Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Found some stuff on Mac For The Blind here: http://macfortheblind.com/how-to-for-the-Mac-and-OS-X which is a reproduction of a MacVisionaries email from Scott Bresnahan. CB On 7/9/12 11:50 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote: Chris, a longer answer with instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Stacey Robinson
Chris, a longer answer with instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Short answer is with a utility called Disk Utility which is in your Utilities > folder (command-shift-u to get there from finder). There have been detailed > descript

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Short answer is with a utility called Disk Utility which is in your Utilities folder (command-shift-u to get there from finder). There have been detailed descriptions on this list on exactly how to use it so if you can't figure things out just ping back and I'll try to dig one of those up, unle

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Stacey Robinson
How do I partition a drive with vo On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > The tricky bit is that Time Machine will continue to grow the size of the > backup set until it fills all available space. After that it prunes the > oldest stuff in prep for new backups. The end result is that

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Blouch
The tricky bit is that Time Machine will continue to grow the size of the backup set until it fills all available space. After that it prunes the oldest stuff in prep for new backups. The end result is that if you don't keep it on its own partition time machine will eventually use up the entire

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-08 Thread Stacey Robinson
My drive is connected via usb. On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:51 AM, rashantha de silva wrote: > Stacey > I assume you are using Time Machine for backups. You can store what you like > on the drive. To move your music look at iTunes prefs > Advanced tab it will > show the path to your music. Just google

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-08 Thread rashantha de silva
Stacey I assume you are using Time Machine for backups. You can store what you like on the drive. To move your music look at iTunes prefs > Advanced tab it will show the path to your music. Just google moving my itunes library to an external drive. You haven't indicated how your 2tb is connecte