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External drive doesn't completely back up in Time Machine
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1649726" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>@2xhorn If I am understanding you correctly this is not exactly how Time Machine behaves. If you look at a folder that Time Machine has backed up it should contain as many files/folders as it did at the time the backup was made. </p><p></p><p>I just looked at my Time Machine backup of a certain folder. The original folder contains 162 items. So does the current Time Machine backup despite the fact that only a handful have been changed in the last several days. </p><p></p><p>It's true that Time Machine only copies files that have been changed but it doesn't omit unchanged files from what you see in the backup. Time machine creates new copies of files that have changed since the last backup. For unchanged files it creates a pointer back to the unchanged file. </p><p></p><p>@Lariat It seems that something odd is happening here but I haven't pieced together what it is yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1649726, member: 131855"] @2xhorn If I am understanding you correctly this is not exactly how Time Machine behaves. If you look at a folder that Time Machine has backed up it should contain as many files/folders as it did at the time the backup was made. I just looked at my Time Machine backup of a certain folder. The original folder contains 162 items. So does the current Time Machine backup despite the fact that only a handful have been changed in the last several days. It's true that Time Machine only copies files that have been changed but it doesn't omit unchanged files from what you see in the backup. Time machine creates new copies of files that have changed since the last backup. For unchanged files it creates a pointer back to the unchanged file. @Lariat It seems that something odd is happening here but I haven't pieced together what it is yet. [/QUOTE]
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