OMGGG Joel, of all the hundreds of YT hours I have and educational vlogs I WISH I found your channel sooner. Best teacher of the Mac tech know how that I need, just enough detail, clear, concise, visuals. "Hidden" features, EZ pro tips. No channel is better at this guys. Joel pls keep forging ahead.
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Joel I am a 76 year old retired businessman who has been using Macs for home and personal use for 25+ years. I agree whole heartedly with Ronny. I wish I had found you sooner.You are the absolute best Mac resource. I have just become one of your newest subscribers and one of your oldest by age. Thank you. I wish you continued success. Ed
Hi Joel, what fantastic content thank you (now subscribed) My 2TB Time Capsule (7years old) is now full & deleting the oldest back ups. I have just purchased a 6TB WD ‘My Book’. When that’s connected do I just disconnect the old Time Capsule, can I transfer the oldest back ups to the new hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I cannot find an answer to my specific query. Thank you. 👍
Joel. It is late September 2022. I am 71½ years of age. I have never had a computer lesson in my life. I use Macs because I like them. I have learnt more about Time Machine and Pages in 24 minutes 33 seconds than I have ever known in my entire life. I am now a happy old man. Thank you, sir.
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I'm 74 and have learning difficulties, so I'm over the moon that I stumbled across this tutorial. I am so happy, in fact, that I immediately subscribed to all the notifications. Your efforts are very much appreciated, and I'll try to soak in as much as possible. 🇦🇺
Joel, I am a what could be called a computer illiterate person, and I just have one thing to say: Thank You! It was a very informative video, even I could understand it. So, thank you one more time.
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I was looking for a comprehensive video on Time Machine and NO ONE spoke of backing it up to another device or network. This has been immensely helpful. Thank you so much. Can’t imagine lol the notes you would have to had to make to collate all the information in a systematic and cohesive manner. Thank you 🙏🏼
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I am an 80-year-old retired ost-production manager/localization producer who has used Macs since TV productions changed from analog to digital workflows (1922). I took training in Avid and Protools but never in OS operation. I just learned by doing so, but I have been frustrated with Time Machine, especially with moving backups to new Macs. In 24:19, I've learned more about Time Machine operation/ Foile Sharing/ Restoration than in 32 years of fumbling around with OS from 9 through 12. That is why I've subscribed to you on UA-cam. My only complaint is that I have to view your tutorials on one machine and stop often to recreate your instructions on another machine on another Mac. I guess I am a slow learner these days. Reply
@@Learnwithjoel Clicking on the format the drive within Time Machine was super helpful (and the performance is much better than using it with EXFAT). Thanks again!
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Great video. Very thorough. Please also mention that TimeMachine backups are sometimes prone to corrupting, especially if you need to restore a whole computer from backup, so use a good drive, and if able multiple backup locations.
Thanks for the feedback @Eric Chang! I agree that you should always have more than one backup and try and follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Carbon Copy or ChronoSync are great alternatives to Time Machine! I think the software experience of Time Machine can be pretty clunky, but if you know where your files are at, you can always drill down to the file location via the Finder. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Excellent video, with a clear and easily understandable explanation. I’m familiar with the basic operation of time machine, but this gave some very useful extra information. Really helpful, thanks!
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Nice Clear instructions, lots of things I didn't know - thanks :). However, I don't trust wireless backups. Back when Time Capsules were new I had my time machine go corrupt after about 3 months, I gave up after this happened 3 times. Not long after I got myself a Synology NAS I set this up for Time Machine and this also corrupted after about 3 months. So I now plug a USB 2TB hard drive into my MacBook Pro and use that so far no problems after over many years.
Excellent video Joel, I tried to install MacOs beta yesterday and machine prompted me to do the time machine backup. Until then I had not even thought about it. Glad I found your video. It has everything I wanted. Great work.
This was a very thorough, in-depth, and easy to understand along the way of what Time Machine is and the various options and possibilities associated with it... Great stuff...!!!
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I learned a lot and your video is appreciated. Thanks to you I have my computer backed up and I will be backing up my wife’s. You’ve earned a thumbs up and a subscriber.
This is by far the best and most thorough video I have seen on backups for the Mac...it answered so many questions. I have saved this link because I want to see what else you have done, Joel.
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If you buy a hard drive with more space then you need for a backup you can partition the hard drive and format that partition to a Mac and the other partition to ms-dos or xfat to be used on windows. Im sure you know this but not sure if you have a video on that for others to know. Thank you your videos are verry helpful.
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Great video with lots of detail on time machine. You did this one very important point that is a game changer for me. How to make sure Time Machine backs up external drives. Many people don’t think you can use time machine to back up an external drive but it is indeed possible. Thanks again
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I just recently discovered your channel and your videos are excellent! Your style is easy to follow and I will be viewing much more of your great stuff. You are truly a superb teacher and I hope your UA-cam channel continues to grow. Be well.
Very Intensive, informative and helpful. I am a advocate of Time Machine having used it for all my Mac Years and have flawlessly transferred all data from Time Machine (Disk)(LaCie) to my New Mac. It's an amazing utility and everyone that has a Mac should be using this. Great job on the tutorial/video!!
Hi Bill I hope you don't mind me asking, when the disk is full will Time Machine warn you to allow you not to lose any files that are old that it would otherwise basically start to disgard to make space? Not one video on UA-cam it seems to cover this very important point. Last year I lost a file as it was the oldest folder on my back up, seems Time Machine didn't take into account it was the only version as in the oldest and the newest of that project. I keep an eye out manually to see how kuch space is left on the back up disc to avoid it happening again. Thanks.
@@JB12132 A legit concern and one that comes up with my clients a lot. You’re right, Time Machine will not give you a warning before it deletes older versions of backups to make space for new backups. It only stores as many backups as it can fit on that hard-drive. My rule of thumb? Use a Time Machine (TM for short) hard drive that is twice the size of your Mac’s internal hard-drive capacity. And depending on if you’re adding GBs to your Mac regularly, you may even want to triple or quadruple the size of your Time Machine hard-drive to allow for more backups. You can kind of calculate how much data you’re using each week or month to figure out how big of a TM hard drive you need. Look at your Mac’s available storage capacity. You can find this by clicking the Apple 🍏 in the upper left corner of the screen then About This Mac > Storage. If you’re running Ventura or later, select System Settings > search storage. Note how much storage max capacity you have and how much is AVAILABLE. Check again in a week or two. That’ll give you an idea of your data “burn rate” and how much extra space you need on Time Machine to cover backups. 🎉 For example, if you noted you are currently using 250GB out of 500GB, then you check again in a week and it’s 260GB out of 500GB. That’s a 10GB increase in 1 week. Say your TM is 1TB or 1000GB - you’d have 740GB of space available for backups. At a burn rate of 10GB per week that’s 74 weeks of backups, give or take depending if you add more, less or delete stuff. You can also use 2 hard-drives in Time Machine that will alternate backups by adding another backup disk. All possible options so you don’t have to keep checking manually 😊 I hope that answered your question! 🧡
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Awesome....a lot of information. I plan to watch again tomorrow. I did start my Time Machine back up...thank you. It reads 5 hours but this is an almost full 500gb SSD MacBook Pro from 2016 and I have never backed it up. I will back it up to the 1Tb SSD I bought today then go from there....thank you.
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Brilliant video, thank you for the priceless info! I have been having some trouble downloading my TimeMachine backups to my new SSD. The message I received on my last attempt was "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Photo Library Migration Utility” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)". It would be awesome if you could advise me how I get passed this. I've also tried to simply restore from the old drive via Disk Utility but also ran into problems, apparently the new drive isn't in the right format, even though they are exactly the same (both Mac journaled and GUID partition). Also my new SSD is 1TB where as my old HDD is 2TB. I'm only using around 800GB but am unsure if the new drive needs to not only have enough space, but at least match the storage size of the drive being restored from? I hope this all made sense and eagerly await a reply from anyone who can help.
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Thanks for a helpful and detailed explanation. I've been backing up my macbook with time machine for nearly 10 years and have never yet had to restore anything but it's nice to know how to do it if I need to.
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Hi @zrohit! Are there some specific errors that you're getting? What temp files are you referring too. I know @Apple has a support article for Time Machine troubleshooting that I will link below for reference: Time Machine troubleshooting on Mac support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/time-machine-troubleshooting-mh15653/mac Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
It’s actually *very* good that the Time Capsule is still supported. I have 2 and will be using them until the end of time. They give me backup WiFi’s (beside my high speed router), and backups via Time Machine without having to plug in an external drive!
Been a TM user since 2007 or so. The major issue with it is that it is not cloud-friendly. Therefore, it’s not straightforward to implement a true 3-2-1 backup strategy without using multiple solutions. So, I use TM to backup to both an external drive and a local NAS, and I use another solution to move important content to the cloud. It’s not as elegant as I would like, but it works.
Great points @1_lens_view! I would say it's hard to use a tool like Time Machine that was originally designed to backup local devices like the Mac. As far as backing up cloud content, I think it's tricky. Often with new features like "file on demand" It's hard to backup files to a local hard drive, when the cloud files are designed to be offloaded to the cloud and not be stored on the computer. So you're totally right. To have the full true 3-2-1 strategy, it requires multiple options. Thanks for the insight and thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Great video. Another approach that expands on the "back up to a remote, shared folder, blessed for Time Machine, that resides on a networked Mac " is to share a externally connected Time Machine drive and share and bless it for TM. As long as you don't have your Time Machine backups encrypted (argh-few hours of head-scratching on that one), the remote Mac-connected Time Machine drive will be available anywhere on your network. Brilliant!
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Thank you Joel!! This will help me immensely! I'm getting ready to upgrade from Macos Ventura 13.4.1 to Sequoia 15.1 Will I be able to go back to Ventura if for some reason I don't like Sequoia using my TM backup? Thanks again, appreciate it. Great Job as always!!! 👍
Hi @rapaent, So typically once you upgrade to a newer macOS, it's a little bit more challenging to revert it back without going through a recovery process and wiping the computer and kinda starting from scratch. There is a way to go into recovery mode and just install the macOS and not touch system files, but there's always room for error. Using Time Machine you would most likely have to wipe the computer to get it back to the previous macOS and then restore from Time Machine...kinda a pain. Change is always an opportunity for growth, especially when it comes to technology! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video. It is greatly appreciated! If this video has been helped you, I would be honored if you would consider sharing it with your social media network and expressing your gratitude for its assistance. Kindly subscribe if you have not already done so. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.
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I just gave up my 2017 MBA for a new M2 MBA. I set up the new one from the old one direct. When I plugged the original Time Machine in it was clearly not performing right. As I really didn’t have anything important from way back I decided to fully reformat in APFS and then started Time Machine from scratch. Much happier. I don’t know what format system I had on the old Time Machine but it really did not like the new machine. Your info here suggests it might have tried to start as a second computer. Anyhow, it’s all great again.
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Hi Joel, First thank you so much, this video is very helpful and clear. I have a few questions: I am looking to put away photos and folders on an external hard drive because I don't necessarily want to have them on my Macbook but want to store them somewhere, time machine doesn't seem to do that but just copying the laptop data at a certain time so if I would to erased the data from the MacBook and then the old time machine version would erase itself to make space for new ones, then all the previous folders and photos would be gone as well no? (I hope this is clear enough) Thank you in advance for your answer 🙏🏽
Fantastic question @juliedasse2245! You are correct. Time Machine is designed to make a mirror image of everything on an Apple Computer. It backs up the changes every time it's plugged in or whenever it's set to. If a file gets deleted on the computer, it will still live on the Time Machine backup. This way you can restore the file if needed. Now here's the issue...Let's say you've had your laptop and Time Machine working together for a few years and your Time Machine starts to get full. When that happens it will start to delete your oldest Time Machine backups. Now let's say you realized you have a file that is 5 years old and it was in the first original backup. That file could potentially be lost as Time Machine will delete really old backups to make room for new backups. So for your original question, here is what I would do. It sounds like you're looking to just archive some of your photos and files on external drive, but not have it stored on the same Time Machine drive for the reasons above. I would dedicate an external drive for archival purposes where you manually organize and copy your files to it. If you're worried about that archive drive being backed up, you can always have Time Machine back up a Computer and an external drive at the same time. If you plug in your "archival" drive I'll call it...into the Mac that also has the Time Machine drive plugged in, you can have Time Machine backup that external drive in addition to your Mac. I hope that makes sense! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
Thanks for your video, Joel, very helpful and informative, really appreciate the awesome effort you put into this one. Your channel among a handful is the reason why UA-cam is a gift. More power to you.
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Excellent video. So thorough and organized. I will actually keep this aside as a reference video because I know with everything thats packed in here I will use it again. New Sub here. Thank you Joel!
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Excellent content! Demystified something that wasn't actually all that mysterious once I watch your tutorial. Backing up brand new Time Machine as I type this.
Thanks so much @F Greenfield! Time Machine is a good start to backing up files on your Mac if you don't currently have any backup! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Thank you for this tutorial! Big question is what if I switch to a new windows computer. Is it possible to transfer files that were stored on a Mac to a Window computer?
Great question @kathleendeedailey253! Unfortunately Time Machine backups are exclusive to only Macs. Windows doesn't have the software to read the files created on a Mac. Plus the hard drive needs to be formatted for only Macs. If you ever need to copy files from a Mac to a windows computer, your best bet is to manually copy the files using an external hard drive. I hope that helps! Thank you so much for taking your time to watch this video! If it was helpful or you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support the content I make, click THANKS at the top, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! Your support helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
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Great video, very informative. This is my situation, first I need to back up my MacBook, then in order to have additional space I wanted to delete some of the files from my Mac. My question is when I delete the files will they also get deleted in Time Machine or still be there? Hope that doesn't sound too confusing.
Great questions @johnschweinberg8085! If a Mac is using Time Machine to back up the files to the external hard drive, you would be able to delete files from the Mac and they would not be deleted from the Time Machine backup. However just keep in mind that if your goal is to free up space and that data now only lives on the external hard drive running Time Machine, it's not considered backed up anymore. If Time Machine fills up, it will start deleting the oldest backups or if something happened to that drive itself, you would lose the data. So just keep that in mind. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Awsome video, I just got my first macbook pro and it has the M1 chip but going from pc to Mac has been a learning curve and I already had to revert back and downgrade to Monterey because I do music production as a hobby and almost nothing is ready for ventura yet but your video has now given me clear understanding of the time machine and how it all works and how to even set it up.. thanks for the video!
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Great question @AKPAN0007! Yes, Time Machine has the ability to use one external hard drive and connect multiple Macs to it to backup. You would treat the process the same for both/all Macs. Usually after it backs up, you will have folders for each Mac (named whatever the Mac is) Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Great question @Marcus Barnes! Over the years I've purchased so many tiny portable external hard drives and finally last year I bought a Pegasus Promise RAID drive. They're a bit more expensive, but certainly have many benefits to them. I'll link below for reference: Promise Technology Pegasus32 R4 amzn.to/40BmHxx You can configure in many different ways and can be a great long term solution. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
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i want to format my Imac and install catalina again, cause catalina runs very well and i use a lot of video / music software, i am afraid that when i will install a new operative system, my mac will show me only Monterrey, is that the case?
Hey @Rico Casazza! So did you upgrade to Monterey and you're looking to downgrade back to Catalina? Keep in mind this is totally possible, but it will result in reformatting your hard drive within your Mac! I can reference some helpful links if that's what you're trying to do! I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Thanks for the video! Not sure if anyone's already pointed this out but Microsoft Office on Mac also has the ability to restore previous versions of files but only if they're stored on OneDrive. A bit off-topic. ;)
Thanks for a fantastically clear discussion of Time Machine, which I’d never really understood before. I’m going to set it up tomorrow. And I’ve subscribed to your channel. I hope to learn a lot from you. Thanks again!
Another outstanding video. I have been using Apple computers for many years and I am still learning new stuff from your videos. Thank you! My wife is about to order a new MacBook and I want to get her an external drive for Time Machine. The new (7/2022) small SSD drives like the one shown in the video are very appealing. I have a question about them. Some of the information I have read discusses overheating issues. Have you, or anyone reading this, experienced these problems? Thanks for any help and thanks again for the great videos.
Hi, my MacBook screen is cracked. I had setup time machine a few months ago. If I plug my external hard drive (used for time machine) into my damaged MacBook will it automatically backup on time machine?
Sorry to hear about the broken screen @Sam B! From my understanding Time Machine does not start backing up unless a user is logged in. I tried to look for specific documentation on it, but found nothing that answers that particular question. Always keep in mind you can plug your MacBook into another monitor like a TV or computer monitor via HDMI or USB-C (depending on connection and adapters). This would give you the ability to log in and get a fresh backup or just use your Mac in general. Also know that depending what MacBook you have, replacing the whole display may be easier than you think. Screens are for sure expensive, but if you don't want to get repaired through Apple, check out www.ifixit.com. They usually have excellent prices on parts and their tutorials and guides to take apart apple devices are the best! I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and the content I’m creating, please feel free to SUBSCRIBE and use SUPER THANKS on the video if you haven’t already! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
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i have had a mac for years and not used this, amazing. i am creating a workbook for my IT students and thought this time machine is great for my dad because he has had issues with his iMac 2009 so a back up now is imperative. i got him an external hard drive i- thank you
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Brilliant lesson and really enjoyed. Nobody else has demonstrated how to make my external drive visible and I've watched a few. I have a 2013 iMac and have just bought a new Mac Mini. I've been storing stuff in iCloud but not really sure what is up there. Is it better to transfer/back up all the files onto a new external hard drive or just transfer everything to my new Mac Mini please? Also, am I correct in thinking that once the transfer/back up is completed all my files will be deleted from my old iMac? Thanks in advance.
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Excellent summary of features. My camera only has one memory card. On vacation, I can copy the contents of the SD card to my Mac in order to have a backup. If I don't have my computer, what equipment do you suggest?
Thanks @Marc Hinderickx! If you don't have a computer, you could copy files to an iPhone or iPad, but you'd need adapters and enough space to accommodate files. Western Digital also makes a wireless external hard drive that has a built in SD card reader, where you can plug your SD memory card directly into it and copy the files directly to the external hard drive with no computer and there's another product called a Gnarbox that does the similar thing. I don't own any of these personally, but have read some of the reviews on it. May be worth a shot if this solves a need. I will link below for reference: WD 2TB My Passport Wireless SSD External Portable Drive amzn.to/3ZpTpBs GNARBOX - Portable Backup & Editing System for Any Camera amzn.to/3F4fAF8 Other than that, with no computer and no additional SD card slots to write to two cards, this may be your best bet. I hope that helps! Thank you for your continued support! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Very informative, but unless I missed it I was looking for this solution. I have my photo raw files on an external drive, can I get time machine to back up both my Mac HDD and the external drive or even a second external drive as I may wish to store edited photos on a second ext hd.
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Hey thanks for the detailed video!! But just one question if icloud photos are on with optimized storage would they still be included in the icloud backup??
Great question @Abhi Singh! Actually, iCloud Photos among some other items are not stored/backed up within iCloud Backup. Also keep in mind that if you're using Time Machine and you have the settings within Apple Photos to Optimize Mac Storage, it's not really backing up those high quality original photos either, only the optimized files and anything that may be downloaded... Check out these other videos on iCloud and backup: iCLOUD BACKUPS - WHAT you NEED TO KNOW when it comes to backing up PHOTOS, iPHONES and your devices! ua-cam.com/video/7ep9pREplD8/v-deo.html How to BACKUP iCLOUD PHOTOS! Options for your Mac, iPhone and iPad! Cloud or No Cloud! ua-cam.com/video/pWZZlYU62ts/v-deo.html What does iCloud back up? support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428 I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hello, to my understanding TM works only on Mac If you have boot camp / parallel / windows TM won’t back that partook up ? I think carbon copy cloned is one that will, at any rate there are/ or were solutions ou there when I looked into it. It got too complicated for me so I started just backing up docs and photos on externals that were formatted to be compatible with both Mac and windows (before the newer Mac format came along…. Hoping I will still be able to access info on those externals if I need to)
I still have an apple time capsule with an external hard drive connected to it however I've had trouble backing up anything in the last two years. I don't use my Macs that often but are my problems because time capsule isn't supported anymore? Should I do away with the time capsule and upgrade to a newer router? thanks
Great tutorial but I have a question if you can help. I’m already doing a time machine back up to two of my external hard drives, is it possible to do time machine back ups to back blaze or some type of cloud based back up this way in case I have a fire I won’t lose everything
Hi @Randy singer! Time Machine certainly has some limitations. I would say if you're at the point you want more control to backup files to a cloud service, I would highly recommend to check out ChronoSync! I will leave a link below for reference: ChronoSync by econ www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/what-is-chronosync.html This software is like Time Machine on steroids! It has so many more options than Time Machine has ever had. Check it out and it may be a good solution for you to upgrade to. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Just to make sure I heard right, using your other Macs on your network enables you to back up your main computer WIRELESSLY to them, meaning it has to be over WiFi and not on my ethernet LAN? That is like the Migration Assistant that will only work computer to computer over WiFi which is MUCH slower than EN? If I want to use the faster EN, then I have to do it manually and I don't know what files have to be transferred and where to find them for mail, safari passwords, and other saved files that need to be transferred in order to mirror my computers. Does the "Network Attached System" circumvent this?
Great questions @bdphourde! I think the wireless options are all for convenience for those who don't want or can't run cat5 cables around. Ethernet will always be faster than wifi. I personally would never backup my main Mac to another Mac over wifi. Just too slow. I personally would go with an external drive and plug it in. You can also use the same external hard drive for multiple Macs and it will keep the files separate. Also when you want to restore files, you usually would not go though the typical file structure. You would use the Time Machine interface to locate files within Finder and restore them that way. Also things like Safari Passwords and other items that may be in iCloud and not fully cached/saved on the Mac would not be in the Time Machine backup, so keep that in mind too! If you got a Network Attached Storage (NAS), this would be the most ideal to "wirelessly" backup up one or multiple Macs in your home. You could have that hard wired into your network for all of your Macs to see. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
Hi Joel, if i have a multiple devices such as Iphone and Ipad with limited storage on my mac mini..how can i back up to external SSD ? any suggestions thanks in advance
Great question @Rami_Tank! I don't believe you can change the default location of where the iOS devices are backed up, but you should be able to locate them and move them manually to an external drive. I found an Apple Support Article that should help that I'll link below: Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch support.apple.com/en-us/108809 Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued! If this video has proven beneficial, I would be honored if you could share it on social media and express your gratitude for its assistance or click THANKS! Your support helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hey Joel. Will this work for softwares. What I mean is, I have a new Mac mini m4 but have been using a MacBook Pro m2 for my studio music stuff. I want to have the Mac mini be used for studio stuff but I had to download a lot of plugins and dmgs so I wonder if time would make the new computer have everything the last one did or would I have to go and re download those installers and dmgs
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Not being able to select specific photos from the Photos Library in Time Machine back up is one of the most frustrating things I've dealt with from Apple. I honestly gave up a long time ago trying to figure this out. Let me know if you've gathered any solutions. Love the video and thanks for all the help, Cheers!
I couldn't agree more @Kelly Cooney! It's extremely frustrating. It's even more frustrating knowing that years back, you used to be able to open up Apple Photos, then open Time Machine and it would just go through your photos and you could do backups of specific photos, but not anymore! All I can do is keep bugging Apple Support with feature requests and feedback! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and the content I’m creating, please feel free to SUBSCRIBE and use SUPER THANKS on the video if you haven’t already! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
@@Learnwithjoel Apple Photos is going the way of iTunes and HyperCard. Eventually it will be killed outright. In terms of lost usability, it's not far from that point now.
Really thorough explanation, Joel. Thank you! One question about using Time Machine to back up to a NAS: Am I correct that is is the only one of the scenarios that does not require the destination location to be formatted as an Apple drive?
I recently attempted this yesterday and tried to drag and drop . It worked but not without error notification and messed up meta data. Really dislike having my meta data messed up in front of me when exporting from photos App Library. In preview it’s also messed up. Its insane how many years I suffered with managing my photos in iCloud , I lost originals due to the confusing diy process of exporting while also not having photos backed up to the cloud for a brief period. I had duplicates trying not to lose originals. I lost my mind with the iCloud process and “referenced files” too scared to delete anything from icloud. I just want to go back to the old days of the simplicity of photo file management without cloud services. Where if you copy a photo and move it and you know it’s also an original copy and not a referenced file. I lost my mind with iCloud Photos. Slowly recovering. Apple user since 2011. Joel’s video on phone usbs is my way to get out my photos organized and without relying on the iCloud export process . I just want my photos exported with categories and data intact and put on a hard drive and not use the photos app or icloud.
@kellycooney2566 I haven’t tried this myself since I’ve luckily haven’t needed to… yet, but it sure sound really stupid. Got me thinking though. Can’t you just TM back to a backup of the .photoslibrary that contain the photo you need. Recover that backup of .photoslibrary to a new location. Open that library and export the photo you’re looking for. Remove the new .photoslibrary and import the recovered photo in your old library again. It’s not elegant, nor efficient, nor for everyone, but I think it should work. It does require that you have space on either you internal HDD/SSD or an external for the recovered .photoslibrary. And it also requires that you don’t use iCloud optimize storage for your photos on the Mac.
Question, how much processing power is the backup taking when implemented, especially the first time, ie can you continue to video edit and or process images in photoshop or Lightroom with no noticeable side effects or slowdown?
Hi @TROGGYWOGGY! I think there may be a lot of variables to that question. The first time Time Machine backups up it certainly takes forever and Apple does specifically recommend to start it overnight so it can run by itself while you're sleeping. That would be my recommendation. Also keep in mind you can always pause Time Machine backup and it will pick up where you left off the next time you plug it in. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Fantastic question @Russ Whitman! I wasn't 100% sure, so I just plugged in my Time Machine backup and made a partition and a volume on it and it retained the partition for the Time Machine Backup. Granted I am currently on my Mac running macOS 13.2 beta Ventura, but I would imagine if you're on the latest 13.1, you should be good. I personally do recommend to always have one drive for the dedicated backup and keep that as the only use, but I did test and you can partition if needed. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Yet to watch this video but can I ask will Time Machine tell me it’s full before it starts overwriting old files? Last year I lost a folder as it was the oldest folder on the back up as in not been touched the longest and it got overwritten. Lost it. I was hoping it would delete the oldest copy of it. I might have e missed a message saying back up disk full. Thanks 🙏
Hey Joel! Quick question - how do i take backups on my photos directly on the hard drive without going through cloud? Does time machine not take a backup of the Mac unless it is on icloud? I don't see the photos icon on my time machine unfortunately.
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Great question @Robert Gerety! Yes, assuming you Macs support the "Power Nap" feature, it would backup while asleep. What is Power Nap on Mac? support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-power-nap-mh40773/mac Turn Power Nap on or off on Mac support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-power-nap-on-or-off-mh40774/12.0/mac/12.0 I will say though that with the pervious macOS, the "Power Nap" option was clearly defined as "Power Nap" in the System Preferences...Now they just have battery optimization and energy modes... If you search "power nap" within the System Preferences, it will take you to the settings and depending on what macOS you're running, you may or may not see it. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Thanks Joel. Backing up to a local mac gave me an idea that I want to run by you. I have 2015 mbp monterey, and an older mac mini (not to mention a 2008mb and 2013 mbp. I still use them all intermittently but only go online with the newest ? ha. I upgraded the mini hdd to ssd! thanks to crucial and ifixit. That was fun. However... mostly the mini just sits as I didn't want to push it with the new OS. What do you think of just using it as an external archive drive.... will that work? (Erase and reformat - connect with cable not wifi) My eventual purpose is to get all my ancient files off of old drives that I have put into external cases from way way back, when I used to be organized on Windows xp and since then with all my failed attempts at simplifying! Lots of photos, duplicates, photos of work on houses. I have been studying this time before jumping in and making a new mess. Our internet is antiquated and I am - much of the time not connected so I LOVE the local storage idea.... both archive without TM and an intermittently used time machine drive. Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated!
Hey Joel, I'm trying to get up one disk to back up two macbooks. How do you get it to function as one disk with folders rather than two separate disks? When i try it, i have to eject two disk one for each macbook instead of just one like yours shows.
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OMGGG Joel, of all the hundreds of YT hours I have and educational vlogs I WISH I found your channel sooner. Best teacher of the Mac tech know how that I need, just enough detail, clear, concise, visuals. "Hidden" features, EZ pro tips. No channel is better at this guys. Joel pls keep forging ahead.
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So agree. Joel is awesome. So clear, so direct, overall, just a really good teacher.
Joel I am a 76 year old retired businessman who has been using Macs for home and personal use for 25+ years. I agree whole heartedly with Ronny. I wish I had found you sooner.You are the absolute best Mac resource. I have just become one of your newest subscribers and one of your oldest by age. Thank you. I wish you continued success. Ed
Hi Joel, what fantastic content thank you (now subscribed) My 2TB Time Capsule (7years old) is now full & deleting the oldest back ups. I have just purchased a 6TB WD ‘My Book’. When that’s connected do I just disconnect the old Time Capsule, can I transfer the oldest back ups to the new hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I cannot find an answer to my specific query. Thank you. 👍
Joel. It is late September 2022. I am 71½ years of age. I have never had a computer lesson in my life. I use Macs because I like them. I have learnt more about Time Machine and Pages in 24 minutes 33 seconds than I have ever known in my entire life. I am now a happy old man. Thank you, sir.
Hi can you recover the OS from time machine?
You certainly can @KUMBIRAI NYAMAPFENI!
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I'm 74 and have learning difficulties, so I'm over the moon that I stumbled across this tutorial.
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Thanks! what a handy little feature! Trying it out on you
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Joel, I am a what could be called a computer illiterate person, and I just have one thing to say: Thank You! It was a very informative video, even I could understand it. So, thank you one more time.
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I was looking for a comprehensive video on Time Machine and NO ONE spoke of backing it up to another device or network. This has been immensely helpful. Thank you so much.
Can’t imagine lol the notes you would have to had to make to collate all the information in a systematic and cohesive manner.
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I am an 80-year-old retired ost-production manager/localization producer who has used Macs since TV productions changed from analog to digital workflows (1922). I took training in Avid and Protools but never in OS operation. I just learned by doing so, but I have been frustrated with Time Machine, especially with moving backups to new Macs. In 24:19, I've learned more about Time Machine operation/ Foile Sharing/ Restoration than in 32 years of fumbling around with OS from 9 through 12. That is why I've subscribed to you on UA-cam. My only complaint is that I have to view your tutorials on one machine and stop often to recreate your instructions on another machine on another Mac. I guess I am a slow learner these days.
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@@Learnwithjoel Clicking on the format the drive within Time Machine was super helpful (and the performance is much better than using it with EXFAT). Thanks again!
Another winner from Joel! Had burning Time Machine questions for - years - now, answered!
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Great video. Very thorough. Please also mention that TimeMachine backups are sometimes prone to corrupting, especially if you need to restore a whole computer from backup, so use a good drive, and if able multiple backup locations.
Thanks for the feedback @Eric Chang!
I agree that you should always have more than one backup and try and follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Carbon Copy or ChronoSync are great alternatives to Time Machine!
I think the software experience of Time Machine can be pretty clunky, but if you know where your files are at, you can always drill down to the file location via the Finder.
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Excellent video, with a clear and easily understandable explanation. I’m familiar with the basic operation of time machine, but this gave some very useful extra information. Really helpful, thanks!
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Nice Clear instructions, lots of things I didn't know - thanks :). However, I don't trust wireless backups. Back when Time Capsules were new I had my time machine go corrupt after about 3 months, I gave up after this happened 3 times. Not long after I got myself a Synology NAS I set this up for Time Machine and this also corrupted after about 3 months. So I now plug a USB 2TB hard drive into my MacBook Pro and use that so far no problems after over many years.
Excellent video Joel, I tried to install MacOs beta yesterday and machine prompted me to do the time machine backup. Until then I had not even thought about it. Glad I found your video. It has everything I wanted. Great work.
This was a very thorough, in-depth, and easy to understand along the way of what Time Machine is and the various options and possibilities associated with it... Great stuff...!!!
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This was the best video of Time Machine that I found. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together.
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I learned a lot and your video is appreciated. Thanks to you I have my computer backed up and I will be backing up my wife’s. You’ve earned a thumbs up and a subscriber.
how did you back it up? i dont think my mac desktop has one because there are no selections when asked
This is by far the best and most thorough video I have seen on backups for the Mac...it answered so many questions. I have saved this link because I want to see what else you have done, Joel.
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If you buy a hard drive with more space then you need for a backup you can partition the hard drive and format that partition to a Mac and the other partition to ms-dos or xfat to be used on windows. Im sure you know this but not sure if you have a video on that for others to know. Thank you your videos are verry helpful.
What a wonderful explanation of Time Machine! It was my first visit to your channel, but I'm now subscribed and will be back often.
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The outro took me by surprise. A pleasant surprise :-) thank you, Joel!
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Great video with lots of detail on time machine. You did this one very important point that is a game changer for me. How to make sure Time Machine backs up external drives. Many people don’t think you can use time machine to back up an external drive but it is indeed possible. Thanks again
Thanks @M Bryars! I probably could have gone a little more in depth on that, but yes, that is a nice option that I don't think is explained very many places.
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I just recently discovered your channel and your videos are excellent! Your style is easy to follow and I will be viewing much more of your great stuff. You are truly a superb teacher and I hope your UA-cam channel continues to grow. Be well.
Very Intensive, informative and helpful. I am a advocate of Time Machine having used it for all my Mac Years and have flawlessly transferred all data from Time Machine (Disk)(LaCie) to my New Mac. It's an amazing utility and everyone that has a Mac should be using this.
Great job on the tutorial/video!!
Hi Bill I hope you don't mind me asking, when the disk is full will Time Machine warn you to allow you not to lose any files that are old that it would otherwise basically start to disgard to make space? Not one video on UA-cam it seems to cover this very important point. Last year I lost a file as it was the oldest folder on my back up, seems Time Machine didn't take into account it was the only version as in the oldest and the newest of that project. I keep an eye out manually to see how kuch space is left on the back up disc to avoid it happening again. Thanks.
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A legit concern and one that comes up with my clients a lot. You’re right, Time Machine will not give you a warning before it deletes older versions of backups to make space for new backups. It only stores as many backups as it can fit on that hard-drive.
My rule of thumb? Use a Time Machine (TM for short) hard drive that is twice the size of your Mac’s internal hard-drive capacity. And depending on if you’re adding GBs to your Mac regularly, you may even want to triple or quadruple the size of your Time Machine hard-drive to allow for more backups.
You can kind of calculate how much data you’re using each week or month to figure out how big of a TM hard drive you need.
Look at your Mac’s available storage capacity. You can find this by clicking the Apple 🍏 in the upper left corner of the screen then About This Mac > Storage. If you’re running Ventura or later, select System Settings > search storage.
Note how much storage max capacity you have and how much is AVAILABLE. Check again in a week or two. That’ll give you an idea of your data “burn rate” and how much extra space you need on Time Machine to cover backups. 🎉
For example, if you noted you are currently using 250GB out of 500GB, then you check again in a week and it’s 260GB out of 500GB. That’s a 10GB increase in 1 week.
Say your TM is 1TB or 1000GB - you’d have 740GB of space available for backups. At a burn rate of 10GB per week that’s 74 weeks of backups, give or take depending if you add more, less or delete stuff.
You can also use 2 hard-drives in Time Machine that will alternate backups by adding another backup disk.
All possible options so you don’t have to keep checking manually 😊
I hope that answered your question! 🧡
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This was a brilliant walkthrough Joel- sat here with a new hard drive looking at the time-machine prompt like WHAT IS DIS.. now I know!
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Awesome....a lot of information. I plan to watch again tomorrow. I did start my Time Machine back up...thank you. It reads 5 hours but this is an almost full 500gb SSD MacBook Pro from 2016 and I have never backed it up. I will back it up to the 1Tb SSD I bought today then go from there....thank you.
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Joel, what a great Time Machine tutorial. You have managed to answer all the questions I had. Thank you so much.
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Thank you Joel !!! After watching this video I will try to back up my new Mac Book to an older external Hard Drive.
Brilliant video, thank you for the priceless info!
I have been having some trouble downloading my TimeMachine backups to my new SSD. The message I received on my last attempt was "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Photo Library Migration Utility” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)".
It would be awesome if you could advise me how I get passed this. I've also tried to simply restore from the old drive via Disk Utility but also ran into problems, apparently the new drive isn't in the right format, even though they are exactly the same (both Mac journaled and GUID partition). Also my new SSD is 1TB where as my old HDD is 2TB. I'm only using around 800GB but am unsure if the new drive needs to not only have enough space, but at least match the storage size of the drive being restored from?
I hope this all made sense and eagerly await a reply from anyone who can help.
Best Time Machine video I've seen. Great step by step instructions. Thanks a ton!!
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Thanks for a helpful and detailed explanation. I've been backing up my macbook with time machine for nearly 10 years and have never yet had to restore anything but it's nice to know how to do it if I need to.
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What can u do if backup fails due to some temp file, is there a way to ignore any errors
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Are there some specific errors that you're getting? What temp files are you referring too.
I know @Apple has a support article for Time Machine troubleshooting that I will link below for reference:
Time Machine troubleshooting on Mac
support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/time-machine-troubleshooting-mh15653/mac
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It’s actually *very* good that the Time Capsule is still supported. I have 2 and will be using them until the end of time. They give me backup WiFi’s (beside my high speed router), and backups via Time Machine without having to plug in an external drive!
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Been a TM user since 2007 or so. The major issue with it is that it is not cloud-friendly. Therefore, it’s not straightforward to implement a true 3-2-1 backup strategy without using multiple solutions. So, I use TM to backup to both an external drive and a local NAS, and I use another solution to move important content to the cloud. It’s not as elegant as I would like, but it works.
Great points @1_lens_view! I would say it's hard to use a tool like Time Machine that was originally designed to backup local devices like the Mac. As far as backing up cloud content, I think it's tricky. Often with new features like "file on demand" It's hard to backup files to a local hard drive, when the cloud files are designed to be offloaded to the cloud and not be stored on the computer.
So you're totally right. To have the full true 3-2-1 strategy, it requires multiple options.
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Great video. Another approach that expands on the "back up to a remote, shared folder, blessed for Time Machine, that resides on a networked Mac " is to share a externally connected Time Machine drive and share and bless it for TM. As long as you don't have your Time Machine backups encrypted (argh-few hours of head-scratching on that one), the remote Mac-connected Time Machine drive will be available anywhere on your network. Brilliant!
Nice tip @Matt Davis! Great idea and thanks for contributing!
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Thank you Joel!! This will help me immensely! I'm getting ready to upgrade from Macos Ventura 13.4.1 to Sequoia 15.1 Will I be able to go back to Ventura if for some reason I don't like Sequoia using my TM backup? Thanks again, appreciate it. Great Job as always!!! 👍
Hi @rapaent,
So typically once you upgrade to a newer macOS, it's a little bit more challenging to revert it back without going through a recovery process and wiping the computer and kinda starting from scratch.
There is a way to go into recovery mode and just install the macOS and not touch system files, but there's always room for error. Using Time Machine you would most likely have to wipe the computer to get it back to the previous macOS and then restore from Time Machine...kinda a pain.
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Excellent teacher, very well done explanations and demos. So useful for a new Mac user.
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I just gave up my 2017 MBA for a new M2 MBA. I set up the new one from the old one direct. When I plugged the original Time Machine in it was clearly not performing right. As I really didn’t have anything important from way back I decided to fully reformat in APFS and then started Time Machine from scratch. Much happier. I don’t know what format system I had on the old Time Machine but it really did not like the new machine. Your info here suggests it might have tried to start as a second computer. Anyhow, it’s all great again.
Just what I needed! Thanks Joel. I can see an individual image in my Adobe Lightroomfolders from my TM Backup. I have no experience of Apple Photos.
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Lightroom is a fantastic application. Certainly a step up from Apple Photos!
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Bravo !!! Well Done !!! I'm off to back up my mac !!! Thank you
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Hi Joel, First thank you so much, this video is very helpful and clear. I have a few questions: I am looking to put away photos and folders on an external hard drive because I don't necessarily want to have them on my Macbook but want to store them somewhere, time machine doesn't seem to do that but just copying the laptop data at a certain time so if I would to erased the data from the MacBook and then the old time machine version would erase itself to make space for new ones, then all the previous folders and photos would be gone as well no? (I hope this is clear enough) Thank you in advance for your answer 🙏🏽
Fantastic question @juliedasse2245!
You are correct. Time Machine is designed to make a mirror image of everything on an Apple Computer. It backs up the changes every time it's plugged in or whenever it's set to.
If a file gets deleted on the computer, it will still live on the Time Machine backup. This way you can restore the file if needed.
Now here's the issue...Let's say you've had your laptop and Time Machine working together for a few years and your Time Machine starts to get full. When that happens it will start to delete your oldest Time Machine backups. Now let's say you realized you have a file that is 5 years old and it was in the first original backup. That file could potentially be lost as Time Machine will delete really old backups to make room for new backups.
So for your original question, here is what I would do. It sounds like you're looking to just archive some of your photos and files on external drive, but not have it stored on the same Time Machine drive for the reasons above. I would dedicate an external drive for archival purposes where you manually organize and copy your files to it. If you're worried about that archive drive being backed up, you can always have Time Machine back up a Computer and an external drive at the same time.
If you plug in your "archival" drive I'll call it...into the Mac that also has the Time Machine drive plugged in, you can have Time Machine backup that external drive in addition to your Mac.
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Fantastic! I donated. I wish I had seen this 3 years ago when I really needed it…hope Apple is paying you !
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This is fantastic!! I know pretty much nothing about this stuff and this helped me so, so much. Amazing work. Really, thank you. :)
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Excellent video. So thorough and organized. I will actually keep this aside as a reference video because I know with everything thats packed in here I will use it again. New Sub here. Thank you Joel!
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Joel, you are awesome!! Great explanation in detail!! Thank you.....thank you so much! :)
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did you select the erase option when you were transforming it to an external drive or the select a different volume
Very good video, thanks for helping out others in case of Backups on Mac!
Excellent content! Demystified something that wasn't actually all that mysterious once I watch your tutorial. Backing up brand new Time Machine as I type this.
Thanks so much @F Greenfield! Time Machine is a good start to backing up files on your Mac if you don't currently have any backup!
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Thank you for this tutorial! Big question is what if I switch to a new windows computer. Is it possible to transfer files that were stored on a Mac to a Window computer?
Great question @kathleendeedailey253!
Unfortunately Time Machine backups are exclusive to only Macs. Windows doesn't have the software to read the files created on a Mac. Plus the hard drive needs to be formatted for only Macs.
If you ever need to copy files from a Mac to a windows computer, your best bet is to manually copy the files using an external hard drive.
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If you do this does it back up your mobile sync also for iPad and iPhone all in one go?
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Best informative I've seen in reference to Time Machine, etc. Thx so much...u r a good teacher:)
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Great video, very informative. This is my situation, first I need to back up my MacBook, then in order to have additional space I wanted to delete some of the files from my Mac. My question is when I delete the files will they also get deleted in Time Machine or still be there? Hope that doesn't sound too confusing.
Great questions @johnschweinberg8085!
If a Mac is using Time Machine to back up the files to the external hard drive, you would be able to delete files from the Mac and they would not be deleted from the Time Machine backup.
However just keep in mind that if your goal is to free up space and that data now only lives on the external hard drive running Time Machine, it's not considered backed up anymore.
If Time Machine fills up, it will start deleting the oldest backups or if something happened to that drive itself, you would lose the data. So just keep that in mind.
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Thank you for your great video so helpful and you explained everything so clearly and easy to understand, 🙏🏼
Awsome video, I just got my first macbook pro and it has the M1 chip but going from pc to Mac has been a learning curve and I already had to revert back and downgrade to Monterey because I do music production as a hobby and almost nothing is ready for ventura yet but your video has now given me clear understanding of the time machine and how it all works and how to even set it up.. thanks for the video!
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I have two MacBooks. One for my video/photography and one for my schoolwork. Can use one 4TB external hard drive to back up both computers? Thanks
Great question @AKPAN0007!
Yes, Time Machine has the ability to use one external hard drive and connect multiple Macs to it to backup. You would treat the process the same for both/all Macs.
Usually after it backs up, you will have folders for each Mac (named whatever the Mac is)
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What type and size of external storage would you recommend if the macbook has 4TB internal.
Great question @Marcus Barnes!
Over the years I've purchased so many tiny portable external hard drives and finally last year I bought a Pegasus Promise RAID drive. They're a bit more expensive, but certainly have many benefits to them. I'll link below for reference:
Promise Technology Pegasus32 R4
amzn.to/40BmHxx
You can configure in many different ways and can be a great long term solution.
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very well-made tutorial. thanks
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i want to format my Imac and install catalina again, cause catalina runs very well and i use a lot of video / music software, i am afraid that when i will install a new operative system, my mac will show me only Monterrey, is that the case?
Hey @Rico Casazza!
So did you upgrade to Monterey and you're looking to downgrade back to Catalina? Keep in mind this is totally possible, but it will result in reformatting your hard drive within your Mac!
I can reference some helpful links if that's what you're trying to do!
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Thanks for the video! Not sure if anyone's already pointed this out but Microsoft Office on Mac also has the ability to restore previous versions of files but only if they're stored on OneDrive. A bit off-topic. ;)
Thanks for a fantastically clear discussion of Time Machine, which I’d never really understood before. I’m going to set it up tomorrow. And I’ve subscribed to your channel. I hope to learn a lot from you. Thanks again!
Another outstanding video. I have been using Apple computers for many years and I am still learning new stuff from your videos. Thank you! My wife is about to order a new MacBook and I want to get her an external drive for Time Machine. The new (7/2022) small SSD drives like the one shown in the video are very appealing. I have a question about them. Some of the information I have read discusses overheating issues. Have you, or anyone reading this, experienced these problems? Thanks for any help and thanks again for the great videos.
Hi, my MacBook screen is cracked. I had setup time machine a few months ago. If I plug my external hard drive (used for time machine) into my damaged MacBook will it automatically backup on time machine?
Sorry to hear about the broken screen @Sam B!
From my understanding Time Machine does not start backing up unless a user is logged in. I tried to look for specific documentation on it, but found nothing that answers that particular question.
Always keep in mind you can plug your MacBook into another monitor like a TV or computer monitor via HDMI or USB-C (depending on connection and adapters). This would give you the ability to log in and get a fresh backup or just use your Mac in general.
Also know that depending what MacBook you have, replacing the whole display may be easier than you think. Screens are for sure expensive, but if you don't want to get repaired through Apple, check out www.ifixit.com. They usually have excellent prices on parts and their tutorials and guides to take apart apple devices are the best!
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Great video, you had my attention from ‘start’. Thank you
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i have had a mac for years and not used this, amazing. i am creating a workbook for my IT students and thought this time machine is great for my dad because he has had issues with his iMac 2009 so a back up now is imperative. i got him an external hard drive i- thank you
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Brilliant lesson and really enjoyed. Nobody else has demonstrated how to make my external drive visible and I've watched a few.
I have a 2013 iMac and have just bought a new Mac Mini. I've been storing stuff in iCloud but not really sure what is up there. Is it better to transfer/back up all the files onto a new external hard drive or just transfer everything to my new Mac Mini please? Also, am I correct in thinking that once the transfer/back up is completed all my files will be deleted from my old iMac? Thanks in advance.
Great video. Time Machine has until now, been a mystery…. Thanks
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Hi Joel, Can you set up an external ssd plugged into one mac as a shared backup location for other computers on the network?
Excellent summary of features.
My camera only has one memory card. On vacation, I can copy the contents of the SD card to my Mac in order to have a backup.
If I don't have my computer, what equipment do you suggest?
Thanks @Marc Hinderickx!
If you don't have a computer, you could copy files to an iPhone or iPad, but you'd need adapters and enough space to accommodate files.
Western Digital also makes a wireless external hard drive that has a built in SD card reader, where you can plug your SD memory card directly into it and copy the files directly to the external hard drive with no computer and there's another product called a Gnarbox that does the similar thing.
I don't own any of these personally, but have read some of the reviews on it. May be worth a shot if this solves a need. I will link below for reference:
WD 2TB My Passport Wireless SSD External Portable Drive
amzn.to/3ZpTpBs
GNARBOX - Portable Backup & Editing System for Any Camera
amzn.to/3F4fAF8
Other than that, with no computer and no additional SD card slots to write to two cards, this may be your best bet.
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Very informative, but unless I missed it I was looking for this solution. I have my photo raw files on an external drive, can I get time machine to back up both my Mac HDD and the external drive or even a second external drive as I may wish to store edited photos on a second ext hd.
Nice Time Machine tutorial. I am glad I found it.
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would time machine backup icloud drive files, if not how to go about it? thanks for the great video
Hey thanks for the detailed video!! But just one question if icloud photos are on with optimized storage would they still be included in the icloud backup??
Great question @Abhi Singh!
Actually, iCloud Photos among some other items are not stored/backed up within iCloud Backup.
Also keep in mind that if you're using Time Machine and you have the settings within Apple Photos to Optimize Mac Storage, it's not really backing up those high quality original photos either, only the optimized files and anything that may be downloaded...
Check out these other videos on iCloud and backup:
iCLOUD BACKUPS - WHAT you NEED TO KNOW when it comes to backing up PHOTOS, iPHONES and your devices!
ua-cam.com/video/7ep9pREplD8/v-deo.html
How to BACKUP iCLOUD PHOTOS! Options for your Mac, iPhone and iPad! Cloud or No Cloud!
ua-cam.com/video/pWZZlYU62ts/v-deo.html
What does iCloud back up?
support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428
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Great video. everything I needed know in one spot. Very helpful, thanks.
Hi Joel, great content. Do time machine backup the parallel folders on my mac.... I have parallel with window. Thank you,
Irving
Hello, to my understanding TM works only on Mac
If you have boot camp / parallel / windows TM won’t back that partook up
? I think carbon copy cloned is one that will, at any rate there are/ or were solutions ou there when I looked into it.
It got too complicated for me so I started just backing up docs and photos on externals that were formatted to be compatible with both Mac and windows (before the newer Mac format came along…. Hoping I will still be able to access info on those externals if I need to)
I still have an apple time capsule with an external hard drive connected to it however I've had trouble backing up anything in the last two years. I don't use my Macs that often but are my problems because time capsule isn't supported anymore? Should I do away with the time capsule and upgrade to a newer router? thanks
Excellent very useful tutorial on Mac backup options. Thank you so much!
Great tutorial but I have a question if you can help.
I’m already doing a time machine back up to two of my external hard drives, is it possible to do time machine back ups to back blaze or some type of cloud based back up this way in case I have a fire I won’t lose everything
Hi @Randy singer!
Time Machine certainly has some limitations. I would say if you're at the point you want more control to backup files to a cloud service, I would highly recommend to check out ChronoSync! I will leave a link below for reference:
ChronoSync by econ
www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/what-is-chronosync.html
This software is like Time Machine on steroids! It has so many more options than Time Machine has ever had. Check it out and it may be a good solution for you to upgrade to.
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Just to make sure I heard right, using your other Macs on your network enables you to back up your main computer WIRELESSLY to them, meaning it has to be over WiFi and not on my ethernet LAN? That is like the Migration Assistant that will only work computer to computer over WiFi which is MUCH slower than EN? If I want to use the faster EN, then I have to do it manually and I don't know what files have to be transferred and where to find them for mail, safari passwords, and other saved files that need to be transferred in order to mirror my computers. Does the "Network Attached System" circumvent this?
Great questions @bdphourde!
I think the wireless options are all for convenience for those who don't want or can't run cat5 cables around. Ethernet will always be faster than wifi.
I personally would never backup my main Mac to another Mac over wifi. Just too slow. I personally would go with an external drive and plug it in. You can also use the same external hard drive for multiple Macs and it will keep the files separate.
Also when you want to restore files, you usually would not go though the typical file structure. You would use the Time Machine interface to locate files within Finder and restore them that way.
Also things like Safari Passwords and other items that may be in iCloud and not fully cached/saved on the Mac would not be in the Time Machine backup, so keep that in mind too!
If you got a Network Attached Storage (NAS), this would be the most ideal to "wirelessly" backup up one or multiple Macs in your home. You could have that hard wired into your network for all of your Macs to see.
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Hi Joel, if i have a multiple devices such as Iphone and Ipad with limited storage on my mac mini..how can i back up to external SSD ? any suggestions thanks in advance
Great question @Rami_Tank!
I don't believe you can change the default location of where the iOS devices are backed up, but you should be able to locate them and move them manually to an external drive. I found an Apple Support Article that should help that I'll link below:
Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
support.apple.com/en-us/108809
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How much TB backup disc should have, is it ok for 1 TB for just system and main softwares to backup?
Hey Joel. Will this work for softwares. What I mean is, I have a new Mac mini m4 but have been using a MacBook Pro m2 for my studio music stuff. I want to have the Mac mini be used for studio stuff but I had to download a lot of plugins and dmgs so I wonder if time would make the new computer have everything the last one did or would I have to go and re download those installers and dmgs
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Not being able to select specific photos from the Photos Library in Time Machine back up is one of the most frustrating things I've dealt with from Apple. I honestly gave up a long time ago trying to figure this out. Let me know if you've gathered any solutions. Love the video and thanks for all the help, Cheers!
I couldn't agree more @Kelly Cooney! It's extremely frustrating. It's even more frustrating knowing that years back, you used to be able to open up Apple Photos, then open Time Machine and it would just go through your photos and you could do backups of specific photos, but not anymore!
All I can do is keep bugging Apple Support with feature requests and feedback!
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@@Learnwithjoel Apple Photos is going the way of iTunes and HyperCard. Eventually it will be killed outright. In terms of lost usability, it's not far from that point now.
Really thorough explanation, Joel. Thank you! One question about using Time Machine to back up to a NAS: Am I correct that is is the only one of the scenarios that does not require the destination location to be formatted as an Apple drive?
I recently attempted this yesterday and tried to drag and drop . It worked but not without error notification and messed up meta data. Really dislike having my meta data messed up in front of me when exporting from photos App Library. In preview it’s also messed up. Its insane how many years I suffered with managing my photos in iCloud , I lost originals due to the confusing diy process of exporting while also not having photos backed up to the cloud for a brief period. I had duplicates trying not to lose originals. I lost my mind with the iCloud process and “referenced files” too scared to delete anything from icloud. I just want to go back to the old days of the simplicity of photo file management without cloud services. Where if you copy a photo and move it and you know it’s also an original copy and not a referenced file. I lost my mind with iCloud Photos. Slowly recovering. Apple user since 2011. Joel’s video on phone usbs is my way to get out my photos organized and without relying on the iCloud export process . I just want my photos exported with categories and data intact and put on a hard drive and not use the photos app or icloud.
@kellycooney2566 I haven’t tried this myself since I’ve luckily haven’t needed to… yet, but it sure sound really stupid.
Got me thinking though. Can’t you just TM back to a backup of the .photoslibrary that contain the photo you need. Recover that backup of .photoslibrary to a new location. Open that library and export the photo you’re looking for. Remove the new .photoslibrary and import the recovered photo in your old library again.
It’s not elegant, nor efficient, nor for everyone, but I think it should work. It does require that you have space on either you internal HDD/SSD or an external for the recovered .photoslibrary. And it also requires that you don’t use iCloud optimize storage for your photos on the Mac.
Question, how much processing power is the backup taking when implemented, especially the first time, ie can you continue to video edit and or process images in photoshop or Lightroom with no noticeable side effects or slowdown?
Hi @TROGGYWOGGY!
I think there may be a lot of variables to that question. The first time Time Machine backups up it certainly takes forever and Apple does specifically recommend to start it overnight so it can run by itself while you're sleeping.
That would be my recommendation. Also keep in mind you can always pause Time Machine backup and it will pick up where you left off the next time you plug it in.
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Can you use a partition just for TimeMachine and use the other partition for something else?
Fantastic question @Russ Whitman!
I wasn't 100% sure, so I just plugged in my Time Machine backup and made a partition and a volume on it and it retained the partition for the Time Machine Backup. Granted I am currently on my Mac running macOS 13.2 beta Ventura, but I would imagine if you're on the latest 13.1, you should be good.
I personally do recommend to always have one drive for the dedicated backup and keep that as the only use, but I did test and you can partition if needed.
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Yet to watch this video but can I ask will Time Machine tell me it’s full before it starts overwriting old files? Last year I lost a folder as it was the oldest folder on the back up as in not been touched the longest and it got overwritten. Lost it. I was hoping it would delete the oldest copy of it. I might have e missed a message saying back up disk full. Thanks 🙏
Hey Joel! Quick question - how do i take backups on my photos directly on the hard drive without going through cloud? Does time machine not take a backup of the Mac unless it is on icloud? I don't see the photos icon on my time machine unfortunately.
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@@Learnwithjoel Time machine Ventura OS disk alocation caused me a lot of pain today be careful...
Thanks for this. When backing up to another Mac in the house using TM, can the destination computer be asleep?
Great question @Robert Gerety!
Yes, assuming you Macs support the "Power Nap" feature, it would backup while asleep.
What is Power Nap on Mac?
support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-power-nap-mh40773/mac
Turn Power Nap on or off on Mac
support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-power-nap-on-or-off-mh40774/12.0/mac/12.0
I will say though that with the pervious macOS, the "Power Nap" option was clearly defined as "Power Nap" in the System Preferences...Now they just have battery optimization and energy modes...
If you search "power nap" within the System Preferences, it will take you to the settings and depending on what macOS you're running, you may or may not see it.
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@@Learnwithjoel thanks - got it working.
Thanks Joel. Backing up to a local mac gave me an idea that I want to run by you. I have 2015 mbp monterey, and an older mac mini (not to mention a 2008mb and 2013 mbp. I still use them all intermittently but only go online with the newest ? ha. I upgraded the mini hdd to ssd! thanks to crucial and ifixit. That was fun. However... mostly the mini just sits as I didn't want to push it with the new OS. What do you think of just using it as an external archive drive.... will that work? (Erase and reformat - connect with cable not wifi) My eventual purpose is to get all my ancient files off of old drives that I have put into external cases from way way back, when I used to be organized on Windows xp and since then with all my failed attempts at simplifying! Lots of photos, duplicates, photos of work on houses.
I have been studying this time before jumping in and making a new mess. Our internet is antiquated and I am - much of the time not connected so I LOVE the local storage idea.... both archive without TM and an intermittently used time machine drive. Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated!
Hey Joel,
I'm trying to get up one disk to back up two macbooks. How do you get it to function as one disk with folders rather than two separate disks? When i try it, i have to eject two disk one for each macbook instead of just one like yours shows.
Excellent video! Explained very well. Thank you.
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