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Thank you, Reed. Of course those messages aren't there now but I'll bet they were. What I get today is an outline of how it does backups and when the latest were done (once an hour). Today, it has done backups at 9:29 and 10:28. Must be on eastern time or it is on standard time. Whatever, I begin to see. So, perhaps I interfered with one of its backups and we had a collision?
I must get out my Dummies and read up on this. Thanks again. Hazel
Re time stamps, it should be same as the Mini's date & time settings.
Again, check System Preference > Date& Time and review your settings.
The only time I shut down my tower is if I'm working on it or the odd time where I completely shut it down and do a hard restart. Other than that, it never gets powered off. I don't set it to sleep and it doesn't hibernate. Only thing it does is turns off my monitor after an hour or so.
I've gone months without physically turning it off. I reboot it every couple weeks, outside reboots after updates.
If I don't reboot for a long time (such as maybe a week) I find that some programs get a little klunky.
I am sorry. I cannot answer that last quesion because I do not know. I have never done anything with it. One time when the man who takes care of my machine wanted to look back to where I was working when a problem arose, asked me if I could tell him exactly when that was. I could not and he worked it out. Maybe I have two backups going? One just does backup if we have a computer crash; the other lets us deliberately move the computer back in time. (Who says we can't travel backward in time? <g>?)
As for my backup disc, yes, it is external and plugs in directly to my MacMini. And that is the wire that I pushed on to be sure it was all the way in or had worked loose. When I did that, the computer came alive. I can't imagine how a backup disk -which only backs up what I have done - can stop a computer from working and I may be wrong that it did. Just seemed that way.
More than likely there was a glitch when you touched or pushed the plug to make sure it was tight in place. The glitch probably was that the plug was momentarily disconnected from the computer., thus the warning about not "ejecting properly".
i haven't seen it mentioned, but i dislike on/off because of the stress supposedly put on device when expanding and contracting from heat...that concerns me more than power consumption
i haven't seen it mentioned, but i dislike on/off because of the stress supposedly put on device when expanding and contracting from heat...that concerns me more than power consumption
Why does that concern you? Do you live in a place with extreme temperatures?
i haven't seen it mentioned, but i dislike on/off because of the stress supposedly put on device when expanding and contracting from heat...that concerns me more than power consumption
I have seen this [two sided] debate unfold elsewhere on the web before. It always ends in two parties asserting that it is either more damaging to continually power a device on/off because of the thermal and electrical strain it places on components, or more damaging to leave a device on 24/7 because of... the thermal and electrical strain it places on components.
Both these phenemon are greatly overstated. And if the effects are of such concern to you, then the only thing which won't induce "wear" would simply be to never use the hardware at all. I can guarantee that either your interest in the device or the device's usefulness will not last nearly long enough to even begin to observe what these debates describe.
Why does that concern you? Do you live in a place with extreme temperatures?
the heat/cooling will cause stress, however i would think it very minor as in 3 years vs 5 years of service
while its a factor the truth is quality is extraordinary with micro circuitry these days, thousands if not millions of tiny circuits that run for years...
ten to 15 years ago as a pc tech it was not uncommon for fully 1/3 of the parts shipped to my job
to be DOA i am now on my third refurbished enterprise PC which only cost a few hundred dollars
and it is just easier to get another whole unit, unless its say ssd failure or video card failure
the average desktop draws less and less power as well (heat)..the fan on my current pc blows room temp air lol
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