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Because my important files were backed up, About six years and twoĬomputers later, it happened again. But I did lose all my address book contacts, calendars, and many otherĭocuments I would rather not have lost. Had been sending chapters to my editor on a nightly basis. I was in the middle of writing a book when it happened and, fortunately, I Of fact, nothing could read my hard disk. ItĬouldn’t find it because it couldn’t read my hard disk. Icon meant that my computer couldn’t find a System Folder. (This is going back a few years.) The cryptic That is, until the day I started my Mac and I saw a folder We’ve all heard it a million times: Back up your important files. Note: Installing the Seagate Diagnostic software for Mac will disable the auto-sleep features on the FreeAgent Desktop and OneTouch 4 drives, so the drive sleep will be controlled by the MacOS sleep feature.For more information on the Macintosh, visit our Time Machine is a well suited backup software, so these backup software packages have not been updated for use under MacOS 10.6. ** These products were developed for MacOS 10.4.x prior to the release of Time Machine. Locked drives would need to be unlocked prior to using with MacOS 10.6 * Drive Lock feature not supported under this new operating system. Yes (See Document ID: 216951 for details and limitations) Document ID: 214531 - How to setup a GoFlex drive for use under MacOS.Document ID: 207751 - Using Seagate drives with Time Machine (MacOS).Document ID: 206591 - Apple Time Machine 101 - Seagate Style.

For our external drive products whose hardware is supported, Apple Time Machine is a very good backup solution.įor more information on Apple Time Machine, please see: Snow Leopard was released to the public in late August 2009 and Seagate has evaluated the current product lines to determine which ones will work with MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

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