All, Sorry. I forgot to say that I am using the Panther program on my iMac. (It's version 10.3.6.) Mike
On Nov 24, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Mike Watkins wrote: > Jerry, Anne, and others; > > I've almost got my backup stuff loaded onto my new LaCie HD. It's > taking me awhile to get the concept down... I've never tried to back > up things before. This is another whole new world. About the time I > think I've done it, I discover I'm wrong! I did get my pictures, > documents, etc. done tonight. Now I'm trying to figure out how to back > up iTunes... that doesn't work for me. > > When I try to drag my iTunes folder to my LaCie, I am told (on a > little drop-down screen) that I have a firewall up preventing me from > sharing my music. I don't want to share it with another computer; I > just want to back it up to avoid possibly losing it. > Can someone help me by explaining, in beginner's language, how to do > this? Is it possible? > > Jerry helped me with the general idea and confirmed my hook-up is > fine; Anne told me tonight that she was pretty sure I hadn't done it > right... she was correct. I had decided to just feed it my whole Mac > HD at once to make it easy. All I really had stored was a Mac HD > alias. So I came home tonight and fed it some individual folders... > which is what Jerry had suggested in the first place. (I put in the > lazy shortcut on my own.) > > So, now ... how about iTunes? Hope you-all can help. Thanks. And Happy > Thanksgiving to you all. > > Mike > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
