I had a recent customer request help for their Lacie five terabyte external hard drive. They needed assistance using this device on their Apple Macintosh computer. Here is their initial request quoted verbatim:
Just bought a Lacie 5 terabyte backup since my last Seagate is now full. I have an iMac and have 2 USB C and A. What next and how do I download this drive to my computer?
This individual was using an Apple Macintosh computer with Apple Macintosh High Sierra version ten dot thirteen dot four 10.13.4 operating system. They had not yet plugged in this external hard drive device. They also asked which universal serial bus connection to use.
By the time I responded to their request, they had already connected their Lacie five terabyte external hard drive with universal serial bus type a connection. Generally, universal serial bus type C is faster and newer. However, it depends on what type of universal serial bus connection your Lacie external hard drive device supports.
Here is my initial response to their request. You can hook it up to the universal serial bus type C connection. Also, you will need to format that external hard drive before you use it on your Apple iMac computer.
Here are the instructions to format that Lacie external hard drive. You will want to use the “Finder” tool. Then you can select “Go”.
Now you will want to choose “Utilities”. Then you can select “Disk Utility”. In Disk Utility, you will want to select the external hard drive you want to format.
You will need to make certain that you select the correct external hard drive if you have multiple ones connected and to make sure you do not select your hard drive that the Apple operating system is installed on. You do not want to accidentally format your hard drive that has the Apple Macintosh operating system installed on. You can click on the “Erase” tab from the top menu.
Now under the “Volume Format” drop down menu, you will want to choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. You can type in the name for your Lacie external hard drive. Finally, you can click on the “Erase…” button down below.
Your Lacie five terabyte external hard drive is now ready to use on your Apple Macintosh operating system based computer. These instructions were written for an Apple Macintosh computer with High Sierra version ten dot thirteen dot 4 10.13.4 operating system installed. However, they can be used as basis points for other Apple Macintosh operating systems.
Finally, I will give you a bonus tip. This individual wanted me to also reconfigure their new Lacie five terabyte external hard drive with Apple's Time Machine backup and recovery software. Time Machine is the default backups software that comes with Apple Macintosh operating systems.
Their existing Seagate external hard drive was one terabyte in size. However, when I checked on how much free space for this device was available, it appeared as being full. It is quite easy to change the device that Time Machine backs data up to.
First, you will want to open up the Apple Time Machine software. I would change your destination disk while Time Machine is backing up data. It might not even allow you to make this change, but I would not even attempt it.
Once Apple Time Machine software program is no longer active backing up data, then you can go ahead and change the destination location. You can either open Time Machine from the top menu bar above or browse to “System Preferences” from the Apple menu. You can look for the Apple icon in the top menu.
Once in the Time Machine software you can look for “Select Backup Disk…” and click on it. You will be given a list of hard drives available. In this real world example choose the external hard drive.
You can click on “Use Disk”. Since this will be the first time that you are backing up to a different external hard drive, then depending on how much data you have chosen, it can take quite a few hours for this data to get backed up. Apple Time Machine computer software program will tell you when a backup completed successfully or not.
You can use these instructions for any external device supported by Apple Macintosh operating systems.
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How to Setup Lacie External Hard Drive on Apple Macintosh Video Transcript
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this is Aaron with anetcomputers.com with
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another video for you today another
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quagar not really it's just a
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hardware installation how to set up Lacy
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external hard drive on Apple
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Macintosh so I had a client and here is
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their request once upon a time I just
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bought a lacy 5 tbyte backup since my
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last Cate is now full I have an iMac
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computer and have two Universal cereus
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type c and a ports what next and how do
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I download this drive to my
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computer what they mean is that that
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they have a lacy external hard
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drive they were using Apple Macintosh
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operating system with Apple Macintosh
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High Sierra version
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10.13.4 they had not yet plugged that
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Hardware device external hard drive to
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their computer yet they also wanted to
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know which Universal seral bus type port
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to plug that external hard drive into
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and
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then they had already started working
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when I did
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respond all right
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now some tips here it depends on the
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external hard drive you will want to
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find out the
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specifications what Universal serial bus
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Port type is compatible with that hard
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drive is it type c or type A if it's
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compatible with type
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c and it doesn't have a connector or any
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way to connect it to type a there's no
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guarantees and I'm not talking about
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adapters yes you could you could study
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that further on your own and see if an
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adapter cable would work but there's no
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guarantees you might want to just stick
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with what the actual Lacy external hard
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drive comes with the the physical type
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is it the type a universal z bus port or
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is a type c type c well again it depends
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on type
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c it really depends on the version
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number let's not digress away to that
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that's a whole another video discussion
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okay generally type c is is it is newer
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but sometimes it's faster it just
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depends on cuz you have Universal bus
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3.2 which is what 5 gbits per second and
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some Universal serob bus type c is 5
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gabs for okay let's digress away from
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that kind of
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discussion
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okay I told them that they could hook it
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up to their Universal serbus type-c
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connection then so once you connect it
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to your
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computer on Apple Macintosh properly
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you know what I'm saying then you're
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going to have to format it you cannot
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use it out of the box person the Laci I
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don't think you can now may they may not
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all be manufactured that way but in this
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instance in this real world example you
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have to format that external hard drive
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so on Apple Macintosh operating system
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here's how you format it you might want
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to pay attention to this part of this
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video first you want to use the finder
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tool
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then you want to select go then you're
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going to choose utilities now once
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you're in utilities then you're going to
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want to select Disk Utility then in Disk
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Utility you will want to select your
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external hard drive your Lacy external
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hard drive that you want to format now
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caveat mtor you don't want to make the
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mistake of choosing the wrong hard drive
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and that includes the embedded hard
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drive drive that has the operating
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system installed so just pay attention
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and make sure you choose the exact
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external hard drive that you want to
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format because it can quote unquote
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accidentally format your operating
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system hard drive you reboot it bam
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there's nothing on
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it then you got a real Quagmire on your
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hands you know what I'm saying and your
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wife if you're a married man she will
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not be happy with you not that she has
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ever been happy happy with you but I
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mean oh my bad that's a whole another
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different Niche on on WE censor YouTube
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okay now back to this
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video already went over these then you
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want to click on erase you're going to
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erase that hard drive all
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right from the top
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menu it's on well it could have changed
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but according to these instructions the
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top menu tab just look for erase click
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on it select it choose it then under the
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volume format it's a drop- down menu you
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want to choose Macintosh OS extended
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journaled Mac OS extended
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journaled choose that one then you can
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type in a label it can be anything you
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want maybe make it something logical you
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know what I'm saying
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div divorce data divorce proceedings
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data that you know then you'll know oh
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there there it is I forgot where my my
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divorce proceedings are because my
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wife's just you know file divorce papers
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and and I need about 100 terabytes I
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mean I digress back
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okay then one more step then you can
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click on erase
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and then it's it's done you're
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ready it is ready to use on Apple
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Macintosh operating system okay that is
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how to set up Lacy external hard drive
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on Apple Macintosh now here's some
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overtime that I may throw in yeah why
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not let's go over it this is a bonus tip
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this may be a gold bonus tip this may be
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a Fool's Gold bonus tip but I'm going to
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give you a bonus Tip since I feel so
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philanthropic
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today now remember this was Apple
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Macintosh
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only
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specific specific instructions right and
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it was Apple Macintosh
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version
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10.13.4 okay now here is the bonus
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tip this individual had a further
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procedure that they wanted me to
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accomplish they wanted me to configure
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and use their newly formatted Lacy
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external hard drive with Apple Time
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Machine if you're not aware Apple Time
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Machine is the
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Apple default it comes with the
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operating system you don't have to pay
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for it it's a backup and recovery
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software program is what it is it's it's
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actually pretty good you know what I'm
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saying
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so they wanted me to configure their
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Apple Time Machine software to use their
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Lacy external hard drive that I just you
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know formatted for them and I remotely
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conect connected into their computer I
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did everything for them you know what
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I'm saying and I'm almost at the 8
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Minute Mark but I'm already into
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overtime and let us just reset it so
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then it doesn't you know make
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noises okay now this is what you will
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need to do in order to configure it with
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time
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machine now I ran into a little bit of a
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problem here their existing Cate
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external hard drive that was 1 tbyte in
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size okay now when I tried to check how
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much free space was available it
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appeared as it being full now this is
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where where you need to be careful you
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want to change the device that time
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machine backs up too but caveat mtor I
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never give out advice I never guarante
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anything and I never recommend anything
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you know what I'm
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saying you are responsible for your data
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not me and you're not going to blame me
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for not following instructions or using
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logic all right if your Apple Time
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Machine backups are running right now
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don't don't even try to change the
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source or excuse me the
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destination okay you want to open up the
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Apple Time Machine software then you
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would change your destination dis while
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time machine is backing up
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data it I would not try that you don't
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want to try
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that I would not don't do it just if
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it's using your previous external hard
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drive or a different one wait until the
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backups are completed you know what I'm
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saying then change it it it may not even
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allow you to make that change but don't
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even try if it allows you all right now
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yes so once the Apple Time Machine
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backups are completed with a different
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hard driver the previous hard driver the
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one that's failing or the one that's
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full whatever add nauseum add infinitum
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Etc then go ahead and choose your Lacy
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or Cho you know what I'm saying choose
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the new one you can either open up time
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machine from the top menu bar or then
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browse to system preferences I think
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actually that should be the dock I think
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I could be wrong but I think you can
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open up time machine from the dock which
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is actually at the bottom you know that
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the word dock it's a big long bar that
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looks like a dock and then the the
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software programs dock themselves there
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their icons are docked and then they get
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released and they float away you know
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what I mean yeah hence the word dock you
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can also find it at the Apple menu which
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is at the top just look for the Apple
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icon in the top menu
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above or the doc below As Above So Below
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say those lunatic secret society member
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Freemasons anyways oops we we censor
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YouTube may not like me talking about
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such subject so I better digress back to
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this technical support video you know
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what I'm
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saying then in Time Machine you're going
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to want to look for select backup discs
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and and then click on it you will be
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given a list of hard drives if you have
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multiple hard drives they may all be
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listed if you only have the Lacy you
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should only see one right you want to
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choose the external hard drive that you
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want the time machine backups to use now
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very important it will over it will I
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think it will right over that data if
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even if it's formatted even if there's
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already data on it so make sure you
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choose the correct one if you have
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multiple hard diss then you can click on
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use dis
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now since this is the first time that
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you using your new Lacy external hard
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drive on Apple
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Macintosh if you have a lot of data it
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can take a lot of time it can take a few
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hours I don't know about days but it
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could take a few hours you know what I
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mean because it's it get it it's going
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to be a I think it'll be a full backup
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then it may not be incremental you know
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what I'm saying so it could take a while
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or I'm I'm not sure if time machine
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maybe does it automatically detect if
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the if you've been using that hard drive
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already I think I think it's incremental
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I think you can kick off manual but if
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it but if the hard drive has no data on
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it I think it may actually automatically
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just perform a full backup you know what
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I'm saying which can take a
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well okay now these instructions were
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written specifically succinctly for
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Apple Macintosh operating system 10.13.4
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which is High Sierra however I'm not
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sure how much you know you could try it
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on other Apple Macintosh operating
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systems you
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know you know what I'm saying the
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the locations might not be exactly the
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same or they may be close enough similar
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to Microsoft Windows you know what I'm
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saying all right that's enough how to
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set up your Lacy external hard drive on
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Apple
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Macintosh adios