RE: Interesting

RE: Interesting

Posted by AbeCollins (A) on February 13, 2020 at 08:23:18

In Reply to: RE: Interesting posted by E-Stat on February 13, 2020 at 07:25:14:

I didn't jump on the initial Catalina release 10.15.0, waited 'til 10.15.2 was out before upgrading. But I had my 10.14.x Mojave bootable disk (made with Carbon Copy Cloner) on standby "just in case". No issues and I'm on 10.15.3 now which is the current update.

Real life "oh crap" CCC saved my bacon scenario:

- I was on my 2008 era pre-unibody MacBook Pro working on a PowerPoint that I needed to present the following week.
- I noticed that the internal spinning disk was having intermittent issues.
- The disk started reporting an excess number of recoverable errors... recoverable for now.
- I immediately made a fresh Carbon Copy Cloner bootable backup USB disk which included my PowerPoint work.

Solution:

> Boot from the external USB backup disk, which included my latest PowerPoint, and continue working on slides as if nothing ever happened. Didn't even bother messing with the flaky internal disk until a week later.

> When the new replacement disk arrived from Amazon I installed it then cloned the external disk onto the internal disk and everything was back to normal. But during the laptop "disk issue" I was able to continue working w/o skipping a beat.

> I applied the same backup method to my Mac Mini when I was running it as a music server. The backups were automated on a schedule. If the internal Mac Mini disk ever died, I would just boot from the external disk and never skip a beat of musical enjoyment. ;-)

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Topic - Sonicorbiter Version 2.8 for xxxRendu - AbeCollins 06:41:32 02/13/20 (27)

RE: Sonicorbiter Version 2.8 for xxxRendu - Mercman 01:30:10 02/16/20 (6)

Did it anyway... - Ivan303 09:14:51 02/16/20 (4)

RE: Did it anyway... - Mercman 10:20:20 02/16/20 (1)

I hit the 'Update' anyway... - Ivan303 10:27:30 02/16/20 (0)

RE: Did it anyway... - AbeCollins 09:47:42 02/16/20 (1)

Done! - Ivan303 10:07:51 02/16/20 (0)

Guessing from the thread on Audiophile Style... - Ivan303 07:04:42 02/16/20 (0)

Mine just arrived... - Ivan303 17:38:49 02/15/20 (3)

Just installed mine moments ago.... - AbeCollins 18:28:17 02/15/20 (2)

Did you have to 'download' anything.... - Ivan303 09:46:03 02/16/20 (1)

RE: Did you have to 'download' anything.... - AbeCollins 09:50:24 02/16/20 (0)

Sonicorbiter Version 2.8 for xxxRendu - wgallupe 04:00:14 02/15/20 (1)

RE: Sonicorbiter Version 2.8 for xxxRendu - AbeCollins 09:30:25 02/15/20 (0)

RE: Sonicorbiter Version 2.8 for xxxRendu - Mercman 10:28:16 02/13/20 (2)

RE: You weren't kidding !! - AbeCollins 09:37:18 02/15/20 (0)

RE: Sonicorbiter Version 2.8 for xxxRendu - AbeCollins 10:55:26 02/13/20 (0)

Hoping so... - Ivan303 09:44:19 02/13/20 (0)

What cd player has a USB output? Nt - oldmkvi 07:55:57 02/13/20 (5)

Most CD/DVD players for PCs & Macs - nt - AbeCollins 08:25:45 02/13/20 (4)

Do you mean Universal Players? Neither of my Sony CD or SACD/CD has USB out. nt - oldmkvi 08:44:49 02/13/20 (3)

No - for personal computers - see the link - AbeCollins 09:16:34 02/13/20 (2)

Pardon my ignorance! Are they CD burners? How do - oldmkvi 10:14:41 02/13/20 (1)

Good question. I don't know but.... - AbeCollins 10:48:38 02/13/20 (0)

Interesting - E-Stat 07:00:50 02/13/20 (3)

RE: Interesting - AbeCollins 07:14:50 02/13/20 (2)

RE: Interesting - E-Stat 07:25:14 02/13/20 (1)

RE: Interesting - AbeCollins 08:23:18 02/13/20 (0)

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