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Hello, I accidentally deleted an important iMessage conversation. I have an iTunes backup containing the conversation, but I do not want to restore that backup. Is there a way to recover a specific iMessage conversation and put it back on my phone ? If yes, is there a free way to do that ? I'm...

I'm looking into a onsite and offsite backup solution for a two-laptop household (with each a 256GB) plus 100-150GB of files on an external drive. Here are my current plans. Any suggestions to improve these will be greatly appreciated. 1. Each person has a iCloud account, syncing ~/Documents...

I've got a 40GB 4th Gen iPod, that I would like to salvage the music off of and move it to a new iPod. It appears to be functional as far as pulling up a play list. When I plug it into my MBP, it seems to charge, but the charge bar does not appear to fill up, should it? It does not appear in...

Hey everyone, I do dev work on my Mac. I'm looking for a cloud backup solution that includes the whole Mac OS. BackBlaze excludes certain folders, so for example, my MAMP will not get backed up (/Applications is excluded). How do you backup Node and Homebrew packages (or anything in /usr).

Hey guys, Yesterday I decided to restore my iPhone 5s from iTunes backup because I barely had any free space left on my phone and whenever I did this procedure it freed up atleast a few GB of space on my phone. So I made a normal iTunes backup on my PC, wiped the iPhone once the backup finished...

Running iTunes 12.7.4.76 on 2017 15" MacBook Pro 14,3 macOS 10.13.4 with iPhone 8 on iOS 11.2.6 I created an iTunes library on my external hard drive (option + clicking iTunes icon in dock, create new library). I then backed up my phone but the options in iTunes were backup on iCloud or...

I have 2 backup volumes linked to my iMac. Usually they are both coloured yellow on my desktop but I have noticed one now has changed to green. What does this mean?

Hello, I bought the new iPad today (2018) and have just set it up to my liking. I have another iPad Air 2 (2014) and iPad Air (2013) at home. Is it possible to clone my iPad (2018) to the Air 1 and Air 2? I know I can use iCloud to get some things back but is there a way to clone it exactly...

Im trying to do a backup on my Mac, but it stuck saying 'preparing backup'. When I cancel the backup, its stuck saying Encrypting. I don't remember exactly, but I think last time I started encrypting the backup disk I cancelled it because it was taking too long. Is there a solution to this...

My Time machine backs up as normal - hourly, daily, weekly - and I have excluded as many folders as I think I don't need etc. But I just noticed it doing a backup of 458MB and I can't for the life of me work out what would need backing up in the last hour/day. Is there any way of seeing what...

What are my options or advice for transporting a NAS (Synology718+) home from work everyday so my various devices can have an offsite backup? Transport will be short 5min and in theory I don't see a problem with taking it with me when I leave work. I've recently started in the printing/design...

PROBLEM: I accidentally removed a bunch of files to my Archive EHD and erased them from my MacBook Air, so that I only have ONE copy of them. My MB doesn't have room to move the files back and then move them to another EHD. GOAL: Make a backup copy of my archived files. Is there any way to...

Hi, My iPhone backup (iOS 10.3.3) on iTunes wont be restored correctly on my new iPhone (11.2.1). So how to put SMS, Calls list, etc from the iTunes Backup to my new configured iPhone ? Is there software working with backup and can do an import ? (seems anytrans works only with 2 iphone and...

Thank you to anyone who can help us figure this out. We had our laptop and all our external portable drives backing up to a Time Machine backup (two separate ones, actually). For a few reasons, we decided to delete the original time machine backups, reformat the backup drives, and start fresh...

Hi, I've a MacBook Pro 13" (Mid-2012) which is currently running with stock specs: - Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB HDD - High Sierra I've ordered and received my upgrade kit from Crucial : - 16 GB RAM (2 x 8) - 500 GB SSD Already saw on YouTube a nice tutorial on how to proceed...

How do I go about transferring my music and photos to the iPhone? My music and photos are saved on my S7's SD card, not on the phone's internal storage. My contacts, calendar and mail are all through Gmail. I really don't want to use iTunes (do I have to?) to transfer the music portion. Most...

From just using portable HDs as backups, I'll from now on start using Google Drive as an extra security measure. However, since it's increased backup security (and not portability/accessibility) I'm looking for, I'm not interested in uploading my files as they are. Not without encrypting them...

Hello. I am a photographer with about 9TB of photos, which i backup to Amazon Drive using Arq Backup software. It been great up until now, as Amazon has changed their pricing structure. Is there a way that a smart idiot like myself can create my own offsite backup server? Would i have to have a...

Hey everyone, In order to hide my sensitive documents I've created an encrypted .dmg with Disk Utility and I've put them all in. Those documents exist nowhere else on my hard drive. When I use Time Machine to backup my HD, does TM automatically detect changes within that encrypted .dmg and...

I was disappointed to find that the SanDisk iXpand can only copy photos and videos from the iPad. I’m hoping that this isn’t a limitation imposed by Apple. I’m a creative pro and need to back up large Procreate and Affinity Photo docs. Yes, I can back up to the cloud, but upload is slow over...