Okay ... ; is there a way for e.g. Time Machine to back up system files / resources only .
... I mean I have a fully working core system software, that I want to backup, but ...
... I have also downloaded lots of other files / third party software,
which I'd like to exclude from the backup .
Is Time Machine capable of doing this ...
or is there some other software, that could to this ....
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MacBook
When I look at the "About This Mac" -> "More Info..." -> "Storage" it shows my Time Machine and my system Hard Drive.On the system Hard Drive it is showing Backups at 60GB. Where do I find those backup files to remove them? Or what type of files does that include? Is there a tool to delete these files? I have looked at other systems and have not seen any backups by default on the systems so I figure they should be readily accessible to delete.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I've upgraded to mavericks. Everything works fine except Time Machine. I want to continue using my 'old' time machine backup on an external server. When I try to reconnect I get the following message: The disk image "..." is in use Try ejecting the disk image.
I have disconnected and reconnected to the external server. This had no effect. At first glance it seems I am able to access my old backup clicking "Browse other backup disks". But the I don't get my backed up files. It's stuck at today
I recently did a clean install and to my horror i can see that Time Machine does NOT back up all my files.It seems to be worst in my music library which fortunately is pretty easy to rebuild do to itunes index.
But is there any way to make sure that Time Machine does in fact back up all files?
Or is it just broken and should be avoided?
I have 1,5 year old Macbook Pro Retina 15 inches 500 GB SSD
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), January 2013 - 15''
I've been a Mac user for about 2 years now. It's a great OS. I currently have a 2008 (quad-core) Mac Pro that I will be selling to a friend. I've been saving up some money and will be buying an iMac (with money from Mac Pro) and a Gaming PC with my saved money. My Mac Pro currently has three drives in it - a 230GB drive with the OS, Apps, Music, etc; a 500GB drive with Movies, Photos, etc; and another 500GB drive with Windows 7 and games.
I have all my Mac files backed up onto a 1.5TB external drive (of which I have less than 1TB filed). My question is about file transferring. Will I be able to transfer the files from my backup Mac Pro drive to the new iMac? It has a 1TB drive so space isn't a problem. I'm just kinda worried about how the files will be transferred since it was copied from two drives and is going to be copied back onto a single drive.
I inherited an old external hard drive that I would like to use with Time Machine on a computer. However, the drive was used as a backup with Time Machine on another computer that has since been wiped clean and is no longer available. Unfortunately, the external drive still has the old TM backup files from the old computer. I've found that I cannot simply delete the backup files from the external drive.
How can I delete the TM backup files from the external drive? Will erasing via Disk Utility handles this?
I have a MBP, backup to Time Capsule by Time Machine.
I will have a new MBA, I will would like to transfer Photos / Music from MBP to that MBA. MBA will have a different account as MBP has.
I understand it could be as easy as copying whole iPhoto library / Music folder to an external drive or NAS and then copy to MBA. But since I already have everything on Time Capsule, am I able to copy selected files from Time Capsule to MBA directly?
I know Migration Assistant could be able to do that but I also heard Migration Assistant could cause some unexpected issues such as permission conflicts, a new created migration account etc... I cenrtainly don't want to mess up MBA.
So my question, am I able to directly access Time Capsule just like a NAS via Finder from MBA, and drag and drop selected files from MBP's backups? Are MBP's backups visibile to MBA?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
Found some difficulties while migrating from hdd to hdd+ssd system.
Basically i want to copy system files only (using CarbonCopyCloner) to ssd and leave the rest of my data (music, films etc) on hdd.
I started with installing a blank system to my new ssd. Then Im about to copy all folders from my current HDD, excluding some big ones that I want to store on hdd.
So my question is: am I doing it right? Won't any hidden files be missing after this kind of migration?
Time machine back up files will not delete from my iMac trash as i do not have permissions i have owned the computer from new
The files are on my external hardrive. A virus was detected by bit defender in my back up files on an external hard rive that may of came from my old windows computer.
I moved the time machine back ups to the trash but now can not delete them. Ihave tried holding the option key whilst selecting the empty trash but this did not work. It states i do not have permissions for files
Time machine back up files will not delete from my trash
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
So, we have a bunch of computers that we need to install Mavericks on. After the second or third download, we decided to try to be smart and copy the installer to an external hard drive before installing. Now, when trying to install it on some of the remaining computers, it doesn't get very far and then comes up with an error that says something about required system files not being found. I will get the exact wording later when I go back to the lab. The installer already deleted itself from the other computer.
You must understand, downloading a >5GB file on a 25KBPS internet connection is agonizing, and these remaining computers need to get Mavericks on them soon.
how to make finder NOT to show files from a specific folder in "All My Files"? See the attach - I recently installed Civilization 5 from Steam and now I have a lot of unneeded files (*.log and *.ini) shown in All My Files colder in Finder.
I don't want to see them.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
After carrying out a clean install of Mavericks is it possible to reload certain files such as Music files from the Time Machine back-ups previously created?
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Superduper
I bought a used Power Mac G-5 OSX 10.4.11 (machine model Power Mac 9.1) My situation is, that it came without the back up disk. I need them in case of a crash, etc., but for now I need to get the classic OS9 installed onto my computer.Is there a way I can buy another set of system back up CDs?
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I'm having an issue with my Seagate backup plus for mac. It is an external hard drive and when I tried to find a place to post this on Seagate, I could not find one. I've had the same issue in the past, but I'm now wondering if it's my computer causing the issue.
I have OS Mavericks, OS X 10.9.4.
So, I connect the external hard drive and everything seems okay for a few minutes, but then the hard drive is ejected unexpectedly and the message comes up "Disk Not Ejected Properly" and will do this every time I plug it in now. I'm also not able to access any of the files on it - when I click to open the hard drive on my desktop, it freezes up in finder until the disk is ejected improperly once more.
I had an issue last summer with the same hard drive where it was not mounted correctly. After a painfully long time with Seagate customer service, it was determined that I needed to update the firmware on the disk. After doing this, the hard drive worked great until now. Thinking it might be a similar issue, I double checked the firmware update available from Seagate and according to them, my hard drive is up to date. Before I did that, I checked Disk Utility once again and the disk image still appears to be mounted, so I don't believe it's necessarily the same issue.
Below I copied and pasted an excerpt from the log available through disk utility. The last two lines (which I made red) are where the disk becomes ejected from the computer.
2014-08-27 20:40:30 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2014-08-27 20:40:45 -0500: Verifying and repairing partition map for “Seagate Backup+ Mac SL Media”
2014-08-27 20:40:45 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2014-08-27 20:40:45 -0500: Checking prerequisites
[Code] .....
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
How do I restore files that have been converted to unix files?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I'm running OS 10.8.5 Maverick. (On a used Mac)Processor 13 GHz Intel core 2 duomemory is 2 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM this is a 2009 machine I purchased a week agoPrevious to this machine, my experience has been, Powerbook G4-OS 10.5.8
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have Time Machine connected to external Hard Drive. In case of fire, which is the best and free icloud backup.
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Mac
I use TM to backup data from my iMac, and once in a while, I manually delete the backup versions from the backup drive. (I know this is not recommended, but I have done it a couple of times recently). Even after emptying the trash, I notice that these backup folders continue to exist there, and give me messages like 'some unlocked items cannot be removed' and 'operation cant be completed because the item Applications is in use'. While these folders are not occupying any space (20-40 MB), they continue to remain in the trash. Is there a way to remove them permanently?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), 21 in, 8GB RAM, i5Core Intel,
Do I need to backup my itunes library?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My MacBook Air (running Mavericks) was acting up a tad so I ran Disk Utilities. Basically I got told that repairs were needed but that they couldn't be fixed. DU told me to backup what I could and reformat the HD.
What's the best way to do this? Will restoring from a Time Machine back up bring back whatever issue was there to begin with? Same question for a SuperDuper clone. If I copy across the Music, Photos etc folders to an external disk and just copy them back over once the reformat and OSS X install is done will this mess up any of the music or photo libraries or indexing (I know iPhoto and iTunes have their own special waif managing individual photos etc).
I'm not doing any backup of my macbook pro, so why does it show such a substantial amount of space taken with backup?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I have an iMac with OSX 10.0 and a NAS Drobo 5N which has a Time Machine share. It will backup my local machine fine, but how do I get a backup of the NAS folders and exclude the Time Machine folder?
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