Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

It's always worth having a working one. Especially if you've just bought a new Macbook as it won't have that big a hard drive.

What one will work via normal USB and USB c?

Any USB3 compatible drive should work if you have a usb to USB cable (for iMac to hdd) and USB to usbc (for hdd to Mbp).
We use G-tech ev 1tb drives (about 90 quid or 120 to come in a waterproof /dropproof case) but any drive should work. Might want to format using disc utility on the iMac and then transfer something small like a word doc across to see if drive format works on both machines before you copy everything and then find you hit a brick wall. Alternatively consider saving it all to a cloud service and just let it trickle across over time when they're both switched on? 40 hours sounds like you're uploading to the internet and back again - could probably sort some sort of local network and use machine speeds but @Velocio is your boy there.

Get external hdd, make a time machine backup, plug in new computer, restore. Done.

Double back up. My time machine back up corrupted. Luckily I had photos, fonts and music saved on another drive through a manual copy. I was also able to drill down into my corrupt time machine back up and recover all I needed, but still, double back up. Enable iCloud everything and start a new machine fresh...

If you don't do double backups you're a bloody fool!!!

sorry I'll get my coat

I miss this meme. Xzibit is such a nice guy.

Oh also anything mission critical gets backed the fuck up to the cloud (offsite/Dropbox).

I still haven't set up an iCloud account, need to get on that and save my documents folder at least...

Do it do it do it. If only for keychain. Even with back up fails I could set up a new machine to be identical with my current thanks to iCloud and Dropbox. Messed up my fcp x back ups though didn't I, like a bloody school boy.

Hi,

been a pro user for a long time for work and play (tv cameraman and editor - anyone else here work in the industry?) and could never face being a windows user!

got to visit the Apple HQ in Cupertino earlier this month after filming in California - has anyone else been? was pretty disappointed. not sure what I was expecting but it's just a generic apple store nowadays. picked up a few bits of merchandise as I'm still a sucker for apple.

here's a few pics from the redwoods. shot on iPhone 6 plus + vscocam.

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Yup. https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13112021/

I'm pretty remedial when it comes to IT (I was till on Snow Leopard until about a month ago) but i'm fairly fastidious about keeping backups. I tend to keep all my files in two separate cloud services (dropbox and icloud) and backup my machine to hard drives every now and again as a last resort. To be honest though, there's really nothing I couldn't lose. All my photos live in the cloud as does all of my music so I SHOULD be fairly disaster proof. The only thing I have on my machine that is potentially irreplaceable is a folder of plugins but again... these live on dropbox too.

It's no chore. I just set them up as default destinations and set cameras and phones to sync when tethered and never have to think about it again.

Snow Leopard was the bees.

anyone got a macbook pro charger c.2010 for cheap?

MY mate pinched mine by accident and now he's not in the country.

pro user

vscocam

no offence but that made me laugh

Err I paid for those filters...

Care to elaborate ?

What has one got to do with the other and why did it amuse you so?

I guess you kinda need it now? I have a MBA one but all it means is that it'll charge your MBP more slowly, but I won't be able to let go of it for another week or so yet... long story not gonna bore you with it...

Sorry, maybe it's just me but I just never found these filters visually appealing,
and can't follow how people doing images professionally are happy with using their phones and then just slapping filter presets on their work.
Each their own I guess.
That tree picture is great by the way - but it really does look like filter a lot in my eyes, which is basically my point.

Techincally they are filter.

Would you argue that choosing says, a Kodak Portra 160 film would make the photo less visually appealing?

What's the deal with this box at the top of web pages visited via google and how do I turn it off?
It's using screen real estate and doesn't disappear with scrolling.

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