Time Machine is Apple's backup system that automatically saves your Mac's files. Here's how to use the macOS file protection feature. Time Machine is an app that Apple ships with macOS and that helps ...

Automatically start a Time Machine backup when you plug in the drive and dismount the drive when the backup is complete.

Regularly backing up your Mac with Time Machine can prevent data loss and allow you to restore earlier versions of files. To get started, connect a drive that you want to use (and don't mind being ...

Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your Notification Center). If you don’t want the Time Machine icon cluttering up your menu bar, ...

Time Machine remains an outstanding solution for local backups on your Mac, but backups require an external drive, no cloud backups here. We all understand the importance of backing up a Mac, despite ...

Files deleted on a Mac will be moved to the Trash bin and stay for 30 days before being permanently deleted. However, many Mac users may accidentally empty the Trash bin without realizing the ...

My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.