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How to Automatically Back Up Your USB Flash Drive in OS X
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Amir writes:
“OS X.5 came with a cool new feature called Timemachine which automatically backs-up your internal Mac harddrive. People like me live off their flash drive, and losing it would mean disaster, and you can never remember to manually back it up. When I learned that Time Machine didn’t backup external drive I was disappointed. Enter “Do Something When.” A program that will execute a script, or application anytime we mount a new drive. Check the link below to get DSW”
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Fred Douglas
December 20th, 2007
at 3:06pm
too many hoops!
Robert Marshall
July 10th, 2008
at 3:01pm
Keep it simple — use Apple’s Disk Utility to erase and format the flashdrive to Mac OS Extended format. It writes a hiddenfile on the stick, .com.apple.timemachine.supported, that allows Time Machine to back it up. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just that
flash memory is formatted for PC, not Mac.