Further, we don’t need to consider only disk failure as a reason to need comparative backup history. There’s no way for me to see all the backup dates from all my macs with CCC. I have two other macs – two 13″ MacBook Pros that have been going strong since 2009 – each of which I backup to individual clones. Thus, if I backup Disk B from Disk C, that information won’t be available to me when I startup my mac with Disk A.īefore I discuss the solution to this, let me just complicate the scenario further. Third, CCC’s ‘Disk Center’ only provides backup information about connected disks if the current startup disk was used to run the backup task. Second, to compare them, I’d have to boot each clone individually – a time-consuming and not terribly convenient process. First, these cloned task histories do not contain the history from the *last* task (that’s only written to the source disk after the last backup completes). Of course, each backup contains CCC’s earlier History too, but there’s several problems here. Which disk contains my latest backup? The information from CCC’s history task is on the failed internal disk, so it is not now available to me. However, suppose the internal disk fails – just the situation for which I keep my CCC backups on a regular schedule. With these disabled, I’ve seen a remarkable improvement in Spotlight in macOS 10.11.6. Eventually, I got fed up of that, and wrote my own search tool and added it to FastTasks 2Īll this is not good, and if you are seeing the same degradation in Spotlight’s usefulness as I have been, try unchecking the following Preferences and see if it works to get Spotlight back up to a useful speed. Like Spotlight, these use an index based search so can return results very fast. ![]() For a while, I got into the habit of searching using mdfind and locate in the Terminal. I find Spotlight is not only slower than before, but it doesn’t always return the hit I want even when I know what I’m looking for. Not only has Spotlight been slowed down with ads and ‘suggestions’, but we’ve also even lost the choice of re-ordering search results priority in Spotlight preferences. Faster than LaunchPad, the Dock or, of course, trawling through the Finder.īut something happened after Mavericks, and things have only being getting worse with Spotlight, right up to and including into Sierra. It used to be my go-to way to launch apps. I’ve been wondering ever since Yosemite what Apple had done to mess up Spotlight. Boot Buddy doesn’t see or use this in any way whatsoever other than to start the createinstallmedia process or to cancel it (if you choose to do so) authorisation is handed off to macOS to take care of. Three clicks, more or less, and you’re done.īoot Buddy doesn’t require an admin password to install, but you do need to provide an admin password to actually create the bootable installer as the createinstallmedia process has to be run as root. For those of you that are, follow Apple’s instructions here.įor a little more convenience, I wrapped all that inside an AppleScript which will first ask you for the location of the installer, then ask you to choose the USB target.įor maximum convenience, I also wrote a free little Swift app I’ve dubbed ‘ Boot Buddy‘ (cos “Create bootable macOS Installer Drive.app” just didn’t quite have the right ring to it.!) that will present the whole thing in a neat little user interface. ![]() The createinstallmedia command can be tricky to get right, particularly if you’re not familiar with working on the command line. Reboot your mac, choosing the newly created USB as the startup disk. Run the createinstallmedia command from the Terminal, an AppleScript or a helper app.ģ. Download the macOS Installer from the App Store.Ģ. There are various ways to make a bootable USB installer, but they all involve the same process:ġ. You can repeat this as many times as you like as the installer will remain safe on your USB. By making a bootable USB drive, you simply plug the drive in to your mac, launch the installer app and tell it where to install the OS. Usually, when you run the installer after downloading it, it’ll delete itself and you have to go through the whole download process again on each machine or disk that you want to install macOS onto. ![]() The idea of the installer is that you only need to download the macOS Installer.app from the App Store once. ![]() If you are preparing to install macOS on multiple computers, one of the things that can make your life simpler (and the waiting shorter) is a bootable USB installer.
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