[Leica] OT: Technical Question on Backup External Hard Drives

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> From: Rob McClure <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:29:34 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:  Technical Question on Backup External Hard Drives
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Here's a question for your computer techies out there.  I recently
> acquired a large-capacity Seagate external hard drive and back up my
> entire Mac iBook G4 hard drive every few days.  However, the hard drive
> on the Mac is over half full and is really sluggish when using iPhoto
> (more than 4,000 images).  I'd like to delete the albums on iPhoto and
> keep my entire collection on the Seagate.  I can't figure out how to do
> this as I'm afraid that the external drive will mirror my deletion of
> the internal Mac drive the next time I do a back up.  The,
> instructions which came with the Seagate were totally inadequate in
> this regard.  Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rob McClure
> Upper Sandusky, OH
> 
> 
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