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Thanks for responding. I'll try and clarify. When I said, "I hold the email address down," it's an attempt to delete (it's Delete not remove on my phone) the account as you have written. That does not work. The choice to "Remove" or "Delete" does not appear. I have no idea what MSM is. I am a...

I was just told by my hosting provider that I need to reach out to apple support because they can't help me with 3rd party issues. And the issue is their hosting service screwed up the account. I am getting a message : "These settings are installed by the profile (email address) configuration"...

Not quite following... "afraid!" :-) I saw that one on a "top 10" site. $7/month is pretty standard. I'll check it out more thoroughly. Thanks.

Now that I have Big Sur and Time Machine basically straightened out (or at least I think I do :-), I'm looking at a cloud backup system for redundancy. The hidden minefield that isn't always clear is the "syncing and saving your files to the cloud" choices. I had a nightmarish time recently...

Thanks. Since adding TimeMachineEdit I've had no issues.

I'm curious too as to why it takes so long. The Full backup is 713gb. I barely used it the past few days. It's connected vis USB. But... here's what I did yesterday. I downloaded TimeMachineEdit. (after reading about in on CNET). I set it to do a backup at 12am. (or, as soon as possible...

How? What are the steps to exclude the internet cache? I don't see that as a choice. So, what appears to be happening is every 12 hrs or so there's a backup. There was one going on right now since 9am. Started with "backing up 145mb of 2.5GB. Now says 225mb of 2.56GB. It's 12:45. I went into...

The back up, in theory, completed. I see a backup and I see files, folders. The TM shows "backing up X of Y" says it back-up and the next is in 30 minutes. Can someone confirm that TM doesn't count down or the bar doesn't move anymore? It just finishes and stays there until the next backup with...

Thanks, but not the question. The full backup went fine. All was what I assumed would happen. Not expecting the ongoing backups to take 8 hrs for 250mb and turn my MacMini into a skillet. Last night, I shut the poor thing down since it was so hot, and stopped "automatically backup" (And I assume...

Left it for an hour. Here's where we are now. Huh? : ... This just in ... maybe this helps trouble shoot? The mdsync in Activity Monitor (which apparently is Spotlight) is showing between 51% and 62% CPU usage. Maybe this is all because the HD is 713GB and this is what is causing the...

I was finally able to get Big Sur on the MacMini (2014). The backup is 713gb. I had to get a different external drive, after having fought for a week with the Partitioned APFS 2T ED that was so painfully slow. I gave up on that one and reformatted the ED that had been the TM B/U with Mojave...

I discovered (through osmosis, of course, as there are no manuals), that moving the videos, in any format to the folder I found using Finder didn't work. But opening Apple TV, then going to the Home Movie folder, then choosing import, then going back into the HD, and sorting movie files, then...

Yes I have the actual movie files. I think one was a YouTube video, so it may have been something that was created for that. So, any idea as to whether some of the other doc files that are long strings or in these long-string folders could be deleted? Would open up about 50 gb. Another thing I...

So, according to "Welcome to Apple TV, the best place to see, share, watch, save, whatever your videos" I have one video on my computer. It is an 8 minute video that was created in 2015. I have many videos on my computer. So, for fun, I found a .mov movie. 1min. 24 seconds. A Xmas home movie...

I just found clever files because I used the "About this Mac" > Storage > Reduce Clutter> Manage ... I did that because my Big Sur TM incremental backups are painfully slow and was trying to learn something about possible fixes. I would like to access some of the mp4 that have strings out...

the restore failed I guess we’ll see when the computer techs get back to me. I am hoping to avoid having to purchase a new 1200 ssd Mac mini which is how much the 1TB is. Yes I’m putting in a lot of time and now a backlog of work because I thought I’d have a simple upgrade. If all goes well I’ll...

Just gets better. 3hrs into the restore, about 70g of 600, i get an error message tThe restore can’t continue, and that I now need to reinstall macOS and then do a migrate assistant. So I assume that when I do this if I can do this, then the migrate assistant will also take at least two days...

thanks. i’m in restore from t.m. hell now. 20 hrs to go… every ten minutes of restore adds another hour of time remaining. Should be up to two days by 3pm And, of course, I don’t even know if it’s going to restore mojave at this point.

Curious. Decided to attempt the T.M. restore. Been going for about an hour and now up to 16 hrs remaining. So, I assume it’s not good should the computer go to sleep? i also read the info re the bootable . I have another computer I can attempt that on for future. But it’s a little technical for...

What is the command, option, r and how does that differ with command, r?