With iCloud do I still need a backup device?

If I use iCloud, is there still a need for a backup device such as Time Capsule?

Absolutely. iCloud is not a general backup alternative.
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HT4859 If all devices are backed up on iCloud, do I still need to keep the files on my computer?

If all devices are backed up on iCloud, do I still need to keep it on my computer? It takes up a lot of space.

"iCloud Backup" is a little misleading.
Apple says you get "unlimited free storage for music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books" but then goes on to say "previous purchases may not be restored if they are no longer in the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBookstore". Therefore what you purchased is really not "backed up". Your "backup" is no more than your ability to download your purchases again, and that is nothing new. The content remains where it originated - on iTunes, if it's still available.
Apple could easily change its mind and remove it, change it, or simply make it unavailable.
Photos and videos in your camera roll are backed up, but photos and music that originated on your computer's iPhoto and iTunes Libraries are not.
Your free 5 GB of iCloud storage is also used for iWork documents stored in iCloud, app data, all of which is lumped in with "Storage and Backup".
Same thing for iTunes Match I'm afraid... iTunes Match does not back up your content and is therefore not a backup strategy. It finds a "match" in its vast library and permits you to access it. There have been a lot of complaints from purists who found their mono Beatles tracks were "matched" with stereo equivalents, "explicit" tracks matched with clean, etc.
Contrast this with a traditional backup associated with iTunes syncing. In that case everything really is backed up to your computer - apps, purchases, music, videos, everything.
The bottom line is that iCloud is no substitute for one's own iTunes backup, and a backup / clone of the device containing it.
More:
Should I use iTunes or iCloud to back up my iOS device?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5262
iCloud: Backup and restore overview
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4859

With icloud, why would you need an iphone larger than 16Gb

I am finally getting ready to get rid of my old broken down Droid. I am an apple user, but missed the iphone release with Verizon by about 1 month. Now that my contract is almost up, ready to switch over. My question is, if I have access to icloud on the phone, do I need any larger amount of memory that the 16Gb? Someone I work with was telling me that they sync photos and itunes with icloud and keep them off of their iphone to use up less memory? The only drawback I see there is you have to have wifi or data connection to access your stuff. Is there something else I'm missing? What's the benefit of going with the 32 vs 16 if I can store my data on icloud...besides what I mentioned.

movies
and the bigger adventure and fps and rpg games on ios take up a lot of space
I filled my 16G iphone up with apps alone
suppose if you record a lot with the camera it's the same deal

With ios5 do i still need microsoft exchange

Now that i have ios5 on iphone and ipad2 do i still need microsoft exchange

Greenehouse wrote:
Now that i have ios5 on iphone and ipad2 do i still need microsoft exchange
Microsoft Exchange is an email server (and a few other things) and is run by your email hosting service (or work or where ever.) Having access is NOT a requirement for iPhone or iPad (on any version of iOS.) However, if your email is still being delivered to that particular email server where Exchange is running, then you still need to connect to that server with whatever device you have. Just like if you have Yahoo mail, you would still need to connect to Yahoo from whatever device you have.
If you don't mind changing your email or moving your calendar and contact from your current Exchange account, then "you do not need Microsoft Exchange."

With Ap3 do we still need Nik Plug-ins

I bought the Nik plug-ins mainly for noise reduction, viveza and selective sharpening. It seems like with brushes these plug-ins are now unnecessary and still will result in large tiff files once 64-bit compatible.
Am I missing anything here?

I think they are "less necessary," but I don't think they are unnecessary. Certainly Silver FX and Color FX offer things you can't get directly within Aperture. The Nik sharpening is very good; probably better for output sharpening than what's built in to Aperture but it depends on what you are doing - if you're printing for sales and very critical you may still need it.
I rarely used the Nik noise reduction plug-in because I didn't want to convert my files to TIFF early in the workflow.

After registering my email, with icloud itn is still not verified why ?

after registering my email,and itunes with icloud why is my phone still not verified?????

Typically after registering with apple, you will get an email asking you to confirm or verify your email address by clicking on a link. If you didn't get this, check your spam folder to see if the message is there. If that doesn't help you can try opening a ticket with apple.

If I use time machine to back up my computer do I still need to backup my photos and videos separately?

If I use time machine to back up my computer do I still need to back up my photos and videos or is it already done?
Thx!

Time Machine backs up everything except the things you tell it to skip.
But what happens if there is a problem with your drive AND there is a different problem with Time Machine's drive?

How do I back up my MacBook Pro to icloud, and do I need a separate device

How do I back up my MacBook Pro to icloud, and do I need a separate device

Your Mac can't be backed up to iCloud.
If you have an external disk drive, you can set up Time Machine to backup your MBP to it.

With icloud, if i delete emails on one device, shouldn't they be deleted on my other devices?

I have 2 IPads and an IPhone all hooked up with icloud. If I delete emails from one device, shouldn't they be deleted from all 2 devices?

Yes ... they would be deleted from all devices ... IF ...
You are using an iCloud email account. Simply having iCloud turned on on each of your devices is not enough. You must also be using the iCloud email account to achieve this behavior.

I recently got an iPhone 5s and tried to transfer all my stuff from my old iPhone 4s but it wouldn't let me do it with iCloud so I set it up as a new iPhone and updated it, will I now Beale to transfer everything with iCloud or will I need to do it laptop

I recently got my iPhone 5s and tried to restore it with the stuff on my old iPhone but I couldn't because the iPhone 5 didn't have the recent update, so I set it up and a new iPhone, will I be able to use iCloud to restore now or will I need to use my laptop ?

I had this problem too after i upgdatd to OS X Mavericks... only the songs on my iphone 5s that i purchased from itunes would play.
i read something about it being a syncing issue. when you plug your phone into your computer with the usb cable, the person said to switch from automatic syncing of itunes to the "manual" option. mine was already set to manual so i wasn't sure anything would work. BUT, when i plugged my phone into my computer, it started to sync all of my music on my phone again (top of itunes bar where song playing/time is listed said "now syncing 123/534 songs to x's iphone"). once that was completed, i checked the music app on my iphone and everything was back to normal!
so, i would suggest setting your music syncing settings to manual if you haven't tried that yet!
hope this helps!

With .img do you still need movie files?

Hey All,
I was wondering if I make a .img of my movie and dvd, can I throw away the iMovie files/project?
This is if I am completely done with the project of course. I am trying to save space on my hard drive but I don't want to lose my movies.
Thanks for your help.

Hi Verbal,
As long as you're not wanting to edit your project anymore you can delete all of the iMovie files (and the iDVD project file too). The iMovie project contains all of the raw footage and edits of course so you MUST be sure you've finished editing first.
The disk .img file is an exact replica of the DVD contents that you would burn. You can burn as many new DVD's as you need from this file. It's the same as the disk version.
I would advise you to create a DVD, watch it to make sure you're happy, make another copy so you have 2 DVD's then you can delete all of the files from your Mac including the .img (because you've now got one master disk and a backup disk).
Hope this helps.
David.

HT4864 I'm confused with the syncing of email with Icloud. Do I need to use the new Icloud email account instead of my existing outlook accounts?

I set up Icloud and an icloud email account in outlook 2010. The calendar dates transferred to my Iphone but nothing of the emails. The only email that go to my iphone are those that go to the new Iphone email account in outlook. Do I have to use the Icloud email account instead of my existing outlook accounts in order for my email to sync? If not what can I do to get my outlook email to sync with my iphone? Thanks.

iCloud only "syncs" data in the iCloud account, not data in other external accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo, etc. If your email, contacts and calendars are hosted by another external account, such as Gmail/Google, you may want to not sync this data using iCloud as you would have import it all to the iCloud account in order to do so. Instead, add your external account to your iOS devices and in Settings>Mail,Conacts,Calendars>Add Account and turn on contacts and calendar syncing with your external account.

Where can I download just Lion 10.7X. Computer not compatible with mountain Lion but still need to upgrade.

Note: I'm on Snow Lepard... I Just tried upgrading to Mountain Lion but it states that it's uncompadable with my computer. So I want to upgrade to just Lion )SX 10.7 YET i can not find anywhere to buy this. It's not in the app store. I can't find any link to older versions of the OS. Can someone please help?

UPDATE: I am going on day 3 and have yet to receive my code! Seriosuly... a NUMBER that they send via email. DAY 3??? Because it take this long to "process"??? You have got to be "F'ING" Kindding me! Customer service is key and Apple USE...USE!.. to be king. I actually waited on the phone for 25 minute just to be told I had to wait for GOD KNOWS WHEN (ie. maybe 3 days) for the order to be processed.
As an investor ($90k deep)) i think i will be droppign about half+ my positions tomorrow. It's always good to test those you invest ;-)

Mac Pro + 10.6.8 - gray screen with a forbidden sign & "still waiting for root device"

Hi everyone,
I've a Mac Pro Early 2008 Dual Xeon which runs 10.6.8 version of OS X (Snow Leopard)
After a recent reboot the system won't come up, it just hangs displaying a gray screen with a forbidden sign instead and the gray spinner spinning forever...
I have tried: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
1) Disconnect, test peripheral devices and network cables ---> nothing
2) Perform a Safe Boot ---> I got this screen
3) Reset the NVRAM / PRAM ---> Nothing
4) Start from your Mac OS X Install disc; use Disk Utility
I have tried to boot from both installed SuperDrive holding the C key, but nothing! The Mac doesn't start from CD (very strange!!!)
5) Check your cables and power source
They are OK, but nothing!
6) Remove third-party RAM and internal hardware
No third-party RAM is installed...
7) Perform an Archive and Install installation of Mac OS X or
Perform an Erase and Install installation of Mac OS X as a last resort
I can't boot from installation disc....
Any other idea?

Guessing that your hard drive has left the building or your OS X system has. I would start by replacing OS X, if you can:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc. Insert the disc into the
         optical drive and restart the computer. After the chime press and hold down the
         "C" key. Release the key when you see a small spinning gear appear below the
         dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, set the format type to Mac
         OS Extended (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Partition button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

My iPad is "frozen" with a message saying I need to use Icloud backup. How can I get rid of the message and open other apps?

My iPad is "frozen" with a message stating I need to backup to icloud. How do I "unfreeze" it?
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