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Back up and restore

To keep your files safe, it’s important to back up your iMac regularly. The easiest way to back up is to use Time Machine—which is built into your iMac—with a wireless AirPort Time Capsule (sold separately), or an external storage device connected to your iMac.

Files stored in iCloud Drive and photos in iCloud Photo Library are automatically backed up to the cloud and don’t need to be part of your Time Machine or other backup.

Set up Time Machine. Make sure your iMac is on the same Wi-Fi network as your AirPort Time

Capsule, or connect your storage device to your iMac. Then click the System Preferences icon in the Dock, click Time Machine, then click On. Select the drive you want to use for backup, and you’re all set.

Time Machine:

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Automatically backs up your entire iMac, including system files, apps, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents.

Remembers how your computer looked on any given day, so you can revisit your iMac as it appeared in the past or retrieve an older version of a document.

Lets you restore your entire system from a Time Machine backup. So if anything happens to your iMac, your files are safe and sound.

To learn more about backing up and restoring your iMac, go to Mac Help (see

Get answers in

Mac Help ) and search for “Time Machine,” “external storage device,” “backup,” or “restore.” To learn

more about AirPort Time Capsule, go to www.apple.com/airport-time-capsule .

AirPort Time Capsule is sold separately at apple.com

or your local Apple Store.

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