MacBook Pro :: Backing Up Files On PowerBook G4?
Mar 12, 2012Should I get an external hard drive or large capacity flash drive to back up data from my aged Powerbook G4 before it dies?
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PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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MacBook Pro :: Delete Laptop Files After Backing Up?
Feb 5, 2012I am an art student and my computer only has 70 gb of space left and is running pretty slow. Is it possible to delete all my files on my laptop because everything is backed up on my external hard drive?
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MacBook Pro :: Backing Up All Files To An External Hard Drive
Apr 11, 2012I recently converted over to a Macbook Pro from PC and had all of my PC data saved to an external Hard Drive. I can retreive the data fine, but I can't save anything to the Hard Drive. I have plenty of room on my Macbook, but old habits are hard to break and I like to back everything up at least once a week. Â
I do not want to reformat my External Hard drive as there is ALOT of information on there that would be lost. So, how can I copy things over there, or drag them over to the External? When I try, it gives me the circle with the line through it.Â
And if you have time, tell me about Time Machine. I am interested, but it seems like alot of work, because I would have to copy everything off the hard drive, let Time Machine reformat it, and then copy it back. Seems VERY time consuming.Â
External hard drive is 2TB and has approximately 90GB on it.Â
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
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Nov 16, 2008i've been working on an important word document, word quit unexpectedly, document gone. luckily there was a copy of it in the microsoft user data.
but, my first reaction was, oh that's ok time machine would have backed it up. i go into time machine and it's not there. so i save the microsoft user data recovered file to a new file name in a documents folder. quit word. restart. do a time machine backup. it completes. but when i open up time machine, this document (and another one from 5 days ago) are not in ANY of the backups. and if i keep backing up, time machine will backup, but these files are not in any of the dates/times in time machine.
doesn't this defeat the purpose of time machine?
OS X :: Time Machine Not Backing Up Few Of Files
Jun 5, 2009OS X 10.5.6. Time Machine won't back up a few of my files.
They're located at /Files/Truecrypt/
They are 50MB encrypted files created by Truecrypt. Time Machine is not set to exclude them.
OS X :: Backing Up Many Files To Time Capsule
Sep 27, 2009Here's my scenario, every day I change around a couple gigs of space on my MacBook Pro, which is tethered to my ACD in my room normally. Whenever I want to change it, I have to bring it downstairs, plug it in via ethernet and back it up if I want it to take less than six hours. What's the best solution to make it take less time, via a wired connection I guess? My room is directly above the router (on a different floor, though). I doubt drilling through the ceiling is too easy, though. We do have this like 100-foot ethernet cord, though.
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Mar 22, 2012I recently started using Carbon Copy Cloner after using only Time Machine as my back up solution. I do understand the purpose of each application TM and a cloner utility such as Super Duper or CCC but I was wondering what the best process is when using these two methods to backup you files. For instance I use TM to back up my files as frequently as possible to keep all my recent changes updated.
I don't see how I would keep my clone updated and make sure that when something happens I will have a workable boot disk and not something that contains corrupted files. In other words I think these cloner utilities have some sort of feature to keep your clone drive updated every time something changes. This got me wondering what if you update your clone drive and for some reason one of the updated file was corrupted.
Now you have a backup that contains bad files and may affect your system (corrupted fonts files etc.) and when you realized that something is not working right in your system you may want to recover from your clone but you will basically end up with the same problem because the bad files were also backed up. How do you ensure that your clone will always be ready and that it will not contain bad files?
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MacBook, MacMini and iPhone, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
OS X :: Time Machine Not Backing Up Recent Files
Sep 18, 2009I received my new 24" iMac a few days ago, and have spent the last few days setting it up and getting acquainted with the new features.
I purchased a MyBook Studio 1TB drive to use with Time Machine, as it sounded like a good way to keep everything backed up.
Everything seemed to be working well, until I started flicking through some of my folders in TM. I noticed that the files I had added an hour or so earlier hadn't backed up. I had just recently set an exclusion on a single folder, so decided to try removing it. TM then backed a few GB of files up.
I decided to add some test files to a folder, and run TM again. Again, it didn't back the new files up.
Applications :: Time Machine Compressing / Not Backing Up Files
Mar 30, 2009I'm using Time Machine (for the first time) to back up my system (Mac Pro w/750Gb internal drive and a firewire 750Gb external backup). However, when looking at the contents of my external backup drive after Time Machine has finished, I notice there is sizeable difference between the amount of data on my internal and external drives. To confuse matters more, I repeated the backup 3 separate times on the same internal volume (357Gb worth of data) and each time Time Machine yielded a different size backup; ranging from 343Gb to 350Gb. Each time I have "erased" the external drive using Disk Utility prior to running Time Machine.
After digging around I found at least some of the difference lies within the Movies_IDVD Projects folder. I have only a few projects but it appears that Time Machine randomly chose a few of the larger ones to compress? Either that or it did not back them up all the way. These files were roughly 2-4Gb in size on my internal and only 200kb on the backup drive. Are there other files that Time Machine is either compressing or not backing up? Should I use Time Machine at all or should I copy the files I want backed up by dragging them to the external? I would like to be able to restore my system to its current state one day if/when my internal drive craps out (including all of my apps, etc.).
IMac (Intel) :: Backing Up All But System Files To Time Capsule
Dec 3, 2014I have a 2013 iMac on OS 10.9.5 with no problems. I will be receiving a new iMac w Retina Display on Yosemite, which I'll be backing up with a new, unused TC.
I want to copy and transfer files from older iMac to the new one using the TC, but right now I don't want upgrade to Yosemite on the older iMac.Â
Can I manually select files from the older iMac to copy to the TC, and what files must I leave out so that there aren't any problems that transferring files from an older OS to a newer one won't arise?
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iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 3TB TC
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Has Simply Stopped Backing Up Any New Files?
Apr 28, 2012I have a Macbook with OS X 10.6.8 and a 500GB external hard drive, which still has 208.5GB available. For some reason, Time Machine has simply stopped backing up any new files (documents, music, movies--anything). No items are set to be excluded from backups in Time Machine options except for the external hard drive itself. Also, no error messages appear, Time Machine seems to run just fine, but when I enter Time Machine, or look through the files on the hard drive, new files just aren't there. I am not very tech savvy, so I was not able to understand some of the answers people gave to similar questions on here. I did go to Pondini's website and followed as many troubleshooting instructions as I could understand (for example I did manage to do a full reset of Time Machine) but nothing changed. Do I just need to erase the entire backup drive and sart all over? If so, what will prevent this from happening again later on?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Hardware :: Service To Get Files Off Old PowerBook?
Mar 20, 2010Is there a 3rd party service that can help me get files off my PowerBook Macintosh Laptop that I bought in 1997? It doesn't have things that would make this easy, like wireless or USB. I would happily pay someone to figure this out for me, otherwise the laptop will sit in the closet forever and I will ultimately loose all my data on the computer.
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Nov 15, 2006I am leaving for a week long trip and many parts of it will not be able to run the computer off of the powercord, which is a problem because I get about 40mins of wordprocessing use out of it when I run the battery alone. Can someone explain what the significance of these levels are for my Powerbook G4 15'' (Alm) 1.25GHz, namely the cycle count and full charge/remaining capacity?
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Jun 3, 2009I have a macbook pro with TONS of software, and i want to back all of it up. I also have an airport extreme base station that i use as my router. Now, can someone give me a step by step tutorial on HOW i back up my mac to the station? I am literally CLUELESS on how to do it... ive beeen seing tons of tutorials online... but the seem to miss something, and thats where i get confused.
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Aug 11, 2009I have an iMac and a uMBP and I'm kind of getting nervous about HDD failure so can you buy one external hard dive and use it for 2 computers. or is it like 1 external hard drive for each computer?
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May 29, 2012My iPhone and 6 year old iMac are syncing but not my Macbook. Contacts, calander, ect. What's up with that?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook Pro :: How Much Space Need For Backing Up Data
Sep 16, 2010I am deciding between a 500GB or 1TB HDD for external storage. I own a mbp15 with 4GB of memory. I'm using the laptop for simple internet, email, WORD, Excel, Powerpoint, Keynote, etc.
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Would all my iTunes purchases still exist as they do now?
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MacBook Pro
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May 29, 2012I cannot seem to get my contacts which are syncing fine between Iphone 4 and iCloud to also sync to my MacBook.
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MacBook Pro :: Time Machine Not Backing Up?
Jun 4, 2012i am having trouble backing up my data to the time machine. the log says the data cant be mounted.
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MacBook Pro :: IPhoto Not Backing Up All Pictures
Jun 25, 2012So once again my mac has crashed after being backed up by Time Machine. After restoring the system I have lost pictures from iPhoto. This isn't the first time I have had this problem and I usually have two back up copies of the pictures, however I have managed to lose some pictures that I need :-(Â
If I go onto Time Machine the iPhoto Events are black with black photos. fantastic MacBook Pro15-inch, Mid 2010Processor 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MBSoftware Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
