A storage device attached to a computer, but not enclosed within the computer's casing
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Enabling Time Machine for a USB HDD with NTFS
When I've plugged in my USB HDD (WD Passort Elite) for the first time, the system had asked me whether I want to use this HDD as time machine drive. I've chosen smth like 'decide later' and continued ...
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Automatically launch a program or action when an external drive or disk is connected
I have an external drive. Is it possible to launch a program or perform an action when I connect it or plug it in?
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How do I disable this message: “the disk was not ejected properly”?
Is there any way to disable the "the disk was not ejected properly" message?
I use a KVM and need to switch between two systems and have a memory stick that is in the KVM. The problem is that it's ...
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How can I use my iPod touch as an external disk?
I have a 2nd generation iPod touch (8GB), but I don't know how to make it work as an external disk. I think I saw a checkbox somewhere but I can't find it anymore.
I've searched the Web, but the way ...
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iTunes videos on a different harddrive?
since the TED HD podcast and iTunesU my iTunes library is getting bigger and bigger and thus free space on my MacBook HD smaller and smaller. I'm getting an iPad2 soon and would like to sync my TV ...
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How can I skip the Trash when deleting a file?
I frequently connect different external USB hard drives and flash drives to my computer and I would like to facilitate deleting files and regaining disk space from them.
If I simply delete the file, ...
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How can I create a new Recovery Partition on EXTERNAL disk?
I want to enable encryption on an external FireWire disk. The disk has been formatted a while ago (2+ years), and when choosing "encrypt volume" from the Finder context menu, Mountain Lion refuses ...
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Disable File System Cache for USB Devices? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable “the disk was not ejected properly” message
When I have a USB Device like a SD Card, USB Drive or external hard drive, I always need to unmount it, ...
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Can Time Machine volumes be easily encrypted with FileVault 2?
Now that File Vault 2 can encrypt the entire disk and encrypt external drives, can I have a fully encrypted Time Machine volume?
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Why does OS X now think I have two partitions on my external USB drive (plus random connection issue)?
I have an external USB drive that I have plugged into a USB hub, which gets unplugged from my computer about once a day. Most of the time I remember to unmount the drive before disconnecting so that ...
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External hard drive seems to block applications randomly
Since updating to OSX Lion on my late 2009 iMac, I have noticed some strange behaviour while using my computer. Every hour or so (I'm not actually sure about this pattern), the application that I am ...
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Boot MacBook Pro into non OSX operating system from external harddisk
I have a MacBook Pro and an external HDD with Ubuntu, I can use this HDD to boot other machines into Ubuntu but no amount of pressing option would make my MacBook Pro think that the drive is bootable.
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How to run Applescript on Disk mount
I want to run an Applescript when I mount a specific disk. It isn't if the script is located on the disk or not, it should just run when OS X mounts the disk.
I tried to accomplish this with folder ...
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External HD doesn't mount when USB plugged in (Lion)
I have an external USB hard drive I use for backing up my MacBook (running the latest Lion). FWIW, it's a Western Digital internal 3.5" SATA drive in an Antec HD enclosure. Anyway, of course every ...
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Can I keep my iTunes library on an external drive?
My main computer is a MacBook Pro that's running out of space, mostly due to my iTunes library, especially the TV shows.
I have a few questions all related to solving this problem.
First the most ...
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What are the advantages of Time Capsule over Airport Extreme with an external hard drive?
I would like for someone to outline the differences between buying a time capsule vs. just getting an airport extreme and attaching an external harddrive. The latter seems more flexible (easy to ...
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Setting up iPhoto library on external HDD
Is there any way to set iPhoto library on external HDD instead of main HDD. I have a lot of photos and am running out of space on my MBP.
I was thinking to achieve it by symlinks or something. It ...
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How to access USB External Drive on iMac from Macbook Pro?
I have an iMac with an external USB 1TB harddrive, running Mountain Lion. Under File Sharing I have added this external drive to my list of "Shared Folders".
I have a MacBook Pro also running ...
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What's the fastest way to get data off Time Capsule and onto an external drive?
I plugged an external drive into Time Capsule using the USB input on the back.
Then I used Finder to move data from the Time Capsule's drive to the USB drive.
Finder says it'll take over 24 hours to ...
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When is the GUID partition table (GPT) preferred over Apple partition map (APM) for external drives?
I have seagate external portable hard-drive 1 TB, and I will be using with following Mac's.
13" White MacBook (Intel Core 2 Duo) running Snow Leopard
13" MacBook Air (Intel Core i5) running Lion
iMac ...
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Installing & running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from an external hard drive onto my Snow Leopard Macbook Pro?
I am currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on my late 2010 Macbook Pro. I am perfectly fine with running Snow Leopard at present, but I feel I may be missing out on features or indeed updates ...
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External drive format to be writeable on both Mac and Windows
What file-format an external drive has to be for it to be writeable on both Macs and Windows machines?
I have a 750GB external drive originally formatted in NTFS for Windows, but it's not writeable ...
