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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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, I've researched and looked at other forums here but no one's situation seems to be like mine regarding backing up Time Machine to my external drive. I have plenty of backups I've done in the past on this drive with no problem. The drive has plenty of space and is partitioned. It...

Hi, I have an old MB running snow Leopard and need to transfer my itunes from that computer to a new user account on a family members new MB Air running Mavericks. How? Situation: I got a new iPhone 6 and went to set it up through iTunes by using my previous iPhone's backup on my old (2007) MB...