Office 2016 with Mac Mojave Problems

Well, if you are leaving files in the trash just in case you need them later, you are basically saying that the OS can delete whatever it wants to, whenever it needs to, without notifying you of it. So when you look in the trash for that file, it may well not be there. At least in a Time Machine or similar backup mechanism, you can look back to before you deleted it and recover it. But if it's only in the trash and the OS decided it needed that space....

Yup. Insecure me. :-((((

Just curious but what is the size of your Trash?
I'm not sure what backup method you use eg. Time Machine but I would be tempted to go about the issue (and it is an issue) this way.
Create a new folder.
Call it eg. Stuff from trash.
Select All in trash and drag the lot to your new folder.
When everything is moved perform a Time Machine backup.
Then view the contents of the folder by date (just click on the date column in Column View not icons) this will arrange all the contents into acending or decending order. Choose anything more than a year old and delete it.
If you should discover you needed one of those things they can be restored from Time Machine.


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Don't forget, macOS has the "Remove items from the Trash after 30 days" option.

Rod Sprague said:

Just curious but what is the size of your Trash?
I'm not sure what backup method you use eg. Time Machine but I would be tempted to go about the issue (and it is an issue) this way.
Create a new folder.
Call it eg. Stuff from trash.
Select All in trash and drag the lot to your new folder.
When everything is moved perform a Time Machine backup.
Then view the contents of the folder by date (just click on the date column in Column View not icons) this will arrange all the contents into ascending or descending order. Choose anything more than a year old and delete it.
If you should discover you needed one of those things they can be restored from Time Machine.


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Not sure. I get an answer from 25-77.5 GB on a 512GB SSD depending on how I ask.

I do run Time Machine but I have never restored from it. The external drive I use is getting old. I am considering adding a new Samsung SSD for TM. Not cheap, but very, very fast.

I told my vendor to replace my HD with a Samsung SSD when I bought it. WOW! FAST!!! I do not think that I would ever again buy a HD for OS and everything else. I do not use lots of GB's. However, the TM disk is an old external disk.

And Office was updated today down under. Current version is 16.22.

Really your backup for TM doesn't really need to be that fast, just reliable. If you wanted to have a bootable clone on the other hand (which we highly advise) an external SSD may be worth the investment because not only can it be used to restore files but it can actually run your device or act as a replacement for your internal drive. I'm using a 1Tb Transcend HDD for a clone and although it can boot my MBP it is a bit slower due to the USB connection.



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If you are going to restore from Time Machine, there are different ways to do that. One is to reinstall the OS, then during setup use Migration Assistant. The other is right from the Recovery partition, and it will reinstall the os as well.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203981

Or you can recover any file or files from the Time Machine interface that comes up when you enter Time Machine itself. It works like Finder. Locate the file you want to recover, select it and click "Restore" and that file will be brought back to where it was on that backup.