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Hi there,
Please excuse my ignorance. I'm not new to computers, but I am new to doing anything other than word processing, e-mail and internet.
I have a macbook pro, and the keyboard and trackpad are broken. I need to send it away to get it fixed.
I have an external hard drive which I keep a backup on using time machine. I'm running Leopard.
I have two accounts on my Mac - the one I use all the time, and I have another account on there I rarely use with my private stuff on it. (No, not that sort of private - it's stuff from my old and current job, which has scripts, personal details etc. that are confidential). I put this stuff in a different account when I couldn't find an easy way to password a folder on a mac.
I only back up from my main account, presuming that Time Machine would restore the files on both, but still require my account password to access the files in the private account.
So, first question - is that correct? Is time machine backing up both my user accounts when I plug it in, or only the active one?
Second question - I've decided I want to put all the stuff on the confidential account on a separate hard drive, just in case. But because the stuff is confidential, I want any time that drive is plugged in somewhere for it to need a password before you can access it.
Is that possible? If so, how? I've been googling but it goes into talk of encryption software and I get a little lost. Can't you just buy a drive that comes with a password type entry system?
If it matters, the confidential account is about 60 Gigs, so I'd want an 80-120gb hard drive to keep it, in case I have to add to it.
Thank you for the help, and for reading!
Jamie x
Please excuse my ignorance. I'm not new to computers, but I am new to doing anything other than word processing, e-mail and internet.
I have a macbook pro, and the keyboard and trackpad are broken. I need to send it away to get it fixed.
I have an external hard drive which I keep a backup on using time machine. I'm running Leopard.
I have two accounts on my Mac - the one I use all the time, and I have another account on there I rarely use with my private stuff on it. (No, not that sort of private - it's stuff from my old and current job, which has scripts, personal details etc. that are confidential). I put this stuff in a different account when I couldn't find an easy way to password a folder on a mac.
I only back up from my main account, presuming that Time Machine would restore the files on both, but still require my account password to access the files in the private account.
So, first question - is that correct? Is time machine backing up both my user accounts when I plug it in, or only the active one?
Second question - I've decided I want to put all the stuff on the confidential account on a separate hard drive, just in case. But because the stuff is confidential, I want any time that drive is plugged in somewhere for it to need a password before you can access it.
Is that possible? If so, how? I've been googling but it goes into talk of encryption software and I get a little lost. Can't you just buy a drive that comes with a password type entry system?
If it matters, the confidential account is about 60 Gigs, so I'd want an 80-120gb hard drive to keep it, in case I have to add to it.
Thank you for the help, and for reading!
Jamie x