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Hello, I have two MacBooks my Personal - MBP 13 inch (2020), and for Business - MBP 16 inch (2019). I have one account connected to iCloud on my MBP 13 inch and two accounts on my MBP 16 inch - one of them is connected to the same iCloud account as my MBP 13 and one will be connected to my...

is the data on the disk at risk during conversion? should one trust the app to make the conversion? other options/methods? risk to data primary concern. another clone prior necessary? xternal disk encrypted, two partitions

Hello! I have got an iPhone XS and use also the icloud. I have, for example, notes from my iPhone uploaded to iCloud. Now my questions are: 1) Is it possible to delete the data on one side, in iCloud or on my iPhone, so that the other side is not effected? I just want to have the data on one...

Why does iCloud backup WhatsApp but then also back it up in my phone backup? It’s taking up twice as much space for what seems to be no good reason? Am I misunderstanding something? Edit: To add onto that, my iCloud storage was filling up, so I decided to delete some things from WhatsApp to...

Somehow, and I have no idea how, it may have been a pocket deletion, I deleted my convo history with my wife today. Over 5 years of history on that iMessage thread that I really do not want to lose. I restored to an iCloud backup from earlier today before the thread was deleted, and this did...

Hey everybody, even thought these are exciting times for macOS in the future I have a question/problem regarding the normal non-beta use of macOS. I have a MacBook Pro which I would like to backup to an AirPort Extreme. Now in the past I just did this wirelessly by connecting the AirPort to my...

I have searched online for solutions to limit the total size of my Time Machine backup on my 4TB external Western Digital drive. Before, I had two partitions: 3TB for Time Machine, and 1TB for Other Files. I deleted the 1TB partition, and allocated the free space to Time Machine, so now I have...

I own this old OWC enclosure. At the moment its got 3 drives on it of 2+4+4 TB. And i wish to purchase a larger HD that will work as a TMachine backup for all my drives. The drives that will be backed up are, 1TB HD on my iMac, a 500mb external drive and the 3 drives i mentioned that are in the...

Anyone know why I would have so many backup folders after running Time Machine? I was not on the computer at the time. I left it to run the backup overnight and woke up to see all these folders on my external hard drive.

When TM begins to backup for the first time and i stop it for some reason, will it continue from there it stopped or will it start over again? Im asking only about the first time it begins to backup!

Hi all, I've used Time Machine to back up my internal and an external harddrive in one go for several years. I now want to add a new external harddrive (so one external 4TB HD is used to time-machine-backup my 1tb internal and 2 1tb externals). The two externals are called 'Samsung_T1' and...

This is my first backup. When I first started it about a week ago, it initially said the total was about 94.50GB. After days of letting it do its thing, it FINALLY got there! Here's the thing though - it's still backing up! It's now at 131GB and still going, but doesn't even say out of how much...

Hello all! Hope you are all doing well. Firstly, I’m fairly clued up on Macs and the differences between Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner 5. My question is about backup and security. I’d like to backup my Mac and an external drive I’m using. I have a 2 TB LaCie drive and a 1 TB WD drive. If...

I’m aware Time Machine can back up external drives, for example one which stores my iTunes library, large video files and documents which I don’t want to keep locally on my MacBook. Time Machine is set to back up my Mac and that external drive to another larger capacity portable drive. Say...

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...