by Terry McAdams | Apr 5, 2022 | Backup, How-To, password manager, passwords, Security
For several decades, Russia has targeted a wide variety of cyberattacks at countries with which it has had disputes. That includes the United States and other Western nations, which have recently levied unprecedented sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine....
by Terry McAdams | Jul 8, 2021 | Backup, Tip, troubleshooting
It’s tempting to think that most external storage devices—whether simple hard drives or more complicated network-attached storage (NAS) units—are relatively similar because they all do roughly the same thing. However, a recent problem with older Western Digital My...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 4, 2021 | Backup, iCloud Drive
With iCloud Drive, Apple provides an Optimize Mac Storage checkbox that, when checked, stores the full contents of iCloud Drive on the Mac only if there’s enough space. However, you may wish to recover local storage space without selecting that option—luckily, that’s...
by Terry McAdams | Aug 7, 2020 | Backup, How-To, Mac, Time Machine, troubleshooting
It’s inevitable—your Time Machine backup drive is going to fill up. Time Machine is smart about backing up only files that have changed, but after months or years of usage, the drive will run out of space. What happens then? Before we explain, some background. On its...
by Terry McAdams | Jul 15, 2020 | Backup, Mac, Time Machine, Tip
Did you know that the word for the irrational fear of Friday the 13th is paraskevidekatriaphobia? Neither did we, but what that supposedly unlucky day is good for—whenever it rolls around —is reminding us to test our backup systems. If something does go wrong, backups...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 16, 2020 | Backup, How-To, Mac, Time Machine
Need help with something? On occasion, we all need tech support. Speaking as the people who are sometimes on the other end of those requests for help, we have some suggestions on how to get the support you need as quickly as possible. For instance, think about what we...
