time machine

Hi All, I'm new here but I'm racking my brains and I can't work out what to do. I've been backing up to a NAS drive (WD My Cloud) with time machine. I no longer have access to the location where the NAS drive is located so have logged in and downloaded the backup file "Sam's...

Time Machine makes copy of entire system and all files. But what about Thunderbird app? It allows to save passwords. 1) Will Time Machine make copy of Thunderbird's password file to external hard drive? 2) Is there any security risk if password file is scanned and copied like this? Could it...

Any idea why the hidden file ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" was created in my user Public folder? I'm sure it's harmless, but why would a file associated with an app that backs up sensitive data be in the Public folder of my user account? (I don't use Time Machine at the moment by the way.)

Hi guys, How long should 600 GB of data take to backup on an external hard drive? My Time Machine says 22h, encrypted! Is this normal, or maybe my external hard drive is somehow slow? It's a new Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim 2Tb, USB 3.0. Curious to hear from you. I have a 2012...

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Hey all, first post! A few months ago I bought a 2TB RAID drive to be my new Time Machine home. I tried to transfer my Time Machine backups from my old drive and it kept stalling out. It'd transfer about 3GB then stop copying. I maxed out my RAM and I can get it to 30GB but it stalls out again...

I periodically run into this problem with my new 3TB drive. It's a WD MyBook, reformatted toHFS journaled. Now, I should be able to fix the problem by unmounting and remounting the drive. But I can't unmount the drive. I'd like to be able to get some information as to which programs are still...

My wifes 15" macbook pro i7 retina recently started having some issues due to old OS (10.7.5). Couldnt back up iphone etc.. So I decided to upgrade to Sierra. Unfortunately this left apps unusable and printers incapacitated. Before I updated I made sure the entire computer was backed up to time...

I recently moved a full TM backup from one external to a larger partition on another. It was 1 TB and took 3-4 days to copy. I thought I did everything right, but instead of adding to the backup I had, it did a full backup on top of the 1 TB I already had. Time Machine sees the older backups...

Hi there, So I used time machine (never again after I solve this) and I want to move all of my music from my time machine back ups in to a seperate folder called music. I want to do this as it looks disgusting, untidy and incredibly inconvenient when to locate my digital copies of music, I must...

Is there anybody has the same issue, I need to reset(power off and on) the device for Mac to recognize the backup disk.

I have 1 TM backup for my rMBP that will no longer backup. I still have access to the data and can TM back, but I get error messages when it attempts a backup and then the drive becomes unrecognizable. Power down drive, plug it back in, run disk utility and it's fine. Try a TM backup, same...

I'm in dire need of some help. Is there anyway to get past having to enter my password to access my external hard drive that I have connected to Time Machine? I used it to backup some files last year and the password I use for everything isn't working to unlock the hard drive. Is there a way...

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...

Mac OS 10.7.5 Lion Grab v.1.6.1 Could someone please tell me where Grab stores its auto-save files? In the recent past, I had taken a series of image captures using Grab. I didn't save them but rather closed the application without replying to the "Do you want to save?" dialog boxes...

I've had my new laptop for a couple of weeks now, and I've been using time machine for months on my old 2010 MacBook Pro with no problem. Last week I got this message about time machine needing to create a new backup, and that my old backup would be deleted. This is now the second time it's...

Now with Sierra you can browse though history of the folder in iCloud Drive. I just tested how it works. I had a bunch of screen shots on the Desktop, which is in iCloud Dive, and I moved them to Trash. And on the Desktop I entered Time Machine without connecting to my Time Machine disk. As I...

Alright, I'm buying one of the new MacBooks in the next few months and I'm trying to plan...I apologize for the long post... I currently have an Early 2009 (I know, I know!) iMac and a regular old 2TB external hard drive. A partition on that drive serves as the destination for my automatic Time...

Earlier today I was trying to resolve an issue with the iMac involving the screen going blank when using FaceTime. I called Apple for help and they went through a few things and finally asked me to erase the hard drive and reinstall macOS Sierra from scratch. No problem I thought as I have Time...

For the last month or two I've been running into an issue where my AirPort Time Capsule (latest model) keeps requesting to create a new backup after a week or two. To give some info about the device, it's essentially a brand-new device as I just got it back around September. It's set in wired...