Tips on how to manage the growing mass of data on your computer's hard drive.

1. Backup & File Management
Keeping your data safe and tidy

3. Points we will cover
An introduction and demonstration of Time Machine
How to keep your data safe in Windows, too
An overview of file management
Tips for storing your files where you can find them

4. Time Machine
Apple’s one-click backup solution

6. What Time Machine does
Simple, no-nonsense setup
Backups every hour, every day, every week
One application to browse “back-in-time” to recover a
lost file
Restore an entire computer from a Time Machine
backup
All you need is a Mac running OS X 10.5 Leopard and
an external hard drive

7. Installation & Demonstration

9. Time Machine can also...
...backup to any HFS+ formatted drive. This
includes other Macs on a network, or an Xserve
running Mac OS X Leopard Server.

10. Time Machine can also...

11. Time Machine can also...
...share an HFS+ formatted hard drive with other
Macs using Time Machine. This allows you to
share one backup drive between multiple users
in a group, thus saving costs.

12. An overview of file management
Keeping track of those piles of data cluttering
your computer

13. Why manage files?
Spend more time working, less time searching.
It’s that simple.

14. How does Leopard help?

15. How does Leopard help?
Folders

16. How does Leopard help?
Folders
Stacks

17. How does Leopard help?
Folders
Stacks
Spotlight

18. How does Leopard help?
Folders
Stacks
Spotlight
Saved Searches

19. How does Leopard help?
Folders
Stacks
Spotlight
Saved Searches
Quick Look

20. Demonstration of features

21. File management tips
A few pointers on how to keep your computer’s
desktop mess-free

22. Use the
existing file
structure.
Keep your documents in
Documents, your pictures
in Pictures, your movies
in Movies.
It’s there; use it.

23. Don’t be afraid
to use Stacks.
Put the folders you access
the most in the dock and
make them Stacks for
easy access.

24. Think of the
desktop as a
loading dock.
If a document finds its
way to the Desktop, file
it away immediately.

25. If all else fails,
use Spotlight.
That handy search tool in
the upper-right corner
can find anything in a
matter of seconds.

26. The end.
That’s all.