Losing something you spent time working on, or photos that you can't replace, is devastating. You might think this is a problem of the past because of cloud storage services like Apple's own iCloud, ...

After upgrading to macOS 26.2, things started to go wrong with my Time Capsule. Now I have a drive that won't work with my Mac.

Backing up your Mac is an essential step to safeguard your data against unexpected events such as hardware failures, accidental deletions, or software issues. Apple’s Time Machine, a built-in feature ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transferring data seamlessly from an old Mac or Windows PC to your new MacBook Air using Migration Assistant, Move to Mac, or Time Machine restore. Pixabay, josemdelaa Transferring data from an old ...

One of the services packaged with OS X Server Leopard (there are so many) is Time Machine Server. If you’re running a network of Leopard notebooks and desktops, centralized Time Machine backups are ...

Mac users relying on Time Machine went through a rough transition a few years ago when Apple migrated away from its long-used HFS+ format for encoding hard drives and SSDs to the modern, more capable, ...