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Before upgrade to 10.11.6, how not to lose Mail, bookmarks, make dumb mistakes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sparky61" data-source="post: 1746574" data-attributes="member: 376025"><p>Jake, thanks for steering me clear of a Newb mistake, much appreciated!</p><p></p><p>S.SubZero, the cloud is going to be part of my strategy. I'm just trying to focus this thread on one topic at a time so it isn't so tedious. But I do appreciate you chiming in, thank you! I'll probably use BackBlaze as suggested in the Official Backup FAQ thread. And THANK YOU to all who contributed to <em>that</em> thread!</p><p></p><p>So, it's looking like CCC for me. I cloned my internal SSD to a Glyph Atom, and I'm probably going to clone it to another low-use spinner I have laying around cuz the idea of formatting my internal drive makes me nervous even though I know it probably should not. </p><p></p><p>Q: Per the advice in the OB FAQ, you should test your clone to be sure you can boot to it. I have El Cap on a bootable USB, and if that's plugged in, my MPB will boot from that drive on startup. If I have the Atom (clone) plugged in, the MBP ignores it and boots from the internal SSD. Why? I'm guessing the machine knows the OS is the same, so it ignores the clone. Back in my Windows days, I would enter BIOS and tell the machine which drive to boot from, but frankly, I don't know how to do that on a Mac ... Otherwise, the clone appears complete, files are accessible, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sparky61, post: 1746574, member: 376025"] Jake, thanks for steering me clear of a Newb mistake, much appreciated! S.SubZero, the cloud is going to be part of my strategy. I'm just trying to focus this thread on one topic at a time so it isn't so tedious. But I do appreciate you chiming in, thank you! I'll probably use BackBlaze as suggested in the Official Backup FAQ thread. And THANK YOU to all who contributed to [I]that[/I] thread! So, it's looking like CCC for me. I cloned my internal SSD to a Glyph Atom, and I'm probably going to clone it to another low-use spinner I have laying around cuz the idea of formatting my internal drive makes me nervous even though I know it probably should not. Q: Per the advice in the OB FAQ, you should test your clone to be sure you can boot to it. I have El Cap on a bootable USB, and if that's plugged in, my MPB will boot from that drive on startup. If I have the Atom (clone) plugged in, the MBP ignores it and boots from the internal SSD. Why? I'm guessing the machine knows the OS is the same, so it ignores the clone. Back in my Windows days, I would enter BIOS and tell the machine which drive to boot from, but frankly, I don't know how to do that on a Mac ... Otherwise, the clone appears complete, files are accessible, etc. [/QUOTE]
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