BACKUP YOUR MAC! - IN-DEPTH look at Apple Time Machine and many ways to save and recover your files!

[@rono33]

OMGGG Joel, of all the hundreds of YT hours I have and educational vlogs I WISH I found your channel sooner. Best teacher of the Mac tech know how that I need, just enough detail, clear, concise, visuals. "Hidden" features, EZ pro tips. No channel is better at this guys. Joel pls keep forging ahead.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I really appreciate you and your kind words @Ronny Y! It's comments like this that keep me motivated! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t subscribed already and would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and click THANKS below on the video! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, please share it along!

[@Steph1Pony]

So agree. Joel is awesome. So clear, so direct, overall, just a really good teacher.

[@edwardheimersjr8262]

Joel I am a 76 year old retired businessman who has been using Macs for home and personal use for 25+ years. I agree whole heartedly with Ronny. I wish I had found you sooner.You are the absolute best Mac resource. I have just become one of your newest subscribers and one of your oldest by age. Thank you. I wish you continued success. Ed

[@fishingotheradventuresonke7996]

Hi Joel, what fantastic content thank you (now subscribed) My 2TB Time Capsule (7years old) is now full & deleting the oldest back ups. I have just purchased a 6TB WD ‘My Book’. When that’s connected do I just disconnect the old Time Capsule, can I transfer the oldest back ups to the new hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I cannot find an answer to my specific query. Thank you. 👍

[@alangeorgebarstow]

Joel. It is late September 2022. I am 71½ years of age. I have never had a computer lesson in my life. I use Macs because I like them. I have learnt more about Time Machine and Pages in 24 minutes 33 seconds than I have ever known in my entire life. I am now a happy old man. Thank you, sir.

[@kumbirainyamapfeni6787]

Hi can you recover the OS from time machine?

[@Learnwithjoel]

You certainly can @KUMBIRAI NYAMAPFENI! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome young man! I appreciate you and your kind words @Alan George Barstow! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@snakeyjakey7643]

Joel, I am a what could be called a computer illiterate person, and I just have one thing to say: Thank You! It was a very informative video, even I could understand it. So, thank you one more time.

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @snakey jakey! Thank you for your continued support! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@jamesec1949]

I learned a lot and your video is appreciated. Thanks to you I have my computer backed up and I will be backing up my wife’s. You’ve earned a thumbs up and a subscriber.

[@kkay2000]

Another winner from Joel! Had burning Time Machine questions for - years - now, answered!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thank you for the continued support @Kenneth Kay! I'm happy this video was helpful! If you learned something new and want to support my content I’m creating, feel free to use SUPER THANKS on the video! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@captainfranknoneofyourbusi8564]

Thank Joel. That is the best, easiest explanation on youtube. Sign me up

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate your kind words @captain frank Noneofyourbusiness! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@TheAnarp221]

This was a very thorough, in-depth, and easy to understand along the way of what Time Machine is and the various options and possibilities associated with it... Great stuff...!!!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your kind words @TheAnarp221! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@commonuse4270]

Excellent video Joel, I tried to install MacOs beta yesterday and machine prompted me to do the time machine backup. Until then I had not even thought about it. Glad I found your video. It has everything I wanted. Great work.

[@ericchang7759]

Great video. Very thorough. Please also mention that TimeMachine backups are sometimes prone to corrupting, especially if you need to restore a whole computer from backup, so use a good drive, and if able multiple backup locations.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks for the feedback @Eric Chang! I agree that you should always have more than one backup and try and follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Carbon Copy or ChronoSync are great alternatives to Time Machine! I think the software experience of Time Machine can be pretty clunky, but if you know where your files are at, you can always drill down to the file location via the Finder. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@ottokite]

Nice Clear instructions, lots of things I didn't know - thanks :). However, I don't trust wireless backups. Back when Time Capsules were new I had my time machine go corrupt after about 3 months, I gave up after this happened 3 times. Not long after I got myself a Synology NAS I set this up for Time Machine and this also corrupted after about 3 months. So I now plug a USB 2TB hard drive into my MacBook Pro and use that so far no problems after over many years.

[@emmajoydesign]

The outro took me by surprise. A pleasant surprise :-) thank you, Joel!

[@Learnwithjoel]

LOL @Emma Waller! Well I'm not 100% sure what that means, but I'll take it! You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@fernfray1896]

Thank you Joel !!! After watching this video I will try to back up my new Mac Book to an older external Hard Drive.

[@Orwic1]

Excellent video, with a clear and easily understandable explanation. I’m familiar with the basic operation of time machine, but this gave some very useful extra information. Really helpful, thanks!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Orwic1! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@williamdannevik4173]

I am an 80-year-old retired ost-production manager/localization producer who has used Macs since TV productions changed from analog to digital workflows (1922). I took training in Avid and Protools but never in OS operation. I just learned by doing so, but I have been frustrated with Time Machine, especially with moving backups to new Macs. In 24:19, I've learned more about Time Machine operation/ Foile Sharing/ Restoration than in 32 years of fumbling around with OS from 9 through 12. That is why I've subscribed to you on KZbin. My only complaint is that I have to view your tutorials on one machine and stop often to recreate your instructions on another machine on another Mac. I guess I am a slow learner these days. Reply

[@CaryInVictoria]

What a wonderful explanation of Time Machine! It was my first visit to your channel, but I'm now subscribed and will be back often.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thank you for your continued support @caryinvancouver! I appreciate the sub! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@renaulttraficconversion]

Greetings from Australia. Thanks for the video, Joel. You have a new subscriber.

[@Robicheau02]

If you buy a hard drive with more space then you need for a backup you can partition the hard drive and format that partition to a Mac and the other partition to ms-dos or xfat to be used on windows. Im sure you know this but not sure if you have a video on that for others to know. Thank you your videos are verry helpful.

[@john-kneebee2143]

Bravo !!! Well Done !!! I'm off to back up my mac !!! Thank you

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @john-kneebee2143! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

[@dtmbmw325i]

This was the best video of Time Machine that I found. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks @Jason Nace! I really appreciate it! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@helendroitsch1832]

This is by far the best and most thorough video I have seen on backups for the Mac...it answered so many questions. I have saved this link because I want to see what else you have done, Joel.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm so happy this was helpful for you @Helen Droitsch! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@dennisrogers6530]

Best Time Machine video I've seen. Great step by step instructions. Thanks a ton!!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm happy to help @Dennis Rogers! You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@falkorock]

Very good video, thanks for helping out others in case of Backups on Mac!

[@billgirolamo9015]

Very Intensive, informative and helpful. I am a advocate of Time Machine having used it for all my Mac Years and have flawlessly transferred all data from Time Machine (Disk)(LaCie) to my New Mac. It's an amazing utility and everyone that has a Mac should be using this. Great job on the tutorial/video!!

[@JB12132]

Hi Bill I hope you don't mind me asking, when the disk is full will Time Machine warn you to allow you not to lose any files that are old that it would otherwise basically start to disgard to make space? Not one video on KZbin it seems to cover this very important point. Last year I lost a file as it was the oldest folder on my back up, seems Time Machine didn't take into account it was the only version as in the oldest and the newest of that project. I keep an eye out manually to see how kuch space is left on the back up disc to avoid it happening again. Thanks.

[@tanyameronk7268]

@@JB12132 ​​⁠A legit concern and one that comes up with my clients a lot. You’re right, Time Machine will not give you a warning before it deletes older versions of backups to make space for new backups. It only stores as many backups as it can fit on that hard-drive. My rule of thumb? Use a Time Machine (TM for short) hard drive that is twice the size of your Mac’s internal hard-drive capacity. And depending on if you’re adding GBs to your Mac regularly, you may even want to triple or quadruple the size of your Time Machine hard-drive to allow for more backups. You can kind of calculate how much data you’re using each week or month to figure out how big of a TM hard drive you need. Look at your Mac’s available storage capacity. You can find this by clicking the Apple 🍏 in the upper left corner of the screen then About This Mac > Storage. If you’re running Ventura or later, select System Settings > search storage. Note how much storage max capacity you have and how much is AVAILABLE. Check again in a week or two. That’ll give you an idea of your data “burn rate” and how much extra space you need on Time Machine to cover backups. 🎉 For example, if you noted you are currently using 250GB out of 500GB, then you check again in a week and it’s 260GB out of 500GB. That’s a 10GB increase in 1 week. Say your TM is 1TB or 1000GB - you’d have 740GB of space available for backups. At a burn rate of 10GB per week that’s 74 weeks of backups, give or take depending if you add more, less or delete stuff. You can also use 2 hard-drives in Time Machine that will alternate backups by adding another backup disk. All possible options so you don’t have to keep checking manually 😊 I hope that answered your question! 🧡

[@GregHutto1]

Awesome....a lot of information. I plan to watch again tomorrow. I did start my Time Machine back up...thank you. It reads 5 hours but this is an almost full 500gb SSD MacBook Pro from 2016 and I have never backed it up. I will back it up to the 1Tb SSD I bought today then go from there....thank you.

[@danielaguilar9694]

Thank you Joel, for all the advices, God bless you!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @DANIEL AGUILAR! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@alolsen339]

I just recently discovered your channel and your videos are excellent! Your style is easy to follow and I will be viewing much more of your great stuff. You are truly a superb teacher and I hope your KZbin channel continues to grow. Be well.

[@ASMRMONSTER]

This was a brilliant walkthrough Joel- sat here with a new hard drive looking at the time-machine prompt like WHAT IS DIS.. now I know!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate your kind words @ASMR MONSTER! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@MsKaw1976]

Thanks you are very helpful. Easy to understand and not toooooo Fast like most You Tube videos

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your kind words @MsKaw1976! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@maryfrantzoulou4067]

Joel, what a great Time Machine tutorial. You have managed to answer all the questions I had. Thank you so much.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thank you so much @Mary Frantzoulou! I'm happy I was able to help! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@carenbackus8229]

Fantastic! I donated. I wish I had seen this 3 years ago when I really needed it…hope Apple is paying you !

[@mbryars]

Great video with lots of detail on time machine. You did this one very important point that is a game changer for me. How to make sure Time Machine backs up external drives. Many people don’t think you can use time machine to back up an external drive but it is indeed possible. Thanks again

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks @M Bryars! I probably could have gone a little more in depth on that, but yes, that is a nice option that I don't think is explained very many places. Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@kmdesign355]

Great video. Another approach that expands on the "back up to a remote, shared folder, blessed for Time Machine, that resides on a networked Mac " is to share a externally connected Time Machine drive and share and bless it for TM. As long as you don't have your Time Machine backups encrypted (argh-few hours of head-scratching on that one), the remote Mac-connected Time Machine drive will be available anywhere on your network. Brilliant!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Nice tip @Matt Davis! Great idea and thanks for contributing! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@1_lens_view]

Been a TM user since 2007 or so. The major issue with it is that it is not cloud-friendly. Therefore, it’s not straightforward to implement a true 3-2-1 backup strategy without using multiple solutions. So, I use TM to backup to both an external drive and a local NAS, and I use another solution to move important content to the cloud. It’s not as elegant as I would like, but it works.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great points @1_lens_view! I would say it's hard to use a tool like Time Machine that was originally designed to backup local devices like the Mac. As far as backing up cloud content, I think it's tricky. Often with new features like "file on demand" It's hard to backup files to a local hard drive, when the cloud files are designed to be offloaded to the cloud and not be stored on the computer. So you're totally right. To have the full true 3-2-1 strategy, it requires multiple options. Thanks for the insight and thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@robertbrzheintzbrz147]

It’s actually *very* good that the Time Capsule is still supported. I have 2 and will be using them until the end of time. They give me backup WiFi’s (beside my high speed router), and backups via Time Machine without having to plug in an external drive!

[@PeterTRealtorLA]

Joel sez “just don’t” 😂

[@ana123116]

Best informative I've seen in reference to Time Machine, etc. Thx so much...u r a good teacher:)

[@jkennan]

Thanks for a helpful and detailed explanation. I've been backing up my macbook with time machine for nearly 10 years and have never yet had to restore anything but it's nice to know how to do it if I need to.

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @jkennan! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@PurpleSwan]

Nice Time Machine tutorial. I am glad I found it.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm glad you found it too @Alvin! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@frontstandard1488]

Excellent teacher, very well done explanations and demos. So useful for a new Mac user.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks so much for watching @Front Standard! I appreciate your kind words! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@NiceAussie]

Great video. Time Machine has until now, been a mystery…. Thanks

[@Learnwithjoel]

Happy to help @John Till! Mystery solved! :-) Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@ararocio7743]

Joel, you are awesome!! Great explanation in detail!! Thank you.....thank you so much! :)

[@rapaent]

Thank you Joel!! This will help me immensely! I'm getting ready to upgrade from Macos Ventura 13.4.1 to Sequoia 15.1 Will I be able to go back to Ventura if for some reason I don't like Sequoia using my TM backup? Thanks again, appreciate it. Great Job as always!!! 👍

[@TiffyWhiffy]

Great video, you had my attention from ‘start’. Thank you

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Tiffie Wiffie! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and the content I’m creating, please feel free to SUBSCRIBE and use SUPER THANKS on the video if you haven’t already! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@ShantaKarunaratne]

Excellent very useful tutorial on Mac backup options. Thank you so much!

[@kimlarjohnson2263]

i have had a mac for years and not used this, amazing. i am creating a workbook for my IT students and thought this time machine is great for my dad because he has had issues with his iMac 2009 so a back up now is imperative. i got him an external hard drive i- thank you

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Kimla R Johnson! Time Machine may not be perfect, but it's certainly better than nothing! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@ny6901]

Thanks! what a handy little feature! Trying it out on you

[@Learnwithjoel]

As always, THANK YOU @ny6901!

[@fgreenfield5234]

Excellent content! Demystified something that wasn't actually all that mysterious once I watch your tutorial. Backing up brand new Time Machine as I type this.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks so much @F Greenfield! Time Machine is a good start to backing up files on your Mac if you don't currently have any backup! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@johnschweinberg8085]

Great video, very informative. This is my situation, first I need to back up my MacBook, then in order to have additional space I wanted to delete some of the files from my Mac. My question is when I delete the files will they also get deleted in Time Machine or still be there? Hope that doesn't sound too confusing.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great questions @johnschweinberg8085! If a Mac is using Time Machine to back up the files to the external hard drive, you would be able to delete files from the Mac and they would not be deleted from the Time Machine backup. However just keep in mind that if your goal is to free up space and that data now only lives on the external hard drive running Time Machine, it's not considered backed up anymore. If Time Machine fills up, it will start deleting the oldest backups or if something happened to that drive itself, you would lose the data. So just keep that in mind. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@unclespider314]

Great video. everything I needed know in one spot. Very helpful, thanks.

[@grayjack54]

Thank you, excellent presentation.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your kind words @Donald Jackson! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@DW-ph2xg]

I agree with “O” below. Thank you Joel.

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Doug W! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@bbalestier]

I loved this... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Bruce Balestier! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@bbalestier]

@@Learnwithjoel Time machine Ventura OS disk alocation caused me a lot of pain today be careful...

[@beniciomoldenado2315]

Another outstanding video. I have been using Apple computers for many years and I am still learning new stuff from your videos. Thank you! My wife is about to order a new MacBook and I want to get her an external drive for Time Machine. The new (7/2022) small SSD drives like the one shown in the video are very appealing. I have a question about them. Some of the information I have read discusses overheating issues. Have you, or anyone reading this, experienced these problems? Thanks for any help and thanks again for the great videos.

[@ranjansutaria5402]

Just what I needed! Thanks Joel. I can see an individual image in my Adobe Lightroomfolders from my TM Backup. I have no experience of Apple Photos.

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm happy my content was helpful for you @Ranjan Sutaria! Lightroom is a fantastic application. Certainly a step up from Apple Photos! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@enzorocha2977]

Thanks for your video, Joel, very helpful and informative, really appreciate the awesome effort you put into this one. Your channel among a handful is the reason why KZbin is a gift. More power to you.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thank you so much @Enzo Rocha! Its comments like yours that motivate me to keep going and continue to create content that I hope is useful for others around the world. Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@tedk2814]

the best instructional video I've seen. thanks so much

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate that @ted K! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@phbrinsden]

I just gave up my 2017 MBA for a new M2 MBA. I set up the new one from the old one direct. When I plugged the original Time Machine in it was clearly not performing right. As I really didn’t have anything important from way back I decided to fully reformat in APFS and then started Time Machine from scratch. Much happier. I don’t know what format system I had on the old Time Machine but it really did not like the new machine. Your info here suggests it might have tried to start as a second computer. Anyhow, it’s all great again.

[@divolino]

Thanks a lot, I’ve learned many new things through this tutorial.

[@Sonea18]

Excellent video! Explained very well. Thank you.

[@Learnwithjoel]

You’re very welcome @Sonea Sharma! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@anthonybeese293]

Thank you for your great video so helpful and you explained everything so clearly and easy to understand, 🙏🏼

[@ajcbambo3844]

Brilliant lesson and really enjoyed. Nobody else has demonstrated how to make my external drive visible and I've watched a few. I have a 2013 iMac and have just bought a new Mac Mini. I've been storing stuff in iCloud but not really sure what is up there. Is it better to transfer/back up all the files onto a new external hard drive or just transfer everything to my new Mac Mini please? Also, am I correct in thinking that once the transfer/back up is completed all my files will be deleted from my old iMac? Thanks in advance.

[@marchinderickx8193]

Excellent summary of features. My camera only has one memory card. On vacation, I can copy the contents of the SD card to my Mac in order to have a backup. If I don't have my computer, what equipment do you suggest?

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks @Marc Hinderickx! If you don't have a computer, you could copy files to an iPhone or iPad, but you'd need adapters and enough space to accommodate files. Western Digital also makes a wireless external hard drive that has a built in SD card reader, where you can plug your SD memory card directly into it and copy the files directly to the external hard drive with no computer and there's another product called a Gnarbox that does the similar thing. I don't own any of these personally, but have read some of the reviews on it. May be worth a shot if this solves a need. I will link below for reference: WD 2TB My Passport Wireless SSD External Portable Drive amzn.to/3ZpTpBs GNARBOX - Portable Backup & Editing System for Any Camera amzn.to/3F4fAF8 Other than that, with no computer and no additional SD card slots to write to two cards, this may be your best bet. I hope that helps! Thank you for your continued support! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@marchinderickx8193]

@@Learnwithjoel Many thanks for your fast reply; Really appreciated.

[@Localsonly420]

Not being able to select specific photos from the Photos Library in Time Machine back up is one of the most frustrating things I've dealt with from Apple. I honestly gave up a long time ago trying to figure this out. Let me know if you've gathered any solutions. Love the video and thanks for all the help, Cheers!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I couldn't agree more @Kelly Cooney! It's extremely frustrating. It's even more frustrating knowing that years back, you used to be able to open up Apple Photos, then open Time Machine and it would just go through your photos and you could do backups of specific photos, but not anymore! All I can do is keep bugging Apple Support with feature requests and feedback! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and the content I’m creating, please feel free to SUBSCRIBE and use SUPER THANKS on the video if you haven’t already! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@WildMidwest1]

​@@Learnwithjoel Apple Photos is going the way of iTunes and HyperCard. Eventually it will be killed outright. In terms of lost usability, it's not far from that point now.

[@dangalender8748]

Really thorough explanation, Joel. Thank you! One question about using Time Machine to back up to a NAS: Am I correct that is is the only one of the scenarios that does not require the destination location to be formatted as an Apple drive?

[@trea492]

I recently attempted this yesterday and tried to drag and drop . It worked but not without error notification and messed up meta data. Really dislike having my meta data messed up in front of me when exporting from photos App Library. In preview it’s also messed up. Its insane how many years I suffered with managing my photos in iCloud , I lost originals due to the confusing diy process of exporting while also not having photos backed up to the cloud for a brief period. I had duplicates trying not to lose originals. I lost my mind with the iCloud process and “referenced files” too scared to delete anything from icloud. I just want to go back to the old days of the simplicity of photo file management without cloud services. Where if you copy a photo and move it and you know it’s also an original copy and not a referenced file. I lost my mind with iCloud Photos. Slowly recovering. Apple user since 2011. Joel’s video on phone usbs is my way to get out my photos organized and without relying on the iCloud export process . I just want my photos exported with categories and data intact and put on a hard drive and not use the photos app or icloud.

[@KS-wr8ub]

@kellycooney2566 I haven’t tried this myself since I’ve luckily haven’t needed to… yet, but it sure sound really stupid. Got me thinking though. Can’t you just TM back to a backup of the .photoslibrary that contain the photo you need. Recover that backup of .photoslibrary to a new location. Open that library and export the photo you’re looking for. Remove the new .photoslibrary and import the recovered photo in your old library again. It’s not elegant, nor efficient, nor for everyone, but I think it should work. It does require that you have space on either you internal HDD/SSD or an external for the recovered .photoslibrary. And it also requires that you don’t use iCloud optimize storage for your photos on the Mac.

[@YamiKeizerLeon]

Excellent Video, really appreciate the insight on how to get this done~

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm happy to help @YamiKeizerLéon! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t subscribed already and would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and use the THANKS button! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@frankjolivares]

Joel, very informative Thx

[@Learnwithjoel]

Happy to help @Frank Olivares! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@TM-vg4mx]

would time machine backup icloud drive files, if not how to go about it? thanks for the great video

[@DanielaGarcia-ws6rz]

This is fantastic!! I know pretty much nothing about this stuff and this helped me so, so much. Amazing work. Really, thank you. :)

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thank you so much for the kind words @Daniela Garcia! I really appreciate it! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@DanielaGarcia-ws6rz]

@@Learnwithjoel you gained a new subscriber with me that day. 😊 keep up the amazing work!

[@Dangerousdaze]

Thanks for the video! Not sure if anyone's already pointed this out but Microsoft Office on Mac also has the ability to restore previous versions of files but only if they're stored on OneDrive. A bit off-topic. ;)

[@slimer240]

Awsome video, I just got my first macbook pro and it has the M1 chip but going from pc to Mac has been a learning curve and I already had to revert back and downgrade to Monterey because I do music production as a hobby and almost nothing is ready for ventura yet but your video has now given me clear understanding of the time machine and how it all works and how to even set it up.. thanks for the video!

[@exel1212]

you put a lot of effort ... thankyou

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Yeheskiel Pongrekun! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@Bean-zf5hr]

Wow! This was incredibly helpful! Thank you!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm happy this was helpful for you @Bean! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already and would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and use SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@rickeisner]

Thanks for a fantastically clear discussion of Time Machine, which I’d never really understood before. I’m going to set it up tomorrow. And I’ve subscribed to your channel. I hope to learn a lot from you. Thanks again!

[@tinlizziestudios4344]

Excellent video. So thorough and organized. I will actually keep this aside as a reference video because I know with everything thats packed in here I will use it again. New Sub here. Thank you Joel!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm thrilled that this has been helpful for you @TinLizzie Studios and have saved it for reference. I'm always glad when I know people are appreciative of the content i've been creating! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@Jugin27]

Thank you for your the learning. It is cool. I watched all the videos except Final Cut :)

[@Learnwithjoel]

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[@marcusbarnes5929]

What type and size of external storage would you recommend if the macbook has 4TB internal.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great question @Marcus Barnes! Over the years I've purchased so many tiny portable external hard drives and finally last year I bought a Pegasus Promise RAID drive. They're a bit more expensive, but certainly have many benefits to them. I'll link below for reference: Promise Technology Pegasus32 R4 amzn.to/40BmHxx You can configure in many different ways and can be a great long term solution. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@azlife4me]

Ecxcellent video. Thanks for sharing it.

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks so much for watching @azlife4me! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@omaribrahim7457]

Hey Joel! Great video, I still have a couple of questions. I have a 2015 macbook pro, and a 2TB HDD external drive. The first time I saved to my hard drive, I had no problems, around 300gb; and this was a year ago. I tried today, and my time machine is at a stalemate saying "found xxxxxxxx number of changes" and it can reach up to 2 million changes, without backing up anything. I talked to Apple support, they said to enter recovery mode, and that something in the Hard drive was corrupted, so it could not back up again. We ran the repair tool, and total wiped the disk. I luckily still kept all my photos on my computer, so I did not lose anything. But I do plan on wiping my mac completely so it can run smoothly. My only problem is if this happens again and somehow I can no longer use my Hard drive or time machine has a hard time reading the disk, I possibly just jeopardized many years of photos. Got any ideas? Thanks!

[@morezco]

Excellent video. I am trying to find out if it is worth it to use SSDs for Time Machine or if performance is trumped by network latencies or some other bottleneck

[@tiitulitii]

I don't like rock and roll, but your videos are great!

[@Learnwithjoel]

Maybe not all rock and roll is created equal, but I hear ya @T T! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@didietnih]

thank you. a clear and easily understandable explanation

[@Learnwithjoel]

I'm so happy it was helpful for you @Didiet Danton! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@juliedasse2245]

Hi Joel, First thank you so much, this video is very helpful and clear. I have a few questions: I am looking to put away photos and folders on an external hard drive because I don't necessarily want to have them on my Macbook but want to store them somewhere, time machine doesn't seem to do that but just copying the laptop data at a certain time so if I would to erased the data from the MacBook and then the old time machine version would erase itself to make space for new ones, then all the previous folders and photos would be gone as well no? (I hope this is clear enough) Thank you in advance for your answer 🙏🏽

[@Learnwithjoel]

Fantastic question @juliedasse2245! You are correct. Time Machine is designed to make a mirror image of everything on an Apple Computer. It backs up the changes every time it's plugged in or whenever it's set to. If a file gets deleted on the computer, it will still live on the Time Machine backup. This way you can restore the file if needed. Now here's the issue...Let's say you've had your laptop and Time Machine working together for a few years and your Time Machine starts to get full. When that happens it will start to delete your oldest Time Machine backups. Now let's say you realized you have a file that is 5 years old and it was in the first original backup. That file could potentially be lost as Time Machine will delete really old backups to make room for new backups. So for your original question, here is what I would do. It sounds like you're looking to just archive some of your photos and files on external drive, but not have it stored on the same Time Machine drive for the reasons above. I would dedicate an external drive for archival purposes where you manually organize and copy your files to it. If you're worried about that archive drive being backed up, you can always have Time Machine back up a Computer and an external drive at the same time. If you plug in your "archival" drive I'll call it...into the Mac that also has the Time Machine drive plugged in, you can have Time Machine backup that external drive in addition to your Mac. I hope that makes sense! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@zonezh]

Very clear and detail video explains everything, 👍

[@LegionIO]

Brilliant video, thank you for the priceless info! I have been having some trouble downloading my TimeMachine backups to my new SSD. The message I received on my last attempt was "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Photo Library Migration Utility” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)". It would be awesome if you could advise me how I get passed this. I've also tried to simply restore from the old drive via Disk Utility but also ran into problems, apparently the new drive isn't in the right format, even though they are exactly the same (both Mac journaled and GUID partition). Also my new SSD is 1TB where as my old HDD is 2TB. I'm only using around 800GB but am unsure if the new drive needs to not only have enough space, but at least match the storage size of the drive being restored from? I hope this all made sense and eagerly await a reply from anyone who can help.

[@georgevrontakis1106]

Very informative! Thank you!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @GEORGE! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@ny6901]

Thanks Joel. Backing up to a local mac gave me an idea that I want to run by you. I have 2015 mbp monterey, and an older mac mini (not to mention a 2008mb and 2013 mbp. I still use them all intermittently but only go online with the newest ? ha. I upgraded the mini hdd to ssd! thanks to crucial and ifixit. That was fun. However... mostly the mini just sits as I didn't want to push it with the new OS. What do you think of just using it as an external archive drive.... will that work? (Erase and reformat - connect with cable not wifi) My eventual purpose is to get all my ancient files off of old drives that I have put into external cases from way way back, when I used to be organized on Windows xp and since then with all my failed attempts at simplifying! Lots of photos, duplicates, photos of work on houses. I have been studying this time before jumping in and making a new mess. Our internet is antiquated and I am - much of the time not connected so I LOVE the local storage idea.... both archive without TM and an intermittently used time machine drive. Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated!

[@mariamontelli-tramazzo1933]

Great video000well done, easy to follow and well explained. Good Job--Thanks

[@AbhiSingh-qo9xr]

Hey thanks for the detailed video!! But just one question if icloud photos are on with optimized storage would they still be included in the icloud backup??

[@Learnwithjoel]

Great question @Abhi Singh! Actually, iCloud Photos among some other items are not stored/backed up within iCloud Backup. Also keep in mind that if you're using Time Machine and you have the settings within Apple Photos to Optimize Mac Storage, it's not really backing up those high quality original photos either, only the optimized files and anything that may be downloaded... Check out these other videos on iCloud and backup: iCLOUD BACKUPS - WHAT you NEED TO KNOW when it comes to backing up PHOTOS, iPHONES and your devices! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZbTaqOIetWfepo How to BACKUP iCLOUD PHOTOS! Options for your Mac, iPhone and iPad! Cloud or No Cloud! kzbin.info/www/bejne/poi9i5-PiptlqtU What does iCloud back up? support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428 I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!

[@AbhiSingh-qo9xr]

@@Learnwithjoel thank you Joel and yes subscribing the channel right now!!❤️❤️❤️

[@843thebear]

A very helpful video, thanks., you've prompted me to do this and I've subscribed to you. When doing initial backup, does Time Machine continue doing the backup even if your MacBook goes into sleep mode during the copy?

[@mauriciomandara5946]

Great info ! Thanks for sharing! I am waiting for a new Mac …I’m concerned about the software since I have a lot of plugins and brushes etc … would Time machine mirror one computer to another without having to do all the downloads manually? Thanks!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I hear ya @Mauricio Mandara! Going from one Mac to another especially when you have all sorts of plugins and such and be frustrating. I would for sure suggest doing the Migration Assistant and going through the process of using your Time Machine to restore your current user onto your new Mac! I think I should make a video specifically on the Migration Assistant! I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and my content, please SUBSCRIBE and SUPER THANKS! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@BigDaddyofSnohomish]

Very very helpful! Thanks!!

[@parveezsaligh9248]

Super helpful thank man 👾

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Parveez Saligh! Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to support me and the content I’m creating, please feel free to SUBSCRIBE and use SUPER THANKS on the video if you haven’t already! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@tarcisio_menezes]

Awesome video! Thank you very much!

[@it5086]

Hi Joel, great content. Do time machine backup the parallel folders on my mac.... I have parallel with window. Thank you, Irving

[@ny6901]

Hello, to my understanding TM works only on Mac If you have boot camp / parallel / windows TM won’t back that partook up ? I think carbon copy cloned is one that will, at any rate there are/ or were solutions ou there when I looked into it. It got too complicated for me so I started just backing up docs and photos on externals that were formatted to be compatible with both Mac and windows (before the newer Mac format came along…. Hoping I will still be able to access info on those externals if I need to)

[@edmundhayes7982]

All of my hourly backups on Time Machine are the same size. I would have thought all subsequent backups would only backup changed files. Is there a setting I didn't check off? Great channel BTW.

[@ryanyu5051]

Excellent tutorial. Appreciate!

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Ryan Yu! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@zecasari]

Excelent explanation!

[@Twinman21]

Really great concise and easy to understand video and training! Now subscribed... I have a couple questions specific to me. How can we communicate?

[@Learnwithjoel]

I appreciate you and your positive feedback @user-hp5jm5sp6y! You can always ask questions on the comments and I will do my best to comment on them, or you can visit my website: joelfeld.com and reach out to me on there. I do offer Personal Training and consulting! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

[@jonathangarcia9617]

Nice video of the day.

[@Learnwithjoel]

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[@richbarrett]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@Learnwithjoel]

You're very welcome @Rich Barrett! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@Jennifer-cg5ih]

Greatest KZbinr in the world love ❤️ you Joel!!! Also quick question I just want to back up once a month is that ok? Do I have to delete the previous backup or will it override it

[@Learnwithjoel]

Thanks so much @Jennifer! I truly appreciate that! As far as backing up once a month, I would say it all depends on your comfort level of wanting the most recent content backed up, in addition to your computer use. If you are a college student who is typing a ton of papers and you are using the computer all day every day for projects and important information, then I would probably say a month is too long. But if you're not doing much or creating things that you would be ok to lose if something were to happen, then a month is good. There's no one size fits all. You're doing good already by having a backup in general. Also you do not have to delete the previous backups. Time Machine is designed to recognize only the changes and save that information so it doesn't attempt to backup up something that's already been backed up. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@greysriverphotography6340]

What about backing up external to external with TimeMachine? Nice video!

[@Learnwithjoel]

I did mention that briefly, but could have for sure expanded on it @Greys River Photography! When you have an external drive plugged in while backing up a Mac, you have to make sure that the external drive is not excluded from the Time Machine Preferences within the System Preferences!  > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options > Exclude these items from backups Once you exclude it, it will be included in the same folder as the Mac being backed up. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!

[@brendaryan4168]

@@Learnwithjoel Are you saying that the new SSD drive that I just used as a TimeMachine Backup Drive, should NOT have been "EXCLUDED"? (That seems backwards... like it would be backing up the Mac and the SSD both if not excluded?)