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May 23, 2008
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Posts with tag: Time Machine

Good folders to exclude from Time Machine backups

Time Machine is a really effective tool for backing up everything on your drive. And when I say everything, I mean it — Time Machine indiscriminately backs up a lot of junk on your drive. And because of the techniques it uses and the way some files are used by your apps, you might find [...]

Dec 25, 2007
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Leopard: disable “Open with” previous versions of applications in Time Machine?

So Leopard does this really clever thing where, if you don’t exclude it from making backups of your Applications directory, it will let you do a right click / “open with” and select previous versions of apps Time Machine has backed up. The rub: you can’t turn it off, and if your Time Machine drive [...]

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