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Will Time Machine Erase All Files On My Portable Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1236297" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>If your drive is already HFS+ extended Time Machine will not erase the files that are already there. If it is formatted as something else (say FAT 32) then it will need to be re-formatted and that would lead to lose of data.</p><p></p><p>One of the downsides to this arrangement is that as your music files take up more space on the drive there is less space for backups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1236297, member: 131855"] If your drive is already HFS+ extended Time Machine will not erase the files that are already there. If it is formatted as something else (say FAT 32) then it will need to be re-formatted and that would lead to lose of data. One of the downsides to this arrangement is that as your music files take up more space on the drive there is less space for backups. [/QUOTE]
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