Backup

About a hundred times over the past 3 days or so and a couple apple mobile backup, though I never setup any backup services. ...

I didn't want to restore from a 10.6 Time Machine Backup, so I had to go all the way back to an Aug. 10.5.8 backup on Time Machine. Good thing I kept my most recent work on another external drive or else I would have lost my work. ...

SystemUIServer actually controls all the toolbar icons on the right where you are having the issues. I'd do a safe boot first just to see if it makes a difference then all that is left is what ora said as in either an archive & install or clean install then migrate from backup.

The fact that it is the same on a new user is ominous - means it it not user plist corruption etc. First step, backup! Next boot from the OS X disk, go to Utilities>Disk Utility and verify/repair the drive. Then consider a reinstall I think, unless someone else has an idea. You could try archive and install first, as it keeps all your files, then if that fails I guess a...

I performed a disk repair so I could partition my HD for a windows OS, Now I keep getting this message."Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again". Not sure what to do at this point, Ive also never backed anything up on a Mac before, so Im...

to an external drive using Acronis TrueImage 2010 backup software for windows. ...

My 2nd internal HD, both partitions, disappeared after a Time Machine update (I had transferred a lot of files from the Mac HD to the 2nd HD --a Seagate 750 -- since my last update). I had left it to back up and it was frozen when I returned. Had to shut off with switch. The 2nd HD does show up on the Time Machine external drive, and it appears files are in there and readable....

If you use the Finder to browse the Time Machine backup disk, you'll see that there is a single folder at the root of the drive entitled "Backups.backupdb". ...

Unfortunately, the only Firewire cable I have is for connecting a Mac to our Lacie backup drive. I don't have one that will connect between two devices. ...

Thanks, Diablo, So, just to confirm, if I attach the new MBP via firewire like I do now with our family MBP, I can backup data to the same device (albeit not at the same time as the 15" MBP) without worrying that the data from the 13" MBP is going to overwrite the existing 15" machine's backups?