Partition, Use One External Drive for Time Machine and File Storage

In this video, you will see how to use one portable drive(SSD, HDD) for both Time Machine backups, and for your own personal file storage. Instead of arranging Time Machine your entire drive no matter how much unused space you have on it, but this is a way around that.

[FabledCity]

Thank you so much for making this video, you helped save a video making trip outside my country where I only brought one HD and the entire thing was formatted to Time Machine and there was no way to manually drag and drop files onto it. Very grateful!!!

[mastermindnomad]

Simple clear and to the point. Just show the mac new drive and continue. Thanks bro. Yalın basit tam doğru konuda doğru anlatım. Sağol birader.

[ekembasooh]

Thank you! Sandisk didn't know or was able to provide this info after an hour of talking to them. And it took apple 3 hours to go through everything else to finally let me know what to do but not how to do it.

[AgileLounge]

Finally someone that goes straigh to the point! Exactly the tuto I was expecting! Thank you so much

[krzemian]

I think in the new MacBooks you can go for APFS for SSD then create multiple volumes within a single container, with dynamically located space. That's what I'm just testing.

Bear in mind APFS has no pre-2016 compatibility

[christinechandler]

This is a Life saver!! I would be on the phone with Apple support for 3 hours prob!

[InnocentsAbroad]

Bloody brilliant! thank you for making this! BigSur is rather different where TC is concerned.

[darrenlee]

one of simplest guide to follow, thank you!

[svetlinjelqzkov]

Excatly what I was searching for! Thanks!

[QuincyThomasCleverCUE]

Well done. Thank you for explaining this so well.

[bilalazhar]

If I format the external hard drive while some data is on it will the that data get erased or not

[stevestoecker]

When I first heard your voice I thought you were the terminator, you sound like arnold Schwarzenegger.

[ALZA]

Hello I deleted the partition and lost all my data I’m shocked, is there any way to restore

[mrkinla]

Hi. I needs to set up Time Machine on an external drive that already has data on it but is formatted as exFat. Is this tutorial for a blank drive? Is it possible to partition a drive that already has data but is formattted as exFAT? Some people may not realize that "formatting" also means erasing. Are we erasing/formatting only a "part" of this drive.

[georgesmith]

Thank you, thumbs-up. The only question remaining is, can you erase only a portion of the drive and create a new partition there or not? Sometimes you already have something on a disk and you want to keep it, while taking a portion of the free space and creating a new partition for Time Machine to use.

[yusransykes]

can I also create 1 partition for bootable installer? so there is consist a backup and the installer it self

[Gary_Reid_Backing_Tracks]

I would have liked to see you take the extra steps to setup "Time Machine" instead of skipping through it by hitting "decide later." Oh well, at least the Partitioning instructions were clear...

[jarlstaehrrodtnes]

you kinda sound like arnold (take that as a compliment)