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<blockquote data-quote="sieler" data-source="post: 1340763" data-attributes="member: 94817"><p>nighthawk4: thanks, I'll check it out.</p><p></p><p>lifeisabeach: how inappropriate. The small amount of useful information was buried in too much other stuff. Re-read my original post, and you'll see that I carefully qualified my statements so a nice reply could say "you missed such and such". Of my six complaints about TM, you pointed out there were solutions to the first two ... and in each case I said "thanks". My original comment about them, of course, stands uncorrected: those things are indeed non-obvious. My Mac guru at the office said "I wouldn't have known about the Restore button in that out of the way place if I hadn't been watching Steve Job's video introducing TM". That made me feel better about missing it. (Yeah, had I had the chance to ask my guy about this earlier, I'd have left the first two points off ... but that's two out of six <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Yes, after saying "there's no obvious way to do X", I failed to say "I want to do X". I figured it would be pretty obvious I was looking for something that would let me specify a list of files to restore, so I didn't waste valuable bytes saying that separately ... perhaps I should have. </p><p></p><p>Oh, lifesisabeach ... sometimes the emperor does indeed have no clothes on. I'm good at spotting that <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>chcag: thanks for the CCC recommendation. My Mac guy here is very happy with it too. However, it seems to be more oriented towards whole-disk backup ... not that that's bad. I'll check into it ... can't hurt to have several backup choices (something I learned the hard way back in the Commodore Amiga days).</p><p></p><p>thanks,</p><p>Stan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sieler, post: 1340763, member: 94817"] nighthawk4: thanks, I'll check it out. lifeisabeach: how inappropriate. The small amount of useful information was buried in too much other stuff. Re-read my original post, and you'll see that I carefully qualified my statements so a nice reply could say "you missed such and such". Of my six complaints about TM, you pointed out there were solutions to the first two ... and in each case I said "thanks". My original comment about them, of course, stands uncorrected: those things are indeed non-obvious. My Mac guru at the office said "I wouldn't have known about the Restore button in that out of the way place if I hadn't been watching Steve Job's video introducing TM". That made me feel better about missing it. (Yeah, had I had the chance to ask my guy about this earlier, I'd have left the first two points off ... but that's two out of six :) Yes, after saying "there's no obvious way to do X", I failed to say "I want to do X". I figured it would be pretty obvious I was looking for something that would let me specify a list of files to restore, so I didn't waste valuable bytes saying that separately ... perhaps I should have. Oh, lifesisabeach ... sometimes the emperor does indeed have no clothes on. I'm good at spotting that :) chcag: thanks for the CCC recommendation. My Mac guy here is very happy with it too. However, it seems to be more oriented towards whole-disk backup ... not that that's bad. I'll check into it ... can't hurt to have several backup choices (something I learned the hard way back in the Commodore Amiga days). thanks, Stan [/QUOTE]
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