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darkvader said:

What the fuck are you people blathering about?

I'm not exactly known for being an Apple cheerleader here, but you're out of your minds.

Time Machine is the best backup solution I've ever used on ANY platform.  Period.  The only thing it's missing is an easy offsite solution.  Everything else about it is perfect.

I don't give a flying fuck if a backup solution is 'efficient'.  I care that it backs up data and makes it easily retrievable.  Time Machine does that better than anything else out there at any price.

Apple got this one right.

It is not the best, but very good. It would be best if it allowed backup services like AWS glacier. Other platforms already have those solutions frequently built-in (NAS). Unfortunately, Time Machine started failing like crazy since Catalina more and more and new disk structure plus indexing for Spotlight. And for the record while Spotlight was top search engine 10 years ago now Windows 10/11 and Linux search engines are far better and reminiscent of old Spotlight (focused on context not returning thousands of files for no reason). things are changing and Apple is not top anymore.

Time Machine had already problems starting from Catalina on Intel 2 years ago. It could not do first backup after migrating to new system and it took for some people days to do it. I suspect that Apple engineering forgot that indexing should be disabled during this period of time or at least user should be notified about need for it. A lot of things happening in backgrounds including mysterious error codes on popup window  just like in old Microsoft Windows. If you ran out of support you are stuck, but some people post solutions on external forums. One of those is you have to disable some feature temporarily on one particular model in order to have update working. Apple does not seem to be in control of QA and the only people say is "buy new one", "it is so ancient". well there you go if you treat things with this attitude and not criticize Apple you will end up with problems on brand new Apple computers and devices. You got what you asked for.

netrox said:

maltz said:

AppleInsider said:

Capacities below 128GB seem to be particularly problematic.

I assume that's supposed to be 128MB?

No, 128MB is ancient. 

We have many 256GB and 512GB SDXC cards. We even have 1TB microSD. 

And support of ancient cards should cease because of what? Do you transfer your libraries with every technology novelty to  new cards or drives?

12Strangers said:

crowley said:

SanDisk 1TB card for me, bought direct from SanDisk.  Just doesn't appear in Finder sometimes.

What format? APFS, HFS+, FAT32, exFAT, ntfs, ZFS, XFS, BTTR?

When it doesn’t show up in finder does disk utility see it?  If so, you should be able to mount it from there.

It does not matter. The new macOS has notorious problems with discovering cards or even flash drives. They could be HPFS and still have issues. I have seen that. Similarly, the problems exist with flash drives. You take the same to Linux computer based on old Mac hardware (including HPFS formatted drives) and it just mounts them no matter what.

sflocal said:

maltz said:

AppleInsider said:

Capacities below 128GB seem to be particularly problematic.

I assume that's supposed to be 128MB?

Uhm... no.  Heck, many companies of digital devices throw in a free 32GB SD card, so anyone still using something like 128MB has legacy issues.  I buy nothing less than 256GB now as they are relatively cheap now.  128GB certainly are cheap.

Yes you buy new, but do you keep transferring your old files from those new. It is not about buying but about using.