I am trying to back up a Mavericks partition to a partition on my external drive.
I am trying to back up a Mavericks partition to a partition on my external drive. I have erased the partition on the external drive but I keep getting an error message that the back up drive is full. I also have Snow Leopard backed up to the other partition on the external drive. When I first tried this, Time Machine tried to back up the entire MacBook Pro drive on the same external drive partition. It's as if it doesn't recognize the Mavericks partition on the Mac drive. Also, I can't delete the empty partition on the miniStack external drive.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!
Gerald
2009 MacBook Pro, 10.9.2, 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Are you trying to backup to an external HD connected to your computer, or a wireless HD interfaced to an iPad?
Mac - How to Move the iPhone & iPad iTunes Backup folder to an External Hard Drive
http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/05/how-to-move-the-iphoneipad-itunes-backup-folder-t o-an-external-hard-drive/
How to Change the Location of Your iPhone Backup (Mac)
http://ismashphone.com/2012/05/how-to-change-the-location-of-your-iphone-backup. html
Windows - Change iPad default backup location
http://apple-ipad-tablet-help.blogspot.com/2010/07/change-ipad-default-backup-lo cation.html
Windows - Changing IPhone and iPad backup location
http://goodstuff2share.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/changing-iphone-and-ipad-backup- location/
Cheers, Tom
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