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How To Encrypt A USB Flash Drive

Posted on November 4, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tim Hannon in Encryption, Security/Privacy

Do you want to encrypt an external hard drive or USB flash drive connected to your Mac? Encrypting the drive will protect the data on that drive. Each time that drive is connected to another Mac you’ll need to enter a password before the drive is available and before you can view or edit the … Read more

How To Make Sure Time Machine Backs Up Your External Drive

Posted on August 13, 2017July 14, 2023 by Tim Hannon in Backup, Time Machine

Do you want to make sure that Time Machine backs up an external hard drive, USB flash drive or an SD card that is connected to your Mac? If so, here are instructions to make sure this happens. If your Mac is using macOS 12 Monterey or older, use the instructions listed in Section 1 … Read more

Configure Time Machine To Use a New Hard Drive

Posted on October 30, 2016March 15, 2025 by Tim Hannon in Backup, Time Machine

Do you need to reconfigure Time Machine to use a new external hard drive? If you read my Tech Tips regularly you’ll recall that I strongly recommend that everybody setup automatic and redundant systems to backup their Mac. If you use Time Machine to backup your Mac to an external hard drive then you will … Read more

Common Ways To Eject A Disk From A Mac

Posted on September 25, 2016September 7, 2016 by Tim Hannon in Hardware, Macintosh, macOS (formerly OS X), Software

Here’s a list of common ways to eject a disk from a Mac. This disk could be a CD, a DVD, a USB flash drive or an external hard drive. Some Apple keyboards have an eject key. It is commonly located in the upper right corner of the keyboard. Press the eject key to eject … Read more

Basic Time Machine Troubleshooting

Posted on June 22, 2014August 27, 2015 by Tim Hannon in Backup, Time Machine

If you use Time Machine to backup your Mac to an external hard drive, here are some basics that you can check if backups are no longer occurring.

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Manually Delete Time Machine Backups from a Hard Drive

Posted on May 5, 2013June 21, 2019 by Tim Hannon in Backup, Time Machine

Is your external backup hard drive full of Time Machine backup data? In last week’s Tech Tip, we talked about how Time Machine automatically deletes your oldest backups to make room for new backups. Time Machine typically does this, but I’ve seen it misbehave also. Alternatively, you might want to manually delete some of your old … Read more

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