Hi all,
A couple of questions about time machine. I brought a 500Gb LaCie HDD and plugged it in. Time machine asked if I wanted it to be used as the backup drive. I brought it for that so I said yes.
I was surprised at the fact that it only backed up 37Gb of stuff. I thought that it made a clone of the entire HDD, which is currently at 110Gb. If so why did it not back up all 110Gb?
I have since gone into the Time machine feature and it is only displaying the current desktop. Not that anything has changed since it's first backup 12 hours ago I just expected to have an impressive display of screens going back. Will I only see these screens if I actually make a change?
Also if I double click on the LaCie drive icon on the desktop then I cannot actually see any files. I just get a blank drive even thought the get info command says that there is 37Gb used. What is going on?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheese
A couple of questions about time machine. I brought a 500Gb LaCie HDD and plugged it in. Time machine asked if I wanted it to be used as the backup drive. I brought it for that so I said yes.
I was surprised at the fact that it only backed up 37Gb of stuff. I thought that it made a clone of the entire HDD, which is currently at 110Gb. If so why did it not back up all 110Gb?
I have since gone into the Time machine feature and it is only displaying the current desktop. Not that anything has changed since it's first backup 12 hours ago I just expected to have an impressive display of screens going back. Will I only see these screens if I actually make a change?
Also if I double click on the LaCie drive icon on the desktop then I cannot actually see any files. I just get a blank drive even thought the get info command says that there is 37Gb used. What is going on?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheese