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Teething Pains With New Mac Mini, Part 2 – Constant Do I Trust This Computer? Message

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Sidenote: I love the way my iPad recharges so quickly from the Mini. It recharges faster than from its own recharger. 10% battery to Full charge in about half an hour.

For various reasons I plug my Mini into my iPad to access the Internet. Partly because it’s faster than turning the Modem on and partly because I have oodles of Gb to spare. And partly because my access to The Net is often wonky when I get home around 11:00 PM or so….And Partly…..:rolleyes:….

First Connection to PC’s at work. Handshakes and codes exchanged, we’re friends now. Here’s today’s pictures. Never had a problem reconnecting again.

First Connection to my old iMac. Handshakes and codes exchanged, we’re friends now. Here are some CD’s that need to be downloaded. CDs downloaded and contents sent to External Hard Drives. Never another problem reconnecting.

First Connection to my new Mini. Handshakes and codes exchanged, we’re friends now. Let’s get to work. 10 minutes later I finish and unplug the iPad.

20 minutes later I need to reconnect and I’ve no Internet. Reconnection….Do I Trust Computer? We were connected 20 minutes ago! What the LescoBrandon is going on here? I hit the TRUST button last time. Why cannot you remember the Mini?
If there was a time that I Did NOT have to say TRUST I cannot remember it.
As I type this that stupid Trust message is on the iPad screen. I just closed it up (folio user) and I can still access The Net.

As far as I know Every setting on either the Mini or iPad permitted connections with Zero problems. The Initial Handshake should have been the last.
So Why Do I Have To Keep Saying Trust This Computer?
Which setting(s) on Either or Both do I have to correct/change?
 
There's something going wonky with iCloud right now, I'm getting a new device has accessed your account from the same ipads multiple times a day, and that would probably mess up the trust thing. I don't normally plug my ipad into my Mac though, so I haven't seen the trust issue.
 
bobcomer said:
There's something going wonky with iCloud right now, I'm getting a new device has accessed your account from the same ipads multiple times a day, and that would probably mess up the trust thing. I don't normally plug my ipad into my Mac though, so I haven't seen the trust issue.
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I do not us the iCloud At All: I have too many items that need to be Secure. I backup like mad on multiple Thumb Drives. Come Saturday morning several Flash drives are installed in a Hub and backups commence. One critical file may be backed up on 3 or 4 different Flash Drives at once.
 
GS Owner said:
I do not us the iCloud At All: I have too many items that need to be Secure. I backup like mad on multiple Thumb Drives. Come Saturday morning several Flash drives are installed in a Hub and backups commence. One critical file may be backed up on 3 or 4 different Flash Drives at once.
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You're a lot like me. :) I love redundant backups as well. But iCloud is unfortunately a necessary evil for all the family iPads.
 
OP wrote:
"I backup like mad on multiple Thumb Drives. Come Saturday morning several Flash drives are installed in a Hub and backups commence. One critical file may be backed up on 3 or 4 different Flash Drives at once."

This doesn't sound like a very good backup strategy to me.

I'd suggest a different one:
- Get one, two, or three Samsung t7 "shield" SSDs.
- Use either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to CLONE the contents of your internal drive (the whole thing) to the backup SSDs.
- Now EVERYTHING is "in there", in POFF (plain ol' finder format) -- just connect the backup, and it will look EXACTLY like the internal drive (as of the last time it was backed up).
- Store the backups securely.
 
I dont understand why people spend more on more storage only to waste it by backing up their entire disk. You can restore a fresh version of your OS without whatever corruption or config problems from the install that killed it last time, & unless you‘ve got critical unique proprietary software from defunct companies, like I do, all your apps are available for redownloading at any time. Theres no need to fill your bavkups with copies of those. If you’re even minimally competent w/regard to file organization your files arent strewn crazily all over your disk, so you can just backup your user dir and it’ll even grab your local app support folder w all your prefs in it.

Carbon Copy Cloner is good though. I cant imagine why Apple thought Time Machine‘s strategy of just blindly filling a backup with endless hourly copies of the same data was a good idea rather than deltas. The OS is capable of knowing when data has changed, and that should be the trigger to issue a backup, not based on a dumb timer that misses some changes and unecessarily wears a disk issuing redundant ones.
 
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ThunderSkunk said:
I dont understand why people spend more on more storage only to waste it by backing up their entire disk. You can restore a fresh version of your OS without whatever corruption or config problems from the install that killed it last time, & unless you‘ve got critical unique proprietary software from defunct companies, like I do, all your apps are available for redownloading at any time. Theres no need to fill your bavkups with copies of those. If you’re even minimally competent w/regard to file organization your files arent strewn crazily all over your disk, so you can just backup your user dir and it’ll even grab your local app support folder w all your prefs in it.

Carbon Copy Cloner is good though. I cant imagine why Apple thought Time Machine‘s strategy of just blindly filling a backup with endless hourly copies of the same data was a good idea rather than deltas. The OS is capable of knowing when data has changed, and that should be the trigger to issue a backup, not based on a dumb timer that misses some changes and unecessarily wears a disk issuing redundant ones.
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Backing up the whole disk makes it MUCH easier to get a working restored computer quicker, and in IT, quicker means a lot -- it means people aren't sitting there unable to do their job.

As for Time Machine, version restores are a thing too and it allows that in spades...
 
GS Owner said:
I do not us the iCloud At All: I have too many items that need to be Secure. I backup like mad on multiple Thumb Drives. Come Saturday morning several Flash drives are installed in a Hub and backups commence. One critical file may be backed up on 3 or 4 different Flash Drives at once.
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And that is possibly your problem. What is the basis of your security concerns with iCloud?
 
GS Owner said:
So why do I see the Trust This Computer question so often?

PS: I also have two External Hard Drives for storage.
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It's a change that Apple made to fix a vulnerability, there's a thread about it on here somewhere.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
Carbon Copy Cloner is good though. I cant imagine why Apple thought Time Machine‘s strategy of just blindly filling a backup with endless hourly copies of the same data was a good idea rather than deltas. The OS is capable of knowing when data has changed, and that should be the trigger to issue a backup, not based on a dumb timer that misses some changes and unecessarily wears a disk issuing redundant ones.
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After the first initial backup, Time Machine only backs up changed files. That's how it's ALWAYS worked.

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/03/01/how-does-time-machine-make-a-backup/
 
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