Tag: backup

  • Maybe Get Some Coffee

    I got this message when I was rebuilding my father-in-law’s 2007 iMac. It happened at one point when I was trying to install on OS on the boot drive. This might be the most realistic time-to-complete estimate I’ve ever seen in an Apple installer: (I haven’t talked about that computer. I got it a couple […]

  • Duplicate Files

    I’ve been hoarding data for more than 20 years. For backups, I used to burn a CD periodically, but I long since ran over those limits. Today, my backups are hard drives. One reason is that I’ve moved between computers several times during that period, and when I do, I find stuff I don’t know […]

  • Kindle Backup

    My Kindle just lost a bunch of highlights from one of my favorite books. (I probably helped it, but I don’t know what I did, which makes me wonder if I’ll lose them again.) If you have second thoughts of your own about e-Books, you may be interested in these articles about backing up your […]