Good Morning,
Could someone please tell me how i back up onto an ext drive 26Gb of photos from my iphoto database? I've never considered it up until now. I do regular time machine back ups onto an ext drive but i don't think that will include all my photos, please correct me if i'm wrong..
Basically i wan to to rebuild my macbook pro and upgrade it to 10.8.2 from 10.6.8.
Thanks In Advance.
Umberto
iPhoto '08, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
There are several ways of doing that. Others will suggest different methods but mine is to use an application called SyncTwoFolders (it's even free!):
http://synctwofolders.en.softonic.com/mac
and regularly make an updated copy of the entire Pictures Folder to two different external hard drives each having separate partitions for plain old storage - I have even more photos than you!
BTW I don't use time machine. I regularly clone my entire hard drive to other partitions on those two 2TB external hard drives using SuperDuper.
As for upgrading to Mountain Lion:
To use iCloud you have to upgrade at least to Lion, but some functions are only available in Mountain Lion:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4759
You can also purchase the code to use to download Lion (Lion requires an Intel-based Mac with a Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7 or Xeon processor and 2GB of RAM, running the latest version of Snow Leopard), or you can purchase Mountain Lion from the App Store - if you can run that:
Hi Klaus1,
So when i do a Time Machine back up does that copy the entire database inc my photos or does it just back up the application?
Sorry, no idea - as I said, I don't use Time Machine! 🙂
Read Pondini's TM articles first; http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
TM copies what you set it up to copy in TM preferences. By default that would be Applications and user data as well as system components.
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