I had read a post elsewhere on the discussion board saying that Time Machine recognized an external drive connected to a router. It may not have been an AEBS, and perhaps recognizing it doesn't mean Time Machine will back up to it.
Thanks again for your reply.
Gregory

I would need to connect an external drive to my iMac computer?

I have an iMac hard drive that was purchased 1 year ago from the Apple Summit Sierra store in Reno, Nevada. I have had a lot of issues so this drive was replaced by a new one. The old hardrive contains OS 10.5.x and has appleworks which I created a lot of documents.
The Apple Summit's Genius bar installed OS 10.6.8 onto the new hard drive and now, I am NOT able to open those files that were created with the appleworks software that resided on the old hard drive. I notice that appleworks was replaced by Pages which will not open appleworks files.
So this is what I am asking the community...
1. I would like to connect the old hardrive as an external drive so I can open these documents. What is the best way to do this? Someone mentioned that I would need a "sled" which I suspect is an external casing that has it's own power and connects via USB. I don't recognize the type of plug that I would need.
2. The old apple computers could start up from the external hardrive connected to it. Is this still possible with the newer intel computers?
I would appreciate anyone's suggestions or input. Thank you...

To use the HDD as an external drive you need and external drive enclosure. It would connect with your computer via USB or FW; my preference is to have it set up for both for flexibility .Check your computer ports to see what you need.
When you buy the enclosure check to see whether it comes w/ the cables you need.
A good source to check for the HD enclosures is: http://www.macsales.com/ If you're not sure of what you need just call them; they're very helpful. There are other sources for these but OWC is my favorite.
Your old HDD is probably bootable. Once you have the drive in the enclosure connect it to the computer.
You can get some data, etc. from the old HDD to the new drive by clicking the ext. HD icon on the desktop to open & dragging whatever you want (or Copy/Paste) to your new HDD.
Alternatively you can set the external drive as Startup Disk:
Go to System Preferences>> Startup Disk. Your new external drive should show there. Click on new drive and Restart. When the computer has rebooted the external HDD (with old HDD) will now be the Startup Disk. Until you change it again in System Preferences.
Do you have the appleworks software disks? You could install that on the new HD, and just move the files from the external HD to the new drive---or is that part of the plan?
Good luck w/ this.
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Is it possible to connect an external drive to the time capsule that I could use to store and access my primary iTunes files?

I would like to move my music files to an external drive that my iMac iTunes could access wirelessly and I'm wondering if it is possible to do so through connecting a drive to my Time Capsule.

This can be done....but if you move your iTunes Media folder to the drive that is connected to the Time Capsule, you might first want to think about how you will backup these important files.
Time Machine cannot backup the files back to the Time Capsule, so you will need to use a commercial backup application like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to copy the files back to the Time Capsule drive.
As long as you plan to add a hard drive, you might want to consider an alternate plan:
Connect a hard drive directly to your Mac using USB or FireWire and move the iTunes Media Library there. Then, Time Machine will back up both your Mac and the hard drive, so you have original copies on one drive and backups on another.
Whatever you decide, be sure to follow the correct instructions to move the iTunes Media Folder. You cannot simply drag and drop.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449

How to backup internal A/V hard drive (not the OS drive) to a 2nd external drive (not the TM drive)?

I'm a new Mac Pro user. Now running OS X Lion. Always used Windows platforms before with Seagate hard drives and their included backup software where I was able to setup different backup schedules to back up various drive and file combos individually/separtely.
Here's what I would like to do on my new Mac Pro:
I have TIme Machine already setup to backup my OS X hard drive (internal #1) to external hard drive #1. that works fine.
I have a 2nd internal hard drive which i only want to use for FInal Cut Pro X media files (video and audio for various projects) and I would like to back that drive up to a different external hard drive.
I do not want to lump these files into the TM backup i have already setup for the OS on ext. drive #1. I want to keep a backup of my Final Cut media on external drive #2.
Any suggestions? How do video professionals usually backup their A/V drives individually and regularly (as I am sure most of you do not store your media on your OS drives).
Thank you!

There are software back up tools like Roxio's Retrospect, though many professionals use RAID systems with redundancy that automatically mirror their main media drive.

Connect 2 external drives to 1 firewire port?

MacBook Pro 5 4 Mid-2009 15"
has 1 firewire port
1 USB 2.0 port with 2 more USB 2.0 ports on an external monitor
I've been running Time Machine on a 500 GB LaCie d2 quadra external drive and need to upgrade, probably to a 3 TB drive.
To transfer my backups from the old drive to the new one, I need to connect both to the MacBook. Can I connect both in a daisy chain to the FireWire port? Or do I have to connect one via USB and the other via FireWire?
Thanks.

You can either use a FireWire hub or connect one device through USB. If either drive has two or more FireWire ports, it can act as a hub.
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Is there a way to connect an external drive to an iPad retina?

I'd like to connect my external hard drive straight to my iPad retina and just wondered if it can be done and if so how?

As James said, you can use something like the Seagate Wireless Plus. But underatand that the iPad does not have a user accessible file system like on a computer. To use this HDD, you must use Seagate's app and it is designed only for media like photos, videos, and music. It is not usable for documents and other files.

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