I suffered some pretty nasty data loss on my motorcycle trip last week. Even more unfortunately this isn't the first time it's happened that an unscheduled reboot has wiped files from my FileVault home directory. While HFS+ is journaled to prevent such data loss it appears that somewhere in the "HFS+ on an encrypted filesystem on a volume that ( Read more... )

If you have a mac, you have no excuse to not keep backups because it is cheap, fast, and incredibly easy.

1. Go to the computer store of your choice and buy an external hard drive at least as big as the one in your system.
   
2. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app
   
3. Using Disk Utility, format the external hard drive HFS+ and name it "External".
   
4. ( Read more... )