Today in Defective By Design's 35 Days Against DRM campaign, the story of a loyal Prince fan who got kicked in the teeth by the DRM on the music Prince sold from his website: "Mike McCarty sends in his horror story of being a Prince fan, as a reminder of some of the tricks that have been pulled on music fans in this DRM age. Mike says, 'Luckily I only purchased one of MANY DRM-laden album from Prince's now defunct New Power Generation website, Xpectation. It came in the DRM-encumbered Windows Media format, but this was before I was ever aware of the horrors of DRM. Ironically, I EXPECTED the files to work pretty much forever, maybe not forever but at least a few good years. However, I guess the joke was on me as I misplaced the files on an external hard-drive a year or so ago and recently located them only to find out there's absolutely nothing I can do with them.'" 35 Days Against DRM -- Day 7: Prince: Friends without benefits. (Thanks, Peter!) Previously: Defective By Design's Xmas DRM boycott -- 35 days and 35 products ......br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=deb5de8d3d910c5a0d9a4739d096a1d0p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=deb5de8d3d910c5a0d9a4739d096a1d0p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=deb5de8d3d910c5a0d9a4739d096a1d0" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

I have recently bought a 24" iMac and am going to be opening it at christmas. I am looking into time machine.

My questions with time machine are as follows:

1. What can I bck up to, I have thought of a External Hard Drive and also a Hard Drive enclsure with a hard drive in it.

2. Is it possible to back up to a hard drive on a different comuter (WINDOWS computer)

3. On Apples Time Machine it says any HFS+ formated hard drive. What is HFS+ formated and how do i tell if a hard drive is HFS+ formated.?

4. What would be an ideal hrd drive for me? My new mac (first mac) has a 500GB hard drive in it.

Thanks and Best Regards

:apple: Rocks!!!

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hey everyone

Im going to purchase a Macbook Pro to add to a basic pro tools/mbox set up. Im looking for a external harddrive to store my session files. What rpm is required and does anyone have any suggestions of models/brands? Im guessing the best connection would be firewire 800?

Also would it be a good idea to store sample libraries for NI etc on the external hard drive as well?

Cheers guys

Richie

h4Qamp;A/h4 pstrongQamp;A/strong I have a Seagate 750GB external hard drive. All the data on it isn't secure. How do I ensure that, if I lose the drive and somebody 'finds' it, they can't access my files?.../p

Hi guys, I just bought a external hard drive and would like to know how to partition the drive so I can use it on both my Windows and Mac.

i just wondering if it is possible to dual boot from an external hard drive. if it is possible that would be great. :)

Hey all,

So I just purchased an external hard drive. So far so good on the setup. I was able to successfully transfer all of my music, movies, and photos over to the drive.

Changing the iTunes library files and everything was easy and I found all the info on the Apple website. The computer and all programs that use iTunes database seem to be working fine.

The issue comes in with iPhoto and the Movies folder. When I moved the photo folder over, I opened iPhoto and it asked me to locate the library. I pointed it to the external, and its all working fine. Outside applications, however (such as Connect360) seem to still look in the default photo folder for stuff, same with Movies. What I did to fix, was create a alias in the home folder to photos and movies and that seems to point that in the right direction, but another issue is with Firefox. When I goto, for example, attach a file in an email, when I click "pictures" or "movies" in the bar it doesn't work at all.

My question is; I know on Windows XP I used a program called Tweak UI to point the default music/video/photos folder over to my other hard drive. How can I make the system wide change on my Mac, or is how I setup going to work fine?

Thanks for reading.

EDIT: Firefox seems to be working with it now. Hmm...still, if anybody has a surefire way to make a system wide change like this id appreciate it.