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What exactly doesn't time machine save?
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<blockquote data-quote="AndyClift" data-source="post: 1391263" data-attributes="member: 142515"><p>If I understand you correctly, once a file has been backed up to Time Machine you are deleting it from your hard drive. THIS IS A REALLY STUPID THING TO DO.</p><p></p><p>Time machine is a BACK UP. If you delete a file from your hard drive you no longer have a back up so what do you do when Time Machine crashes. That is a hard drive as well so it is just as likely to crash as you computer's drive.</p><p></p><p>Never delete a file from your hard drive that you think you may need in the future. I understand your question about what files are on Time Machine after a long period but that should hardly ever be a question as the software is not intended to be used that way. It does not have an infinite capacity so it clearly has to delete files at some stage. You should never need to worry about which files it deletes as they will be very old and if you still need them they will be on your main hard drive anyway and will appear on the most recent back up.</p><p></p><p>On the rare occasions that I need to get a file from Time Machine it is because I have deleted from the main hard drive in error. Then I only need to go back to the last backup. On odd occasions I have had to go further if I find I need to refer to an old email that I deleted as I didn't think I would ever need it again.</p><p></p><p>As with many users I don't rely on Time Machine alone for important files anyway. It is a quick fix but for my photo archive that goes back to my Grandparent's pictures scanned in it auto backups to Time Machine, I keep a copy of all pictures on another drive and copy all pictures from my iMac to my MacBook Pro. Hard drive space is really cheap so why rely on only one or two copies of anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndyClift, post: 1391263, member: 142515"] If I understand you correctly, once a file has been backed up to Time Machine you are deleting it from your hard drive. THIS IS A REALLY STUPID THING TO DO. Time machine is a BACK UP. If you delete a file from your hard drive you no longer have a back up so what do you do when Time Machine crashes. That is a hard drive as well so it is just as likely to crash as you computer's drive. Never delete a file from your hard drive that you think you may need in the future. I understand your question about what files are on Time Machine after a long period but that should hardly ever be a question as the software is not intended to be used that way. It does not have an infinite capacity so it clearly has to delete files at some stage. You should never need to worry about which files it deletes as they will be very old and if you still need them they will be on your main hard drive anyway and will appear on the most recent back up. On the rare occasions that I need to get a file from Time Machine it is because I have deleted from the main hard drive in error. Then I only need to go back to the last backup. On odd occasions I have had to go further if I find I need to refer to an old email that I deleted as I didn't think I would ever need it again. As with many users I don't rely on Time Machine alone for important files anyway. It is a quick fix but for my photo archive that goes back to my Grandparent's pictures scanned in it auto backups to Time Machine, I keep a copy of all pictures on another drive and copy all pictures from my iMac to my MacBook Pro. Hard drive space is really cheap so why rely on only one or two copies of anything. [/QUOTE]
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