As spiffy as Mac OS X’s 10.5 Time Machine feature can be, a number of users have noticed that their external hard drives continue to spin even when they have stopped using the drive, which has brought about the question as to whether the drive was being accessed by another, unauthorized application or because of […]
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Let’s face it, Time Machine is a spiffy and useful thing as well as one of the main bells and whistles of Mac OS X 10.5. This isn’t to say it’s without its bugs and despite Apple’s best efforts, there are times where backups appear to hang or stall out sans warning. You may be […]
As nifty as Time Machine is, a number of users seem to be running into problems where the “Change Disk…” option for Time Machine is nonfunctional. Over on the Apple Discussion Board, user Joel_H offered the following description of the issue: “(After switching TM disks) I realized there were still things on my time capsule […]
No matter what you think of Mac OS X 10.5.6, Apple is cited as having tapped its developer community this week to begin testing its Mac OS X 10.5.7 update, a maintenance and security update to the company’s Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements. According to AppleInsider, sources close to the […]
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EMC Releases Retrospect 8 Beta 4
EMC Corporation on Friday released the fourth public beta of Restrospect 8.0 its long-standing backup and recovery software for the Mac. The new beta consists of the following new features and changes: Stability has been greatly improved, and this build should feel much better. Proactive Backup (old Backup Server) monitoring is now functional, and the […]