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Hi, firstly I'd like to thank the very helpful people enabling me to migrate from one "dying" Snow Leopard Macbook Pro to another Mountain Lion Macbook Pro. Happily everything went well, although I did lose the ability to use a couple of software programs I loved (Popmonitor is one!). The dying macbook will be going back to Apple for repair and upgrade as it is under warranty.
I now have another question. I'll soon be receiving a 2tb 2.5 external drive. I currently have an external drive that has time machine back up as well as all my important photography files. When the large drive arrives I'll partition (if I can) a 500mb that is purely Time Machine and the remainder is for photos. However I'd like to move/copy the "HOME" folder contents from the Mac HD that I have; ie: My documents, Pictures, Music etc etc, so if I have a challenge with this computer I can switch to the repaired one and still access all my files.
My question is am I able to do this and if so, what is the best way of doing it? I believe I'll have to ensure Itunes and Apple Mail know where the folders are stored to access them. Hope this makes sense as I'm not too good at the technical side of explaining things.
With regards to backup... I also have a DROBO that backs up Time Machine and my photos as well as another external drive for photos. I think I have all bases covered. I use Carbon Copier Cloner to back these up but haven't used CCC to make a "boot?? disk".
Cheers and thanks again. This is a wonderful community
I now have another question. I'll soon be receiving a 2tb 2.5 external drive. I currently have an external drive that has time machine back up as well as all my important photography files. When the large drive arrives I'll partition (if I can) a 500mb that is purely Time Machine and the remainder is for photos. However I'd like to move/copy the "HOME" folder contents from the Mac HD that I have; ie: My documents, Pictures, Music etc etc, so if I have a challenge with this computer I can switch to the repaired one and still access all my files.
My question is am I able to do this and if so, what is the best way of doing it? I believe I'll have to ensure Itunes and Apple Mail know where the folders are stored to access them. Hope this makes sense as I'm not too good at the technical side of explaining things.
With regards to backup... I also have a DROBO that backs up Time Machine and my photos as well as another external drive for photos. I think I have all bases covered. I use Carbon Copier Cloner to back these up but haven't used CCC to make a "boot?? disk".
Cheers and thanks again. This is a wonderful community