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Can't backup my Photos library
Hi everyone, I recently got myself a new mbp. I backup up my old one but the only thing I want to restore is my photos library. When I plug the drive into my new mb It doesn't show the old backups in time machine itself. When i go via Finder, I can see all the old backups in dated directories...- dinochicken
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- backup photos time machine
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What is the cheapest device I can buy as a backup device for my 2014 MacBook Air?
I have moved to another country and left my 1TB WD HDD back at home which I was using with Time Machine to backup my device. I've used this device for years so it has backups from my previous MacBook. I am going to be working at home occasionally and since the Air has no CD drive I have no way...- crmpicco
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- backup macbook air time machine
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Finder doesn't open/Need to backup files
I've recently updated to El Capitan and downloaded a ProTools driver I shouldn't have (see ProTools HD Driver 11.3.1 for Mac: http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/en379411) and now I can't turn off mac or open finder. I want to backup so I can format (been wanting to do this for a...- Funfa Bu
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- backup finder format pro tools protools
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- Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
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Backup issues with iOS 10 public beta
After updating to the iOS 10 public beta, my iPhone backup on iCloud has ballooned out from a few GB to nearly 50GB. Has anyone else experienced this and/or able to recommend a fix? Can't actually see where the excess in storage is to delete anything.- Harry.mcdonald9
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- backup icloud icloud backup ios10
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- Forum: iOS 10
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Mac SSD Backup Software with Windows
I'm dual-booting (with Bootcamp) my 2015 Retina MacBook Pro and would like some recommendations for some software that will do a bit by bit/sector by sector backup of my hard drive. Basically something that will be guaranteed to backup both the Windows and Mac partitions so if/when the day... -
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old macbook as backup and media server
Hello everyone, So I have an early 2008 white pre-unibody macbook which I have upgraded over the years to have 4GBs of ram and an 256 GB ssd. I also have a spare 500gb hhd which i could install in place of the cd drive to give it some extra storage place (approx. 750GB overall). Nevertheless... -
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anyone to save my files on macbook that won't boot
Not sure what happened but my MBP pro won't boot up. I know I am going to have to install the OS again but if I pulled the hard drive out and loaded it into an enclosure would I be able to potential grab files through USB on another mac? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Image from Disk Utility- airtas
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- backup boot el capitain hard drive failure mac book pro
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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WhatsApp stuck on "finishing up"
I've backed up my WhatsApp conversations and media to iCloud and restored the phone, and now when I try to get back my data back it downloads everything and gets stuck on "finishing up". The conversations show up just fine but the media is missing, whenever I try to start the process over the... -
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Apps Restoring On New Phone
So both my wife and I just got new iPhone 6S phones, and we went to restore the phones to the backups from the previous 5S phones. Mine restore worked perfectly, bringing back all my texts, pictures, etc. AND all my APPS. My wife's got everything back except for the Apps. Is there something... -
Way to physically back up an iPad Pro without owning a Mac?
so I am one of the people Tim Cook was talking about and cast off my mac book air for an iPad Pro. reasonably working out for me thus far however... someone hacked my iCloud password and it was locked up for over 24 hours. I couldn't get to anything. I want to be able to physically back up...- jrawles92103
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- backup ipad pro 12.9
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- Forum: iPad
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Setup complete
Based on my past threads, for the past month or so, I've been working on purchasing the 'right' iMac. Well, I'm finished! - iMac Late 2015 2TB, i5, with 16GB ram - Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB drive (USB 3.0) for backups - MX Wavemaster Logitech mouse (this thing is BRILLIANT, and can be...- ivanwi11iams
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- backup imac logitech mxwavemaster seagate
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- Forum: iMac
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Backup NAS folder startup problem
Hi So I got a Sinology NAS and moved all my stuff onto it. I just got Jottacloud online backup with allows NAS backup. My problem is that when I add a NAS folder it works fine. But after a reboot the app says the NAS folder is not found. I have added folder to login items so it should connect...- perzangenberg
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- backup login items nas
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Help needed with freeing space / backing up iPad
My parents have a 16GB iPad and currently its pretty much full up of photos and videos etc. They have bought the iCloud upgrade so they have 50GB space and on the iPad it says they have 49.4GB available space. Head over to iTunes to do a backup and the bar at the bottom is telling me the iCloud... -
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Time Machine volume on NAS corrupt once a month
Hi community! I own a WD MyCloud EX2 which I use for Time Machine Backups. Unfortunately, there is an issue with backing up to NASs in Time Machine and I keep getting an error message which says something like: "Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time...- oreggero
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- backup capsule error issue nas problem time time machine
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Network Drive Backup
I have a small company that uses a drive connected to an Airport extreme that everyone shares. Everyone in the office keeps all their files on this drive. (we have both mac & pc users). We need a way to keep this drive backed up without having to manually move the files to another drive. Is...- TayOneThree
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- airport airport extreme backup drive network drive newtwork time machine
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- Forum: Networking
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iPod touch Protecting Your Music And Your iPod: How?
The latest news that Apple supposedly deletes all traces of your music without your consent or knowing has made me weary of downloading iTunes again. Even though my songs are stored in an external drive and I am not subscribed to Apple Music (a pre-requisite for said manner to occur, I suppose)...- wammygiveaway
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- backup ipod itunes virus
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- Forum: iPod touch and iPod
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inProgress file stuck in Trash
Hello all I am having quite some trouble emptying the Trash from my iMac. I deleted an inProgress file from a hungup time machine backup and now it is stuck in the trashcan. I have followed these steps here: http://pondini.org/TM/E6.html but to no avail, and the file still persists. When I run...- jgelin
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- backup help inprogress storage stuck time machine trash troubleshooting wont delete
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- Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
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Safari 7.1.8.pkg download?
So my external SSD broke and I lost a few files I was hours away from backing up. One of those files was my Safari 7.1.8 installer (the last version for Mavericks before they jumped to 9.x and changed some visual elements). The direct download links from Apple's servers are dead, as with every...- Avenged110
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- backup download installer mavericks outdated package safari
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- Forum: OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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need to back up iphone with no screen. need help to work out what state my phone is in.
Hello. my 64gb iphone's screen died and I have no back up. I tried to do a back up to itunes , the computer found the iphone and I clicked backup and it didnt seem to make any progress for hours so I cancelled it. now I plug it in and the computer wont detect it. I can put the iphone into DFU...- sally_sandy
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- backup screen
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- Forum: iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting
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How to setup Backup Solution for iMac + Mac Mini ?
Here is my current hardware 1 iMac 2015 model top of line with 1TB SSD + 32GB RAM At present I've following HDD connected to iMac 1 4TB WD HDD connected it as a "local external" storage directly to iMac using USB 3.0 All my pictures and iTunes resides on this 4TB locally connected HDD 1 8TB...
