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  1. 1. Time Machine How Tos
  2. 2. How to Back Up Your Mac Using Time Machine
  3. 3. Time Machine Articles
  4. 4. Warning: Apple Says macOS 27 Won't Support AirPort Time Capsule Backups
  5. 5. Initial Time Machine Backup Failures Increasingly Being Reported by Mac Users
  6. 6. macOS 10.12.2 Fixes Time Machine Backup Crashing Issue on New MacBook Pro
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Time Machine

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Time Machine How Tos

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How to Back Up Your Mac Using Time Machine

Tuesday January 26, 2016 12:14 pm PST by Tim Hardwick
Finding a reliable backup solution for the Mac that runs in the background and isn't a drain on system resources was once considered a challenging prospect. With the arrival of OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple changed that preconception by introducing its native backup solution, called Time Machine. This article explains the benefits of using Time Machine and runs you through the setup and restore...

Time Machine Articles

Apple AirPort Routers

Warning: Apple Says macOS 27 Won't Support AirPort Time Capsule Backups

Tuesday June 10, 2025 8:23 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Apple offered a line of Wi-Fi routers that it referred to as AirPort base stations. There was a standard AirPort Express, a higher-end AirPort Extreme with more advanced networking features, and an AirPort Time Capsule that doubled as an external storage drive for backing up a Mac with Time Machine. Apple discontinued the AirPort line in 2018, and this week it ...
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Initial Time Machine Backup Failures Increasingly Being Reported by Mac Users

Wednesday December 8, 2021 3:30 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Apple's built-in Time Machine backup solution for macOS appears to be causing problems for some Mac users running the latest versions of Monterey and Big Sur, based on a steady trickle of reports on both the MacRumors Forums and Reddit. While some users are complaining of different issues with Time Machine on different Macs and versions of macOS that are hard to replicate, one common...
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macOS 10.12.2 Fixes Time Machine Backup Crashing Issue on New MacBook Pro

Wednesday December 7, 2016 2:23 pm PST by Joe Rossignol
Apple in the latest macOS Sierra beta appears to have fixed a common issue where transferring files to an external hard drive or SSD connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port caused the new MacBook Pro to crash for some users. MacRumors forum member Dave Miles claims he received an email response from Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi, who apologized for the inconvenience and...
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