First, begin your search in Macintosh HD, or select "This Mac" rather than "All My Files". If it's not finding things you know are there, try re-indexing your drive:
Complete steps 1-7 of those instructions, then take a screen shot of your Finder window and post it.Thank you GGJstudios , but it still doesn't work:
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I reindexed the Mac HD as the instructions said, and I have Keka installed, but notice Finder doesn't find Keka at all!? What could be wrong?
You're very much in the minority and your problems are very likely unique to you and related to other factors. Like many, many users who have posted here over the years, I've used CCC successfully on many computers and many drives over the past 5 years. It has never failed to be completely reliable.
No, it doesn't do it better, as Disk Utility requires rebooting before it can clone, and doesn't provide incremental backups like CCC. People should use what works for them. If you prefer Disk Utility, then by all means use it. But your opinion doesn't change the fact that CCC is an extremely reliable backup tool with a great reputation, used by a great number of Mac users for many years.
LOL! That would be me, of course. You're implying that I'm getting paid to recommend a reliable free app that is endorsed by countless members of this forum? That's hilarious! I recommend dozens of apps that I find to be dependable, and I don't get paid a penny by any developer. My recommendations are not purely my opinion, but also based on 5 years of reading and responding to other users' reports, as well as hands-on experience, and the experience of other Mac users I support.
Since 3.4.7 is not being maintained, if you don't want to pay for backup software, I suggest you look for another free backup utility that is being maintained as you never know when an OS change will make CCC 3.4.7 stop working. CCC 3.4.7 could work for years on future OS X upgrades or it could break with the next OS X patch, you never know.
You don't have a PowerPC based Mac, you have an Intel based Mac. The last version of OS X that ran on PowerPC Macs was Leopard (10.5).
That's only for PPC Macs, not Intel Macs. SuperDuper! is FREE to use for manual clones. Download it, install it, make the clone and then boot from the clone yourself to see with your own eyes whether it works.
That is false. 3.4.7 can definitely create a recovery partition.
From: Will CCC clone the "Recovery HD" partition on Lion?
It's simply the fact that the developer hasn't tested it against Mountain Lion. It works just as well as with Lion and Snow Leopard, but the developer wanted to continue future development on a paid app basis, rather than continuing to go the shareware route.
Yes, it's always possible with any software that a future update to OS X could make an app incompatible. However, you'd always be able to boot from the cloned drive or retrieve files from that drive. Since CCC backups are not in a proprietary format, they would be readable by future versions of OS X.
No, you wouldn't be forced to pay for another version in order to access a backup. You don't need any version of CCC in order to access an existing CCC backup. You might need to buy a copy if you want to backup a future version of OS X that CCC 3.4.7 isn't compatible with, but only time will tell if that happens.But that would mean I would be forced to have to pay for the upgraded CCC version.
I completely agree that the developer deserves a reward for making such great software. I'm discussing the functionality, not the economics.