RE: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-27 Thread Simon Fogarty
f it saves you money here in NZ Hope that helps. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Traci Duncan Sent: Tuesday, 27 December 2016 6:07 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: External drives and Time M

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-26 Thread E.T.
You can run CCC as often as you like, I run mine weekly. A couple of my Passport drives are at least a year old maybe aloser to two. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 12/26/2016 9:07 AM, Traci Duncan wrote: In

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-26 Thread Traci Duncan
In your guy’s opinion what’s the difference between the WD Passports and Elements drives? I take it, you are reformatting the drives for Mac. A side question, does Carbin Copy Cloner take snapshots of your Mac every hour? This seems a little excessive for my needs. I just want a reliable back

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-25 Thread Scott Granados
I used to burn through Fugitsu and WD drives at a high rate but this was because we were hammering them in an NNTP server. I was burning a drive per day at one point although once we switched over to IBM and high end Seagates things improved. At that time though 100 gigs of data or more was a

RE: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-25 Thread Simon Fogarty
storage environment -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Monday, 26 December 2016 11:46 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: External drives and Time Machine Scott, Any brand in particular

RE: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-25 Thread Simon Fogarty
. Can’t fault them From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Monday, 26 December 2016 11:34 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: External drives and Time Machine Or go with an SSD drive. SSD doesn’t have the same

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-25 Thread E.T.
I may have used Seagate in the distant murky past when I built my Windows desktops. Will research this in the new year. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 12/25/2016 2:51 PM, Scott Granados wrote: I always used highe

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-25 Thread Scott Granados
I always used higher end seagate or IBM / Hitachi drives myself. IBM have definitely treated me well. > On Dec 25, 2016, at 5:46 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Scott, > Any brand in particular that are reliable? I am currently using WD Passport > drives, have 4 now, lost one early this year. Am more r

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-25 Thread E.T.
Scott, Any brand in particular that are reliable? I am currently using WD Passport drives, have 4 now, lost one early this year. Am more redundant nowadays. For that reason, I use two separate drives for Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-25 Thread Scott Granados
Or go with an SSD drive. SSD doesn’t have the same issues as the old rotating type and are much much faster. > On Dec 24, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > Hello, > > Most consumer hard disk drives are just not meant for long term reliable use > especially if they are subject to cha

Re: External drives and Time Machine

2016-12-24 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, Most consumer hard disk drives are just not meant for long term reliable use especially if they are subject to changing temperatures and laptop use. If you spend a little more I think the reliability of even Seagate and WD drives improves. Generally though folks with critical information

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
Sounds like weirdness. Have you tried the usual things like rebooting and repairing permissions? CB On 3/4/14 4:01 PM, Jane wrote: Nope, they are just normal drives. I mean, I have plugged them in before for a long time with no problems. Jane On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Chris Blouch wro

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Jane
Nope, they are just normal drives. I mean, I have plugged them in before for a long time with no problems. Jane On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I guess that eliminates my first hunch. Finder > Preferneces > General then > check off "Show these items on the desktop". I was

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
I guess that eliminates my first hunch. Finder > Preferneces > General then check off "Show these items on the desktop". I was guessing these might have been turned off and that things actually were mounting, just not showing on the desktop. Also, in disk utility, for any drive that isn't your

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Jane
Because it shows up in Disc Utility, but not anywhere else. The Mount button is not greyed out. When I mount it by pressing that button, it pops up on the desktop and anywhere else I have it set to show external drives and discs. Jane On Mar 4, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > How d

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Blouch
How do you know it didn't mount? CB On 3/4/14 1:47 PM, Jane wrote: I *think* this started after upgrading to the newest Mavericks, but not sure. Whenever I put in a CD, or a DVD, or whenever I plug in one of my four thumb drives or the one external hard drive, I have to manually go into Disc

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread Jane
I think a week or so. Jane On Mar 4, 2014, at 1:48 PM, isaac wrote: > How long this problem has been happening? > On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:47 PM, Jane wrote: > >> I *think* this started after upgrading to the newest Mavericks, but not >> sure. Whenever I put in a CD, or a DVD, or whenever I

Re: External Drives, CDs, and DVD problems

2014-03-04 Thread isaac
How long this problem has been happening? On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:47 PM, Jane wrote: > I *think* this started after upgrading to the newest Mavericks, but not sure. > Whenever I put in a CD, or a DVD, or whenever I plug in one of my four thumb > drives or the one external hard drive, I have to ma

Re: external drives

2013-12-02 Thread Esther
> > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dean Adams > > Sent: December 02, 2013 06:27 > > To: Macvisionaries macvisionaries > > Subject: Re: external drives > > > > Hi Noah, > > You can down

RE: external drives

2013-12-02 Thread Jesus Garcia
Good morning how well does this utility work? Any issues with voice over access? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dean Adams Sent: December 02, 2013 06:27 To: Macvisionaries macvisionaries Subject: Re: external

Re: external drives

2013-12-02 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Noah, You can download and install an add on to the mac operating system called ntfs 4 mac which allows a mac to read and write to a windows partition here is the website for you to check it out. > http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ Regards Dean Sent from Dean Adams Macbo