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Sep 13, 2016 5:54 PM in response to lalectureby babowa,Can you be a bit more specific?
You are abroad?
You want to back up your Mac to where/what?
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Sep 14, 2016 8:59 AM in response to lalectureby rccharles,iMac, iOS 10
This is a little confusing. The iMac doesn't run ios. The iMac runs os x. The iPhone and iPad runs ios.
A device running ios has iCloud built in.
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Sep 17, 2016 11:42 AM in response to babowaby lalecture,Ok, more specifically, rather than using iCloud, I want to find a way to have my computer turn on at a specific time every day. I was told this is possible. My goal is to transfer/backup my photos to my mac while I am traveling. This way I have my photos safely stored on my mac rather than the cloud. Any advice or guidance on this would be very helpful. Thanks
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Sep 17, 2016 11:43 AM in response to rccharlesby lalecture,Yes you are right I must have miss typed it. I am on OS X 10.11.6
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Sep 17, 2016 12:21 PM in response to lalectureby rccharles,If I understand you right, you want to backup photos from your [ you have not stated or I have missed what device the photos are one before you want to do the backup ] device to you iMac. The answer will depend on what device the photos start on. Should the device be an iphone or iPad, it will be non-standard.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel. Go with what is provided. I'm sure you can do what you want but it will be error prone. Such a setup is for an advanced user who likes to tinker. Your posts so far do not lend me to suspect it is advisable for you.
There are other options for syncing the photos.
dropbox.com
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There are syncing services like iCloud. If you delete the phone on your iDevice. The photo gets deleted on the server. Why-oh-Why isn't there a simple backup service for your iDevice? May some service keeps backups of you stuff forever.
Internet search revealed this article.
OS X: Setting a startup or shut down time - Apple Support
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Sep 17, 2016 1:54 PM in response to lalectureby babowa,I prefer not to use iCloud, so this is outside of my expertise. However, from what I've read and experienced on my iMac (when iCloud was turned on in the background without my knowledge), if you want to have your photos files safely on your iMac (the actual files, not just accessible via iCloud or any other online server), then the only sure way I know of is to actually put them on your iMac by dragging/syncing them. During the setup of my new iMac, icloud activated itself in the background (opened an account some time ago, but it is never used and not "integrated") and moved all my contacts to the cloud while it deleted them all on my iMac. I was able to stop it before it attempted to do the photos, etc. I had to use a backup to get my contacts back onto my iMac.
If your devices are close enough, you can also use Airdrop to send a photo from one device to the other. That also puts an actual copy on your iMac. However, that obviously won't work if you're traveling.
