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Using the back up as the main source
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<blockquote data-quote="riverteeth" data-source="post: 1039174" data-attributes="member: 43488"><p>I think that once you designate an externanal drive as your "time machine" drive, it's really only practical to use that drive and it's backups through the time machine GUI. It's a very smooth system, once your used to it, for restoring individual files and folders, or even your entire system, but it's not really meant to be used like an ordinary external drive where you store data you use (as opposed to backup). My music collection is over 100 GB, so I also have it on an external drive. If I were you, I'd buy an addition external drive just for your music ( or a larger one for more disc hungry media files), copy your itunes folder to it, and then redirect itunes to that folder on the new drive. Then you can delete the old folder from your internal drive. </p><p></p><p>Also, if you're smart, you'll buy TWO new external drives, one for your media files, and one for regular backups of your media files. Time machine can only be used for one drive on a system, I think, so I use Chronosync to back up my media files, flash drives, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="riverteeth, post: 1039174, member: 43488"] I think that once you designate an externanal drive as your "time machine" drive, it's really only practical to use that drive and it's backups through the time machine GUI. It's a very smooth system, once your used to it, for restoring individual files and folders, or even your entire system, but it's not really meant to be used like an ordinary external drive where you store data you use (as opposed to backup). My music collection is over 100 GB, so I also have it on an external drive. If I were you, I'd buy an addition external drive just for your music ( or a larger one for more disc hungry media files), copy your itunes folder to it, and then redirect itunes to that folder on the new drive. Then you can delete the old folder from your internal drive. Also, if you're smart, you'll buy TWO new external drives, one for your media files, and one for regular backups of your media files. Time machine can only be used for one drive on a system, I think, so I use Chronosync to back up my media files, flash drives, etc. [/QUOTE]
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