Using the files on the new WD external drive

WD External and Portable SSD External SSD for macOS
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It was my hope that I could move my images to the hard drive and use them from there, opening up space on my Mac. I don’t see that scenario in the manual, though it seems it should work. I do have them backed up on my Time Machine on another drive, too.

The manual talks mostly about copying files to the new drive and how to retrieve them.

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Can you give me more details on this issue.

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http://clc.its.psu.edu/UnivServices/itadmins/mac/blastimageconfig/createasrmasterimage10.7 is this what you pertaining to?

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What I would like to do is partition the drive, using half for overflow Time Machine backups. The other half, I would like to move all of my photo images to the drive, deleting them from my Mac. I would like to access them from the WD drive and save them to that drive.

Is that possible?

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You just need to partition it in 2. 1 for time machine and the other for pictures. Partitioning a drive is data destructive.

search disk utility on spotlight.

under disk utility click the wd drive/partition

change current to 2 partition

click option make sure if your processor is intel change it to guid if not apt

format would be mac os extended journaled

name anyname w=you want then hit apply and partition

then select the disk in time machine, choose the first partition

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Sounds easy and just what I want. Thanks. I’ll try it today.  L