Hi lovely SMUGgers, I’ve decided to move almost everything off my MacBook Pro onto my iPad and use that as my main computer.
One thing that jumped to mind in the process was backups. I’ve bought a 32GB USB-C drive to back up the On My iPad area but it keeps failing - probably because that area/folder is too big. This is where I discovered that, despite huge improvements to Files in iOS 13, Apple provide no way to find out the size of a folder and its contents on iPadOS! So I don’t know if the On My iPad folder is too big to fit on the USB-C drive. Secondly, I thought that I’d do an iCloud backup and despite reading all I can find on Apple’s support area about it, it doesn’t tell me clearly what I want to know so thought I’d see if anyone here knows: namely: * When it says it backs up app data, does that mean that it will backup everything in On My iPad? (I suspect so as it’s the data for the Files app) * Once the backup has been made, do subsequent backups only send the changes since the last backups to iCloud or does it do a complete backup all over again? (It said it estimated it would take 1 day to backup!) Any help appreciated. Regards, Stephen "Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and that enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: “First, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.” - Arnold Toynbee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/D245B815-11F0-4DDD-B93E-906E6CDA6547%40icloud.com.
