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Q&A: Thinning a Time Machine backup

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Can I weed my Time Machine backup in the Finder, to free up space?

August 14, 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

Documents and versioning

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What seemed another Apple quirk has become a sea change in the way that apps work, and things can go wrong.

July 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

Is this important?

Despite the importance of importance in everyday life, as far as I can tell no computer operating system has the slightest sense of importance.

June 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

Obscured by clouds: how to lose your audiobooks

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There are subtle but very important differences between iTunes in the Cloud, and iCloud Backup.

June 12, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Result Not Defined

When do you expect your Time Machine backup disk to start running out of space?

June 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Blogs in Flames

JournalSpace.com was not the first such site to vanish after disaster, and it will sadly not be the last.

June 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Breaking RAID

Can I remove the disks from my Data Tale RAID system to storage and replace them with fresh drives?

May 31, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Trashing a backup

I have put over 140,000 files of around 270 GB from an old Time Machine backup into the Trash, and am now trying to empty the Trash. How can I expedite it?

May 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Backing up iPhoto and Photos Libraries

I tried copying my iPhoto Libraries to my NAS drive, but that failed. How should I back these up?

May 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

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