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I am not sure if this should be posted here or in the "back up" sticky
I have an iMac with Leopard
I am unable to find where my back files are located or even if they backed up correctly .
I may have messed up the installation. I miss the part where I was supposed to go to Disk Utilities and choose "1 partition" . Do I need to do that? It looks like it will erase everything I backed up and I will need to start over . That is fine if that is what I should do.
I always saw the spinning arrow on the menu bar so I thought it was backing up . Now I am not so sure
I can only do manual backups by plugging it in, backing up and ejecting it. If I have it on scheduled backup the computer freezes and I can't even force quit it if there is any activity including in coming mail during the back up
I went to Applications and clicked on the Time Machine app to see if that is where my files were stored and my desk top slid down and was replaced with an outer space scene. The one application window I had open multiplied into a stack of them piled one on top of the other. I saw cancel and clicked that to get out to there .
I just found the External HD Sticky and it said I should have a Time Machine Preference but I don't have that either.
My External HD is showing up in disk utilities
I bought a G|Drive Mini at the Apple store and they said it was formated for OSX so I didn't reformat it
Thanks in advance for any advise you can provide. !
Barbara
I have an iMac with Leopard
I am unable to find where my back files are located or even if they backed up correctly .
I may have messed up the installation. I miss the part where I was supposed to go to Disk Utilities and choose "1 partition" . Do I need to do that? It looks like it will erase everything I backed up and I will need to start over . That is fine if that is what I should do.
I always saw the spinning arrow on the menu bar so I thought it was backing up . Now I am not so sure
I can only do manual backups by plugging it in, backing up and ejecting it. If I have it on scheduled backup the computer freezes and I can't even force quit it if there is any activity including in coming mail during the back up
I went to Applications and clicked on the Time Machine app to see if that is where my files were stored and my desk top slid down and was replaced with an outer space scene. The one application window I had open multiplied into a stack of them piled one on top of the other. I saw cancel and clicked that to get out to there .
I just found the External HD Sticky and it said I should have a Time Machine Preference but I don't have that either.
My External HD is showing up in disk utilities
I bought a G|Drive Mini at the Apple store and they said it was formated for OSX so I didn't reformat it
Thanks in advance for any advise you can provide. !
Barbara