I royally screwed up today. Long story short, in trying to help my wife fix a bug she was having in an app on her iMac, I accidentally executed an rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences. This blew away all the settings in her various applications. She is a wedding photographer, so I essentially reset her Lightroom back … Read more
I am struggling to restore my system from a MacBook Pro of one generation to a more new one. What I have tried: I restart the system in recover mode: “cmd + r” I choose the proper backup version from my Time Machine hard drive I “Accept” but id doesn’t allow me because is a … Read more
Background: My OSX partition was corrupted in some way by bootcamp or the paragon i was running on it. Similar incidents has happened twice before, but I don’t remember if the triggering conditions were exactly the same. This particular time, I initially had windows 7 on bootcamp go into sleep mode. However, I forgot about … Read more
I’ve had FileVault turned one since I purchased my Mac. I recently turned it off and I’ve found that I can no longer access my older backups from when FileVault was enabled. Is there any way to gain access to these backups or will I have to turn FileVault back on again? Thanks! Edit : … Read more
I am trying to figure out how to reliably back up my 2013 MacBook pro to my Windows 7 desktop, living on the same network. The Windows machine is hardwired and the MacBook is connected via WiFi. The windows PC has a shared folder, named “MBP-TimeMachine”. I created a TimeMachine.sparsebundle disk image on my MacBook … Read more
My current (being phased out) setup on my iMac is SSD contains OS, HDD contains my home folder. /Volumes/iMacSSD/ is the OS /Volumes/iMacSSD/Users/iMac or /Users/iMac is a symlink to /Volumes/iMacHDD/iMac /Volumes/iMacHDD/ is my 2T HDD I want to put everything on. There is enough room! On the time machine backup, that is how it is … Read more
Pressing CMD+R on startup, after selecting the source to restore a Time Machine backup, an external HDD partition is being refused, the error message roughly states: A Time Machine backup of an APFS system can’t be restored onto a non-SSD partition It’s not a backup of an APFS system tho, it was a regular journaled … Read more
Due to the fact that Apple has dropped support for all Wifi devices I have opted to migrate my home office Wifi to a Ubiquiti AC-AP-Pro with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X SFP as the main firewall/router. The setup has the EdgeRouter out front with 1 WAN (eth0), 3 LAN (eth1-eth3) and 1 future “DMZ” (eth4). … Read more
I have Time machine backing up every hour, so it will run inevitably at least once while I’m watching a (totally legally downloaded) movie, which I happen to store in the same external drive as the time capsule, so when it’s backing up the reproduction has some hiccups that mess all the video compression for … Read more
Running High Sierra. I used a Seagate external hard drive and a Verbatim hard drive for Time Machine backup. Suddenly they are both not recognised by the iMac. The power lights are on and the disks are spinning. I have tried direct connection and via a usb hub. I have tried different cables. I have … Read more
