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Major help with Backup and a new machine!!!
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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OK, after moving through aroun 20 macs in the last two years, I did not use my normal backup/restore process. for some reason, I decided to use "Backup" from Apple to do the work. The application has been sitting on my drive for a year or so and backing things up fine for me.
We, I try to restore from my drive, and get a note that I cannot restore without a .Mac account (cute), which I let expire this year. I log in a get a trial membership, of course not using my normal account name. Now I cannot get the application to recognize the backup generated files on my external firewire drive. Help.....I am facing the loss of years worth of stuff. What an idiot.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Email Apple and explain the situation and see if they can help any.
Then get an external and/or use Backup to copy to DVDs.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Yeah, the fact that Backup is tied to .Mac really blows. Apple should state explicitly that Backup is useless if you let .Mac expire.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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You can use Backup and set it to save to an external HD (even an iPod) or burn it to a CD/DVD.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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You data is still accessible. Go to the external drive, bring up the backup, right click it and select show contents. all of your folders and everyhting that you backed up will be there and you can then copy them as needed.
Mike
(Last edited by Maflynn; Apr 21, 2005 at 05:54 AM.
(Reason:grammar))
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Maflynn,
You Rock...thanks much!!!!
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Randman,
yep, I have been using it for backups to an external drive for months. This was the first time I actually needed to restore from the program. I think the problem stemmed from trying to use the application for the first time on a new machine. It must check .Mac at that point. Whereas on the old machine, it had long understood I no longer used .Mac. This will teach me to use multiple methods on every backup (my usual practice).
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Read my MacWebb column and other great Mac articles at Lowendmac.com
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No problem,
backup is a nice little app but because it checks for your subscription, I think its not as robust as other measures. I myself found using carbon copy cloner to an external drive works much better but then thats just me.
Mike
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CCC is my fave as well, but it doesn't hurt to make a backup of little things like your iTunes playlists and Safari bookmarks and settings.
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