Hello
I'm trying to ensure that all is still well with this now-ancient old iMac!
Here's the report - taken immediately after the erasure of the hard drive and reinstallation of macOS Ventura
Does all appear to be just as it should be?
Thanks.
iMac (2017 – 2020)
All looks clean to me, nothing out of the ordinary.
Too bad having a Fusion drive, however. At some point you may want to consider switching to a bootable external Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.1 Gen2 (10Gbps) drive as your boot drive. Ventura is the end-of-the-road version of macOS for this machine.
All looks clean to me, nothing out of the ordinary.
Too bad having a Fusion drive, however. At some point you may want to consider switching to a bootable external Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.1 Gen2 (10Gbps) drive as your boot drive. Ventura is the end-of-the-road version of macOS for this machine.
iCloud is but only a conduit to have files in iCloud so other devices using the same Apple Account can access the same files
iCloud was not designed or intended to be a place of storage so we can off load files and make space on the Internal Drive
That is best left to some Cloud Based Storage Service
If you have used or are using Time Machine Backup Utility you maybe able to Restore the Deleted Files
For future purposes
To truly protect your non replaceable Data
Have a 3-2-1 Rescue Plan in place and always current
3 Backups using 2 methods and 1 off site incase of natural disaster or un-natural disaster.
Each of the above should be done to a Dedicated Single Purposed External Drive
Below link is intended to augment ( I personally use ) what TM Backup does
Thank you, MartinR, for taking the time and trouble to take a look. 🙂
I have already done as you suggest! Easy to miss, eh?
disk3 - LaCie Mobile SSD 1.00 TB
External USB Up to 10 Gb/s USB
disk3s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB
disk3s2 [APFS Container] 1000.00 GB
disk4 [APFS Virtual drive] 1000.00 GB (Shared by 6 volumes)
disk4s1 - E*********** - Data (APFS) (87.54 GB used)
disk4s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (2.11 GB used)
disk4s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (1.15 GB used)
disk4s4 - M****************) (APFS) (9.35 GB used)
disk4s5 - Update (APFS) (2 MB used)
disk4s6 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (1 MB used)
I've set up this SSD ready for when my Fusion Drive fails (as it most surely will!) and it's currently available for me to boot from if I wish. I do so from time-to-time to keep the Ventura operating system up-to-date. It appears to work well.
I can, of course, still access all of my important data as it is stored in the Apple iCloud. A great boon to modern computing! 😄
As mentioned in my previous response, my important data is now stored in the Apple iCloud.
I do still have a 2TB WD MyBook device holding information from 'way-back' but I had not connected it at the time I did this scan. I wonder, though, if it is still really necessary now that the iCloud is available at such a reasonable cost.
I'd welcome your view on that.
Thank you for your help.
I was intrigued by your comment that.... "iCloud was not designed or intended to be a place of storage..."! 🤔
Which other "Cloud Based Storage Services" do you recommend, please?
Have you ever used Carbon Copy Cloner ....... for REAL (as it were)? If so, did it 'work' as expected?
Thanks
Thank you for reminding me that Apple computer users can use Microsoft's One Drive Cloud storage.
Currently, 15GB of storage is available free of charge. Additional storage is available at quite reasonable cost.
I have considered using Carbon Copy Cloner but have decided to trust Apple and my Time Machine back-up.
You are welcome
An expression my Mum. used to say when I was little
Penny Wish, Pound Foolish
If you have used or are using Time Machine Backup Utility you maybe able to Restore the Deleted Files
For future purposes
To truly protect your non replaceable Data
Have a 3-2-1 Rescue Plan in place and always current
3 Backups using 2 methods and 1 off site incase of natural disaster or un-natural disaster.
Each of the above should be done to a Dedicated Single Purposed External Drive
This is where CCC or similar software would come into play
Just saying
Backups?
One drive and similar Cloud services for true archiving purposes
Yes Carbon Copy Cloner to augment what Time Machine Backup does
I remember! 😅
(Btw, it's Penny WISE, Pound foolish!)
Thank you for your help.
Good catch and was testing you 😔
Only on first double expresso of the day, lol
It has been my pleasure to make your acquaintance
Happy computing
Will someone, please, review this EtreCheck report.
