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By: matt burnham

matt burnham — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:12:40 +0000

I actually do sync things up on a flash drive all the time. What I do (in tiger) is to create a user, designate that user’s home directory to be the U:/ drive, then make multiple user accounts on different machines the same way. That way I can fast user switch onto my flash account whenever it’s plugged in, and the files are always there along with address book and ical, no sync needed!

By: Chimbles

Chimbles — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:21:32 +0000

Nothing like security of using thumb drive applications, and the ability to take your desktop anywhere with you

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By: Brandon Zylstra

Brandon Zylstra — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:49:41 +0000

backing up to a thumb drive seems dangerous. *syncing* your most important data between a thumb drive and a laptop or desktop machine, on the other hand, is a good idea. If you ‘backup’ to a thumb drive, then you use it somewhere else, how are you going to remember that you last used the version of file xyz on the thumb drive rather than on your main machine? Or remember to even check?

Backups should be done with software designed for backing up, and you should backup a lot more than will fit on a thumb drive.

Some recommendations are Carbon Copy Cloner (if you’re too cheap to pay for SuperDuper, which is fabulous) to have a bootable copy of your system drive and all your data on that drive; of course Time Machine for super simple backup that does everything you’re likely to need except move it offsite; and CrashPlan for automatic offsite backup.

If you use Crash Plan and SuperDuper, there’s very little reason to use TimeMachine, other than maybe the cool graphical experience of restoring a file.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:54:32 +0000

Eric — I do as well. Quite useful on my keychain. Backing up my files there has actually saved my tooshy a time or two. I don’t go anywhere without it now.

Thanks for these Mac mini-app posts! They’re VERY helpful.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:06:18 +0000

Eric, I do. If I’m on someone else’s computer and I need data, do I really want to bet on the fact that they have Internet access? Or that they don’t have some sort of block/filter that would prevent me from getting to the site I need to get my data?

I don’t really run apps off of thumb drives, but I do use them to move data around. More reliable.

By: Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann

Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:37:27 +0000

Do you really still use thumb drives? I have a couple of them here in my drawer but haven’t used them for years. When I need to take stuff with me, I but them onto my iDisk or our FTP server, or, no kidding, onto my mobile phone’s SD card. So I don’t carry around a whole bunch of little things but only: my mobile, my bank card, and my keys.