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Hi,
I recently bought a MacBook Pro 13" when I was on holiday in the states. It is my 1st ever mac and I love it so far. Its is only the base model so it has a 160GB HD. I am not going to replace it with a bigger one anytime soon so I was going to purchase a portable extrenal HD to put all my digital media on so I didn't fill up the internal HD.
Now I really want to back up my whole laptop using Time Machine so that if I ever do replace the Hard Drive then I can just restore it straight from that. My question is.... If I bought a 500gb external hard drive and used it as the Time Machine Drive... Could I still use it to hold all my music/movies aswell? Or does it have to only contain Time Machine files?
Apologies if this is a silly question or it has been asked before but like I said it is my first experience of Mac OSX and its taking a lot of getting used to.
Thanks,
Craig
I recently bought a MacBook Pro 13" when I was on holiday in the states. It is my 1st ever mac and I love it so far. Its is only the base model so it has a 160GB HD. I am not going to replace it with a bigger one anytime soon so I was going to purchase a portable extrenal HD to put all my digital media on so I didn't fill up the internal HD.
Now I really want to back up my whole laptop using Time Machine so that if I ever do replace the Hard Drive then I can just restore it straight from that. My question is.... If I bought a 500gb external hard drive and used it as the Time Machine Drive... Could I still use it to hold all my music/movies aswell? Or does it have to only contain Time Machine files?
Apologies if this is a silly question or it has been asked before but like I said it is my first experience of Mac OSX and its taking a lot of getting used to.
Thanks,
Craig