time machine

Hey everyone, Im looking at getting a new drive/drives for internal time machine in my Mac Pro 2010. Ill probably be backing up a few large files (100gb+) so was thinking to maybe RAID 0 them. Trying to decide between the WD Black because its 7200rpm or the Seagate SSHD but I'm not sure if Time...

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...

I'm running a late 2012 iMac running 10.9.5 with a similar aged Time capsule connected via ethernet. Been set up like this since I bought it. On Sunday I get an error message saying my back up failed. Error code 999. So I looked and saw that it was just one or two back ups that had failed but...

Hello, I've researched and looked at other forums here but no one's situation seems to be like mine regarding backing up Time Machine to my external drive. I have plenty of backups I've done in the past on this drive with no problem. The drive has plenty of space and is partitioned. It...

5 years ago, I bought a MacBook Pro and installed Microsoft Office 2011 on to it from a disc that cost about £100 I think. This week, I'm getting the new MacBook because my Pro is old and slow now. I was wondering how I get Microsoft Office on my new MacBook. Would Time Machine do it? Or can I...

I would love to hear experiences with this setup.

As this is my first post, please forgive me if i'm doing this all wrong. I am using a mid 2010 Mac Book Pro running Yosemite 10.10.5 and LR5. I have a 3rd Generation time machine 2GB (the upright one) and have a specific question regarding all the above. When i am storing my LR catalogs on my...

Had a SMART alert show up yesterday that one of my drives has hit its limit for reallocated sectors, so its time to replace the hardware before it fails. New drives should arrive via FedEx today; I'll do a clone and swap. Now here's the question: how dumb/smart is Time Machine? What I want...

Dear Mac experts. I have a problem that I can't solve. Please help. 1. My setup: iMac 27" 4GHz quad. core i7 (two weeks old) + OS El Capitan + LaCie 6Tbyte external HD. 2. My problem: Two weeks ago I got my new IMac. Used migration assistant to move all files from my MBP to the new iMac...

iMac 5k, 10.11.3, Time Machine Off, TimeMachineEditor I have a USB HDD dedicated only for my backups, nothing else. TimeMachineEditor has been set to: Interval, back up once per day, do not back up between 11pm and 8am. Time Machine is set to OFF (I assume the TimeMachineEditor does that). For...

Dear all, I have one 480GB SSD and 1T HDD in my Mac Mini. Previously, the SSD was for booting the Mac Mini, and the 1T HDD was named as "media" and used for storage of photos and mp3. All those files were backup by Time Machine. Recently, I fresh install the Mac OS X El Capitan. The New OS...

Hi, Im thinking about changing the hard drive for my early 2011 MBP from a 320GB HDD to an SSD. My question is... can I simply get an SSD, replace it with the old HDD and use Time Machine to reinstall the OS? Or do I need to use the OS installation DVD and then can use time machine only after I...

I want to backup my computer to my NAS (Synology). The hard drive isn't partitioned, but I did create a separate user account for Time Machine so it does not use up all my space. If I chose to encrypt backups - will Time Machine encrypt the whole drive (which I use for other things) or just...

Recently purchased a 4th Gen Time Machine 3TB (A1409) but cannot complete a first backup over WiFi Macbook 12-inch Retina (210GB of data to be backed up) Sky Router (UK) Have tried the following but with no success; Standard backup over WiFi - Left overnight and managed 22GB, meaning...

Hi to all, like many others, I learned the hard way iOS 9.2 isn't compatible with iTunes 11.4 on Snow Leopard. First a quick background: I bought a used iPhone 5c from a friend who never upgraded it past iOS 8.3. He was just fed up with Apple screwing the updates, and asked for an official...

Hi there, I've recently had my 15" MacBook Pro stolen, it had a 750gb HHD (not full) and I had a full time machine back up. I'm looking to buy a replacement Mac and Install everything back from the time Machine back up but I'm not sure if my backup is bigger or smaller than 512gb (retina Mac)...

So today I dropped my external hard drive containing my backups and it's not turning on anymore. This got me thinking, carrying around my backups with me is kind of stupid (I travel quite a lot), so I had an idea: I've got a 2006 iMac at home, as well as a version of 10.6 Server which should run...

Hi I have setup time machine on a mac mini using the server app. I have set it up for all users. When I go to a client machine and set that up to see the time machine server all works fine for the setup. It asks for the username and password and all works fine. However when it tries to do a...

Hello all, Quick question, is there a way to make my time machine drive that is connected to my iMac thru USB show up on the network and on my MacBook for use with TM? It already has the backups waiting to be used and works when connected, but I want to be able to do so wirelessly so I do not...

Help! My Macbook Pro was restored to factory settings at the Apple Store as it had a few problems. This was fine because i had backed up all my data using an external hard drive with time machine. However I plug in my external hard drive to put all of my files back on my laptop, but the...