Using 12GB-ish of 74.5GB..Sparse should be around 12GB-ish too??

[carpediemi24]

Just adding to my previous post above.

I have a 500GB Maxtor OneTouch4 2.00 USB (no firewire).
However, it has on it 100GB's of important work files I don't want to erase or move over again then back with USB (I hear it can easily corrupt files).

Then I was going to copy the sparse image over the the Maxtor.
Until I buy a dedicated back up HD in about a month from now.

I know there is the option of coping "different files" over to Maxtor but heard it would create a mess of folders or such.

I would like to use Maxtor as-is if possible without messing up any files already on there.

Thanks!