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Time Machine fails in Power Nap
More than likely your backup (.sparsebundle) is corrupted and you should take a fresh backup. In my situation, I had manually moved a Time Capsule backup to my QNAP. I verified this copy on the QNAP ...
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Why are some bars in the Time Machine timeline bar shorter than others?
Preface: I wish I could find an actual Apple reference for this, but still believe that I understand this even without a direct reference from Apple.
Note: For reference, these observations are on ...
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Time Machine Icon on Desktop showing the yellow icon
On Sequoia (M1 Macbook Air), I went to Get Info for the drive, and under Preview I was able to drag the yellow icon out of the window, revealing the green icon underneath.
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Walk me through wifi time machine to old mac (or is it a bad idea?)
Yes, you can setup your old Mac to be a "Time Machine server" to other Macs on the network.
In System Settings > General > Sharing, turn on File Sharing, and click on the little "...
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Is it possible to backup via Time Machine to SMB behind NAT on non-standard ports?
I will expand the detailed steps to modify storage credentials in Keychain:
If you have already saved SMB credentials in Keychain Access and want to update it to include the port number:
Open ...
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Walk me through wifi time machine to old mac (or is it a bad idea?)
No, don’t do this.
Network backups are usually 5x or more slower so if you can’t find time when a direct attached backup will complete - the interruptions will make it very unlikely you can have a ...
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Suddenly lost my admin status
Turns out that my admin rights were removed by an app called Privileges.
I had installed it for years and forgot about it. There was a recent update for it, which introduced a new feature "...
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Suddenly lost my admin status
Check if you installed a program designed to manage who is the admin:
https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges
https://github.com/jamf/MakeMeAnAdmin
If you’re not using enterprise type ...
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Will it make a difference if I buy a fast SSD disk for time machine?
Any spinning hard drive should be sufficient since Time Machine runs in efficiency cores on Apple silicon and in the background on all CPU architecture.
I don’t think you’ll find any way to speed ...
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Time Machine stopped backing up my Photos Library two years ago
My backup to TM stopped altogether with this error message:
System.photoslibrary/originals/C/C84818E1-DDFC-48AF-AAB2-1F2F65E5C833.jpeg” could not be backed up.
I tried 3 times. No luck. I then ...
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How to thin your local Time Machine Snapshots on macOS High Sierra
In my case (Catalina) local snapshots are done anyway even the TM volume is attached permanently. This first backup is done a week ago and the new data that occurs is small. Also because browser data ...
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