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New Mac troubleshooting page

For three years, I have maintained a troubleshooting article here which provides a short summary listing of the […]

June 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine 14: Diagnosing and working around slow backups

How can you tell what causing a backup to run so slowly? If it is this bug, what can you do about it? A plain user’s guide.

February 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Duff disk or normal behaviour?

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Surely these problems with Time Machine are old hat and not news? Or are they simply errors occurring with disks or the file system?

February 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 9 Inside backup support files

How can you tell what was backed up when Time Machine last ran a routine backup? Here’s one way to find out, and detailed info on its support files.

January 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 6 Networked storage

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From its first release, Time Machine has been designed to back up over a network. So why the problems? And how you can make your own NAS.

December 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 4 Problems with backups

What to do when there are problems with a backup, or you want to delete backups or their contents.

December 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Are you having weird problems with Catalina?

Are you worried about strange and serious problems occurring when you upgrade to Catalina? Here are strategies to prevent and deal with them.

December 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 3 Analysing automatic backups

Looking at failure of automatic backups, cancelled backups, and errors occurring when backing up, using T2M2, from Sierra to Catalina.

December 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 2 What it writes in the log

Detailed log excerpts showing normal backups in 10.12 to 10.15, with some of the more common errors encountered.

December 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 1 How it works, or fails to

New series looking at how TM works, what its problems are, what tools to use to diagnose those, and how to fix it.

December 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

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