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<blockquote data-quote="bigscreen" data-source="post: 1916242" data-attributes="member: 403466"><p>Thank you both for such thorough responses.</p><p></p><p>First, Pine Man, the whole problem is that I DONT keep ejecting the device. It is my MAC which keeps highlighting a message to say that it has not been ejected properly. This happens also when the iMAC might have been idle for several hours. I do habitually shut down the MAC over night which of course ejects the EHD as part of tha process. Where we live we are prone to flash power outages for a few seconds so maybe if one of those hits, the iMAC blips but the EHD cannot cope.</p><p></p><p>IWT, I agree the simple way would be to start afresh, but my concern is whether there is something which has been deleted which I later want to access so would search a back image. Maybe I have misunderstood the purpose of TM, noting your comment that TM is not supposed to be a backup storage system. My theory is that TM snapshots my system regularly so that in a sad event of iMAC failure I can reestablish my system (even on a fresh machine) with minimum concern, or maybe use TM to search for a back version of a file. I would be most interested to hear whether I have got that all wrong, and perhaps what I should be doing to protect my data.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigscreen, post: 1916242, member: 403466"] Thank you both for such thorough responses. First, Pine Man, the whole problem is that I DONT keep ejecting the device. It is my MAC which keeps highlighting a message to say that it has not been ejected properly. This happens also when the iMAC might have been idle for several hours. I do habitually shut down the MAC over night which of course ejects the EHD as part of tha process. Where we live we are prone to flash power outages for a few seconds so maybe if one of those hits, the iMAC blips but the EHD cannot cope. IWT, I agree the simple way would be to start afresh, but my concern is whether there is something which has been deleted which I later want to access so would search a back image. Maybe I have misunderstood the purpose of TM, noting your comment that TM is not supposed to be a backup storage system. My theory is that TM snapshots my system regularly so that in a sad event of iMAC failure I can reestablish my system (even on a fresh machine) with minimum concern, or maybe use TM to search for a back version of a file. I would be most interested to hear whether I have got that all wrong, and perhaps what I should be doing to protect my data. [/QUOTE]
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