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Use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up your personal data, including apps, music, photos, email, and documents. Having a backup allows you to recover files that were deleted, or that were lost because the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac needed to be erased or replaced. Learn how to restore your Mac from a backup.
Click on the Apple icon in the top Menu bar on your Mac and then click on the System Preferences option in the drop-down menu. On the System Preferences screen, click on Date & Time option. Stop Mac From Automatically Sleeping. Follow the steps below to stop Mac from automatically sleeping, whenever it is left unattended. Click on the Apple Icon from the top menu bar on your Mac and then click on System Preferences option in the drop-down menu. On the System Preferences screen, click on Energy Saver.
Create a Time Machine backup
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To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device. After you connect the storage device and select it as your backup disk, Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.
Connect an external storage device
Connect one of the following external storage devices, sold separately. Learn more about backup disks that you can use with Time Machine.
- External drive connected to your Mac, such as a USB or Thunderbolt drive
- Network-attached storage (NAS) device that supports Time Machine over SMB
- Mac shared as a Time Machine backup destination
- AirPort Time Capsule, or external drive connected to an AirPort Time capsule or AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac)
Select your storage device as the backup disk
- Open Time Machine preferences from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Or choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Time Machine.
- Click Select Backup Disk.
Enjoy the convenience of automatic backups
After you select a backup disk, Time Machine immediately begins making periodic backups—automatically and without further action by you. The first backup may take a long time, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway. Time Machine backs up only the files that changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.
To start a backup manually, choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Use the same menu to check the status of a backup or skip a backup in progress.
Learn more
Use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up your personal data, including apps, music, photos, email, and documents. Having a backup allows you to recover files that were deleted, or that were lost because the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac needed to be erased or replaced. Learn how to restore your Mac from a backup.
Click on the Apple icon in the top Menu bar on your Mac and then click on the System Preferences option in the drop-down menu. On the System Preferences screen, click on Date & Time option. Stop Mac From Automatically Sleeping. Follow the steps below to stop Mac from automatically sleeping, whenever it is left unattended. Click on the Apple Icon from the top menu bar on your Mac and then click on System Preferences option in the drop-down menu. On the System Preferences screen, click on Energy Saver.
Create a Time Machine backup
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To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device. After you connect the storage device and select it as your backup disk, Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.
Connect an external storage device
Connect one of the following external storage devices, sold separately. Learn more about backup disks that you can use with Time Machine.
- External drive connected to your Mac, such as a USB or Thunderbolt drive
- Network-attached storage (NAS) device that supports Time Machine over SMB
- Mac shared as a Time Machine backup destination
- AirPort Time Capsule, or external drive connected to an AirPort Time capsule or AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac)
Select your storage device as the backup disk
- Open Time Machine preferences from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Or choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Time Machine.
- Click Select Backup Disk.
Enjoy the convenience of automatic backups
After you select a backup disk, Time Machine immediately begins making periodic backups—automatically and without further action by you. The first backup may take a long time, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway. Time Machine backs up only the files that changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.
To start a backup manually, choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Use the same menu to check the status of a backup or skip a backup in progress.
Learn more
- Learn about other ways to back up and restore files.
- If you back up to multiple disks, you can press and hold the Option key, then choose Browse Other Backup Disks from the Time Machine menu.
- To exclude items from your backup, open Time Machine preferences, click Options, then click the add (+) button to add an item to be excluded. To stop excluding an item, such as an external hard drive, select the item and click the remove (–) button.
- If using Time Machine to back up to a network disk, you can verify those backups to make sure they're in good condition. Press and hold Option, then choose Verify Backups from the Time Machine menu.
Hey,
So this one is really going to be all about monitoring. My suggestions would be to possibly boot your computer a new user account and test if the issue occurs within their. If it does, boot into Safemode (the user account doesn't matter) and see if it happens there. If the issue does NOT occur within this new user account, then the issue is obviously going to be something known as 'USER SPECIFIC'. This generally indicates an issue with a PLIST file.. you can access most PLIST files by accessing the hidden user library. You can access this by opening the Finder Application and selecting the 'Go' option on the menu bar on the top of the screen. From there, hold the option key on your keyboard down and between home and computer, a hidden option will appear. Within this folder, we're looking for the folder titled 'Preferences'.. it's within here that the PLIST files are located.
Good luck with this,
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Nathan
Mac Os Catalina
Aug 20, 2013 10:39 PM
