New customer here and confused. My Passport for Mac questions

WD External Drives External Drives for Mac
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I bought the 1T just because I wanted to save photo’s and home movies.  I assume when I plugged it in to my Mac it proceeded to copy my whole system since I wasn’t prompted?  also how to I see what is on My Passport? I saved it as my 

Time Machine and when I click on the Icon it gives me the backup file folder and the apps selection.  I click on backup, it has my Mac file filder and clicking that leads to nothing.  Is my system REALLY there…that is the question…or do I have a parasite attached to my computer doing absolutely nothing but sucking power.  :)

I was hoping I could pick and choose what to back up.  If I can’t can anyone recommend a backup system where I can or a different way of doing it.

Thanks!!!

Laura

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Your external hard drive won’t perform any particular action on its own as it is governed by your computer. You can drag and drop / copy and paste files into it from most folders in your system in order to have a secondary copy. You can also link your hard drive to Apple Time Machine:

http://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/

Once a Time Machine backup is completed, you will see an encrypted Time Machine sparsebundle file that can only be (Normally) accessed through Time Machine in case of an emergency.

Regards,