When and how to use Migration Assistant to move apps, settings and documents to a new or previously owned Mac. Also how a Mac can claim an old Mac’s backups.
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How to back up all your iCloud Drive documents, minimise snapshot size, keep integrity checks in important files, and more.
What is Time Machine best at doing? What are its current limitations in macOS Sonoma, when backing up to APFS? A draft list.
Good space management doesn’t bring new emoji, but it makes a big difference when the Finder doesn’t give completely inaccurate figures for Available space. A practical demonstration of its gross errors.
For many users, it’s essential to be able to check the integrity of the data which are in a backup. This feature has changed when backing up to APFS.
When your backups are stored on hard disks, even though they may use APFS, it’s important to check they’re sound. How to do better than Disk Utility.
Don’t clutter your backups with files you’d never want to restore. Here are five methods to exclude items from Time Machine backups to keep them leaner.
Given their very different structure, backups on APFS disks shouldn’t require routine maintenance. Checking and repair is performed using Disk Utility.
How to check whether the files in a Time Machine backup are intact and uncorrupted. Only what do you do with the results?
The three tools which Apple provides to control Time Machine are its System Preferences pane, the Time Machine […]
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