Why am I not able to open external hard drive (FreeAgent GoFlex Desk) window??
I am simply trying to open a Finder window of the external hard drive itself so that I may copy over my Iphoto Library to it. However, I am unable to do so! There is no window to open. When I connect my Free Agent GoFlex Desk external hard drive, Time Machine automatically begins and I see this green icon and the words, "Time Machine Backups" under Devices in Finder. That all works fine and as far as I know the backups works just great. But I am unable to open the external drive in a Finder window! In my research, I've found the simple recommendation to: "In the Finder, the external drive will show as an orange drive icone in the left pane." But I don't see that, I only see the green icon as mentioned above. What is going on? Why can't I see this drive and open a window?? Thank you in advance!
You already have. Disregard the icon's color and follow the rest of the instructions. Note that Time Machine will eventually use all the free space on the location it's backing up to, so you should create a separate partition for other data.
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