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<blockquote data-quote="jimalton" data-source="post: 1594541" data-attributes="member: 327872"><p>Thank you all for replying to my post - I hope this further missive will receive as much attention.</p><p>I am receiving the Mac-Forums newsletter and it is the one sent to me on 11th July with the reference to 'Can't copy files to backup ext drive' that led me to the (mis)understanding of Time Machine and the other software mentioned there. Referring to that posting, moderator member chscag gave the explanation for the problem reported as that the drive being copied to from a Mac was probably formatted NTFS not (as moderator member slydude later mentioned) Mac OS Extended Journaled. That seemed to be the solution though the reporter had other problems. So, getting back to Time Machine, SuperDuper, CCC, et al, I presume that these all have a target drive formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled? Either it is pre-formatted or the software may be able to detect and correct any drive formatting needed. Switching now to this thread, a reply by senior member chas_m says that he's looking forward to iCloud drive to store photos, text, etc. Now, is it right that this iCloud drive would be formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled, presuming the iCloud he's referring to is Apple's? If that is the case then what is the formatting when you copy to Google Drive or Microsoft's OneDrive or any other online storage? And what is the formatting when you copy stuff from a Mac and Windows to, for example, Google drive, presuming that can be done.</p><p>Can online storage be used as the target for Time Machine or the cloners? (By the way, chas_m is looking forward to (the availability of) iCloud Drive but don't we already have it? When I go to iCloud in System Preferences it says I have 5gb, and I can buy more - is this storage different to the mentioned iCloud Drive?)</p><p>Going onto a tangent, in chas_m's reply he has a link to his 'Sage advice for the new Mac switcher', and he mentioned the following on 14th July 2010: 'As it happens, keeping a ton of stuff on your desktop will slow down your machine ...' - it happens that I do have stuff on my desktop, but why would it slow down my machine? (For it to be mentioned the slow down must be somewhat significant.)</p><p>Lastly, EFI? I have a sense of this from Wikipedia as being equivalent to the BIOS but otherwise I've never heard of EFI or UEFI. But what is it about this EFI that Time Machine won't or can't copy it? Is it a matter of being a separate partition? Even so, why doesn't Time Machine go all the way and produce a bootable copy - why doesn't Apple provide the equivalent to a cloner?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jimalton, post: 1594541, member: 327872"] Thank you all for replying to my post - I hope this further missive will receive as much attention. I am receiving the Mac-Forums newsletter and it is the one sent to me on 11th July with the reference to 'Can't copy files to backup ext drive' that led me to the (mis)understanding of Time Machine and the other software mentioned there. Referring to that posting, moderator member chscag gave the explanation for the problem reported as that the drive being copied to from a Mac was probably formatted NTFS not (as moderator member slydude later mentioned) Mac OS Extended Journaled. That seemed to be the solution though the reporter had other problems. So, getting back to Time Machine, SuperDuper, CCC, et al, I presume that these all have a target drive formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled? Either it is pre-formatted or the software may be able to detect and correct any drive formatting needed. Switching now to this thread, a reply by senior member chas_m says that he's looking forward to iCloud drive to store photos, text, etc. Now, is it right that this iCloud drive would be formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled, presuming the iCloud he's referring to is Apple's? If that is the case then what is the formatting when you copy to Google Drive or Microsoft's OneDrive or any other online storage? And what is the formatting when you copy stuff from a Mac and Windows to, for example, Google drive, presuming that can be done. Can online storage be used as the target for Time Machine or the cloners? (By the way, chas_m is looking forward to (the availability of) iCloud Drive but don't we already have it? When I go to iCloud in System Preferences it says I have 5gb, and I can buy more - is this storage different to the mentioned iCloud Drive?) Going onto a tangent, in chas_m's reply he has a link to his 'Sage advice for the new Mac switcher', and he mentioned the following on 14th July 2010: 'As it happens, keeping a ton of stuff on your desktop will slow down your machine ...' - it happens that I do have stuff on my desktop, but why would it slow down my machine? (For it to be mentioned the slow down must be somewhat significant.) Lastly, EFI? I have a sense of this from Wikipedia as being equivalent to the BIOS but otherwise I've never heard of EFI or UEFI. But what is it about this EFI that Time Machine won't or can't copy it? Is it a matter of being a separate partition? Even so, why doesn't Time Machine go all the way and produce a bootable copy - why doesn't Apple provide the equivalent to a cloner? [/QUOTE]
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