I just bought the WD My Passport External Hard Drive 500GB yesterday. I was able to initially do a back up of all my files on my Macbook Pro 13" with no problem using Time Machine, but now I'm a little confused. I'm new to all of this...
I bought this external hard drive because I needed to replace the internal hard drive (250 GB for 500 GB) on my Macbook Pro. I was advised that it would be a good idea to back everything up first before changing the hard drives. I did that, no problem. I was able to take all the files originally on my hard drive and transfer them onto the external hard drive and then to the new internal hard drive. Everything is back to normal, but my question is... Do I keep the external hard drive plugged in so that it always backs up any changes I make or new files saved? Another problem I'm having is that when I plugged in the external hard drive for the second time after I made some changes to files, it began to back everything up completely for a second time, instead of replacing edited versions of things. I want to make it so that anytime I add new photos or music it just adds those files to the external hard drive on top of my previous back ups. Does anyone know how to make it so that it just backs up new and edited files, while keeping my original backup?
Hopefully this makes some sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
I bought this external hard drive because I needed to replace the internal hard drive (250 GB for 500 GB) on my Macbook Pro. I was advised that it would be a good idea to back everything up first before changing the hard drives. I did that, no problem. I was able to take all the files originally on my hard drive and transfer them onto the external hard drive and then to the new internal hard drive. Everything is back to normal, but my question is... Do I keep the external hard drive plugged in so that it always backs up any changes I make or new files saved? Another problem I'm having is that when I plugged in the external hard drive for the second time after I made some changes to files, it began to back everything up completely for a second time, instead of replacing edited versions of things. I want to make it so that anytime I add new photos or music it just adds those files to the external hard drive on top of my previous back ups. Does anyone know how to make it so that it just backs up new and edited files, while keeping my original backup?
Hopefully this makes some sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.