Must have Mac programs?

[timday]

REearlier post - +1 for OSCulator. Then if you have OSCulator you may as well get TouchOSC and control Ableton from your phone. Slightly pointless but fun. Android version is free but less featured, IoS version is stupid cheap.

[8O]

And, used Time Machine for a bit until I realise that it doesn't replace proper archiving backups like CCC, so dropped it...

Can you tell em more about that? I was thinking of getting another big harddrive and use time machine. Right now I do the chaotic once-in.a-while-back-up-method, copying the most relevant folders with my work to back up drives - which leads to harddrives full of duplicated files and folders. I thought time machine should be a neat way of getting this more organized. What's the problem with time machine?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

As your backup drive begins to fill up to its capacity, Time Machine intelligently deletes the oldest backups to make room for newer ones (and will alert you if the "Notify after old backups are deleted" option is selected in Time Machine preferences).

i.e. if you want to make back-ups of stuff to keep for years, then TM is not designed for that. Better use CCC or manual backups.

[pepezabala]

ah, OK. Thanks.

[steko]

Good info:

Apple OS X and Time Machine Tips

http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html

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https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23430 ... ss-decoder

[beats me]

And, used Time Machine for a bit until I realise that it doesn't replace proper archiving backups like CCC, so dropped it...

Can you tell em more about that? I was thinking of getting another big harddrive and use time machine. Right now I do the chaotic once-in.a-while-back-up-method, copying the most relevant folders with my work to back up drives - which leads to harddrives full of duplicated files and folders. I thought time machine should be a neat way of getting this more organized. What's the problem with time machine?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

As your backup drive begins to fill up to its capacity, Time Machine intelligently deletes the oldest backups to make room for newer ones (and will alert you if the "Notify after old backups are deleted" option is selected in Time Machine preferences).

i.e. if you want to make back-ups of stuff to keep for years, then TM is not designed for that. Better use CCC or manual backups.

Are you talking about past or different versions of a file? Like if you want to go back to a previous version of a song you are working on?

I always thought for that it’s just better to save the song under different names if you potentially want to go back to it later, like if you think you’re going to start pushing the threshold of plug-ins you think your system can handle.

But yeah, I just see TM as a good backup option for if my system should crash and I need to restore everything. I don’t see it as an option for digging through past versions of files. BUT I would still recommend using it as at least one of your backup solutions. External drives are cheap and it pretty much runs without any fuss unless you have some insanely frequent backup schedule.

[OzWozEre]

One quick point:

Please remember that backup is not version control!

It's true that TM is kinda like a version control system since it retains historical versions of your system's image over time till an nth degree -- but if you want full versioning from start to finish -- then use a version control system.

You'd be surprised how well Git works for asset type files like sound and graphics files etc.

Might be work checking out.

Food for thought

[8O]

Hmmm... use Git every day, but not for Ableton Live files... never considered it due to not being able to merge .als files... interesting...

[muthafunka]

quick list of my essentials:

XLD-awesome free audio file converter w/ saveable presets

SoundSource-free-select diff I/O from the toolbar, no digging round in OSX prefs

Total Finder-pop up a window from the bottom of screen with keyboard click, windows as tabs in one window, dual windows in one tab-couldn't work without this now

ABetterFinderRename-powerful multi-file and folder/sub-folder renaming including naming files from mp3 tags

Audio Hijack Pro-capture any audio from apps, movies and live input, straight to nearly any format including mp3 (great for gigs etc)

VLC-free Play just about any audio and video file

MP3 Trimmer-trim mp3s without having to up/down convert

Disk Warrior-THE no-show drive and directory repair tool. Great maintenance tool too and this can and will save your ass when stuff goes south better than any app I know

CrashPlan-back that shit up, off-site for $mall or to other on/off-site computers for free...and they never delete data. Not the most elegant interface but works and solid support

Carbon Copy Cloner-simple, fully bootable clones of your nearest and dearest. Security and good for maintenance tasks to have a bootable clone.

[oblique strategies]

Anyone use Quicksilver or Alfred?

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14831/quicksilver
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/34344/alfred

[Tarekith]

I used to use Alfred, but honestly Spotlight is fast enough for my needs these days.

[oblique strategies]

Spotlight is great.