.mac and storage problems

hi
i'm new sorry just bare with me. i recently purchased a MacBook and .mac, my plan was to back up my documents, ical and other stuff on a weekly basis. this i thought i set up but on looking again, i dont know where i am backing the info up to.
this is what i want to do
1) back my files up to .mac, just incase i have my MacBook stolen?
2) do i have enough space to do this on my .mac account?
3) be able to transfer all the said info and documents on to a cd-r, just as a 2nd back up.
i'am new so please take this into account.
manythanks luke
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hey Luke,
You get 1GB of online storage with your .Mac account. The way you backup your files is sending them to your iDisk. To access this you may A. Go to the Finder and click on the iDisk symbol on the left hand side, or B. You may upload your files online through .Mac online. You can change the amount of space alotted to you by accessing your account pane online through the link I gave above. Just login, and then go to Account link. You can download Backup to backup all your important documents to a External HD, .Mac, or to a CD.
Hope this helps!
Tom

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I read somewhere on the Internet that you need to restart the Time Capsule for volumes on an external USB drive to be recognized.
So I tried that. I connected the freshly partitioned/formatted disk to the Time Capsule and restarted it. This succeed in removing the issue of reporting a nameless drive with a capacity of 0MB. It then reported the drive with its correct name but would not recognize whatever volumes in whatever partitions that particular crack at it contained with the exception of the once, as I mentioned above, when only one of two volumes mounted correctly and was listed with the right name and capacity on the Time Capusule's Setup's Disk tab.
At this point I have given up on my goal to use the external drive with Time Machine to back up my Macs or to hope I will ever be able to see its contents remotely via Back to My Mac. All I would like to do now is simply find a reason why I can't get it successfully connected and playing nice with my Time Capsule in the first place!
Any further suggestions or advice as to what steps I might take next would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all.

Hi,I have problem with my mac's storage. I deleted some documents,but the storage involves 34Gb other,what does the other consist of? how can I do my mac's storage specially other free?

Hi,I have problem with my mac's storage. I deleted some documents,but the storage involves 34Gb other,what does the other consist of? how can I do my mac's storage specially other free?

1. Empty Trash.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
2. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
    Select "Library" from the dropdown.
    Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes
    Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Empty Trash. Restart.
3. Repair Disk
    Steps 1 through 7
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
4. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
5. Re-index Macintosh HD
   System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

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