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I'm not associated with either companies/products, this is just my recent story with both softwares, and I'm on the latest Mojave OS. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific.

Carbon Copy Cloner alternatives are mainly Disk Cloning Tools but may also be Disk Imaging Tools or System Restore Tools. So I'm a SuperDuper fan now, CCC is now in the trash, because the speed difference is insane. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Carbon Copy Cloner are Clonezilla, FOG Project, FSArchiver and Time Machine for Linux. 10 Best Carbon Copy Cloner Alternatives for Windows 11, 10 1. Click where it says, Click to select a source.

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Woop, what a difference! If I was using SuperDuper first I wouldn't have even bothered spending £30 on a dongle, I would have just charged it up first and then plugged in my usb-c sandisk drive and let it backup on battery power. With Carbon Copy Cloner 6 installed: Open the software on your computer. Totally consistent with the names Chrono Sync and Carbon Copy Cloner too.

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Pay the money, register the software and enjoy tech support and updates. Silencio said: ChronoSync for syncing or updating specific volumes or folders, Carbon Copy Cloner for full system backups. 39.99 is not that much for a piece of necessary software. Making regular backups are an essential part of computer ownership. I check my MacBook now, backup has been completed in 49 minutes 11 seconds! You could afford the computer, the online access and a suite of other programs. I left it on and went off to the supermarket. Using the same dongle with my power and external hard drive connected through it. So today I give SuperDuper a go for the first time. The dongle works again as long as I restart the MacBook. So did CCC actually finish the task 16 hours both times, or did it say task complete because the dongle seems to fail around 16 hours and just ejected the drive? I couldn't be sure and didn't want to risk it, and I didn't want to shell out £70 for the official apple dongle just in case it made no difference. So I attempted CCC again, and CCC completed the task at around the 16 hour mark, but the drives were ejected and wasn't charging again. I'd have to restart my MacBook for the dongle to work again. However I couldn't really trust CCC saying this because the dongle seems to break after 16 hours of continuous use, because both drives would be ejected and the MacBook would no longer be charging. So I'd leave the backup running, a full fresh one, next day when I would wake up, the backup supposedly completed successfully after 16 hours. Then I bought a 3rd party imitation HDMI/USB/Power dongle from curry's in the UK for £30 so I could power and backup to my external Sandisk SSD (it came with an adapter to change usb-c to USB so I could use it in this dongle). Now when I tried to CCC my drive to my backup drive via battery, my power would die before the backup would complete.

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The problem being now is I sold that MacBook Pro to my brother, and only recently got a MacBook 2017, which has 1 port. That is not a good way to do business, and even if it were a solid app, it's hard to support these practices.So in the past when I had a MacBook Pro 2016 with two usb-c ports this wouldn't have been a problem. So people who just go to the website to buy pay $89 (or $69 when they get a deal of the day), but when they pay from the nag screen, they only pay $56.

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Even when trying to close the nag screen by pressing the little X in the corner, the X turns into 'Don't leave yet, get your personal discount', which opens the website and gives you even more discount than their 'Deal of the day' which is shown after you download the trial. This is clearly done to play on the insecurities of the less-than-tech-savvy users, who might believe that their machine is now in a worse state than before they ran the app, and need to pay now to get a clean system. Both machines have exactly the same hardware and OS, except that one of them is running with CPU Intel i7, the other with i9, and one has 512GB disk capacity and the other 256GB. Especially with an app that is supposed to clean your system, it's really messed up to run an activity only partially, and then ask for money. Is it possible to clone a Mac directly to another Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner I just need an answer for macOS 10.13.6.

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While it's OK to provide only limited functionality in a trial version, the appsshould be upfront about what the limitation is. Sneaky about trial limitation and prices Trial version only cleans 500 MB, but it does not disclose that limit before one pushes the button to clean after a scan.