Re: Alternative to Time Capsule

2020-11-15 Thread Pete
Hi Peter, thanks for that. Sadly the brain of the TC is dead in my Brother in law's unit, we can hear the drive spinning up each time it re powers but no lights and no Wi-Fi available from it. If only it were just the HDD failed, I could swap it out, I put a 3TB drive into mine many years ago as

Re: Alternative to Time Capsule

2020-11-15 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
> On 16 Nov 2020, at 8:37 am, Peter Crisp wrote: > > H there, my Brother in law has two iMacs each of which we’re backing to his > old style flat Time Capsule which is now dead - tried all of the reset > methods numerous times. It’s cactus. Some options he has are to buy a used > tower style

Alternative to Time Capsule

2020-11-15 Thread Peter Crisp
H there, my Brother in law has two iMacs each of which we’re backing to his old style flat Time Capsule which is now dead - tried all of the reset methods numerous times. It’s cactus. Some options he has are to buy a used tower style TC or go to using his iiNet NBN modem Wifi and attach a backup

Re: Big Sur ??

2020-11-15 Thread Robin Belford
For those of you considering updating to Bir Sur. https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-big-sur-11-list-of-serious-install-upgrade-issues-updated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=macos-big-sur-11-list-of-serious-install-upgrade-issues-updated

Re: Big Sur ??

2020-11-15 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
> On 13 Nov 2020, at 5:20 pm, Stephen Chape wrote: > > Hi folks. > > The Big Sur macOS 11 upgrade seems to have crept up unnoticed. > Just heard about it from a UK Mac User Group I belong to. > > Regards, > Stephen Chape Yes, it literally crept in this year, pretty much completely unannounce