Backup Software For Mac External Hard Drive

The Backup Plus Desktop external drive is one of the first on the market that offers up to 5TB of storage space. This is the top capacity for a single drive and is an excellent drive for those. Connect your external hard drive to Mac and let Mac recognize it. Launch the software, click the first Backup tab > Click + button at the left corner of the left pane to create a backup project - name the backup project and click OK.

How to use an external drive without any special softwareMany, even most, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung external drives are sold with bundled backup and management software. However, in some cases it is not possible to use such software. A few examples are: • A user has lost or uninstalled their software and needs a temporary (or permanent) means of using the external drive to backup data. • A user's bundled backup software is malfunctioning for a period of time. • A user prefers to backup data manually.

• The drive did not include any bundled backup software. • The user is using the drive for additional storage and has an alternate method of backing up.

• Older external drive’s bundled software may not be supported in Windows 8, Windows 7 or Vista or a newer version of the MacOS. Every model of Seagate, Maxtor-brand, and Samsung external drive has a ready-to-use formatting already in place. In Windows, there is no need to do anything special or additional to make the drive work. Simply plug in the power, plug in the USB/Firewire/eSATA cable, and the drive should appear in (My) Computer and Windows Explorer almost immediately.

Once it is detected, all you have to do is move data into it. Vpn for mac in china. There are 2 general ways to do this: • • (Windows 8 has an additional option called File History. See for details.) Here is how to perform those actions on a Windows computer: Drag and drop Here we will discuss dragging a piece of data from the (My) Documents folder to the external drive. This exercise can be repeated with one file, many files, one folder, or many folders. • First, open one window by double-clicking on (My) Computer. • If the upper right-hand corner of the window that opens includes this symbol ( ), click it.

It will change to this symbol:. • Now you can resize it. Move your mouse to a corner of the window. • Click and hold down the mouse button, on the corner of the window. • Move the mouse, still holding down the button, and the window corner will move with your mouse. Resize it so that it only takes up a portion of your screen. • Look for the Seagate, Maxtor, or Samsung external drive in (My) Computer.

It will be a drive letter, like E: or F: (unless you have changed it). Open (My) Documents by double-clicking on it. • Resize the window in the same way, so that each window takes up only a portion of the screen. • Now you will have two windows. One is the source, one is the destination. (Click to expand the image.) • Click and hold down the mouse button, on the document you want to move. It will illuminate and a 'ghost' image will move with your mouse button.

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• Drag the mouse so that the 'ghost' image hovers over the icon representing the external drive (in this example, the V: drive). (Click to expand the image.) • Let go of the mouse button and the file will copy automatically to the external drive. • Double-click on the external drive’s letter. Double-clicking sometimes causes Autoplay on our newer drives. Right-click on the external drive letter and choose Explore. • The contents of the external drive will display on the window. (Click to expand the image.) • The task is complete!