Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I could google it - but what's a 'selective sync'?

Check the Dropbox settings, they're under account I think. You can access it from the icon in the top bar

I'll check it out - thank you!

Any safe ways to avoid paying £££ for the Adobe and Microsoft suites? Most searches in google and piratebay ended up in a malware nightmare :~(

My setup, if it helps - use iCloud Sync to sync documents and desktop folders between laptop and iMac server at home. That iMac has both a time machine USB drive and is hooked up to Backblaze.

Total cost is 79p p/m for iCloud, £100 for a drive and £50 p/y for Backblaze, which gives me multi levels of failure and backups in three physical locations. For iCloud you could sub in Drive or Dropbox if that is your bag.

I should add, I wiped both macs to install High Sierra and from fresh install to all my data was minutes.

Can someone recommend a 2TB external drive for use as Time Machine backup? USB is fine.

Check wirecutter, they back it up with fail stats I think

in case someone needs Office 2016
https://mega.nz/#!ug8EhSxR!BPLVUO7SynCdGrlUcpjsg1psdvZQYhOZPw8M-mCaXkc

Now sorted

Just got home and picked my laptop up from my bag. Turns out it's been stuck on full tilt fort the last 7 hours. Opened it up and couldn't find any particular processes running apart from a dialogue saying "you didn't eject memory card x before pulling it out".

Could that really be the culprit?

Checked iStatmenus and found all CPU cores at 94°C...

You checked activity monitor?

yup but as you can't see history it didn't tell me much, only the usual kernel and chrome stuff reaching 200+ % when you wake it up

Anyone using a WD My Cloud for wireless Time Machine backups? Newest version is £200 for 4TB - half the price of a 3TB Time Capsule.

just go with Qnap. Much higher quality, software is great, well supported...

Also very expensive, though. Don't really want mirrored/ RAID. Was intending to have a Time Machine backup going to a Wi-Fi/ personal Cloud drive, and then a USB-connected secondary backup via SuperDuper or similar.

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Another one from me. Not specifically a Mac question, but I would like to dedupe my incredibly badly organised backup drives. I reckon I have the same files backed up in 3 or even 4 different places. Has anyone used software for this that they'd recommend? I gather some do image analysis whereas others just look at filenames...

Doesn't sound like you are looking at the problem in the right way to be honest. Multiple backup copies in different places are in themselves a good thing. Why do you want to manually dedupe them?

Automatic deduping at file or block level while backing up, to save storage space, is a different issue (Time Machine only does file level dedupes via hardlinks I believe).

Or are you actually asking about deduping your primary files and not your backups?

Not really expensive - eBay a second hand unit for £100-£200. Set up as JBOD or single drives rather than RAID. Qnap will act as a timemachine server.

I ended up buying it.

Image quality is great, colours are great. It's slightly uneven, but it's minimal, esp when warm. Only downside is that it goes black for a split second about once every hour. Odd, but apparently it's been doing it for a few years. For £125 incl the thunderbolt adapter I'm not complaining.

Also, getting something you've been lusting for for over 10 years feels pretty damn good.

Solution for playing youtube in the background without ads on iphone?

Probably not; I am very disorganised and find the management of data very stressful, in that I'm terrified of losing it.

I am going to start afresh: clean install of High Sierra and new process for backing up. I was going to use the following system: 4TB cloud drive in loft or locked cupboard for Time Machine backups; 1TB usb drive carbon copy of 1TB iMac hard drive, replaced when full + iMac clean install (so every couple of years); and the most precious stuff (mostly pics and vids) to a Cloud account.

Does that sound like a good process?

Yes, sounds good.

Pulled out of an iPhone 8 purchase at the very last minute... had it in my hands at the shop and changed my mind.

£21/month and an almost healthy 6S makes so much more sense than £62.99/month + £99.99 for an ‘upgrade’. Even Apple have ran out of gimmicks to market... 6S is the sweet spot.

If this still isn’t resolved, I’ve got a spare Apple branded Toshiba 128gb SSD going spare. It came with my 2011 MBP but has been replaced with something bigger. Still works fine and will fit the plasticbook just fine. TRIM should even work as it has their own firmware... only downer is the tiny capacity.

At the moment it’s just taking up space in a drawer.
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