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Q&A: Time Machine or file server backup?

Our ten Macs back up work in progress to a server. Should they also run Time Machine?

September 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Changing Time Machine

My Time Machine backup has mysteriously changed name. Should I worry?

September 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

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: Ghost in the Time Machine

Although I have disabled Time Machine, my Mac still runs periodic Time Machine backups.

August 10, 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

Result Not Defined

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

June 11, 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: Time Machine error 28

Backups fail in the last 0.02 GB with a log entry of ‘error 28’. How can I get Time Machine working again?

May 20, 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

Q&A: Who owns my old backups?

Following a system restore on my MacBook, running OS X 10.6.8, I have lost permission to access backups prior to the restore. How can I fix this?

May 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

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