I need to back up my 160GB Mackintosh HD on my imac OSX 10.6.3 (Snow Leopard) using disk utility. After a short period of the imaging process I get a message saying 'file too big'. What can I do to resolve the problem? My external drive is 1TB with 500GB available.
I've tried using Time Machine but this seems to want to wipe my external disk.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
A drive formatted as FAT32 can't contain files which are 4GB or larger regardless of how much space is available on the drive.
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A drive formatted as FAT32 can't contain files which are 4GB or larger regardless of how much space is available on the drive.
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Thanks Niel. I now see that Time Machine tells me I need to reformat my external drive. If I do this will it wipe what I have on that external drive?
Yes.
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One final question (hopefully) can I partition my external drive to preserve existing files? Thanks.
You may or may not be able to use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to shrink the single partition and create a new one in the free space.
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Backup file too big using Disk Utility
