Make sure you’ve backed up all of your data to iCloud (if you want to) before taking this step. Enter your Apple ID, click Deauthorize and all of your guilty pleasures stay secret for a few years longer! It’s easy: go to Account > Authorizations then click Deauthorize This Computer. To backup your files to Google Drive, download the Backup and Sync tool then select the folders you want to upload.Īvoid people seeing your embarrassing iTunes purchases (that N*SYNC album isn’t mine, I swear) by signing out of iTunes. Google’s cloud storage service offers 15GB of free storage as standard, so you can effectively backup 20GB of files for free between iCloud and Google Drive. If you want to back up all of the files on your Mac, the chances are you’ll need to pay for extra storage. You can also back up to iCloud by opening the iCloud Drive folder then dragging and dropping any files you want to keep.īe aware that iCloud only offers 5GB of free storage, which isn’t a lot in this day and age. If not, select the types of files you want to store on iCloud. To backup your Mac to iCloud, go to System Preferences and open iCloud. Once set up, all of your Mac data will back up automatically to your external storage device. Select the device you want to use then click Use Disk. If it doesn’t, follow these simple steps.Ĭlick the Apple icon, then System Preferences, then Time Machine. To set it up, simply connect an external storage device a prompt from Time Machine asking whether you want to use it for backups should appear automatically.

Time Machine is Apple’s built-in backup solution.

Fortunately, there are a couple of simple ways to backup your Mac’s data. There’s nothing worse than deleting something important and realising you haven’t made a backup. Ready to sell your MacBook? Here’s how to securely erase all of your data (and back it up ready to use on your next computer!).

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