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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)
My 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)
I 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
I set up iCloud on my new Macbook Pro but it never backs anything up. I even ordered extra storage but it still shows 0kb as backed up. I read online someone said I have to set up Time Machine but it still doesn't work after doing that.
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Quick Books has been backing up my financial softare to MobileMe. Will it back up to iCloud? If so how is that done? What do I do?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
How do I import my dvd's to iTunes or iCloud so I can view them on my iPad?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I 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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View 19 Replies View RelatedSo my MBP has some funky display issues so I'm going to bring it to the Apple Store this weekend. Before I go I want to make sure everything is backed up on time machine incase they need to replace the whole unit or keep it for a few days to repair it. If they lost my data or had to give me a replacement one would I just be able to hook up my USB HDD and let Time Machine bring the new MBP back to it's old condition?
Would all of my program and settings be just as I left them? Bookmarks in Chrome?
Would all my iTunes purchases still exist as they do now?
Would I need to authorize iTunes again (using up another one of the five allowed.
basic im too cheap to buy an external hard drive or an airport service thing so is it possible to back my computer up wirelessly to my old windows pc? im doing this to install windows xp on my new macbook pro 13.. is it really necessary to back up your whole mac harddruve before doing this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAm a Mac n00b here so just wana ask if i were to change the hdd and if i were to use time machine to backup the old hdd to my new hdd, would the bootcamp partition and all the files in windows be backed up too?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to transfer my iTunes library to a new MacBook that I'm buying today. What's the best way to do it? I need to sell this computer before I get the new one so I won't be able to put a cable between them. If I just copy across the music folder in my iTunes media directory, will this be enough? I have lots of album booklets and iTunes LP stuff that I want across as well. The other option is of course the DVD backup system through iTunes.
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PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I am backing up twice weekly, manually using time machine
Performed a back up this morning, and started to back up over
15gb - which is WAY more than any data I've written since the last
Back up - what's going here?
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MacBook Pro
i am having trouble backing up my data to the time machine. the log says the data cant be mounted.
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MacBook
So 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 :-(
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)
If I put an SSD in and use the OptiBay to replace the Superdrive with an HDD will Time Machine being able to deal with backing up the SSD and the HDD to a network backup using Time Machine?
View 17 Replies View RelatedI have an external drive that is the same size as the internal drive in my mbp. I have bootcamp partition. How do I back up both partitions onto my external drive?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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
I have a larger external harddrive that I purchased to use as a Time Machine backup drive, and I want it to back up not only the harddrive of my MacBook, but also a small external harddrive that I use as a "media drive" to hold all my iTunes and iPhoto content. If the small media drive is plugged into the MacBook while the Time Machine back up is ocurring on the larger external drive, will it back up both the MacBook harddrive and the media drive, or do I have to manually select this somewhere?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt's not paranoia, it's just being a computer user long enough to see damaged drives. I'd like to backup my Time machine drive, but I can't. Neither using my backup software, Chronosync, nor simply manually, just drag and drop from the origin Tima machine to the destination (time machine backup). Time machine is a backup, so I'm doing a backup of a backup. I had my time machine drive failing once, so I want to have this extra protecion.
This is the error message I get when I want to drag and drop the "Backups.backupdb" folder, which is where all my Tima machine bbackups are:
"The backup can’t be copied because the backup volume doesn’t have ownership enabled." I'm the only user, in Admin level. When I get info from the folder it says "You can only read".
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My start up disc is full and I thus need to transfer photos across to my time machine.
Time machine is great when looking for old documents but i can't access my photos as they are all on iphoto.
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iPhoto '11, iOS 5.0.1
Is there a way to back-up, without having to log in to user profile? Snow Leopard, 10.6.8. I can no longer log in to my Macbook Pro, my last back up was 6 weeks ago. Information: Mactintosh HD says maximum capacity full.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Im using a macbook pro 13" retina, running yosemite 10 10.
I use a 1Tb ext hard drive for storage, rather than the macs internal storage, I am thinking of using a 2Tb ext drive for back up. When I back up will the attached 1Tb ext drive be backed up at the same time?
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)
I have a question that I should probably know the answer to, but I don't. I have a Western Digital My Book on the way and I am going to back everything on my Macbook up on there so I can do an archive and install.
Is it possible to put applications like Mac:Office 2008 on the hard drive so that I don't have to install it again, or can you only back up certain files on externals? I am not very familiar with backing up data.
In case my computer is stolen again, I need to back-up /duplicate my hard drive. Any recommendations for best/proven products? Looking at Seagate Free Agent but unsure of software unless it comes with it.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI noticed yesterday and today, after replacing my TimeMachine with a new one, that even though I had temporarily turned off the Time Machine backup in my system prefs because I didn't want it running while I was editing a video, it will still backing up. And backing up a huge amount of data. A Google search using "time machine backs up when turned off" as the search phrase led me to:[URL] in which I learned that TM is doing local backups to my laptops' hard drive. Don't want this, but as usual Apple is assuming most people would welcome this safety feature and so don't offer (a) information on it or (b) the option in system prefs to turn it off. Anyway, on that page there is a command for the Terminal which will turn off this feature:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
One could easily be fooled into thinking your computer had less disc space than you actually have due to this feature. Pretty well everytime there is a "smart" application within the ever expanding OS, there is a downside to it. If only there was an "I'm no dummy" mode which would allow users to tailor various features without mucking about in the Terminal, which I know little about and try to stay away from, except for the occasional "fsck -fy" command at startup.
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MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2.26 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
After what started out as a simple question...why won't my iChat stay connected now that i have installed OS Lion and spending over 2 hours with Apple Phone support and trying all the known trouble shoots, they told me the only thing I can now do is Back Up my MacBook Pro and do a HD erase and reinstall everything. So, this has me a little freaked out! I have never done this and am afraid of the results. In particular, my 3rd party applications such as all my Adobe Suite applications. I no longer have access to the initial start up and install Creative Suite CDs! At first apple support said Time Machine WOULD NOT back up 3rd party apps. Then I get an email and said they were mistaken and it WILL with a link to an article. Yet I see nothing about it with in the article I was sent. SO, has anyone successfully reinstalled their Mac from a Time Machine Backup along with any 3rd party apps?
I could just go back to Snow Leopard since I had no issues with iChat using that OS. I was told I would have to do the same erasing of my HD either way to reinstall that OS.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I 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.
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.
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.
External hard drive is 2TB and has approximately 90GB on it.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
Since installing Lion, time machine get stuck "preparing for backup" but never goes through with it.
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