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Old 09-16-2019, 01:50 AM
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Default Macbook Pro backup before repair

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Originally Posted by mightyduck View Post
I don't really have any session data on the computer that is not already stored elsewhere. I am mostly just wondering about losing authorizations or licenses and such.


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mightyduck

Which is why I wrote in my first reply ‘I would NOT trust Time Machine for a bit for bit clone’.

If you don’t want to lose any authorisations on your boot drive, buy CCC and clone your HD. It’s a very cheap piece of software that is well worth having in your toolkit.

Do more though, that if you have any software that writes authorisations based off the HD ID, you will have to reauthorise that software if you boot from your ext. clone. There’s no way round machine IDs unfortunately.

Having said that, very few do that these days but I have been caught out in the past with the odd piece of software.


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