Icloud drive for storage

I have an external hard drive that is dying. I was trying to use Dropbox to store my iTunes and iPhoto library but they are bigger than my hard drive (which Dropbox requires). Does anyone know if iCloud Drive will allow that or is it requiring files to be stored locally? Before I but a new external hard drive I was curious.

An iPhoto library cannot be stored in the cloud. That's because it needs to be on a volume/drive that is formatted OS X Extended (journaled) in order to keep the complex ecosystem of files, links, databases, etc, within the library package intact.
You will need a new external HD. I suggest getting an EHD that is 2x - 3x the size of the HDs that contain the files you want to backup and use it with Time Machine to backup everything up. Excellent drives are available from Otherworldcomputing.com. They have a great reputation for quality hardware and excellent support.

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Setting up iCloud Drive for a family is a nightmare!

Setting up iCloud Drive for a family is a nightmare! I have spent the last two hours trying to figure out a smart way to make it work! First off, even though the name is similar, iCloud Drive seems to be a very different thing than Google Drive or Dropbox. There is no "sharing" option. This is what is so frustrating at the moment.
My family has used one main Apple ID for years. I recently upgraded the iCloud space so my daughter could sync her iPhone to the cloud. So, I updated to Yosemite and iCloud Drive and REALLY LIKED many aspects of the new system. However, in order to make many of the new features work, like having the text messages come to the computer, and having the phone calls (which are linked to Facetime) come to the computer I am faced with all kinds of dilemmas. My wife and I have two Macbooks. In order for her to get her phone calls forwarded to her Macbook she needs to have her phone number AND e-mail address that's associated with the specific iCloud Account that her computer is logged into. We have mainly been logging in to the same Apple ID. In order for her to access her own phone vs. mine she will have to log her computer in to a different Apple ID - but that will also mean a new iCloud Drive.
I think these new features in Yosemite are great - but they are geared towards individual people. There have been many articles written about how to deal with Apple IDs within a family. There need to be some updated articles on how to deal with iCloud Drive and a family. To me it's just way, way too complicated. It seems like it doesn't "just work" anymore.

It will depend on how much data has to be moved to iCloud Drive. 30 minutes is a long time, but not unbelievable.
talltenor wrote:
My MacBook Air has been "setting up iCloud Drive" for 15 hours!
It's failed. Reboot and try again.

8.1 icloud drive for Document and Data is not working well

On my iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6 (both on ios 8.1), every other day my apps would stop syncing with icloud. I noticed this with a few apps such as 1Password and Drafts 4.
icloud for default calenders and reminders were still working during this down time, just the Document and Data not syncing with icloud.
Remedy action:
(1) I need to off icloud drive
(2) press on home bottom and On/off bottom simultaneously to re-start the device
(3) then switch on the icloud drive again to make the Document and Data sync with icloud again.
This is really irritating and how can I think of a PC-less future when icloud is not reliable?
I am supposed to gain synergy for using 2 ios devices but I am certainly not feeling it at the moment.
Please can Apple fix this soon?

Page and Numbers are having the same problem. It gets so irritating that I have turned off the icloud drive for both apps.

Time Machine no longer recognizes my WD portable drive for storage

The portable drive use to work fine for storage for my time machine. Now the drive does not show in desktop when plugged in. Time machine is directing me to set up but does not recognize any device. Thank you for any help.
J.

Same exact thing happened to me... Time Machine ceased to recognize external drive - stopped backing up (obviously) then drive would no longer appear on desktop. After multiple reboots, plug/unplug, and cable jiggling - the drive returned to the desktop... Time Machine STILL does not see it. Using Disk Utilities to verify - hopefully repair. Many errors appearing in log! Isn't it a little odd that so many external drives of different models are all failing while using the same program... ?

Can I back up a bootable partition from an APM drive to a GUID-partitioned hard drive for storage, later to be able to clone restore the backup back to an APM and have it be bootable on a PowerPC?

Tongue twister of a question, huh?
I am creating a APM-partitioned hard drive for use with a PowerPC iMac G5, so I can have a fresh OS install on one as a reference, and the other be my usable OS. Now, I also want to back both of these partitions up on a storage hard drive that I also want to contain partitions that are bootable on an Intel mac (GUID). My question is, can I clone my APM partitions as backup to designated partitions on my GUID backup/storage hard drive (which I plan on being able to boot other partions on an Intel Mac), and have the option of later cloning the same APM partitions back to an APM-paritioned hard drive and have them still be bootable on a Power PC? I know I won't be able to boot a Power PC from off of the GUID-paritioned drive, but I want to be able to restore my APM-partitioned drive incase things go sour with it.
Thanks so much for your time, guys!

Block-level copier that copies not just the files but the filesystem structure as well. But files can be moved from GUID to APM partitioned devices without any effect on the file. The partition scheme affects whether an installed system will boot a particular type of hardware.
If you installed OS X on a GUID partitioned drive you would not be able to boot a PPC Mac.
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Adding a second hard drive for storage

So you've added another hard drive to your system... its detected correctly in BIOS, and when you boot into Windows its listed in Device Manager, but it is not visible in My Computer and you can't save anything to it because Windows doesn't see it?
Well, if its not partioned and formatted in a format that Windows recognises, then of course it won't!
Its very easy to do, and as this gets asked so many times, here's a brief step by step guide. (The screenshots are shown from Windows 7, but will appear identical in Windows Vista, and very similar in Windows XP with some different wording)
First of all, right-click Computer in your Start Menu or desktop (My Computer in Windows XP), and in the pop-out menu, select Manage.
This will open up the Computer Management console. In the left-hand pane, under Storage, click on Disk Management (Drive Management in Windows XP). This will then bring up a list of all storage drives connected to your computer, and in the lower half you can visibly see what partitions are on each drive.
Your new drive will be shown here, but it will show as 'Unallocated' (RAW in Windows XP).
Right-click anywhere in the Unallocated space, and in the pop-out menu, select New Volume ('Create partition' in Windows XP). This will open a wizard to help you create and format a partition.
First of all, you can select how big your partition is, if you want to make more than one. By default, it will select the size of the whole drive.
Next you can assign a drive letter. Remember, if you don't assign a drive letter, then the partition will be hidden from Windows.
Next, is where you format your partition. Best leave it at the default setting of NTFS. You can also name your new partition here if you like. A quick format usually suffices, so leave that box ticked.
Click Finish in the next screen, and your partition will be created and formatted.
And your new drive is ready to be used in Windows!

'afternoon.
i know you mentioned not needing an SSD, but if you don't use WWAN, have you at all considered an mSATA SSD installed under the keyboard? you could run the OS/swap/temp/apps from it, then use the platter drive for data/documents and keep your bay flexible for addtional HDDs or the optical drive.
just a thought...
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Formatting external drive for storage/backup/video files

Hi,
I just purchased a 500mb My Book Pro external drive for use with my imac duo which runs Windows XP via bootcamp. This computer is shared by three family with very different skills and needs. My dilemma. I want to format the drive so that the imac can be backed up easily three users. It is formated Fat32 and is supplied with Restrospect Express 7.5 backup software. It would be nice to backup the modestly used windows sector, but that's a secondary consideration. My problem is that one user has a lot of larger than 4 gb video files which are too large the Fat 32 format. My notion is to segment the backup drive so that I leave 300 mb in fat 32 to facilitate backup with supplied software, and segment a second 200 gb drive using mac os extended so that the user can manually move her video files for storage/backup on the backup drive. Is there a simpler solution? For example, if I formatted the entire 500gb as mac os extended, could I still run the retrospect backup software? If not, is there a reasonably priced alternative software? And finally, with either Fat32 or Mac OS extended, can I move files from the Windows platform? Would I be better off just biting the bullet and telling my daughter to make her own arrangements to compress and backup her video files or get her own hard drive, thus leaving the backup drive to the simple factory supplied software solution?
G-4 and iMac core duo Mac OS X (10.4.9) use emacs and imacs at work location

Hi,
I just purchased a 500mb My Book Pro external drive
for use with my imac duo which runs Windows XP via
bootcamp. This computer is shared by three family
with very different skills and needs. My dilemma. I
want to format the drive so that the imac can be
backed up easily three users. It is formated Fat32
and is supplied with Restrospect Express 7.5 backup
software. It would be nice to backup the modestly
used windows sector, but that's a secondary
consideration. My problem is that one user has a lot
of larger than 4 gb video files which are too large
the Fat 32 format. My notion is to segment the backup
drive so that I leave 300 mb in fat 32 to facilitate
backup with supplied software, and segment a second
200 gb drive using mac os extended so that the user
can manually move her video files for storage/backup
on the backup drive. Is there a simpler solution? For
example, if I formatted the entire 500gb as mac os
extended, could I still run the retrospect backup
software? If not, is there a reasonably priced
alternative software? And finally, with either Fat32
or Mac OS extended, can I move files from the Windows
platform? Would I be better off just biting the
bullet and telling my daughter to make her own
arrangements to compress and backup her video files
or get her own hard drive, thus leaving the backup
drive to the simple factory supplied software
solution?
G-4 and iMac
core duo Mac OS X (10.4.9) use emacs
and imacs at work location
Hello,
You're indeed in a pickle. If you use Bootcamp and want the HD accessible via the Mac and WinXP, then you don't want to format it as Mac HFS because WInXP wouldn't be able to access it. If you go FAT32 then both WInXP and Mac OS can access it, but you face the dilemma of the 4GB threshold.
If you format as NTFS, then you eliminate the 4GB threshold but then Mac OS cannot access it.
I have a similar dilemma, which is why i use Parallels more than Bootcamp. I have 2 external FW HD's (160GB/250GB), both formatted to Mac HFS. The 160GB i have partitioned as 50GB and 100GB. I have a bootable backup of Mac OS residing on the 100GB partition (yay to SuperDuper!) and some other stuff on the remaining 50GB. The 250GB is exclusive for movies (cough..cough..bittorrent) and for streaming via Orb 2.0 to my Treo. I have WinXP running in Parallels, and Vista Ultimate via Bootcamp. In Parallels, i can access my external HD's via Parallel's Shared Folders but in Vista (Bootcamp) since the HD's are in a non-Windows recognised formatting, they're not accessible (which is a bummer, as i'm loving Win media center).
What you can do is partition the HD the way you're thinking and format (one part Mac HFS and the other NTFS), but my best recommendation is that with the falling prices of HD's nowadays, why not just get a seperate HD do what you want with it. I spied a WD MyBook 500GB USB HD at CompUSA for $129.99 (no mail-in rebate nonsense) and similar good prices at Bestbuy and Newegg.com.
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External Drive for Storage/Backup?

Ok so I think I'm at the point where it would be a smart idea to back up all my valuable data (as if there was never a smart time to do this?)
Now my question is this: Can an external Hard Disk be used on both my G5 and relatives MacPro at the same time? As in I can dump some files on it from the G5, then plug in into the MacPro and do the same - having seperate storage folders on the Drive for each computers backup?
I've never attempted to do an external drive backup before. I've only ever done it with burning DVDs. So if I'm missing something or this sounds like a silly question please forgive!
Thank you in advance!

I am not too sure you can simultaneously connect one drive to two different machines, in fact I am quite sure you can't and I think that is what you were asking, vs. partitioning it with two partions (easy) and using it on one or the other mac at separate times.
Note by easy I mean it uses the mac partitioning scheme and thus it cannot boot an intel.
As pointed out, there are guides to formating one drive with 2 partitions so it can have two different bootup disks, on PPC and one intel. I would not bother. Seems daunting and if you are unsure of PATA vs. SATA then forget learning that very complex operation.
These drives of adequate (or even quite massive) size don't cost enough to bother. Buy two drives, firewire only and partition one GUID for the intel and the traditional mac format for the other.
And I think you should just buy two already made external (FIREWIRE) drives from LaCie or OWC and not get into buying raw drives, cases and the like and assembling them - you don't save a whole lot if anything, and a lot of these cases are rubbish pure and simple.
Judging by increasingly unhappy posts about the "PC brand" external drives (Maxtor, WD, Iomega) trying to mosey into the mac world I would avoid them like the plague.

Best way to format an internal drive for storage

Hello,
I have an early 09 8 core Mac Pro running both 10.9.3 and windows 7 (boot camp 5.1). I have two extra 2TB WD SATA drives I like to install for video storage. What would be the best way to format the drives for both OS. exFAT or FAT32. I understand both format have several limitations. Just wondering which format is the better way to go for video storage and working back and forth with video editing programs on either OS platform. I normally copy the videos or files from the storage drive to the main drive when working with the programs and viewing. Any input would be great, thanks. z

I would NOT ever use exFAT, not when Paragon Software has excellent and supported NTFS driver for Mac OS X (they have equally good HFS+ for Windows). Using both and both work seamless and invisibly. And inexpensive.
I access from Windows and Mac to a common set of storage data drives in both NTFS as well as HFS.

New install on MacBook but I want to use external hard drive for storage. How?

Hi folks.
I just bought and installed Lightroom on My MacBook, it has a tiny HD and I was hoping to use an External HD for storage of photos.
Is there a trick to setting up the external HD for storage?
Should I of put the catalogue on there rather than the Mac HD?
thanks for any help.

Yea I'm just going to wait for a solution I like better. The easiest way would be for apple to have some kind of itunes server software. Theres no reason that my computer running itunes shouldn't be able to communicate with with hard drive wirelessly just as it would with a usb cable. Kind of like wireless itunes synching with my iphone.
I don't want to use Itunes match because music is not my concern. It is the 1,000 movies that I want to watch on apple tv without tying up my laptop.
Thanks anyway

Unable to load driver for Storage for Windows 2008 UCS B230 M2

I am trying to Boot from SAN windows 2008 R2. I have configured and connected the Cisco UCS Chassis and FI to our Network & Storage .I am having problem to install Windows 2008 R2 Server on Blades as it is not able to see Storage LUN while installation .I downloaded drivers from Cisco Support Site.
I tried drivers from ISO ucs-bxxx-drivers.2.1.3 latest version but Windows is showing driver is available but not installing the driver I am getting the following error and not showing the LUN hard disk to select the installation.
Windows is unabe to locate storage LUN. I am able to LUN while booting process.
I am not sure where I am doing wrong.or I am chosing wrong driver.

I don't see the error message either, but to install W2008 on a boot lun, you must
1) do the zoning of the vhba (initiator) to the pwwn of the storage subsystem port (target)
2) the lun masking / mapping has to be setup
3) fnic driver has to be installed
Therefore, if you don't see your boot lun, either 1) and or 2) has to be fixed
then
4) only one path should be configured (e.g. fabric a), because no multipathing is available during installation, this is very important, and necessary for W2003, 2008 and 2012
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How do I use my second hard drive for storage, not back up?

Hi, I bought a second hard drive to store files (not back-up for my system), but when I moved some files over to drive two and then deleted the same files from drive one, they also deleted from the 2nd drive! Fortunately I could reverse the process and there was no loss, but what now? How do I disconnect the two so I can use the second as storage?
Thanks and happy Easter for those of you who celebrate it. Kate (Porter)

Whilst I normally drag files around, a copy and paste still should have created a replica on the destination drive.
That the second is mounted internally makes my describing it as an external drive inaccurate, but wouldn't cause the problem.
So that still leaves the scant possibility that the original source is itself an alias.
Was the copy and paste done in a Finder window or was it done via some other application's window?
I look forward to an update on this unusual event.

Using mounted drives for storage

iMovie 08 only allows for saving on internal drives, or connected FireWire drives. Well, I have 2 TB of storage on an old Mac connected over Gigabit Ethernet, and I intend to use it. Here is the solution:
1. Move your iMovie Events onto your choice of mounted drive
2. Delete the iMovie Events folder, located in your Movies folder
3. Use Coctail or the Terminal to create a symbolic link of the moved iMovie Events folder (on your external drive) and place that link back in your home Movies folder
4. Start up iMovie again, and you will see that all is well
Using regular Alias did not work for me. I got the thumbnails, though with a warning triangle, but not the source to play.

no, I use FAT32 so I can use it on both Macs and PCs
Note that the Mac doesn't require using the same disk format on both "disks" of a partitioned drive. You could use Disk Utility to partition the drive and format each partition whatever you choose.
Partitioning/Reformatting will erase everything on the drive, so make backups.
Not sure how your PC will respond to the presence of the Mac partition, however. (No experience.) You may want to do some testing.
Karl

How to use iCloud Drive for opening a pdf file in iphone

Hello,
I would like to know if I need some app for opening a file pdf in iCloud.
I put several pdf file in iCloud but, I can not read it
how I should to do?
Thank you very much, Luis

luisfromarg wrote:
Hello,
I would like to know if I need some app for opening a file pdf in iCloud.
I put several pdf file in iCloud but, I can not read it
how I should to do?
Thank you very much, Luis
There are thousands of apps for that.
Try Adobe Reader.

Using ATC as an external drive for storage

How can I use my ATC to copy files and photos to to liberate space on my hard drive in my MacBook Pro?

Whoa.
If you move files and photos to the Time Capsule hard drive...and then delete them from your MacBook Pro......the only copy of the files that you will have will be on the Time Capsule.
When....not if...the Time Capsule has a problem, you will lose all of the files and photos.....since you do not have a backup for them.
Surely, you would not want to risk having only copy of your files with no backup, correct?
Add another USB or FireWire drive to the MacBook Pro and move the files there. Then, Time Machine will backup both your Mac and the hard drive.
So, you have "original" files on one drive and "backups" on another. That would be a minimum backup plan. Many of keep extra additonal backups. For example, if my house burns down or is flooded, I have copies of all data on another drive that is offsite.

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