I am a novice - I need a simple, plug & go, external hard drive ... Have read various reports about Time Capsule ... Any opinions or alternatives? I am old, & need simple answers please - nothing complicated ... Thanks ...
I am a novice - I need a simple, reliable, plug & go (U.K.) external hard drive (1-3 TB) Have read various reports (good & bad) about Time Capsules - opinions & alternatives please .. I am old, so please keep answers simple - anything containing 'stuff' I won't understand & I'll ignore it .... Thanks in anticipation ...
I consider Time Capsule slow, mainly because it depends upon a wireless network for backing up. I tried it, but went back to the plug and play FW800 wired backup. Since this particular forum is for the MacBook Pro hardware, I'd suggest the following two forums to search for your answer (or ask questions):
Time Machine
Time Capsule
Since you want easy, the external hard drive is about as easy as it gets. Buy. Unpack. Plug into your Mac. Format (if you don't buy a Mac formatted one, which is unnecessary). Go to System Preferences>Time Machine. Choose the disk as the time machine. Turn on.
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Most good backup software allows you to schedule backups. I've tried a number of programs and the two best I've found are SuperDuper and Synk.
Both are very user-friendly--good for simple folks like me.
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I hope someone can help me, because i'm in quite a pickle. I bought a WD 500 GB external hard drive a couple of months ago. I have a MacBook Pro version OS X 10.8.5. The problem I have now is that I haven't used my external hard drive for a couple of weeks now, until today (note: I bought this hard drive and used it for the first time on my macbook pro, never on windows before or any other laptop/pc), and all of a sudden I can only 'read' my hard drive, it suddenly seemed to have changed it settings by itself to 'you can read only' whilst I never did anything to the permission settings....
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Please help!?
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When we bought our Mac in 2005, we moved all of our photos from our PC onto the Mac, so I had pictures dating back to 2003. All of the photos we've taken since 2005 have been imported through iPhoto and show up in the library when we open iPhoto. However, through the library, I can't see any photos prior to 2005. I know they're on the system somewhere, because our screen saver is a slide show, and photos pre-2005 show up.
My question is twofold:
1) Where do I find those pre-2005 photos?
2) I am out of space on my hard drive and want to move the majority of our photos to the external hard drive, but would like to keep a year's worth of photos on the hard drive. How do I move most of them to the external drive but keep some on my hard drive?
Thanks for any help!Were these pre 05 pictures imported to iPhoto too?
If so then your database may be damaged:
Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
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3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
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I have a new Mac Book Pro, running Mountain Lion. I am new to Mac; my old laptop is a Dell running Windows 7.
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Does anyone know of an EHD that will do this? One that is really super easy to use and won't need "reformatted". (I don't want to have to try to deal with that!)
I just want to put ALL my stuff from my Dell on an EHD, then move over SPECIFIC items from that EHD to my Mac.
Any advice? Recommendations? THANK YOU!Bob,
I'm sorry, my message was unclear! No, I'm not looking to hook up two computers at one time to one EHD.
I'm just looking to be able to use one EHD, and go back and forth between it and the Mac or Dell, getting stuff off one, and putting stuff onto the other.
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I got a usb external hard drive kit that you can put any hard drive into, and I have a 20gig western digital disk. I cant seem to get it to work on my gateway(333 mhz celeron) with windows 2000, but I am going to order a imac in 6 days. Do you think that the external hard drive would work on a newer computer like an imac? Also What jumper settings would I have to put it on? The current choices are "slave", "single or master", and "master with slave present". There are also 3 jumper settings that could be possible, but it is not labeled on the hard drive.
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(1) My External Hard Drive finally stopped working. Whenever I tried to use it, I would only get variants of, "Time Machine couldn't complete the Backup to "My Passport for Mac", or "The backup disc is not available".
(2) "No problem," I thought. "There is no problem with my computer, so I'll just buy another external hard drive," and I did.
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One of the external harddrives has my tv shows and movies, downloaded from itunes, stored temporarily since my mac is out of space. We'd like to be able to access our external harddrives wirelessly, so that I can move my itunes library and media files to one and access them wirelessly, have my time capsule hooked up permenantly, and so he could access his moies/shows/music on his external hard drive wirelessly.
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What you really need to do is set the westel into Bridged Ethernet mode, that disables the router function in it, and get yourself a good router that has a USB port to connect a USB drive or printer to it. there may be models that have more then one USB port so you could connect multiple devices to the router.
It isn't hard making these changes but i won't go into it here. For that go to DSLReports.com and look up your ISP and then the FAQs for your ISP. More then likely someone has posted detailed instruction on how to do what I described above for your model Westel modem and your ISP.
Or follow Csound1's link to a wireless NAS (Network Attached Storage).
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"Encrypt" is present in the contextual menu. When I attempt to use this option it appears to allow me to assign a new password. When I click "Encrypt" I get this message: "The target Core Storage volume is already encrypted." It's true that the drive is already encrypted, that's why I'm trying to decrypt it.
I'm running the latest version of Mountain Lion on a late 2012 iMac. I've searched online for someone with a similar problem, but haven't found this problem reference. Does anyone have any idea as to why "decrypt" is not an option on this external drive, but it is on similar external drives that are also already encrypted. Thanks.Thanks for your help, Linc. By the way, I mistakenly said I had Filevault and Firmware turned on. Actually, they are NOT enabled on the iMac. Here's what I got in my Text Edit window:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 999.3 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *1.1 TB disk2
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk3
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage OWC 750 GB Archive 749.8 GB disk3s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk3s3
/dev/disk4
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk4
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 499.8 GB disk4s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk4s3
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS OWC 500 GB *499.4 GB disk5
/dev/disk6
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk6
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk6s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 2.0 TB disk6s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk6s3
/dev/disk7
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS LaCie Porsche 2TB T... *2.0 TB disk7
/dev/disk8
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS OWC 750 GB Archive *749.5 GB disk8
CoreStorage logical volume groups (4 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 77833580-B5D6-4969-90F2-69629D851399
| =========================================================
| Name: Macintosh HD
| Status: Online
| Size: 1120333979648 B (1.1 TB)
| Free Space: 114688 B (114.7 KB)
| |
| +-< Physical Volume 92948041-5F99-48EE-BA6A-AC5E2D801AA1
| | ----------------------------------------------------
| | Index: 0
| | Disk: disk0s2
| | Status: Online
| | Size: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
| |
| +-< Physical Volume 2AFC48E4-8F84-4353-B5BE-80F82FCC5E60
| | ----------------------------------------------------
| | Index: 1
| | Disk: disk1s2
| | Status: Online
| | Size: 999345127424 B (999.3 GB)
| |
| +-> Logical Volume Family 9896E84D-A633-4439-9230-E793C140F99F
| ----------------------------------------------------------
| Encryption Status: Unlocked
| Encryption Type: None
| Conversion Status: NoConversion
| Conversion Direction: -none-
| Has Encrypted Extents: No
| Fully Secure: No
| Passphrase Required: No
| |
| +-> Logical Volume 73192A6E-2FD8-48C2-9586-DF06DEAF832C
| ---------------------------------------------------
| Disk: disk2
| Status: Online
| Size (Total): 1111826497536 B (1.1 TB)
| Size (Converted): -none-
| Revertible: No
| LV Name: Macintosh HD
| Volume Name: Macintosh HD
| Content Hint: Apple_HFS
|
+-- Logical Volume Group D3A1E4E0-2FAB-4620-9E30-A52F1D8967EA
| =========================================================
| Name: LaCie Porsche 2TB Time Machine
| Status: Online
| Size: 2000054960128 B (2.0 TB)
| Free Space: 16777216 B (16.8 MB)
| |
| +-< Physical Volume 5616866C-0E7B-4CFB-9ADF-F8B3C6D558A2
| | ----------------------------------------------------
| | Index: 0
| | Disk: disk6s2
| | Status: Online
| | Size: 2000054960128 B (2.0 TB)
| |
| +-> Logical Volume Family 88D4CB4E-CD4B-4DEF-87FF-2C6C0C7FFF48
| ----------------------------------------------------------
| Encryption Status: Unlocked
| Encryption Type: AES-XTS
| Conversion Status: Complete
| Conversion Direction: -none-
| Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
| Fully Secure: Yes
| Passphrase Required: Yes
| |
| +-> Logical Volume C207E3E4-B7A5-4440-A786-34251950978C
| ---------------------------------------------------
| Disk: disk7
| Status: Online
| Size (Total): 1999719411712 B (2.0 TB)
| Size (Converted): -none-
| Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)
| LV Name: LaCie Porsche 2TB Time Machine
| Volume Name: LaCie Porsche 2TB Time Machine
| Content Hint: Apple_HFS
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 1D616DCF-5201-4DF4-AF4F-4D8574ADA3AF
| =========================================================
| Name: OWC 750 GB Archive
| Status: Online
| Size: 749812400128 B (749.8 GB)
| Free Space: 16777216 B (16.8 MB)
| |
| +-< Physical Volume 67B9DE8F-CEB9-47E7-92AD-9C0F2D02ED66
| | ----------------------------------------------------
| | Index: 0
| | Disk: disk3s2
| | Status: Online
| | Size: 749812400128 B (749.8 GB)
| |
| +-> Logical Volume Family 84C4B3C3-63DE-4487-A285-79733D638B14
| ----------------------------------------------------------
| Encryption Status: Unlocked
| Encryption Type: AES-XTS
| Conversion Status: Complete
| Conversion Direction: -none-
| Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
| Fully Secure: Yes
| Passphrase Required: Yes
| |
| +-> Logical Volume 9B356069-1F11-44B5-A419-D395B9E5D9F6
| ---------------------------------------------------
| Disk: disk8
| Status: Online
| Size (Total): 749476851712 B (749.5 GB)
| Size (Converted): 749476851712 B (749.5 GB)
| Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)
| LV Name: OWC 750 GB Archive
| Volume Name: OWC 750 GB Archive
| Content Hint: Apple_HFS
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 9FD47542-59CC-4A5F-B2D6-4D58B15F4DEC
=========================================================
Name: OWC 500 GB
Status: Online
Size: 499763888128 B (499.8 GB)
Free Space: 16777216 B (16.8 MB)
|
+-< Physical Volume A52C4498-4C0A-47FB-A8AD-A16F1A1FAAA5
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk4s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 499763888128 B (499.8 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family 9C908835-59DB-4B08-AF44-E85E05135A37
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Conversion Status: Converting
Conversion Direction: backward
Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: No
|
+-> Logical Volume 79B8EE82-FCD9-4EDC-A7D7-C321A7CED24B
Disk: disk5
Status: Online
Size (Total): 499428339712 B (499.4 GB)
Size (Converted): 333646397440 B (333.6 GB)
Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)
LV Name: OWC 500 GB
Volume Name: OWC 500 GB
Content Hint: Apple_HFS -
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Hi,
I looking for advice on which external hard drive to get. The main purpose for the hard drive will be storing video files on for use with Final Cut Pro. I have the 12 inch powerbook G4 so I plan to use the FireWire (400) port to connect the drive. I'm interested in getting comment from others who use their external hard drives for video editing.
Thanks!Firstly your decision to use FireWire is a good one, as not only will it free up the USB it performs much better on sustained transfers.
That said you're still limited by the FireWire interface, so opt for a drive with a big cache (16MB would be good) and fast spindle speed (7200rpm+).
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