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After 10 years of being the biggest advocate of owning a mac, i'm looking to dispose of my 21.5" iMac.
It's looking very likely i'll be moving in with my bird in the next few months and i'm not using the machine much, most stuff I do is on my phone.
I have access to a MS Surface book for work so any letters etc I could do on that.
question is, what do I do with 10 + years of stuff that's on my time machine back up?
I don't want to buy another machine but don't want to lose my photos of kids etc as they're on a OS journaled time machine.
have about 300Gb on machine, certainly don't want to leave it all on a cloud either.
Re-formate the machine to windows and cloud it all??
As for moving in with your 'bird', I didn't know they had iMacs in the 1960s.
But since you have somehow managed to get your vintage hands on one, why don't you just buy an external drive, and 'bank' all of your work on that?
Set up a cloud account and organise it all into there.
Download/Sync/Copy that to an external drive/NAS once you have organised and removed duplicates etc.
A NAS that gives you access in the house and a Cloud for access other times would be best of both
Presume your time machine backup is on a USB hard drive?
Buy another USB hard drive, format it in a neutral format that both mac and Win can read. Save the stuff in standard directories (ie export all your photos from the Mac Photos app).
When you've done that reformat the time machine drive and make a second copy of everything on that drive. Put it in a drawer, or to be more secure, get someone to store it safely away from your home.
Personally, all my stuff is now in the cloud but also have the important stuff backed up to two hard drives.
What simons_nicolai said ^
what cloud is best?
"As for moving in with your ‘bird’, I didn’t know they had iMacs in the 1960s."
Thanks for going all aspergers on me, didn't think it would be long before an A hole would contribute, but not the first reply, i was expecting it to be around the 10th reply at least.
Give yourself a lollipop as some sort of praise.
clouds are all fairly similar, are you with someone already?
Google works well for me, prefer it over dropbox.
Organisation is the key step here though, take some time and plan it
I'm now using all of Drive, Dropbox and Apple iCloud. I'm not sure this is progress - running 3 different sync processes in the background my have some load but they seem to happily co-exist.
Dropbox has always been completely reliable for me. Just works.
Drive used to quietly crash and not restart so I'd <span style="background-color: #f6d5d9;">spend some time </span> searching for files before reallising i needed to restart it. Newest version seems a lot better. If you use Gmail it integrates well. i use Google Docs and spreadsheets in preference to Word/Excel most of the time now. Simple, no version control issues if you're collaborating with other people. You can roll back to previous versions if you screw up. Web interface is a lot better than Dropbox IMO.
Apple iCloud not really relevant but finding sync across desktops is quite convenient.
Thanks for going all aspergers on me, didn’t think it would be long before an A hole would contribute
Wow. I made an admittedly shit joke at the expense of your phrasing, and you come back with that... I don't know how old you are, but your capacity for potentially offending a lot of people is hard to beat!
Do you have a ditch in mind?
moving in with your ‘bird’
Thanks for going all aspergers on me
Hmm. You're not really a progressive type, are you? I shouldn't be surprised, coming from a geordie.
I think you'll find that he isn't guilty of being a 60's sexist at all, he's merely employing a regional cultural affectation, in the same way that a Home Counties resident may refer to his spouse affectionately as 'her ladyship' instead of deploying her full title - Lady Lavinia Crumpton-Smythe - in casual conversation over an internet forum
I use the cloud, but as you were willing to leave it on a physical machine you may not as well go for a USB external HDD.
Don't over complicate it!!!
I can't believe someone actually commented on your use of the word 'bird' OP. Please try to use this word more often in the context of referring to Sheilas to continue to provide these weirdos with something to do.
In my experience hard drives are hyper prone to failure, so I would put it all on a cloud. A cloud you know like wot where the 'birds' fly? Lol andykirk.
Back on topic, which is the cheapest 'cloud' for say 10,000 mp3s? My time machine hard disc has stopped working.
In my experience hard drives are hyper prone to failure, so I would put it all on a cloud.
Cloud companies are also known to fail, or at least change their T&Cs, and their fees. I'd go 2x HDD first, and cloud second if you're feeling that you need it. Keep the HDDs in two different places.
Like Binners says..
Cultural just like
Got 99 problems and my Bitch ain't one of them
V
Me bird
Or once married
Our Lass
That's us rough Northern types for you....
And Superficial that's a more unpleasant comment by some margin.
I would never refer to you as a soft southern shandy drinker.... tis not done in polite company.
Thanks for going all aspergers on me, didn’t think it would be long before an A hole would contribute
Crikey, you are quite special aren't you?
i'm just amazed nobody mention car leasing by now. Well done STW
I'm just amazed nobody has mentioned how much better Macs are than PCs.
On this topic, I was in an Apple shop the other day. Like Apple or not, they really are places of wonder.
I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that, but, can't you just get a relative to lease some cloud space on your behalf? Perhaps a brother-in-law (if you have one?)i’m just amazed nobody mention car leasing by now. Well done STW
Back on topic, which is the cheapest ‘cloud’ for say 10,000 mp3s? My time machine hard disc has stopped working.
Google Play Music song storage limits. You can add up to <b>50,000 songs</b> to Google Play Music from your personal music collection using Google Play Music for Chrome or Music Manager (up to 300MB per song).
On this topic, I was in an Apple shop the other day. Like Apple or not, they really are places of wonder.
What were you wondering? Big open spaces, filled with students playing with computers? Uniform shelves populated by uniform products? Spotty shop assistants with a jumped up job title?
🙂
Back on topic, which is the cheapest ‘cloud’ for say 10,000 mp3s? My time machine hard disc has stopped working.
Google Play Music song storage limits. You can add up to <b>50,000 songs</b> to Google Play Music from your personal music collection using Google Play Music for Chrome or Music Manager (up to 300MB per song).
Was about to say exaclky the same thing. Link Google Play to your computer, and they'll all upload automatically. The first big upload takes ages, but after that whenever you out new music on the computer or rip a CD it does it pretty much straight away.
It's nice having access to all my digital music wherever I've got Wifi or 4G.
It’s looking very likely i’ll be moving in with my bird in the next few months
You and Ling made up then?
i’m just amazed nobody mention car leasing by now. Well done STW
🙂
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