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Q: I just backed-up with an external hard drive for the first time but my user profile with my folders for pictures, documents, and movies are not there

Hello,

 

So I finally got an external hard drive. I formatted for Mac (the device was verified as being ok), and then it started to do a backup, which said a full backup would take 95GB. However, it only backed up 19GB.  When I 'opened' my backup drive, I saw that only the "Macintosh HD" was backed up, not my User Profile with all my folders containing documents, pictures, movies, etc...

 

I'm quite confused, because I thought it would backup everything.  I am planning on upgrading from Snow Leopard to El Capitan, but if something goes wrong or I don't like it, I'm afraid I won't be able to Restore all my personal folders - but just the applications located on my Macintosh HD.

 

Should I delete everything in my backup drive and try again?

 

This is an image of what is inside my external hard drive:

 

Screen shot 2016-09-22 at 8.48.00 AM.png

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Serial# W8******X85

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 6:11 AM

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