Stolen mac book air
Hi
I have just had my mac book air stolen and I have all the settings on to find my mac I have down loaded the app on my phone and shows my MacBook on there but cannot locate it I have turned on the email when located setting and was just wondering when the MacBook is turned on they won't be able to enter my login but could log into the visitor one and if they do and connect to wifi or the Internet would my iPhone with the find iphone app installed be able to locate it and show me where the stolen mac is? or email me the position of it?
Find My Mac can be used to email you once a location is acquired. Once you have a location, then you may want to consider the wipe. But know that a wipe may also be a tip-off to the thief.
What it comes down to really is the knowledge that a thief has in Mac security, and your ability to approximate that knowledge that will dictate your course of action here. Your options are:
1) WIpe now, or later.
2) Send a message, if you dare. (usually done if you just think it was an innocent "lost and found" case)
3) Continually check for location (very unlikely to work unless you have lots of time)
4) Have Find My Mac send a location when available, by email.
5) Contact the authorities (always, and right now)
Good Luck
p.s. Templeton is right. Without punctuation, we're just guessing at what you are asking.
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1. Macbook Air back-up on Time Capsule though Time Machine backs up everything - I think it's about every 30 min or so.
2. Contacts, reminders, appointments, notes, email are backed up through iCloud.
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See this link: Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2526
Report the theft to your local authorities.
Check My Support Profile*. for the serial number.
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iCloud: Find My iPhone overview
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I'm not sure how Time Capsule can be replicated onto your external drive but there is a USB port on the back of TC that can be hooked up to any recent external drive.
Another thing to think about , besides a Time Capsule failure, is the theft of your Time Capsule, so it might be a good idea to consider separating any redundant back-up from your Time Capsule or both my be stolen.
TC will back up until full and then begin deleting the oldest back-ups. Mine is a 2TB Time capsule.
My back-up plan is as follows:
1. Macbook Air back-up on Time Capsule though Time Machine backs up everything - I think it's about every 30 min or so.
2. Contacts, reminders, appointments, notes, email are backed up through iCloud.
3. iTunes and non-itunes purchased music is on iMatch (and no need to back-up) and any non-iTunes music is backed up on an HP external drive (in case Time Capsule dies)
4. Photos are on my MacBook Air and are backed up on my HP external drive.
5. Office documents (Excel, Powerpoint, Access etc) are stored in a Skydrive app (like iCloud) and Skydrive syncs these docuemnts with the MS cloud and my old PC and does not alter their native format like storing in iCloud would do.
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