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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1340019" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I don't understand your complaint. You go "back in time", highlight the desired file, then select "Restore" down in the bottom corner. The file gets restored to its exact original location.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Finder normally hides folders like /usr. As a result, folders like those are invisible in Time Machine. You can easily turn on the ability to see invisible files/folders with a Terminal command, or just use a menubar extra like <a href="http://sweetpproductions.com/" target="_blank">DesktopUtility</a>. You can then see those files/folders and recover them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Does any backup software do that?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's dead obvious. It'll prompt you if the file exists already, giving you options to "Keep Original", Keep Both", or "Replace". For multiple files, just put a check in the box to "Apply to All" and call it a day.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's an exclusion list in the preferences. What else is there? What's so secret about this?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter the Time Machine. Select a version of the file you want to purge; right-click and select "Delete all Backups of…"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well of course. This is a feature of the OS. It's not open source software. Look… if Time Machine doesn't meet your needs, then I'm not going to knock you for it. Use what works for you. But most of your complaints are grossly invalid.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: it's probably worth mentioning that it is very possible to manually browse the backups yourself and manually cull items.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1340019, member: 38864"] I don't understand your complaint. You go "back in time", highlight the desired file, then select "Restore" down in the bottom corner. The file gets restored to its exact original location. Finder normally hides folders like /usr. As a result, folders like those are invisible in Time Machine. You can easily turn on the ability to see invisible files/folders with a Terminal command, or just use a menubar extra like [URL="http://sweetpproductions.com/"]DesktopUtility[/URL]. You can then see those files/folders and recover them. Does any backup software do that? It's dead obvious. It'll prompt you if the file exists already, giving you options to "Keep Original", Keep Both", or "Replace". For multiple files, just put a check in the box to "Apply to All" and call it a day. There's an exclusion list in the preferences. What else is there? What's so secret about this? Enter the Time Machine. Select a version of the file you want to purge; right-click and select "Delete all Backups of…" Well of course. This is a feature of the OS. It's not open source software. Look… if Time Machine doesn't meet your needs, then I'm not going to knock you for it. Use what works for you. But most of your complaints are grossly invalid. EDIT: it's probably worth mentioning that it is very possible to manually browse the backups yourself and manually cull items. [/QUOTE]
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