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Jan 6, 2016 10:46 PM in response to hsinnby Terence Devlin,however, it seems that a hard drive is quite different from a usb
I'm not sure what that means, but I think the answer is 'Yes' to your question.
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Jan 7, 2016 6:06 PM in response to hsinnby clodo9,1- that hard drive must be formatted correctly ( Mac OS journaled ), otherwise the answer is "no"
2- you write " so i put all my photos into a hard drive to save space on my mac " ; that means that if that EHD goes kaput, you lose your pics...In fact, you now have NO BACKUP of your pics.
Please read
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives
right here on this apple site, at :
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6031
it'll give you a very solid base on backups.
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Jan 7, 2016 6:07 PM in response to hsinnby clodo9,1- that hard drive must be formatted correctly ( Mac OS journaled ), otherwise the answer is "no"
2- you write " so i put all my photos into a hard drive to save space on my mac " ; that means that if that EHD goes kaput, you lose your pics...In fact, you now have NO BACKUP of your pics.
Please read
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives
right here on this apple site, at :
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6031
it'll give you a very solid base on backups.