Creating regular backups of your essential files goes a long way in ensuring your devices remain in tip-top form, regardless of whether you’re a casual user or a hardcore tinkering veteran with ...

We’ve all been there—that sinking feeling when a file vanishes, a system crashes, or a project you’ve poured hours into suddenly disappears. Whether it’s a hardware failure, accidental deletion, or an ...

For Apple users seeking a secure and efficient way to manage files, back up data, and organize photos, without huge monthly iCloud costs. Synology NAS devices offer a robust and versatile solution for ...

Time Machine seems to work okay with it but every now and again I get a message saying that Time Machine has been unable to verify the backup and has to make a new one. This is starting to annoy me ...

Over the break, I upgraded my 2020 27-inch iMac to macOS 14 Sonoma, which I’ve been running on my M1 MacBook Air for months. The process was simple and easy, and everything continued to work with no ...

I have used Macs for a while, but it has been off and on. I am now trying to transition to a Macbook Air for the daily driver and have been looking things up and one of those has been the automatic ...

Time Machine is Apple's backup system that automatically saves your Mac's files. Here's how to use the macOS file protection feature. Time Machine is an app that Apple ships with macOS and that helps ...

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 ...

Rebit backup works like a Windows version of Mac OS Time Machine, but with business-oriented features like NAS support Rebit is in the business of providing what InfoWorld’s Martin Heller calls ...