I just got a new MacBook Pro and I can't figure out how to set up backups. There are no obvious buttons to configure backups. I clicked everything possible and all I can do is buy more storage. I tried making sure share settings weren't the problem. Â
I am a very experience computer user and I'm frustrated I can't figure this out. I'm sure it's something easy I'm missing.
I just realized looking at my iPhone that most of my notes have disappeared or were duplicated a number of times. So I checked my email on my Mac where I could usually find my notes and they are missing there too. Does iCloud include archives of back ups where I can recover the notes? If so, how do I recover them?
My Time Machine has been making the usual regular backups for a few months onto my Time Capsule. I just found that all the backups prior to about a week ago have vanished. It's not a disaster (I think) as I assume that the current backups reflect what's on my iMac (I haven't had to delete files from it yet).
Where did they go? Why did they go?
A possible connection: My TC is 500GB; my iMac 1TB. I recently put extra files for temporary use onto the iMac hard drive - Time Machine said (in effect) 'that's too much, try removing certain folders from the backup'. I excluded said folder and things seemed okay, but it would be at around the time I did that that my old backups have gone.
Just wondering if anyone has had a similar problem with the Time Machine. I bought a 500gb Time Capsule last July and it has been running perfectly until a few days agp. I noticed that all my backups were no where to be seen (when entering Time Machine on my MBP) and that it was doing a full backup.. The backup took the guts of 36 hours.
I've come home today to find that all backups are gone again and it is doing another full backup!!!Any ideas what is wrong here?
So I got a great deal on a G4 powermac 733 mhz dig audio a few years back and it has served me well, but i bought it with one known flaw: after you start up, eventually It locks up and you get the screen that says you need to restart your computer. After I restart, I have never had it freeze, so I simply restart everytime and it works great. I have done a clean install of osx but that didn't solve the problem. Wierd a? I'd love to get it fixed if i could.
I am a new user and I just got my first mac tonight (air) and I have a question. How do you figure out what the wireless connection speed is for the wireless network you are on? For example if i join a wireless network how can i figure out if it a g or n or b connection and the speed of the link?
I have a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo mac mini running Mac OS 10.5.7 and would like to download MySQL 5.1. The problem is I need to pick one of two downloads based on my computer:
Option 1: Mac OS X 10.5(x86) Option 2: Mac OS X 10.5(x86_64)
How do I figure out which one I need for my computer? I've gone to "About This Mac" in the apple menu but there are no 86's or 64's listed and I don't know what these numbers are referring to in particular.
Is there an event log or something? I leave it on all the time, good airflow around it and it's on a ups. It didn't crash for the first year but now it's almost daily. I use this one for the house itunes server so it's extra frustrating. Any ideas on what to look for? I've made no mods at all, even the RAM was from apple (when I bought it).
I have a Macbook that I was carrying in my backpack in one of those neoprene cases along with my water bottle (silly, I know...but it hasn't ever spilled prior to now!). I walked around for about 5-10 minutes at which point I noticed the bottom of my backpack was wet. I immediately opened it up and found that there was water on the bottom 2 inches of my case. I pulled my computer out and there was sort of a sheen of water on the front and back 2 inches on the side with all the ports. I then wiped it off. The screen came on when I opened it (it had not been off) but I turned it off and now I have it leaning so that if there is any water in the ports it will drain out.
I seem to have an AppleScript that is hanging, and I can't figure out how to quit it. I tried the force quit, but it doesn't appear in the list of applications. It was activated when I was compressing a pdf using the print command yesterday. I let it go overnight, but the Applescript icon is still spinning in the uppertoolbar (near my battery indicator etc). If I move my mouse over it I just get a spinning beach ball.Thanks all!
I'v read that the 17" has 133 ppi, and the 15" high res has 128 ppi, but how is that figured out? I'd like to do the math for the 24" Apple Cinema Display.
I'm trying to load a game but I get this window that says "Can't open application installer Because PowerPC applications are no longer supported" what do I do?
I am writing my thesis in Pages 08. I need to have a TOC for all my headlines and I am using the TOC function for that. The problem is that I also want a figure list that updates automatically, TOC style. I can't find ant function for a figure list so I tried to give the figure text a different paragraph style then the regular headlines and then simply add a second TOC showing only that style. Unfortunately that did not work either since Pages only seem to allow one TOC per document.
I just got logic express 8 and i'm using it with axiom 25, i'm trying to figure out when making drum beats, is there away that i can see my drum kit sounds and use my mouse to punch in where i want the notes, cause i'm not too good at using the 25 and trying to hit cymbals
I just took the 2.5 inch hard drive out of my macbook and I would like to put it into my LACIE D2 external hard drive enclosure. The enclosure originaly held a 3.5 inch drive that went bad so I took it out and now I cannot figure out how to connect the 2.5inch drive I just took out my macbook to the SATA cable for the old 3.5 inch hard drive.
I have just done a clean installation of snow leopard on my blackbook. All the apps seem to be running fine but i am getting a lot of aggro with my gmail account on mail and iphone (3.1.2)Before, I had a pop gmail account on mail (I have noticed it's imap as default now), then I bought my iphone and added the same account. Everything was fine: I could read and delete messages on iphone knowing that when I got back home those same mails would appear as new mail on my mac.
Now if i delete a message on my iphone I dont recieve it on my mac... can anybody tell me how can I configure it so it works like it did?
I am trying to sync my ical calandars to google but for the life of me I can't figure out how! I've set up everything in ical but can't figure out how to send the calandar to google?
I have been searching for 2 days on how to remove the software upgrade dvd from my external hard drive. I have not figured out a way to do so. So I used my external hard drive as a disk to upload the OSX 10.5 onto my iMac, now everytime I turn on my computer it thinks i am trying to install leopard again. I need help removing the leopard dvd from my external hd.
Been thinking on my backup solutions. Currently I use Time capsule and works great. Then I thought I want a backup of it so got an external USB and use the archive feature. Then I thought scrap that and get a dual drive NAS with a raid mirror. To be honest, I a thinking one backup is enough. Really what are the odds of the main machine and a backup to get screwed up.
If I sell my current macbook air and then use that money to go purchase a mac mini, can I use my external harddrive with my Time Machine backups on it to set up the mac mini exactly how my MBA was. I.e. no need to install any programs, etc.?
I just dropped a 256gb SSD in my 13" macbook pro. When i had a normal HDD i used a portable external and did backups weekly. Do you think its still a wise idea to do backups with an SSD or are they safe enough that its pretty much redundant?
I am looking for a program that I can rip a dvd to am Image file and have that image file compressed from its original format of 7.9gig to say 4.5 or less.
I use to use DVDshrink on my windows machine and all I have found for ripping and archiving dvds for mac is handbrake and MacTheRipper
I just restored my system early this evening with Time Machine. After doing some stuff tried to run a back up and noticed that it was deleting far more backups than necessary:It seems like it thinks it has to backup the whole drive, and so is deleting everything to make up the space. At best I've copied a few GB over from another drive. Either way, it's strange that is requested 308.08 GB given that my iMac HD only has 264 GB of stuff. This Apple article seems to confirm this:[URL]Is there any way to just do an incremental backup? I don't want to loose my (remaining) previous backups is possible?
My TimeMachine external HD is almost full, so I would like to erase a couple of iMovie projects that I don't need anymore and are pretty big. I did this once my opening a 'find' window and moving the files to the trash from there but this no longer seems to work.