[muglo] Re: muglo Digest V9 #230

Just to wrap up: I have 2 Macs running and both backup drives quit  
around the same time(so I thought). Turns out the enclosures were  
defective, not the drives themselves. Two new enclosures @ $19.99 and  
all is well. By the way, LaCie enclosures don't work better or last  
any longer than el-cheapos. Shopping tip: If you're looking for a new  
hard drive, it is probably cheaper to buy one in an USB enclosure,  
remove it and throw out the enclosure. This same logic showed up at  
Home Depot where a 6 foot length of ABS pipe is $3.88 and a 3 foot  
length is $3.89.
The seemingly constant backup spinner has been relegated to once-daily  
backups via 'Time Machine Editor'. By designating temporary movie  
files not to be backed up, I have reclaimed 100 Gb of drive space,  
thus allowing many more backups to be stored. By the way, you can  
erase a whole day's backup file, but not a folder within it. If you do  
drag a backup file out of the drive by mistake, it can't be put back -  
be careful.

My apologies for writing a blog, but it's been a slow month in MUGLO- 
land.
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>> Hi - my original problem - which led to the purchase of a new backup
>> drive - was that the old one ran out of room - time machine wasn't
>> overwriting as it backed up - I also couldn't find a way to erase
>> the old drive! I'm hoping that I won't run into this problem
>> again .... but as a precaution, I downloaded the time machine editor.
>>
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Wayne Dobson
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