My Mac: Mini, G4, OS 10.4. Me: Inexpert level, non-computer savvy.
Yesterday I finally bought an external hard drive - Western Digital My Book "Essential Edition," USB 2.0, 160GB. It's sort of overkill, arguably: I have a 75GB drive, and I'm only using 7GB of it so far. But I wanted to back up my many word documents (I'm a writer, sometimes), family & friend photos, and my MS Entourage with thousands of emails that I store as a sort of lazy man's diary. And it's room to grow.
I'm not too impressed with the documentation included... when did instruction manuals start to be considered optional? There's just a 7-page PDF showing how to set up. They instruct you to install Memeo LifeAgent, which once it's installed turns out to be a free 30 day trial for something you have to pay for subsequently.
But anyway, I created a Backup Plan in LifeAgent - naively, maybe, I just told it, "Oh, back up the whole hard drive." and started it running last night. It's now 19% done and is telling me it'll take another 24 hours to finish. Uh...
Given my simple needs, can't I just drag and drop stuff I want to back up into the My Book drive? And save myself time, perplexity and the cost of buying LifeAgent. I'm pretty annoyed that so far I can't find anything with the My Book that just explains step by step, "Here's how you use this thing." So how do I use this thing?
Thanks, folks.
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