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I finally went through a host of old hard drives and collected all my data onto one device. My 16' MBP is the first MBP that I've owned that can store everything I have on one device (about 500GB). 70 GB of Applications. 116 GB of Parallel VMs. 65 GB of iCloud Drive storage. 150 GB of iCloud...

I’m considering upgrading my MacBook Pro using Open Core Legacy Patcher so that I can use a MacOS newer than Catalina. I have a BootCamp partition that’s causing some concerns. I’ve previously used Winclone for backup and restoring, and it’s worked very well. However, I’ve contacted them, and...

If I transfer photos taken and edited with my iPhone to a folder on an external hard drive, are the edits baked into the images, or do I need the Photos app to view the edits? Thinking about backing my photos up outside of the Photos app, but I want to back up the original, non-edited versions.

When backing up many gigs of files, the backup gets interrupted by the finder asking for a password. How do I locate that file that causes that problem?

Hi, My iPhone Files app showing 2.77 Gb of data in 'iPhone storage' section, but I have only some word documents & pdf(just 80 Mb for sure) saved to 'On My iPhone' section of Files app. So anyone please tell me what could be this remaining almost 2Gb of data which I'm not aware of also which I...

Hi, i'm in trouble! My imac takes forever to boot. I started holding cmnd + r and use disk utility to run first aids but it can't solve the issue. Now i need to back up all my files and later restore to 0 my hard drive, this is what i undestand so far. (Sorry for my bad english) does anybody...

Hi, Need some advise on doing a back up as I’m looking on reformatting my Mac mini. I have done back ups in the past but never really had to test it out in a real scenario of restoring them & hope I never have to. What it is mainly that’s concerning me is doing the back ups of my photos &...

So I had no space to back up my phone havnt done it in ages , but just bought the 200gb storage on iCloud and still carnt back up phone, any advice why it says there is plenty of room on iCloud , I have restarted phone as well. Thanks again

Please forgive my ignorance but I don't know a lot when it comes to iCloud. I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone SE. I don't use iCloud and prefer to store photos, music and documents on my Mac. I don't use iMessage and I do my own back ups. Therefore, is there any point in staying signed in...

Hi there, I have a large capacity SATA drive for my ageing iMac and am looking to acquire a MacBook Pro with a smaller SSD drive - probably 512gb - running in tandem with an external 1gb SSD 1gb. My big items size wise are my Photos and iTunes libraries which i would want to site on the...

Hi there, So I recently bought a Samsung T5 SSD external drive for my ageing iMac. My machine struggles to cope with my large photo and music libraries and the plan was to relocate them to the drive and run them from there. So i copied over my 320gb Photos library but then realised I hadn't...

Hello all, I hope that this is the correct section to post this thread. I am looking for a solution for the following situation. Mainly I am looking for a two way sync solution for my i Mac and an external SSD. Let's say I work on the file A on my Mac. Then I copy the file A to the external...

Every time I erased my macmini, reinstalled and after restoring from my time capsule, the macmini will backup the total 360G again on time capsule. So now the macmini backup on time capsule already more than 700G and this time it is starting over backing up 360G. How to solve this? Thanks!

I have recently moved my iTunes Media folder to an external hard drive because of space constraints on my main internal SSD where my OS X is. This external drive will sit permanently on my desk by my iMac. I want to back up both to a second external drive (back up drive) rather than just backing...

Now there's an app alternative and addition to the usual Mac backups. Google has finally finished Backup for Mac. Tell it what folders you want backed up and the app will upload them to your Google Drive (or Photos for pictures). This is a nice addition to all the other cloud choices we have to...

Hello! I'm looking to give eBook reading another go after finding my old First-Gen iPad in storage. After finishing a book I constantly am referring back to my highlighted sections and annotations for ideas, business, etc. Seeing that the First-Gen iPad doesn't sync with iBooks over the...

Hi, I have an iMac 27" with 1Tb HDD, and one WD 1Tb external USB drive using about 600gb, I need to back up those 600gb that are on the external drive, today I purchased another WD 1Tb external USD drive to use for backing up those files only, but looking on the internet it looks that TM doesn't...

Has any one tried using an SSD for time machine? If so, is it worth it? I had installed a 1TD SSD (Crucial MX300) in my old mid-2009 Macbook Pro and I'm thinking of pulling this out, putting it in an enclosure (USB-C Type 3.1...

Hi to all. I will try to explain the best way what is happening to Me. 1.- I own an Iphone 4s Factory Unlocked Since i upgraded to a new phone i left the Iphone 4 in a drawer. Now im trying out a new GSM Carrier that uses an App to set up the data plan that meets my necesities, the problem is...

Hey guys! I run my time machine once a month to back up my data. And I have Google Photos Backup in the cloud. At the end of each year I also export my iPhoto (yes, I have an old Mac)into external hard drive. However I noticed that once I transfer my iPhoto library onto the external hard drive...