OK, two completely different questions about Time Machine. 1. I believe in some cases, you can pick an APP or finder window before you start the time Machine process. You will need to experiment a little as I have only recovered one or two items with time machine. 2. You can certainly leave your time machine disk plugged in all the time, the only disadvantage of this is that if a ransom ware attack gets to your computer, there is a good chance they will encrypt all the data on the time machine disk too. Some people keep two time machine disks and swap them weekly. Or you can use another backup strategy in addition to Time Machine. Also, if you have automatic time machine backups turned on, and the time machine disk is not available, time machine will still create APFS snapshots that can be used to save changes once the disk is available again. Yet another reason to make sure you have more free disk space than you really need.
Best Wishes, Jonathan > On Jan 29, 2023, at 2:50 PM, Fazil M. <mfa...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Is it ok to leave external drive plugged in permenantly to MacbookPro2017 > for time machine backup? > Thanks! > > -----Original Message----- > From: mr.robertcole via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2023 9:31 AM > To: Email Groups <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Help using Time Machine > > Dear Group, > I am using Mac OS Monterey. > Today I opened my CheckBook Pro app and to my surprise, It was showing my > last transactions was December 29th 2022. > I guess there was a iCloud sync problem between my Big Sur & my Monterey. > So I have a Time Machine backup from January 22, 2023. > When I enter Time Machine, it places me on the Desktop. I cant figure out how > to navigate to iCloud to find and restore my file. > Can someone point me in the right direction? > Thanks, > Rob > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/9F6CE083-6263-40AD-97DD-D1D741D93473%40icloud.com. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/DS7PR20MB4159C95B881BF1BAF2C4B4B8C9D29%40DS7PR20MB4159.namprd20.prod.outlook.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/F51A5162-D4FE-4C64-A998-04C84554ADA8%40gmail.com.
