i am using a mac book i bought in jan 09. how do i backup all my iphoto pics onto my external hard drive?
Simply activate Time Machine in the System Preferences and select your external drive as backup drive. There is no step 2.i am using a mac book i bought in jan 09. how do i backup all my iphoto pics onto my external hard drive?
And that's an excuse why?i don't know how to use time machine.
You can drag and drop them directly from your iPhoto window to the folder on your external harddrive.ok, so how do i open the pics? i mean i can access them to edit them in iphoto but how do i get a list of them (like on a PC) so i can copy and paste them?
Of course it would work. Obviously, it only makes hourly backups when your harddrive is connected.i have an external hard drive (sea gate) but cannot leave it plugged in all the time b/c i have a laptop so i don't think setting time machine to backup my stuff automatically would work?
And that's an excuse why?
It's so simple:
(1) Get an external harddrive (it should be bigger than the drive you want to backup and it must be bigger than the data you want to backup).
(2) Launch the System Preferences and select Time Machine from the list.
(3) Select your external harddrive as backup drive and move the slider from Off to On.
There is nothing more that needs to be done, Time Machine does all the rest automatically.
Do not do it manually, because chances are, you'll forget to do it on a regular basis.