EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FULL? What next (1 Viewer)

I have an iMac with 1tb memory. My external drive is WD 1tb my book essentials. My primary worries are my photos. The WD is showing full. I am ok with this! However what to do next is the problem? Do I just go out and get another external drive and attach this as well, therefore effectively haveing two external drives? or should I now disconnect the external drive and leave in storage? And attach the new drive? Also how will the iMac know which is which please help.

Kind regards mike


Sorted thankyou

I would imagine it is the same as windows? Just attach another hard drive and your machine will do the rest. I have four hard drives plugged into my PC through USB ports and the PC just gives each drive a letter. I hope that is what you were asking. A good idea though is to back up each drive and store it away in case your drive becomes faulty. I have done this with my most important files.

John In Ireland said:

I would imagine it is the same as windows? Just attach another hard drive and your machine will do the rest. I have four hard drives plugged into my PC through USB ports and the PC just gives each drive a letter. I hope that is what you were asking. A good idea though is to back up each drive and store it away in case your drive becomes faulty. I have done this with my most important files.

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Thankyou, John yes this is what I was asking, kind regards
Mike.

what about seeing if there is anything you could delete to free up space.

As PC user, I regularly run a cleaning program, it usually finds 100 - 150mb of temporary and other files which serve no purpose and may be safely deleted, something similar has been written for MAC try searching "cleanup app for mac" online