>
> What year is the computer? That it wants to "El Capitan" suggests 2015
> which (to me) is not an old computer.  Core 2 Duo suggest closer to 2010
> if not older...
>
> It could be (with a new drive and install) a great starter Mac for
> someone out there with modest computing needs.

No, a I remember it, this dates from 2008! So it is only useful as
backup storage, and then only if it works. Not if significant time has
to be wasted on it. which is the position now.

I did manage to restore a TM backup onto it but it boots to an apple
with no progress bar starting. So it seems to be thinking it is a
DosDude1 Mojave installation that hasn't been patched. I made a fresh
USB stick and tried to run the patches but when I booted off the USB
stick, it still gets only to the black apple on that white background.

Time to throw away?

On 2024-06-12 11:11:36 +0000, super70s said:
> On 2024-06-12 06:24:00 +0000, Your Name said:
>> On 2024-06-12 02:17:26 +0000, super70s said:
>>> On 2024-06-11 20:40:44 +0000, Your Name said:
>>>>
>>>> In ye olde days of MacOS 9 and early MacOS X I used a great syncing app
>>>> that was very fast,
>>>
>>> Was it ChronoSync by any chance? I still use that to back up my Tiger system.
>>>
>>> I always used Maxtor external HDs (since acquired by Seagate) with my
>>> old systems and they had this "One Touch" backup feature with provided
>>> software, but I never used that. But all you had to do was touch a
>>> button on the external to back everything up.
>>
>> It was either "ChronoSync" or more likely "Synchronize! Pro". I went
>> through a few apps testing them until I found one I was happy with.
>
> Yeah I've heard of Synchronize Pro too. It must have been more
> expensive than ChronoSync so I went with that.
>
>> I probably need to do that again so I can ditch the slow
>> CarbonCopyCloner (only use that when doing an initial full bootable
>> backup). I did try "SyncFolders Pro", various versions, but it is
>> utterly useless and never finds any new / altered files to copy.
>
> CC Cloner has saved my bacon more than a few times with bootable
> systems for new machines. They began introducing more "regularly
> scheduled backup" features as time went on but I never used them.

If CCC comparison routine actually worked properly (rather than
trawling through the entire drive every time), then scheduling a backup
when shutting my Mac down could be handy, but it takes an hour to find
and copy the few changed / altered files on the main drive (the
external drive is a lot quicker, despite being the smae capacity and
being fuller).