Backing up your Mac advice

I've had my Mac for awhile and I have an external hdd. I'm currently backing up everything by hand. Everything being a documents folder with not too much in it, my photos from iPhoto which are really important to me, and some videos. The reason I have been doing it by hand is because I never formatted my ext-hdd in the format Time Machine wants. Is Time Machine the best option for just a few folders? If my computer broke and I had to start a new computer, I probably would do a clean install anyway, but just want a few folders worth of stuff. Is Time Machine what I want to use here? Thanks.

If you decide to use a cloning program, here are some options:
Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner
Clone – Data Backup
Clone – Deja Vu
Clone - SuperDuper
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I added all my videos and photos to my iphone from my mac awhile ago as i needed to reset my mac and i wasn't confident using any other method. I reset my mac etc and everything is perfect. but now i want to put my photos and videos back onto iphoto from my iphone but when i plug my phone in to the mac it doesn't recognize any of the older events and only lets me import photos from my camera roll. i can view all my mac events/photos/videos/faces on my iphone so i know they are there. i just want them back in iphoto on the mac so i can free up space on my iphone any help would be awesome thank you.

You can use iPhoto lo import photos and video to your iPhone to your Mac.
iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
If you have problems importing to iPhone, try using Image Capture mentioned in the link above. Image Capture is located in your Applications folder.

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How can I disable iCloud and move my iCal events back to my Mac? I no longer want to store my private calendars in iCloud and want them back on my Mac but I don't know how to do it! Does anyone know what to do? Thanks

To move your calendars, follow the second set of numbered instructions here:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmovecalendars.html
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pleas help me explain how to do it.
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As far as I know CD/DVD Sharing is Read Only, you can't write to it remotely.
Also, DVDs for backup is not very good for most things, a cheap USB Hard Drive would be far better/faster.
You could, if need be, make Disk Images of what you want to backup on the Mini, then move the files to the other Mac for burning.

Backing up your mac to external drive and how to access individual files

I have managed to back up the information on my computer to a external drive as a whole but need to access different files, projects so that i can then delete them from my computer to save space. how do I access the different files on my external drive???

You CAN access the backed up file from a time machine backup. Just attach the external drive you used for time machine backups to your notebook and then Start Time machine (First under preference - slide the switch to "off" so it does not start an automatic backup right then) Once you open the backup files in Time Machine on your Notebook you can navigate back to older backups to get to that file. (Even if you've deleted it on your notebook after having backed up that file)
NOW - I would recommend having another back up, like the other poster, before you delete the file from your notebook. Redundancy is a good thing. The way time machine works is that over time as your external drive begins to fill it will delete the oldest backup(s) and you could potentially loose that file forever.
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Thanks.
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How do I get contacts from iCloud back on my mac?

How I got to this place is too long a story, but I ended up with a system iCloud dialogue box on my macbook pro, and the gist of the questions were Do you want to make it so if I quit iCloud my contacts (Notes, Reminders, etc) will no longer remain on your mac? I didn't want to do this, but it seemed it wasn't letting me proceed without hitting the highlighted agree button, so I did.
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I understand that you turned off iCloud on your Mac and subsequently lost all of your contacts, notes, and reminders. If your information, remains on iCloud.com, you can merge that information back onto your Mac by signing back into iCloud and selecting the services you would like to sync.
Apple - iCloud - Learn how to set up iCloud on all your devices.
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iTunes is not a backup application, it only backs up iOS devices as a part of it's sync features.
Time Machine is the tool Apple make for backing up to a local hard disk or Time Capsule.
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
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http://bombich.com/
Your options basically depend on what hard disks you have available & how much data you have to backup.

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No, changes done on the iPad will not sync back to iPhoto on your mac.
But you can transfer the edited photos back to your mac - share them to the camera role or send them by mail. Any edited image you add to the camera roll can be imported into your iPhoto Library, when you connect your iPad to yourmac via USB.
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Not sure if I am doing this right. This is my first time in the support community.
I imagine what I put in my heading was supposed to go in here.
I want to use Back to my mac. When I try to turn it on, it says "Back to my mac may be slow because more than one device on your network is providing network services. Turn off NAT and DHCP on one of the devices and try again. See the documentation that came with your device for information about turning off network services"
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http://keithbalomben.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/telus-actiontec-v1000h-hacks-and-i nformation/
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