If you are a Time Machine user, this may interest you. Have you ever attached a hard drive to your Mac to use with Time Machine, but Time Machine does not recognize it?
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Tag: Backup
Backup Strategy
There are several articles on Macessence about backing up your Macs. I did not think one more would hurt, especially since it describes a very simple strategy that anyone can
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Offsite Backups
About six months ago I decided it would be a good idea to have an offsite backup. After doing some research I went with Backblaze. Yes, I have other in
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BackBlaze Offsite Backup
If you know anything about backups, you have heard that an offsite backup of your Mac is a necessity. I have several different backups of my iMac Data, but no
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Deleting Old Backups In iCloud
It seems like we are always looking for ways to recover more hard drive space on our Macs and in our iCloud storage plans. There are all kinds of ways to
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Verifying Backups
Hopefully, most people have seen the light and are running some type of backup and/or backups of their Macs. Backups are crucial in our workflow, but there is a problem
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Preparing Your Mac For Mojave
Surely we will be getting a few of these articles over the next month or so on preparing for the macOS Mojave upgrade. I am still running Beta’s, but Mojave
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Backup Your Mac The Apple Way
I know most of you are backing up your Macs, and hopefully your iOS devices as well. However, if you are new to Mac or have recently gotten a new
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