Time Machine Plus Video Files

Can you keep your backuup and active files you are using to edit video on the same external drive. Do you need two partitions, or will one do? Thanks in advance for the advice.

Hi David
While I'll admit I have a second smaller partition for storing music and photos on the same External HD with TimeMachine. So yes it does work for extra storage space, but it's not recommended for working on or running the files from that location. I was a little on edge the other day when I was copying 8GB of music to that space and the TimeMachine backup kicked in. Everything was OK, besides I have another External HD with an up-to-date bootable clone, TimeMachine is really my secondary backup.
Dennis

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