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Beyond Time Machine: 5 Archiving

What do you do with all those old but important documents? Do you just leave them cluttering up storage, or have you archived them? Here’s how to archive properly.

March 19, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 8 Preventing problems

Why you should always protect backup storage with a UPS. Should you also rebuild its directories every month? And when to archive rather than back up.

January 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

How’s your Personal Digital Archive?

In 10 or 20 years time, where will today’s photos and videos be? In an archive? Have you started one yet?

January 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Tucking it away safely: archival media

How can you ensure that your descendants will have access to your photos, movies, and work many years in the future?

April 28, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Planning ahead: archiving for retrieval

If you cannot retrieve a document in an extinct format, there is no point in archiving it in the first place.

April 16, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Which is the best compression app?

Which compression utility do you recommend?

November 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Step back to Classic

Old archived files had lost association with the right app. What went wrong?

August 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Can I trust modern external hard drives?

What should I use as an archive if I cannot trust modern external hard drives?

August 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Archiving mail

What is the best way to archive some of my 250,000 emails prior to migrating to a new Mac?

June 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

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