iCal is hard to read

Hello:

Run software update. That should select the proper updates for your computer. If you do that, all data is retained.

To be safe, archive your current calendar before you do anything.

Barry

Hi;

I have iCal 6 myself.

To archive a calendar, open iCal. Go to the menu bar>file>export>calendar archive. I do that once in a while and keep the archive in my documents folder (it can go anywhere).

Barry

Hi:

But now I'm wondering about archiving files vs. external drive backups on-the-fly.

Is archiving files an unnessary duplication if the external drive is humming away doing it's thing? As you can tell, I'm pretty ignorant about these things.

No one knows how things work until they ask. There are lots of things I was not born knowing, 😉 but I would never say I am ignorant. Ask away, I enjoy trying to help people (as do the people here who answer questions).

Time Machine makes hourly incremental backups of everything on the hard drive (including iCal). I suppose I could find that file to retrieve it if I looked, but on the extremely rare instance I would need to restore my calendar, a fairly recent "snapshot" of my calendar is sufficient for me.

Barry