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I have a small MacBook Air but after doing diligent backups for almost two years, my Western Digital 0.5TB drive (partitioned) is nearly full.
I wanted to copy my backup file to another WD drive that has extra room, re-partition the original Time Machine WD drive, and move on.
Every time I try to drag and drop the local backup file from the Time Machine WD drive, I get this annoying error "The backup can’t be copied because the backup volume doesn’t have ownership enabled."
So I " " enabled" " ownership, a process that took over 4 hours, tried to drag and drop the backup file from the original Time Machine external HD to my other external HD but no luck. I've done the enabling ownership drill twice now, but it still is not working. *** am I doing wrong?
I've been a Mac user now for just over 4 years, but I still get flummoxed by some of their crap when it comes to simple things like copying files.
Sorry my irritability is showing through right now, but I need to get this done and it's just not happening.
Any suggestions?
I am also planning on reformatting the WD HD (the original Time Machine drive) and I don't intend to partition it. Any suggestions on how to do that without getting flummoxed again? Journaled? Not Journaled?
Thank you in advance!
Cheers!
Pat
I wanted to copy my backup file to another WD drive that has extra room, re-partition the original Time Machine WD drive, and move on.
Every time I try to drag and drop the local backup file from the Time Machine WD drive, I get this annoying error "The backup can’t be copied because the backup volume doesn’t have ownership enabled."
So I " " enabled" " ownership, a process that took over 4 hours, tried to drag and drop the backup file from the original Time Machine external HD to my other external HD but no luck. I've done the enabling ownership drill twice now, but it still is not working. *** am I doing wrong?
I've been a Mac user now for just over 4 years, but I still get flummoxed by some of their crap when it comes to simple things like copying files.
Sorry my irritability is showing through right now, but I need to get this done and it's just not happening.
Any suggestions?
I am also planning on reformatting the WD HD (the original Time Machine drive) and I don't intend to partition it. Any suggestions on how to do that without getting flummoxed again? Journaled? Not Journaled?
Thank you in advance!
Cheers!
Pat