![]() Here is Apple's official Knowledge Base article HT1427: 'Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups, how to restore items (or your entire system) from a backup, how to use existing backups on a new Mac, and more.'įREE UNUSED DISK SPACE SECOND, be sure you have a lot of free unused disk space on your hard drives (a minimum 30 percent of free unused, unfragmented space is recommended) - a hard drive that fills up and turns flaky is nearly impossible (for me) to get back to normal without Erasing reformatting. This allows me to work off the clone and have a trustworthy boot drive I can swap out and get back to work in five minutes if necessary.Īn external FireWire or USB drive can also be used for the clone.īecause I keep project files - documents, music, photos, project folders - on third and fourth hard drives, the swap and get-back-to-work process is pretty seamless in my professional work flow.Īpple provides a 'Time Machine.app' (Apple's popular backup and restore application). These days I prefer to simply clone my healthy, problem-free boot hard drive onto a freshly-erased internal hard drive, removing the original hard drive intact (and storing it away as my system back up). Be sure to back up all critical MAIL folders, DOCUMENT folders, FINANCIAL data files, iPHOTO and iTUNES folders and PREFERENCE files. This is important because the disk may be hanging on by a thread and the most basic procedure may lose the drive and data forever. After I've ruled out the two-percent conflict by removing whatever I recently added or updated and rebooted to see if that resolved the problem, I will start with the Mac OSX basics: BACKUP FIRST, before we start any troubleshooting or System or hard drive maintenance procedures, it is important that we BACK UP OUR DATA to other drives or CD or DVD media. My free online basic troubleshooting guide shortcuts: CORRUPTION | BACKUP | FREE UNUSED SPACE | DEFRAG | VIRUSES | SPARE USER ACCOUNT | PREFERENCES | SAFE BOOT | DISK UTILITY REPAIR PERMISSIONS | DISK UTILITY REPAIR DISK | DISK WARRIOR | MAC CLEANER APPS (Slow Mac) | FSCK | CRON SCRIPTS | COMBO UPDATES | FAQ-TIPS | TIME MACHINE-CLONING | STARTING OVER | NEW TO MAC LINKS CORRUPTION When Mac a computer starts running slow or acting flaky - unstable, crashing, freezing or generally misbehaving - it's a corruption issue 98 percent of the time (unless we've recently done something to it, and there is 98 percent of our clue). 'Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.' - Albert Einstein 0 upgrades, but if you must be on 'The Bleeding Edge' consider my free advice for what it may be worth to you: Tips for backing up, buying, installing, creating an install DVD, reverting back to what works. There are good reasons professionals and experienced users avoid brand new Operating Systems and. Apple OSX 10.10 MOUNTAIN LION 10.8, MAVERICKS 10.9 & LION 10.7 Should I Upgrade Tips: WARNING TO THE BRAVE SOULS UPGRADING TO APPLE'S NEW 10.10.0 YOSEMITE OR ANY NEW 'BLEEDING-EDGE' OPERATING SYSTEM APP OR HARDWARE. BALLARD, a professional Mac work-flow consultant in San Diego, CA This Apple Macintosh informational how to perform basic and advanced general maintenance, hard drive and system back ups and troubleshooting guide is a free tutorial about Mac OS-X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, OS10.4 Tiger, 10.3 Panther, 10.2 Jaguar, Operating Systems on the next generation 2014 2013 2012 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Mac Pros desktops, iMacs, and generation five G5 Altivec CPU workstations, including dual core quad core eight core processors quad processors 12-core Macbook Pro laptops Intel-based Intel Xeon Mac Pro IntelXeon MacPro computers. Turn on the automatic updates and let the computer update the software automatically and maintain itself.īy © 2005-2014 G. ![]() As someone running Mac OS on non Apple hardware, I can tell you that there is really no better software than Mac OS X itself. Either sell your MacBook and get a new or refurbished or used MacBook (or Pro or Air) that is supported by OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and maybe even OS X 10.9 (which might drop support for Core 2 Duo machines and require an i3 or i5 or i7 CPU anyway). ![]() Maintenance Program For Os X 10.6.8 6 8 Downloadīasic Troubleshooting & Maintenance Tips for beginners and advanced usersīut if the MacBook of yours does not run OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, it will not be able to run OS X 10.9 and the following OS versions.The original Macbook only goes to 10.6.8, the rest go to 10.7 except the aluminum macbook and white unibodies can go. It depends what macbook you have for which OS you can download. Or you need to download a newer OS from the App Store and create a USB installer from the download.
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