One of the most creative takes on a time-travel movie came to us in the form of Hot Tub Time Machine. The franchise asked an important question: What if you got in a hot tub, and it took you back to a ...

I am an avid reader of your column in the Houston Chronicle. A few decades ago, a hard disk crashed, and I lost some stuff I hadn’t backed up to discs, but I had been doing a lackadaisical job. I was ...

Time Machine remains an outstanding solution for local backups on your Mac, but backups require an external drive, no cloud backups here. We all understand the importance of backing up a Mac, despite ...

Knowing how to restore Mac files from a Time Machine backup is very important, offering a solution when a file is missing or a document has been changed in an unexpected way. Recovering files with ...

If only our Physics department would invent a time machine. Then, I tell students, we could truly learn about the past as it actually happened, instead of making educated guesses on the basis of ...

Speed up the Time Machine backup process through a Terminal command. Use external hard drives for Time Machine backups. Reduce Time Machine backup size by managing files through macOS. Folks who use ...

In macOS Big Sur, Time Machine added support for backups onto APFS-formatted volumes (the filesystem that Apple introduced a few releases ago). But Apple omitted a big footnote that should be in its ...

On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells - George to his friends - arrives late to his own dinner party. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his ...