Following on from our earlier article on how to set up and manage your Apple Time Machine backups, capable of making sure that if you are MacBook or desktop Apple computer is lost, stolen or fails you ...

The hard drive in my folks Mac Mini has passed away, I was like ok no problem this is why we have time machine running. So I do a clean install on a new hard drive and restore from the time machine ...

Knowing how to restore Mac files from a Time Machine backup is very important, offering a solution when a file is missing or a document has been changed in an unexpected way. Recovering files with ...

There are many ways to backup your Mac computer and restore all of its data: cloud-based software, third-party apps, external hard drives. Time Machine is a software that's built into your Mac, and ...

Learn how to back up your Mac in 2025 with this step-by-step guide. Protect your data with Time Machine and best practices ...

Have you ever ruined an essay by over-editing it? Did you ever mistakenly delete a huge chunk of a report, and not realize it until days later? Maybe you thought you’d saved another copy of that ...

Transferring data seamlessly from an old Mac or Windows PC to your new MacBook Air using Migration Assistant, Move to Mac, or Time Machine restore. Pixabay, josemdelaa Transferring data from an old ...

Time Machine is an archive rather than a backup, because it retains multiple versions of files as you change them. That’s useful, because if you’re editing an image, a word-processing file, or another ...

The Time Machine feature in OS X has been a life-saver for numerous users, from those who want to find individual lost files or folders to those who wish to restore their systems to a previous version ...

My spouse updated her MBP from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3 this morning, forgetting to check whether there are known issues with the update. Turns Adobe CS3 won't work after the update. This is a known issue, ...

Get simple desktop widgets for monitoring Time Machine. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your ...

Apple usually makes no secret of what it considers to be the marquee feature of its major Mac OS X releases. The clue is usually right there on the box in which the update arrives. Take Tiger. The box ...