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Message: [QUOTE="honestone, post: 1556709, member: 17069"] Regarding your drives: [LIST=1] [*]Maybe you mentioned before, but what exact Mac model do you have? [*]How big (in terms of space) are your internal and external drives? And are they traditional HDDs (Hard Disk Drives), or SSDs (Solid State Drives)? [/LIST] As for your backups (wish you'd answer the question directly!), it seems that there are files/folders, etc. on your backup that are not on your internal drive, but you need them. Simple yes or no: is that correct? Upgrading in place carries with it risks, especially if that is what you have always done. And it does not address the issue of compatibility of any third party software you use (still have not seen an answer to that question I posed earlier). As for your EMails, when you say "I delete junk-email a couple of times per day. I delete "trash" messages over a month old every month.", I suspect that does not remove them permanently from your machine (unless you place them in a completely separate folder from your EMail program, and then move that folder to the Trash, and finally get rid of it). What about your downloads folder? How "clean" is it? The backups I do are, in a way, "on line". But they are not incremental ones, and when those backups are running, the machine is not doing anything else (and I am doing household chores (mainly cleaning) when those "static" backups are going on). Having those [B]bootable[/B] backups in those small, slim, and convenient enclosures is definitely the way to go! Finally, while Onyx is good, it is best to have a more robust program like Tech Tool Pro, and especially when one does very little disk cleanup/maintenance/repairs. Again, thin k of the car analogy I mentioned earlier. [/QUOTE]

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