How do I move stuff to an external drive?
I am trying to migrate to a new Mac and some of my stuff won't fit. How do I send the extra to an external drive?
Apple Intelligence is now available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac!
📢 Newsroom Update
Apple unveils the new iMac with M4, supercharged by Apple Intelligence and available in fresh colors. Learn more >
Apple unveils the new iMac with M4, supercharged by Apple Intelligence and available in fresh colors. Learn more >
I am trying to migrate to a new Mac and some of my stuff won't fit. How do I send the extra to an external drive?
ENter in Time Machine as described here (via menu - if not visible, enable it into Sys Prefs). You'll have a view like the screenshot I'm attaching. You can then navigate to the files you want to move and move them to other disks on the left sidebar.
https://support.apple.com/it-it/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac
ENter in Time Machine as described here (via menu - if not visible, enable it into Sys Prefs). You'll have a view like the screenshot I'm attaching. You can then navigate to the files you want to move and move them to other disks on the left sidebar.
https://support.apple.com/it-it/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac
Control (right) - click on the files in Time Machine and select "Restore XXXX to…". Then pick the external HD as the destination. This screenshot shows how saving a Photos library to another location:
Eau Rouge has been clear: unfortunately there is no other way. Get the less useful files and park them to an external HD or whatever until you can get your stuff on the next HD. But be careful: don't fill up that. Keep 40/50 Gbyte of free space fro better overall performance and no problems if need to upgrade Mac OS. Although and upgrade can be up to 12 GB, 35/45 are needed for the installation.
Drag and drop them to the external drive.
Since the files are in a time-machine back-up, it isn't clear how to drag and drop.
Well you never said that in the first place.
Manually browse the Time Machine drive
locate the files you want to put on the external drive and drag and drop them.
How do I move stuff to an external drive?