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Dale says that the Fuji X-T2 and he says that most adjustments can be made without the menu settings. They have dials and buttons like the old days. Leo says that seems to be the trend now, going back to physical dials to make changes while shooting, and you can even reassign and program buttons for your most often used settings. It's mostly in higher end cameras, though. Leo says that they look like the old retro style film cameras and he loves that.

Brian is a wedding videographer and he's noticed that Time Machine hasn't been backing up his footage for about a year. Leo says that the first thing Brian should do is stop using Apple's Time Machine. It's terrible and everyone knows it. Leo says that Brian should rethink his strategy because he's a professional and It's even more important that he doesn't lose data. Leo advises reading Peter Krogh's DAM Book. He can also go to DPBestflow.org. He should look under resources.

Leo says that a bootable backup is a good idea and almost every hard drive comes with disk cloning software in order to make an exact copy of the hard drive he would have. It'll even be bootable. The Chatroom recommends NeoSmart's EasyBCD. Seagate has one called DiscWizard. It's a free download that will clone his Seagate hard drive.

Adam is thinking of making an image of his hard drive using SuperDuper, then putting it on an external hard drive and boot from it on another computer. Leo says he can do it, but the problem is he'd be using the operating system from different hardware. It could actually work, though, so he can attempt it.

Jonathan is having trouble backing up his Mac. He backs up to one with Time Machine and one with Super Duper. He formatted his hard drive to do a clean install. When he plugs in his backup drive, will it sync and wipe out what he has? Leo says backups will never delete anything from the backup. It just adds to it. Then he can restore to his source drive for that very reason.

Connor just bought a new external hard drive, but he doesn't know what sync program to use for backup. Leo says that on the Mac, he could use ChronoSync or SuperDuper. On the PC side he could use Second Copy or FreeFile Sync.

Neil bought the Apple Watch to go along with his new MacBook Pro. He likes that he can pay for his Starbucks coffee with it via Apple Pay. Leo says that while that's cool, it really doesn't save much time because he'd still have to respond to all the prompts about cash back, charge or debit, etc. He may as well pay cash.

Bob got a new MacBook Pro and he's using a 1TB Little Big Disk drive for backup. He wants to use a second drive for redundancy. How can he sync them both? Leo says that SuperDuper! is great for that function. It'll clone it and then make it bootable. ChronoSync is good for backing up as well.

Michele uses Carbonite and she's concerned about how long the backup lasts. Leo says that if she deletes the original on the local drive, the backup drive will be removed about three months later. But if she's syncing it, it'll delete it immediately. Generally, though, backups don't get deleted right away. That's the whole idea.

Robert wants to upgrade his MacBook Pro into an SSD and then clone his hard drive to it. Leo says to use SuperDuper to clone the drive to an external drive, then copy it to the SSD. He should just make sure he has a large enough drive. Go to MacSales.com. They offer great stuff and will walk him through the process.