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time mashine back up..
I turned my external hard drive into a Time machine backup.. And know i want turn it into a normal hard drive, but i cant i just cant understand how it works? I have macosx 10.5.4.. My hard drive doesnt work know properly it always says say its in use. i cant even eject it.. I dont want it to be a time machine back up drive i want to be a normal hard drive.. Any help. thanks
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In system preferences turn off time machine. Then use disk utility to reformat the drive.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Turn off Time Machine in Preferences.
You shouldn’t have to reformat if you don’t want to loose your back up.
I keep mine running and at the same time I will copy some large project files temporarily. Time Machine doesn’t seem to mind.Alan Stephens
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You shouldn’t have to reformat the drive. Go to System Preferences > Time Machine and click the ‘On/Off’ swith in the bottom left corner to stop Time Machine backing up to that drive. You may also want to assign a different drive for Time Machine to back up to. You can then take your ‘Backups’ folder and move it anywhere you want for later use.
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