backup

Curious if anyone has opted to use iCloud Drive instead of Apple Photos Library to store their photos and videos (especially old archives). Apple Photos is a great way to to sync recent media across all my devices. I archive my media library to an external hard drive every year, so I only have...

Hello everyone! My family is currently sporting a late 2009 iMac (yup). It's nearing the end of its road. It's been a brave warrior, but after many years, I need to look into a replacement machine for family use, including some typical home/office use and occasional light engineering work...

Hello all, I’m sure I can get more help with this from you guys than from Apple support. I have an iPhone 7 Plus that was on iOS 13.3. Had no plan to update to 13.4. Here’s what’s been happening: My phone storage is usually almost full so I periodically would offload apps or delete videos in...

Hi. In a post-iTunes Mac OS 10.15 world, what is the preferred method to backup iOS devices to an external HDD? I'm looking to not take up room in my Mac's HDD's with iOS backups. Thanks for your insight! I tried doing some searching but didn't see an article here. (would be great to add one...

Hi, Me and my wife own an Iphone 11 and XR respectively. Would it be possible for my wife and me to swap Iphones and have the complete exact installations passed to our respective new devices? I would like to port over the exact content of the devices including apps datas, settings, pictures...

Hey there, I was about to send my iPad Pro back to Apple yesterday, however the backup process kept repeating to send me the following message: My iPad Pro has 153GB of storage taken. Nevertheless, I kept getting the error message telling me I do not have enough available storage to finish the...

I've never used iTunes to backup an iPhone/iPad (didn't need to till now) but I've always used TM to backup my computer. With TM, I know that if my MacBook is stolen, I can just buy any other Mac computer/laptop (that supports the same macOS version) and I find myself in the exact same spot I...

People, Im stumped after 4 days and need help. While running Sierra, my system was upgraded to the Catalina disaster without my knowledge. The Time Machine backup last done that would save everything was done in Sierra. Of course, I cannot find anywhere a Sierra installer, but I do have one for...

Hi there, As you probably all know, iCloud has an option to store some of your folders in iCloud. However, when it does this, it will generally delete (mostly older) files from your Mac, and keep them only in iCloud. I have 2TB available in iCloud which means it would be good to back-up my Mac...

I formatted a 6TB spinning drive w APFS for backing up my Catalina SSD drive. Then wrongly dropped an additional folder of files onto the 6TB drive. The folder disappeared. Anyone know how to view/recover the folder? The keystrokes Command+shift+period do not work to make the folder visible.

I've got myself a new Mac Mini, and while it's now all setup from my old (dead) machine and I'm happy with it, I'm having trouble using my existing backup disk. When I've transferred a backup disk in the past all I've had to do was plug it in, macOS would ask if I want to use it for backup...

I can't find where / how to sync via WiFi. By "sync", perhaps what I really mean is "backup" as in "Back up all of the data on your iPhone to this Mac". In iOS 12 and before, I could go to Settings => General and sync (which I took to mean the same thing as "backup" since there is only one...

Good morning all! I've always used iTunes to backup my iPhone to my Windows PC but looking for alternative applications to use for backups. Since my iPhone is 512GB, I want to backup on an external harddrive. I'm not sure if there is an easy way to change the backup location in iTunes to an...

With no Lightning-to-Lightning cable and Apple's inexplicable lack of adoption for USB-C on the Pro iPhone line, I had to get creative to try out the new transfer method. Honestly kind of surprised it actually worked! The hub is actually from my third party Nintendo Switch dock! Anyone else have...

Having only bought the S4 less than 5 months ago, I had no intention of upgrading to S5. However I was then surprised by the Always On screen and this week also won a competition which would cover almost 60% of the cost of the S5 with the sale of the S4 making up the rest . . . so it’s decision...

I finally caved in and bought 200GB of iCloud storage to fully back up my iPad Pro. I don’t have a traditional computer at home and my work PC has the same amount of storage as the iPad: 256GB. I tried to move the location of the iTunes backup to an external drive, but I couldn’t get that to...

CCC vs TimeMachine vs Manual Backup? I'm looking for best practices and backup strategies to backup my photos library, music library, and documents folder. Does CCC do incremental backups? Meaning that it will start with a base and incrementally backup only changes similar to Time Machine...

Afternoon, first time post so please be gentle. I'm currently in a glass case of emotion at the minute with everything iCloud... I purchased the iPhone Xs on launch day and everything worked great. Restored from iCloud (50GB) and everything from my iPhone 7 pulled through great. No problems at...

Which external backup drive do you all suggest for a 2017 18,3 iMac? Does having an SSD vs. HDD make much difference in this scenario? Which do you suggest and why? I have a 2TB Time Capsule with Time Machine turned on, so that's backed up regularly. However, I keep an off-site backup drive...

Hi i 'm looking for a backup program ,that let me backup folders (selected by me) and singles files i don't want to use timemachine just because i want to backup some files inside the library folder (30GB) , the files i want to backup are around 1MB i would like to keep my backup updated is...