Thank you for posting this great video. Please can you answer this question? Both my external hard drives are greyed out in backup exclusion. Both are formatted correctly since I use both of them already on my MacBook Pro. How can I take them out of the greyed out stated and exclude them?
Hi there ! Thanks for such a great and simple to follow video. I've been looking at drive cloning software and got confused ! Your how to video looks really straightforward to use on my MacBook Pro so huge thanks again ! Best Regards - Eddie.
Thank you. This makes me confident there is a way to back up an external hard drive using Time Machine. However when I go to "exclude drives from backups" my external drive is grayed out and I cannot delete it. My external file storage drive is 4T with 2.6T used for files. Could it be too large for Time Machine. This is extremely important to me (because of the importance of my backed-up files) and I would be extremely grateful if you could help me. By the way, an Apple Help desk senior adviser told me this week that you CANNOT BACKUP UP AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE USING TIME MACHINE. I'm hoping he's wrong.
@@alexkatz3619 I did find a fix although I don’t quite remember it as this point. It may have had something to do with how the drive was formatted? I think there’s a format that is compatible with both Mac and PC, and one that’s just for Mac. I think formatting the hard drive for Mac made it come up. I could be wrong but that may give you something to work off of.
You should re-phrase your intro titel to : ........... How To 1 : Backup an external Drive ...OR...... Your mac's internal Drive...... for You have now....... "AND".... although your video shows an "OR" drive.... not an "AND drive" ,.......as in backing up external and internal at the same time... this is all very missguiding
I wish you spoke this was so confusing
watch this video instead th-cam.com/video/0l4vJvtzvbU/w-d-xo.html
This is spot on. I wish all instruction clips were as clear as this one. Love the music too!
Perfect. Thanks for moving your cursor slowly! So I can absorb it all. The music is OK- we can always mute that if needed.
Thank you for posting this great video. Please can you answer this question? Both my external hard drives are greyed out in backup exclusion. Both are formatted correctly since I use both of them already on my MacBook Pro. How can I take them out of the greyed out stated and exclude them?
I got the same error. Did somebody figure it out yet?
You need to format them to APFS.. then it will work
absolutely helpful and solve the exact problem i'm having!! Huge thanks
thank you exactly what I’ve been looking for 🙏🏽
song goes kinda hard lol
Hi there ! Thanks for such a great and simple to follow video. I've been looking at drive cloning software and got confused ! Your how to video looks really straightforward to use on my MacBook Pro so huge thanks again ! Best Regards - Eddie.
Thank you. This makes me confident there is a way to back up an external hard drive using Time Machine. However when I go to "exclude drives from backups" my external drive is grayed out and I cannot delete it. My external file storage drive is 4T with 2.6T used for files. Could it be too large for Time Machine. This is extremely important to me (because of the importance of my backed-up files) and I would be extremely grateful if you could help me. By the way, an Apple Help desk senior adviser told me this week that you CANNOT BACKUP UP AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE USING TIME MACHINE. I'm hoping he's wrong.
I get the same thing. I can't exclude my 2nd external hd
wow :(
Im struggling with this exact same thing as well
Ditto...
I can’t minus (exclude) my hard drive that I need to back up
You need to format it to APFS
Its a good video with the bad music muted.
Thanks. Your video helps me a lot.
It won't let me exclude my other hard drive :(
same
I have the same issue. The external drive I want to back up has 2.6T of data on it. How much data are you trying to back up from you external drive?
Also same. Any luck with this?
@@alexkatz3619 Nope :(
@@alexkatz3619 I did find a fix although I don’t quite remember it as this point. It may have had something to do with how the drive was formatted? I think there’s a format that is compatible with both Mac and PC, and one that’s just for Mac. I think formatting the hard drive for Mac made it come up. I could be wrong but that may give you something to work off of.
Thank you very much! Extremely helpful 👌
I guess its not working anymore
This video is excellent!!!
Thank you.
Use your voice!
Wasting my time looking at ur channel
You should re-phrase your intro titel to : ........... How To 1 : Backup an external Drive ...OR...... Your mac's internal Drive...... for You have now....... "AND".... although your video shows an "OR" drive.... not an "AND drive" ,.......as in backing up external and internal at the same time... this is all very missguiding