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What have you done with an early Intel recently?
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Do you have a recent backup?
If the files weren’t encrypted, it’s possible depending on what’s wrong with the drive.
My goodness!
I'm wondering the same thing.
On that note, what about attempting to try and recover the data? @MBAir2010
I have everything backed up via copy and paste on several externals
and did not lose anything significant or creative.
I have not tried recovering the data on the ssd drive.
i will contact then and what to do, 3 years they claim!
thanks for the concern guys, you rule!
Okay, disaster has been averted.
If everything is already backed up then this is no longer applicable.
Fingers crossed.
This might sound obvious but you need to automate this procedure. You cannot rely on remembering to copy stuff manually every time you make an important change to the files. This is a way to doom. There are many good options, most obvious is the Timemachine and next one Carbon Copy Cloner. I use the latter (v. 5 or 6) on all of my machines, except some of the older ones where I use SuperDuper.
I also recommend getting the DriveDX which you can use to monitor your SSD condition and spot failing drives early.
I find the above mentioned sw so useful I have bought licenses for each one.
Oh, Yes I can.
I lost more info, data pages via the cloud this year than anything else.
what I might do I get a airport tower extreme with a ssd and use that with my 2 early Intels MacBooks.
Oh, you didn't have backups of the stuff in the cloud? The cloud is not a backup when its the only place the stuff exists.
You need multiple layers of backups if you have very important stuff - like unpublished novels would appear to be. I would plug an external hd to my Mac (and rotate several drives), do secondary backup to a server in my home network (which is also kind of backupped) and then for the third layer do a backup to a cloud service. Oh, in fact I do that right now. It's probably going to need an alien invasion level event or global thermo nuclear war before all hope for the files is lost.
About Apple solutions: I've had 2 incidents where I could not get anything back from Timemachine, luckily I had other backups. These were drive file system corruptions rather than drive failures. I also bought a Time Capsule, it broke before first incident where I would have needed to recover anything from it. I have no trust in Apple stuff for this so I use non Apple stuff for my backups. IMHO cloning is harder to screw up and easier to verify.
Thanks for concern, Im fine !
There is no need explaining things about things in detail I don't need to perform.
I did not lose anything data-wise, except hardware like a nice ssd drive and sadly a
computer
IMHO It's essential to have multiple backup strategies in place because as I've learned to my misfortune, prevention is better than cure but each to their own.
So, you lost "more" info and data in the cloud incident but actually you didn't lose anything but hardware? 🤨 And you originally lost a SSD drive with all the info (unpublished novels etc.) but in the end you didn't lose anything important because you had manual backups? 🧐 Uhh...ok.
Okey, I no longer understand at all what you are trying to say. Nevermind, I am sure you know what you are doing and you are fine.
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I do have that strategy, were 4 drives store everything
which is why I prefer Mountain Lion OSX since that does this better than
Monterey on were in can open may file windows.
my concern is mailing a defective 1TB ssd drive back to OWC as they can read my files, if they fix the problem.
Try this.
(What have I done with an early Intel Mac recently? I replied to this post using my 2010 MBA whilst on a lengthy train journey with an iPhone tethered via USB to provide an Internet connection.)
I just bought a family license as I have more than one Mac, so thanks for that. Last I was aware SMARTReporter, which I used to use, wasn't working on my Intel Macs.
I might have already asked this but why isn't your 2011 MBA getting more use?
…annnnd DriveDx says my 6TB fourth drive is around 55% of health. I knew it had some issues (it only appears to be connected when cold booting), but not that bad.
As per my rule, replace equal to or better, ordered an open box Western Digital Red, 8TB off eBay. This drive is CMR, unlike my other one which is SMR.
The only thing to be on this drive will be my Dropbox folder so will be a simple matter of just copying over files when the new drive gets here, renaming, restablishing the file share (and fixing CCC backups) and redirecting the Dropbox app to the drive. No idea when it'll ship but I probably should be running fine by next weekend with it.
Once I find a new use/place for the old drive, I won't be leaving anything important on it. Maybe a PS scratch disk…
Hello the regulars here.
I thank everyone for their advice and concerns and I just have to get those 2 Mac mini 2012 fixed or recycled.
anyway im using Monterey OS on a modern Intel: a M1 today
to apply some backgrounds with Affinity design (which crashed 2x) mostly gradient art from the iPad which is mundane.
but I noticed how "in a box" the system is compared to Mt Lion were we have freedom to use non- things.
several times I had to turn blue tooth off and on to get the Satechi BT mouse/keyboard working.
using multiple finder windows is tedious and some tasks are slower like saving a graphic to a ssd drive.
there are reminders how " is your bestest friend" and "Please, please use Sonoma...who really needs a soul on their computer anyway, so please PLEASE download this OS-oh you don get safari 17.6 on your MacBook Air because you only have 49¢ in your account and we at cuppertino overlooked this on you 2020 macmini ummm OUR macmini!?"
whew! what a windows 1999-20today tactic! and every save is "pleading that I use their cloud instead...."
too bad 2024 won't accept 2012 bt keyboard......but the track pad from that era works.
the only good thing is the music sounds very incredible on 2 homepods,
INXS "welcome to wherever you are" which is perfect for this scenario.
Anyways these are just observations I can't tell my cats now since they wont understand.....and maybe some here.
enjoy those early intel my friends!
I thank everyone for their advice and concerns and I just have to get those 2 Mac mini 2012 fixed or recycled.
anyway im using Monterey OS on a modern Intel: a M1 today
to apply some backgrounds with Affinity design (which crashed 2x) mostly gradient art from the iPad which is mundane.
but I noticed how "in a box" the system is compared to Mt Lion were we have freedom to use non- things.
several times I had to turn blue tooth off and on to get the Satechi BT mouse/keyboard working.
using multiple finder windows is tedious and some tasks are slower like saving a graphic to a ssd drive.
there are reminders how " is your bestest friend" and "Please, please use Sonoma...who really needs a soul on their computer anyway, so please PLEASE download this OS-oh you don get safari 17.6 on your MacBook Air because you only have 49¢ in your account and we at cuppertino overlooked this on you 2020 macmini ummm OUR macmini!?"
whew! what a windows 1999-20today tactic! and every save is "pleading that I use their cloud instead...."
too bad 2024 won't accept 2012 bt keyboard......but the track pad from that era works.
the only good thing is the music sounds very incredible on 2 homepods,
INXS "welcome to wherever you are" which is perfect for this scenario.
Anyways these are just observations I can't tell my cats now since they wont understand.....and maybe some here.
enjoy those early intel my friends!
This is interesting to hear, mostly given how I’ve managed to use SMARTReporter all the way through Mojave on my Intel Macs and without running into any issues.
Do you recall which version you used which gave you trouble?
No, it was some time ago. I know it wasn't the most current version so things have probably changed. At the time though it wasn't important enough for me to pursue and I eventually just forgot about it.
That’s completely understandable.
I have a licence for 3.0.3 from when Snow Leopard was my daily OS, and it’s still working in Mojave.
I’ve never checked, however, to verify whether 3 and above were re-written in 64-bit or are 32-bit laggards from the v2.0/Leopard days.
The Mac Mini 2007's arrived with accessories. I am now testing the basic machines for operation. First one seems to work just fine. Also the Logitech kbds (huge Win kind, wireless) and wireless mice work so all seems good.
I will upgrade the cpu on one of the machines (T5600-> T7600), RAM and drive to SSD later this week. These are C2D 1.83GHz, 1GB RAM (2x512MB) and a spinner drive. So, they will be 2.5GB RAM later on as I have 2GB SO-DIMMs and probably do not want to waste a gig per machine. I am sure they will run just fine with 2.5gigs. At least the Linux one will, probably also the other one, what ever OS will it have in the end (probably SL).
I also found a T7200 (C2D 2.0GHz) in my spareparts but it doesn't seem worth installing as it provides about 8% increase in speed only vs. the 1.83GHz. Well, it would be free though. The 1.83->2.33 GHz will give a good noticeable 25% boost. 👍
I will upgrade the cpu on one of the machines (T5600-> T7600), RAM and drive to SSD later this week. These are C2D 1.83GHz, 1GB RAM (2x512MB) and a spinner drive. So, they will be 2.5GB RAM later on as I have 2GB SO-DIMMs and probably do not want to waste a gig per machine. I am sure they will run just fine with 2.5gigs. At least the Linux one will, probably also the other one, what ever OS will it have in the end (probably SL).
I also found a T7200 (C2D 2.0GHz) in my spareparts but it doesn't seem worth installing as it provides about 8% increase in speed only vs. the 1.83GHz. Well, it would be free though. The 1.83->2.33 GHz will give a good noticeable 25% boost. 👍
Probably because I haven't had you to prompt me to make more usage of it.
That will now change.
Finally got Sonoma up and running on one of my 2009 13" MBPs!
Last month the husband of another teacher at my school mentioned that they had some old Macs that they didn't want around any more and asked if I wanted them. I hear "old Macs" and "not sure if they work" and start salivating, so naturally I was happy to take them. He ended up giving me three 2009 13" MacBook Pros! All in pretty decent condition, all bumped up to 8GB RAM, two of them even with SSDs!
I have one of them set up around my classroom hooked up to an external display as extra announcement computer at the moment, a second at home as a nice small High Sierra machine for when I need it, and the other I've been playing with Sonoma on.
Pain in the arse to get on there given all the little workarounds, but now that it's on it's surprisingly decent. I've used OCLP for years now on older pre-Metal Macs but they've all at least been quad-core machines, so I'm surprised at how decent a C2D is running it.
Not too shabby for a machine older than my students ^_^
Last month the husband of another teacher at my school mentioned that they had some old Macs that they didn't want around any more and asked if I wanted them. I hear "old Macs" and "not sure if they work" and start salivating, so naturally I was happy to take them. He ended up giving me three 2009 13" MacBook Pros! All in pretty decent condition, all bumped up to 8GB RAM, two of them even with SSDs!
I have one of them set up around my classroom hooked up to an external display as extra announcement computer at the moment, a second at home as a nice small High Sierra machine for when I need it, and the other I've been playing with Sonoma on.
Pain in the arse to get on there given all the little workarounds, but now that it's on it's surprisingly decent. I've used OCLP for years now on older pre-Metal Macs but they've all at least been quad-core machines, so I'm surprised at how decent a C2D is running it.
Not too shabby for a machine older than my students ^_^
That is a good sentence: old Macs" and "not sure if they work" and free!
while living in a college city USA I would see old Macs tossed in the recycling bin once in a while.
some did sell theirs "broken Macs" for $25 when all that needed was a pram set or a replaced ribbon.
but this is before the iPhone craze when was an okay company .
now people are selling really broken Macs for way too much $ on eBay since is a large successful company.
where i live now people are craiglsiting' their 2010-ish Macs for $500 and typing how new they are.
I decided not to install the processor quite yet. I first buy/order some new heat sink pegs or screws as all sources say they are super fragile. I have removed such pegs from many many computers before with success but these are said to be very prone to breaking so I want to be sure I have suitable replacements before starting.
But, I blew the dust out and installed a new battery, the SSD and 2GB extra RAM to the first one. Then I formatted and partitioned the drive for Snow Leopard and Linux dual boot configuration. And then installed SL and now it's updating.
This far all is good. 👍 The interesting part will be the Linux installation, this is a 32-bit EFI + 64-bit processor machine. I've done couple before, so I don't expect big problems (knock on wood).
Ps. now I am installing Linux Mint 21 32/64bit, which I have installed successfully before (iMac 20" '06). If all goes well I will test drive it and later on think about other distro options.
But, I blew the dust out and installed a new battery, the SSD and 2GB extra RAM to the first one. Then I formatted and partitioned the drive for Snow Leopard and Linux dual boot configuration. And then installed SL and now it's updating.
This far all is good. 👍 The interesting part will be the Linux installation, this is a 32-bit EFI + 64-bit processor machine. I've done couple before, so I don't expect big problems (knock on wood).
Ps. now I am installing Linux Mint 21 32/64bit, which I have installed successfully before (iMac 20" '06). If all goes well I will test drive it and later on think about other distro options.
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