Here’s a great little wiki article in the How To section of Wired.com. It talks about backing up your data as a Mac user. It’s extremely important to back up all your data, but most of us don’t learn this or follow through and actually do it until we’ve learned the hard way. The hardest […]
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NMC Tip: How to format your hard drive so it is Mac compatible… and why
Hi New Media Center patrons, if you plan to work often in the NMC, strongly consider reformatting your hard drives so they are Mac compatible. Drives that are not Mac-formatted may experience issues reading and writing to and from the drive. Note that reformatting the drive erases it, so patrons are advised to back up […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips: External Hard Drive Suddenly Not-Writeable on a Mac?
This is a problem that comes up in the DMS from time to time. Patrons come in and say, “I’ve been using this external hard drive on a mac for a long time and suddenly it won’t work; I can’t put files on it.” My first question is always the same: “Did you use it […]
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