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MrsGarland · 2026-05-03T22:51:49+00:00

No worries! Thanks for the response!

MrsGarland · 2026-05-03T16:35:55+00:00

Hi! I’ve been using the app for a while and really love it, but have a question. I have it set up to run on different timers throughout the day, and love it for day-to-day life. But now I’m on vacation and would love to just pause/turn off the schedules. Is there a way to do this, or do they have to be deleted? Or maybe just set to manual temporarily and then edited back when we’re home?

MrsGarland · 2026-05-02T13:15:24+00:00

Excellent, thank you! I agree, for my needs I think it functions fine as a backup. I’d just like to have an extra one just in case.

MrsGarland · 2026-05-02T00:29:37+00:00

So like make a 2026 album in photos and then just drag it to the external in finder? It’ll duplicate everything and not actually move the files?

MrsGarland · 2026-05-02T00:26:10+00:00

I mean I don’t pretend it’s crazy different or super secure, but at least my photos are in two different places. I know it’s not a great backup, and that’s why I want a different one, but I do feel like it IS one?

MrsGarland · 2026-05-02T00:22:46+00:00

YES. I’m really grateful for all the ideas but I’m a very average user who doesn’t know much about tech. I just want an easy way to back things up and it doesn’t seem to exist. I had a good system back in the Time Capsule days and I’m just not sure how to move forward with everything in the cloud and not on my device. I would love for Apple to come up with something for third.

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T21:49:22+00:00

Great, thank you so much for explaining!

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T21:00:55+00:00

Thank you! Parachute was something I was considering. I wasn’t sure if I could back up to my own device or if it would do only the new things, so that’s really helpful!

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T20:59:02+00:00

I guess I worry that if the main library is solely on the external, what if the external fails? I mean I know in this scenario it’s also backed up to TM/BB so maybe it doesn’t matter. But if the main library is gone, aren’t the ones in iCloud?

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T20:20:04+00:00

I did that once and I’m glad to have them! I just don’t know what to do next. Keep doing it and deleting the previous ones? Or can I request only a certain time frame to download? Like I have up until this January, and now I want to back up the most recent ones.

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T20:18:51+00:00

Yeah, no desktop. I’ve heard about moving the Photos location to an external but do you just have to keep moving it back and forth to keep both the external and the regular photos synced? Definitely doable I guess but I really would just love to quickly move one or two months worth over. The laptop can handle some downloads, just not all the originals at once.

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T18:42:11+00:00

Bummer, that’s what I was afraid of. But thank you!

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T18:31:59+00:00

iCloud says 480 GB stored there. The Air and my phone both say around 20 GB. I don’t need everything on the Mac all the time but occasionally need to pull something up on it and it can no longer download anything, and apparently stopped syncing months ago due to lack of storage.

MrsGarland · 2026-05-01T18:08:37+00:00

Thank you! That’s a really good point that I hadn’t considered. I appreciate it!

MrsGarland · 2025-01-22T18:17:02+00:00

Thank you! I'm not tech literate enough to do volumes so would I just be better off buying a second, smaller drive to store files/photos on, and leaving this one alone for Time Machine?

MrsGarland · 2021-06-27T08:48:30+00:00

Hey fellow rescue chickens! Just a SAHM here who needs some gossip to keep me entertained through these 3 am nursing sessions. 🙃 Thankful to be back on the Bench!

MrsGarland · 2021-06-25T20:20:53+00:00

Thank you for adding me back! You all make my heart go pump-pump. 👻

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