LizT1976

Q: Bitdefender - how long does it take to scan entire system?

Been advised to do this, that's fine. It's been running half an hour. Does anyone know how long it'll take in total? I'm not a huge fan of leaving my Mac on overnight but I will if I have to. Any advice gratefully received.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Aug 28, 2014 11:17 AM

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Q: Bitdefender - how long does it take to scan entire system?

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  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 8, 2014 8:51 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 8, 2014 8:51 AM in response to LizT1976

    It just started, after nearly 30 mins of preparing - I hesitate to ask but is this normal? I suppose if I backed up every day it would start faster?

  • by MadMacs0,

    MadMacs0 MadMacs0 Sep 8, 2014 9:03 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 8, 2014 9:03 AM in response to LizT1976

    LizT1976 wrote:

     

    I'm sorry to be back again but it's a Time Machine problem now :-/ It's stuck on Preparing Backup. This has happened before but this is the longest it's ever been.

    I've known it to take almost 24 hours when it's been detached for a lengthy amount of time. It usually has to clear enough space to handle all it needs to back up. See: Stuck in "Preparing"  or  "Calculating changes".

  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 8, 2014 9:11 AM in response to MadMacs0
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    Sep 8, 2014 9:11 AM in response to MadMacs0

    It's been 10 days and as you know plenty has happened in that time. It has 13.59GB to back up and it's only at 1.75. It's going to take forever. I've done that Repair Disk thing once before, but I've never really understood the whole thing. Does the 13.59 mean that I've added that much stuff to my Mac? I jut back up because everyone says to without really understanding what is actually happening! I suppose it's not important that I understand (I've got life to be getting on with, I just know I have to do it) but I do wonder if I should delete some of the older backups, since I'm not sure what purpose they serve. But then, I don't know how to do that either! I really have pathetically little knowledge of TM.

  • by MadMacs0,

    MadMacs0 MadMacs0 Sep 8, 2014 9:15 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 8, 2014 9:15 AM in response to LizT1976

    LizT1976 wrote:

     

    I do wonder if I should delete some of the older backups, since I'm not sure what purpose they serve.

    No, Time Machine takes care of all that itself. And as you mentioned you've made a lot of changes over the last ten days and might need to restore something you accidentally deleted during that time.

  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 8, 2014 9:41 AM in response to MadMacs0
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    Sep 8, 2014 9:41 AM in response to MadMacs0

    It took over half an hour to start, then 10 mins to get to 1.75 and then 5 mins to do the remaining 12GB! I really don't understand TM. But, do it I must because of all the music that lives on it that I'd be devastated if I lost.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 8, 2014 10:12 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 8, 2014 10:12 AM in response to LizT1976

    Hi,

     

    That is why it is best to use TM as designed (all the time, or as near as you can get), it's far less obtrusive that way.

  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 11, 2014 5:24 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 11, 2014 5:24 AM in response to Csound1

    I've made a tool of myself, again. This is what I get for downloading U2 I suppose. I signed into iCloud (despite not really understanding it) to get the U2 record. But then I realised I didn't need it as I could get it from the iTunes Store. So I cancelled iCloud and unticked things I'm now sure I shouldn't have.

     

    I've gone into my Calendar and it's totally fking empty. I'm slightly freaked! How do I get it back? Is there a way to use my TM backup to do it? It's a big deal, there's a ton of dates in there that I need to get back. Argh! I'm such an idiot.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 11, 2014 5:34 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 11, 2014 5:34 AM in response to LizT1976

    iCloud and iTunes are different things, changing things in iTunes will have no effect on iCloud.

     

    It is punishment for entertaining the idea of U2 on your Mac, but it will be fixable without TM I am sure.


    So tell me exactly what you did, what you thought would happen, and what did happen. Also login to your account (at www.icloud.com) and verify that your stuff is still intact.

  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 11, 2014 5:46 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 11, 2014 5:46 AM in response to Csound1

    I found this and fixed it: http://www.gcsdstaff.org/roodhouse/?p=3289

     

    But what happened was that I clicked something in Syst Pref when I stopped using iCloud and I thought it just meant that iCloud wouldn't have my calendar contents - obviously I didn't realise it would take my calendar contents out of the Mac altogether. It happened fast, as can occur when you're doing 1-0 things at once. Panic over.

     

    I've been listening to ambient and electronic and Krautrock all week, I just wanted a little bit of pop music! U2 are good at that. Lesson learned

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 11, 2014 5:52 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 11, 2014 5:52 AM in response to LizT1976

    LizT1976 wrote:

     

    I found this and fixed it: http://www.gcsdstaff.org/roodhouse/?p=3289

    I would have advised against that until the state of the iCloud database is known, please stop trying things out.

    LizT1976 wrote:

     

    I found this and fixed it: http://www.gcsdstaff.org/roodhouse/?p=3289

     

    But what happened was that I clicked something in Syst Pref when I stopped using iCloud and I thought it just meant that iCloud wouldn't have my calendar contents - obviously I didn't realise it would take my calendar contents out of the Mac altogether. It happened fast, as can occur when you're doing 1-0 things at once. Panic over.

    And sorry to repeat myself but we have already covered what can happen when you say yes without knowing what the question was. For your own sake please stop doing that. (The message was that your iCloud calendar would no longer be available on your Mac until you signed back in again) by restoring another version to the iCloud client while logged out and then recombining that with the existing iCloud calendar you may cause duplicates to be formed, or worse. Please check your calendar carefully, the real calendar this time, the one that lives at www.icloud.com

  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 11, 2014 6:05 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 11, 2014 6:05 AM in response to Csound1

    You’re right, I panicked a touch. I had never used iCloud before yesterday and don’t have a clue how to, say, put my iTunes library on it (the only thing I’d use it for). So I signed in and then out, unclicking a thing that took my calendar away - that’s all that happened.

     

    While signed out of iCloud my calendar works (looks perfect), currently. But, I just signed back in and the Calendar there looks the same as the one on my Mac. So is it ok? Or should I import the one in iCloud to my Mac? How do I do that?

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 11, 2014 6:16 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 11, 2014 6:16 AM in response to LizT1976

    Let's get this straight. iTunes is not iCloud, be precise, your confusion of the two is the reason you lost your calendar temporarily.

     

    LizT1976 wrote:

     

    While signed out of iCloud my calendar works (looks perfect), currently. But, I just signed back in and the Calendar there looks the same as the one on my Mac. So is it ok? Or should I import the one in iCloud to my Mac? How do I do that?

    While signed out is irrelevant, (unless you don't want the ability to have the same calendar on every device). Verify again that the calendar displayed at the iCloud website is correct, post back, don't do anything.

  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 11, 2014 6:20 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 11, 2014 6:20 AM in response to Csound1

    I know it isn’t - iCloud is a place where stuff from your computer lives. I didn’t mean to give that impression - what I was hoping iCloud could do was store my songs, but I’m already backing them up on TM so I don’t need it. What I thought I was doing was removing my Calendar from iCloud - not my Mac. Yes, this comes from clicking without thinking.

     

    Yes, the calendar at iCloud.com is correct

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 11, 2014 6:30 AM in response to LizT1976
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    Sep 11, 2014 6:30 AM in response to LizT1976

    LizT1976 wrote:

     

    I know it isn’t - iCloud is a place where stuff from your computer lives. I didn’t mean to give that impression - what I was hoping iCloud could do was store my songs, but I’m already backing them up on TM so I don’t need it. What I thought I was doing was removing my Calendar from iCloud - not my Mac. Yes, this comes from clicking without thinking.

    The exact chain of events goes like this: (While signed into your account) Your iCloud calendar is viewed from a locally cached copy that is updated in realtime by the real calendar which is housed on the iCloud server (in your user space). this applies whether or not you are connected to the internet (that is why there is a local copy) but obviously the calendar will not update until an Internet connection is restored. When you sign out of iCloud all data stored in it becomes inaccessible to you on that particular client. (if your account could be accessed without signing in it would be highly insecure) The data remains in iCloud at all times, so when you sign back in the data is restored to your Mac.

     

    The local copy (of all iCloud data) gets backed up by Time Machine, but is not needed unless the iCloud copy itself is deleted.

     

    Imagine it was your online bank account, what would you think if it could be accessed by anyone without the bother of ID or Password protection?

     

    iTunes Cloud is an entirely seperate space, it comes with your iTunes account (indirectly via re-downloads of purchased songs) or via iTunes Match (which provides storage space for a maximum of 25,000 songs that were not purchased from iTunes). Neither of these constitute any part of your iCloud account storage. If you are backing your Mac up with TM then the music library is included, I'm a bit paranoid so I run 3 independent backup systems (ones that require little of me) and feel pretty safe from most disasters.


    As for the current calendar:


    As the iCloud calendar is correct you would use it and not the TM version so, delete the TM backup calendar from your Mac. Then go to System Preferences>iCloud and switch the iCloud calendar on. You should get a dialog box asking whether or not to merge the existing (now empty) calendar with the iCloud calendar, say yes.

  • by LizT1976,

    LizT1976 LizT1976 Sep 11, 2014 6:37 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 11, 2014 6:37 AM in response to Csound1

    So even tho I have never used or signed into iCloud in my life (until Wednesday, briefly), my Calendar lives there. My calendar is currently fine, even tho I am not signed into iCloud. So what’s the issue now I’ve restored it thru TM? Or am I ok?  

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