backup

Hello, having learned to appreciate the Acronis bootable USB sticks in the Windows world, I've been looking for something similar for the Mac. I'd like to have a bootable "rescue" USB stick containing a compatible and working version of Carbon Copy Cloner to restore a CCC backup (dmg) to the...

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...

Hi, I tried Clonezilla and other free backups on Windows to backUp Windows Boot Camp for almost two days (I wish I had US$49 at the moment to buy Winclone 10, this'd solve it in hours X-D ), it keeps failing to backup onto a new SSD (image or clone). I'm guessing any non-macOS based cloner or...

is there a way to back up the whole hard drive of a g3? i have a dying 20gb drive with os 9 and os x on it along with a lot of files that i need to keep safe such as records and music i dont want to lose. the drive is dying and makes a lot of noise that it shouldnt. how can i copy everything off...

Hello! How you manage/archive your old emails? I have email archive starting 2008 -> and Mail folder size is over 22 Gb Example my 2008 emails are in /Users/<username>/Library/Mail/V4/3BB7B2B5-4123-4BD0-8D85-101E92801E73/MobileMe 2008.mbox Other archive files are in...

My WeChat app with chat backups is almost 200GB. is there a way to move these files from my internal storage device on my 2018 MBP 15" running i7 to my external storage device ? Local internal storage device out of space. What I would like to do is move as much of the files stored on local...

I bought the new MacBook Pro this week. Today I connected my iPhone to this new MacBook to backup it. The option “Encrypt local backup was already selected” so I clicked “Back Up Now” and was expecting it will ask me to set the backup password, but it didn’t. It just started the backup. So what...

Hello, I got just one question: I was having troubles with notifications so I decided to restore my backup throught iTunes where I remembered it worked. Well I restored one month old backup and found out the notifications for YouTube and Netflix still don't work so I decided to go back to my...

Hello this is concerning iCloud backup. What's the difference between Photos enabled vs. Photos Library enabled. Isn't all the photos and videos already in Photos app? What happens if I disable Photos but enable Photos Library or what happens if I disable both? Thank you, have a blessed weekend.

So due to the music sync issue to the Apple Watch I want to remove all the music from the watch, a normal backup/restore restores the music (which I don’t want ;-} Music is not showing in the Apple Watch > Music. Thread about this; https://bit.ly/3Gua5zr

Hello Apple friends. Could anyone recommend a totally free good back up or better yet a totally free, good cloner for Windows Boot Camp (Windows 11), so I can fresh install macOS (Windows Boot Camp is currently on the save hardisk as macOS but on a different partition) on a new SSD and the...

I'm in the process of setting up a new Mac without Migration Assistant. I've been looking for a method to locate the email addresses I've added to Apple Mail's Blocked Senders list so I can back them up and then restore on the new Mac.🤞 Unfortunately, the luxurious feature to export or copy...

An Apple guy suggested I look through the .itl iTunes library files to get the list of all artists, albums, playlists, smart playlists, folders, and songs that I had before my Apple Music collection disappeared after updating to Monterey. He told me the reason could be that I didn't pay for...

My understanding is that it's no longer possible to restore the full OS and data using TimeMachine after a macOS upgrade, if you decide to downgrade. So for example if you are on Monterey and upgrade to Ventura, and then for some reason you decide to reinstall Monterey, you are not able anymore...

I use iCloud to sync my photos and videos across devices as well as serve as a short-term backup. I don’t want to use iCloud as a long-term backup, however. I like to keep my iCloud library small as I’ve found that Photos runs much more efficiently than hosting my entire vast library. So, I...

Update: June 16 2023 - This configuration continues to work well. Currently running macOS 13.4 (Ventura) for a Photo Library that ~1.5TB space used with ~151,000 Photos and ~5500 videos. Risk: Not having a COMPLETE backup of all full original resolution photos and videos that the Photos...

Hey, I want to move my WhatsApp chat from normal WhatsApp to WhatsApp Business. I have 77Gb of Whatsapp data ( I use it for business and other purposes for over 10 years and I send/receive a lot of videos and photos). I am in Dubai right now, my internet speed is 470Mb down/230Mb up. My iPhone...

Hi to all, I just got a more recent MacBook Pro than my current Late 2013 and in the transitory time in which I'll still have both but using only the newer one, I would like to keep the most recent part of the Time Machine history of the older one which went way back, occupying some 1TB of data...

I know if I delete a photo on my iPhone it also deletes it from the cloud. When I get the new iPhone 14 pro and turn it on and tell it to go from a backup from the iCloud on my old phone does it also copy every single photo from the last iPhone to the new iPhone or does it just have them in the...

I bought a Toshiba External Drive yesterday for my Macbook Pro. I connected it and it started to backup everything to this new time machine. However, the mounted drive shows a spinning icon next to it on the finder window. Is it supposed to be spinning continuously, or is it just for the...