On Jan 17, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Bill Spencer <wspen...@jhu.edu<mailto:wspen...@jhu.edu>> wrote:
Thank you both for this information. Unfortunately I am not in a position to buy another external HD so I will have to manage with what I have. In reading through your comments, I realized that there's no need for the iTunes backup to be in a separate partition (at least, I think this is so); I have no idea why I set things up that way originally. (I continue to refer to "iTunes" even though it's not called that anymore...one cannot usually teach old dogs new tricks.) Here's what I think I'll do, subject to your better advice: 1. Reformat the backup drive to APFS without a partition 2. Set up Time Machine to back up the main HD to the newly-formatted external HD 3. Copy the contents of the current iTunes drive to the newly-formatted backup drive. 4. Reformat the current iTunes drive to the new format 5. Copy the backed-up iTunes material back to the newly-reformatted external iTunes drive 6. Set up Time Machine to back up the external iTunes drive to the newly-formatted external HD Will this approach work? Or, what do I need to change in that proposal? Again, my thanks for your input. Bill To re-aquaint myself with the original problem: you have your iTunes stuff on an external drive by itself, and a backup drive that was used by CCC to back up the iTunes volume and internal HD’s as separate volumes? You never actually specified what was on each external volume. if it’s like this: external Disk 1: iTunes external Disk 2:Partition 1 existing CCC internal backup, partition 2 existing CCC itunes backup 1) reformat backup drive as a single partition. I do not know if the OS lets you format hard drives as APFS, but it will be offered as an option if so. (Remember, drive reformats like this are done at the Physical disk level in Disk Utility the one named Seagate or WD something something, not the Volume level) 2) Set this newly formatted volume as your Time Machine volume and point both the internal HD and external iTunes **folder** to it for backing up. No need to be copying back and forth like you were planning. OTOH if the partition drive is your internal backup and your ‘live’ iTunes volume, I’d reformat the remaining one copy the live iTunes to it and then reformat the whole new backup drive as a single volume and then point the internal HD and the iTunes folder on the (now) external iTunes volume to Time Machine. Time machine isn’t picky about the drive formatting it’s backing up, just the formatting of it’s drive. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/8B74DE04-B16D-48E9-9970-4ED2D8254A4C%40pharmacy.arizona.edu.
