HT1766 Can you use an external hard drive to back up my movies in iTunes but still be able to access them or is there a device so I don't have to use a pc ??

Can you use an external hard drive to back up my movies in iTunes but still be able to access them or is there a device so I don't have to use a pc ??

You can store them on a separate hard drive, you don't need to keep them on your laptop's hard drive. On your computer's iTunes on the Advanced tab in Edit > Preferences there is a 'copy files to iTunes media file when adding to library' tickbox - if you untick that, you should be able to copy the films to a separate drive and add them back to your iTunes library (File > Add To Library) and it should then point to them on that separate drive and not copy them to your hard drive. When you are happy that it is what is happening and that they are safely on your external drive you can delete the films from your laptop's hard drive.
If you plug the external drive into a different USB port next time (assuming that your laptop has more than one) then it might get a different drive letter, so you might need to always use it with the same port.

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can you unplug the external hard drive you are using for time machine and then plug it back in and it work normals because i have a mac book and don't want to always be carrieing the external hard drive every where i go so can you ?

Yes, that will work fine. It will back up normally once you plug it in again. I do this with my MacBook.

I was trying to back up my mac by using my external hard drive. Without realizing it, time machine erased all my backups from my other computers. Is there any way to recover these files? I can't even get the external hard drive to work on my pc.

I was trying to use my external hard drive to back up my mac computer. It had files on it from my pc computer. Time machine erased all my existing files. (I thought it was only going to erase the duplicate files and rewrite them). Is there anyway to recover these files from my external hard drive. My mac has renamed the hard drive time maching and it will no longer show up on my pc. What can I do?

Yes, the Old Master file has a folder for each year where I find all photos from that specific year. I am attaching a screen shot of the file.
In the meantime i have managed to download all photos (it did not download any video files though in mpg, avi, 3gp, m4v,mp4 and mov format) to a new iphoto library. Unfortunately the photos are quite mixed and often doubled up. I ma considering to purchase iphoto library which checks all duplicates in iphoto. this will save me a lot of time. What do you think?

Does file vault effect using a external hard drive as back up

does file vault effect using a external hard drive as back up

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I recently used an external hard drive to back up photos etc from my mac, I didn't do a full system back up. Since then a finder window titled 'client node' keeps popping up every time i hit the spacebar. Can anyone help me please stop this happening?

I recently used an external hard drive to back up photos etc from my mac, I didn't do a full system back up. Since then a finder window titled 'client node' keeps popping up every time i hit the spacebar. Can anyone help me please stop this happening?

Click on it, choose Get Info from the File menu, and check the format.
If it's formatted as NTFS, reformat it as MS-DOS, exFAT, or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as desired, or install software such as Paragon NTFS on the computer.
If it's formatted as FAT32 or exFAT, use the Disk Utility's Repair Disk command on it; this may also happen for a flash drive which is about to fail.
If it's formatted as Mac OS Extended, click Authenticate and provide your administrator password, or change the permissions on that specific folder in its Get Info window.
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Can I use any external hard drive to back up my Mac?

Hello,
I'm new to mac's but have seen Time Capsule. I'm a little confused...
Can I go to any shop and buy an external hard drive of say 500GB and then plug it in via USB and back my mac up with the Time Machine?
It doesn't have to be a 1TB Apple own product Time Capsule? Or, does it...?
Thank you,
David

wild-weasel wrote:
And time-maschine really doesn't care, what else is on that drive, (It is not a jealous maschine) aslong as you have enough space left.
That's true, as far as it goes, but it's much, much better to partition the external HD, so Time Machine has it's own, exlusive space. See #3 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
And just for clarity, Time Machine is the software built in to OSX that performs backups; a Time Capsule is a bit of Apple hardware that combines a wireless router and hard drive. Sometimes folks can get confused if you use the wrong term.

Can you share an external hard drive over a network when your Apple Airport Extreme is in bridge mode?

Hello, is it possible to share an external hard drive over a network when I have my Airport Extreme in bridge mode? I can't use my AE as my main router at the moment but still want to be able to use the hard drive on the network, and the router I am using isn't capable of adding an external hard drive. I use Windows 7 and the other router is a Netgear. I have searched the communities and have not come across an answer to this question. I have tried several configurations within windows to try and see the hard drive but none have worked. I can see the hard drive when I run Airport utlities, but it cannot be seen on the network. Thanks to anyone who can help!

I think there is some confusion in this thread..
If you are sharing on a local LAN port forwarding is not required.
is it possible to share an external hard drive over a network when I have my Airport Extreme in bridge mode?
Answer is yes.. no port forwarding, mapping whatever term is used.. is needed. Port mapping is required when you cross over a NAT router.. as long as all the devices are inside a single LAN.. then no port mapping.
I assign to my Airport Extreme, do I do so with the settings of:
Service: SMB
Type: TCP
Server IP: xx.x.x.x
Port Start: 445
Port End: 445
This would not work even from WAN.. SMB is blocked by all responsible ISP.. there is simply too many unprotected windows machines out there. If they allowed SMB .. the world would be flooded with hijacked bots. And stolen data like bank accounts. SMB is not a secure protocol.
But this is not necessary on a LAN.
The problem can be Mavericks which does a terrible job presenting network drives.. The usual recommendations are to use AFP or force the connection to CIFS (ie SMB1 not 2).
If you use airport,, then use AFP.
In finder.. Go, Connect to server.
AFP://AEname or AEIPaddress. (replace with the network name of the AE or its actual IP address).
When asked for password.. type public if you did not change it or use whatever password you put.
Store the password in the keychain.

HT201250 I have a brother who is paranoid. He is starting to use an external hard drive to back up his information on his Mac. He says he is afraid that this might erase information from his computer hard drive. What can I tell him to allay his fears?

I told him "The information only goes in one direction: from your computer on to the external hard drive. Like water coming out of a faucet. It doesn't go back in." But that's not very technical. I need a technical answer to satisfy his worried mind! Thanks!

Making a backup will NOT affect the original data.
In fact failure to backup his data is more likely to result in data lost sometime in the future.
Disk drives are mechanical devices, and subject to failure.
If he is really paranoid, then he should be using the 3-2-1 backup method.
3 copies of his data including the original
2 different backup formats as one format is a single point of failure.
1 copy should be off-site.
If he uses an on-line networking backup solution such as CrashPlan, Mozy, Carbonite, Arq, etc... that would satisfy both off-site as well as using a 2nd backup format from Time Machine. The off-site protects him from theft and natural disaster. If not going to use an on-line networked backup, then consider using a cloning utility such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to an external disk and then take the disk to a family member, friends, or work. Several disks for cloning means you can cycle through the disks always keeping at least one off-site at all times.
Also a backup is protection against his own mistakes in accidentially deleting or modifying a file he really needs.
If he is really paranoid, he should be backing up Big-Time, not thinking of reasons to avoid backup. That is just asking for trouble.

Can you recommend an external hard drive for me?

I have a white macbook- nothing special. the cd burner is broken for the zillionth time so apple will be mailing it away for repairs. they suggested i back everything up before turning it over to them. there isnt much on it except my itunes library, some pictures, and a few word/excel docs. here are my questions:
1- what size external hard drive do i need?
2- is there a cheaper/easier way to do this?
3- is there a recommended brand for macs? i heard western digital was good, but several mac users gave it terrible reviews.
thanks so much!!

If you aren't sure how big your computer's drive is, select the hard drive icon on the desktop and Get Info from the File menu. At the top of the Get Info window you'll see the icon and below that some disclosure triangles - the second one pointing to General. If the triangle isn't pointing down, click on it and you'll see information about your drive. Look for Capacity and that is the formatted capacity.
You'll want a drive that is at least as big as your computer's drive so you can back up everything. Some people only back up their data but that, in my opinion, is silly. Look for a drive that is slightly larger that your drive's capacity. For example, you might see your capacity is 78.7 GB so get at least an 80GB drive. I say at least since you might want to consider using this new external drive with TimeMachine so you can always have an up to date backup. With TimeMachine you should get a drive that is at least twice as large as the data you are backing up.
The cheapest way to do it is to run down to your local discount store and pick up whatever they are selling. That's the cheapest but not necessarily the best. I strongly recommend that you buy a drive that includes FireWire - getting one with FireWire and USB ports will provide a good deal of flexibility. I also strongly recommend that you buy a drive with an external power supply. I recommend drives that derive their power from the computer only when the drive needs to be portable too. A backup drive isn't usually portable.
Name brands such as Seagate, Iomega, and Western Digital are all easy to find and okay. I think everyone has been burned by one brand or another so just about every manufacturer will get slammed with a particular horror story.

How do I use an external hard drive to back up my laptop? I bought a G Drive Slim from Apple.

I have a G Drive Slim external hard drive that was purchased from an Apple store. I need to back up my laptop. I've forgotten the procedure. It's not as easy as "plug it in and follow the instructions." Can anyone help?

It should be plug and play and if it isn't it is probably because your new drive isn't formatted for the Mac. Plug in the drive and run Disk Utility - it is in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder. You should see the drive in the DU window. Click on the drive and look at the bottom of the DU program. You'll see a Drive Description and other information. The last item in the second column is Partition Map Scheme. If it says GUID Partition Table you are good to go. If it doesn't the drive needs to be partitioned to be GUID.
Partition the drive:
Select the drive device in the list of devices. For each physical drive you'll see a drive device and then indented under that you'll see a drive name. For example looking at DU on my computer I see two devices: Macintosh HD at the top and indented beneath it "Yosemite" then 2TB OWC Elite and indented beneath it "TM". I'd select 2TB OWC Elite
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Select "1 Partition" from the drop-down menu (or more, if you have specific need for more than one volume). When you select a new partition layout from the drop-down menu, each new partition will be formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) by default, but be sure to double-check this by selecting each in the partition diagram and then choosing the format for it.
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Open Time Machine Preferences and click on Select Disk. Choose your newly partitioned and formatted drive. Make sure TM is turned on. That's it.

Hello, can I use an external hard drive to back up Iphone without using computer?

I am trying to back up my husbands iphone directly to an external hard drive. Is this possible?

Or were you thinking of something more like this? http://iomega.com/about/prreleases/2011/20110104-superhero-iphone-backup.html
If he's running iOS 5 or higher, he can backup to iCloud.

Can I use my external hard drive to keep all my music for itunes?

I am trying to clean up my itunes and computer. Once I figure out how to get rid of all of my duplicate songs I want to keep my entire music library on my external hard drive so my computer has free memory. Is there a way to set this up? Im a novice and its very frustrating not knowing how to do this!
THANK YOU!!!!

Consolidate it from the Library section of the File menu, drag the entire iTunes folder to the external drive, launch iTunes with the Shift key held down, click on Choose Library, and point it there.
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Can you partition an external hard drive to run both mac and windows files

I have an external hard drive fomated for windows NTFS. I am unable to Write mac files to this drive. I need to be able to share the files
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Using an external hard drive to back up iPhoto

I have around 250GB of images and with the recent arrival of child number two, that figure is just getting larger and larger. I have a Mac Mini (2010 320GB) and I am about to replace my 6 year old MBP with a new retina one with SSD and the obvious small hard drive. Ideally, I would like to run an iPhoto Library from an EHD and not bother having any images on iPhoto on the MacMini or the MBP. My question is what is the best/slickest/easiest way to manage it? Also, what is the best way to back up the iPhoto library that lives on one EHD to another EHD?
I have three EHD's that i can use.
Many thanks in advance for all and any help.

1. As a MP Pro user, if I move my library onto an EHD, what's the best way to manage any photos that happen to sync with iPhoto when I am say travelling etc (iPhone or iPad plugged into MBP)? How to get them back into my master library file?
The only way to move all the versions, edit history, metadata between Libraries is with iPhoto Library Manager
If you've not edited, then simply exporting from the internal library and then importing to the external one won't lose any data.
2. Once I have my new library on my EHD, what's the max safe size of a single library? Do you recommend running multiple libraries - say one for each year or capped at 100GB a piece etc?
I don't recommend ruuning multiple libraries. They are inconvenient and usually unnecessary. The amount of disk space a Library uses is of no consequence to iPhoto - as long as there's enough space of course. What matters to iPhoto is the number of items. The latest version of iPhoto is good for 1,000,000 items.
3. Following on from Q2, if I then plug this EHD into the back of my new Time Capsule so I can access wirelessly, can Time Machine still backup to that drive plugged into the back of the TC?
About wireless access:
A strong warning: If you're trying to edit the Library (that is, make albums, move photos around, keyword, make books or slideshows etc.) or edit individual photos in it via Wireless be very careful. Dropouts are a common fact of wireless networking, and should one occur while the app is writing to the database then your Library will be damaged. Simply, I would not do this with my Libraries.
Further: See this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
Note the comment:
“Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss.”
Tha said, you can set Time Machine to back up external disks.

I used an external hard drive for my backups via Time Capsule. I bought a new computer and I want to transfer all my old fonts over to the new one but when I go into the Font Library from the hard drive backup but my downloaded fonts aren't there?

I used an external hard drive to back up my computer using Time Capsule before I bought a new one. I am slowly transferring information fromt he backup to my new computer and I want to transfer over my old font book. When I go into the Font folder on the hard drive the only fonts that show up are the ones that came stock with the computer not any of the ones I have downloaded over time. Could they be downloaded somewhere else?

The answer to that would probably be "Yes." If you don't remember where your fonts were stored, you may want to search your backups for any of the font files you know the names to. See where that takes you.
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Perhaps if you did not have that kind of a strategy, perhaps many of them are still in your Downloads folder?

HT1766 Can you use an external hard drive to back up my movies in iTunes but still be able to access them or is there a device so I don't have to use a pc ??

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