Any more advise you can give will be good. Is this not the case? If not, what is the point of My Passport, and backing up in general. I suppose I expected to be able to back up everything, the mac system itself and everything I have ever produced. Is my Passport big enough? It certain is not full. I don't need to instantly backup a word document if I've changed anything a routine time machine backup will do, but how can I find if it has backed up said word document? Does it just back up the FTM app itself? Thats pointless because I have the software here. When I bought my Passport and attached it to the computer, I just used the time machine and away it went. My stategy is to leave Time Machine attached to my Passport most of the time. It contains my FTM.app, but it's a backup so I don't know if it contains all the word documents I produced, photos etc. Backups: backupdb (I don't know what this stands for, but its full of stuff, applications etc) Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore.

Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Backup and Restore. If is isn't, then you will have to decide upon a different type of software and backup strategy. Also, for Time Machine to work properly your Passport must be at least twice the capacity of your computer's drive. You would have to repartition and reformat the Passport in order to use Time Machine. If you want every change you make to a document instantly backed up to the Passport, then you need the right software to do that (if it exists.) If you wish to use Time Machine that is part of OS X, then it backs up every hour but does not instantly backup a changed file. Where you will start at this point also depends on what you may have already backed up to the Passport and if you are using the pre-installed Passport software. Version OS X 10.9.5.ĭepends on the backup software you use, what backup strategy you implement, and what you need to backup. Quite basic questions for you Apple folk, but the answers would help me and others a great deal. If all the above are backed-up, if I change as much as a DoB on a Word document, will that document then be backed-up with the changes? If my whole mbp is in My Passport, I can't see it. I have 2 Trees on my software, but I can't see if they are in there for me to re-open from My Passport. Whilst I can see the FTM.app, I cannot open to see whats inside.

I also have lots of saved info downloaded from the net, e.g., photos and census stuff. They take ages to translate and I would hate to lose them.

It contains all my tree data, and lots and lots of Microsoft Word word-processed documents, eg, vast type-ups of Wills etc. I have lots of data on my mbp, namely, Family Tree Maker software (from .uk). It does not look like it contains much therefore I am worried. If I lost everything, would My Passport be able to reinstate my MacBook Pro in it's entirety?

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