[iluvmypowerbook]

I have a 40 gig external hard drive which I have formatted as FAT32 because I need to be able to swap files, images, etc between my Mac and various peecees.

However I want to also maintain a backup of my Library Folder from my User Name folder on the external hard drive as well.

I discovered that if I try to just copy this folder to the external hard drive it seems to crash half way through (aka beach ball = freeze).

So I read via Mac Help that if I create a Disk Image of the User Name/Library folder using Disk Utility (on the tool bar go Images > New > Image From Folder then in the window dialog box select Save As = Library, Where = Desktop, Image Format = compressed, Encryption = none) I can then drag this dmg file onto my FAT32 formatted external hard drive and keep it as my backup.

Is this correct?

Thanks

[anamexis]

Soungs good. This way, everything will be preserved exaclt as it should be (In HFS+), including things like file permissions, which are important in Library folders.