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<blockquote data-quote="J10000" data-source="post: 1907529" data-attributes="member: 411325">Ok my mistake, I was under the impression that time machine stores different versions of files when they change and deletes old versions only when space / capacity is required (when the backup disk is full).To understand my problem...It is essentially a music program that I use that can program tracklists / playlists (or crates) of a selection of songs / tracks and unfortunately it appears to be 'an errant program' and loses this data from the files sporadically (however the program is essential). I have been able to locate some previous crates manually, however it is impossible without some sort of search functionality to do this without painstaking hours of searching.I have never had capacity issues with backup drive and so I thought it would have kept all old files that changed (this is a dedicated machine to this program and the only data stored or that changes is from this program) and therefore I figured that if I just found the largest filesize of a specific filename (crate) it would have the most of my songs in it that I was looking for and save me untold time.Hopefully that all makes sense, please don't hesitate if anything else unclear.Thank you again for all your help and advice, cheers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J10000, post: 1907529, member: 411325"] Ok my mistake, I was under the impression that time machine stores different versions of files when they change and deletes old versions only when space / capacity is required (when the backup disk is full). To understand my problem... It is essentially a music program that I use that can program tracklists / playlists (or crates) of a selection of songs / tracks and unfortunately it appears to be 'an errant program' and loses this data from the files sporadically (however the program is essential). I have been able to locate some previous crates manually, however it is impossible without some sort of search functionality to do this without painstaking hours of searching. I have never had capacity issues with backup drive and so I thought it would have kept all old files that changed (this is a dedicated machine to this program and the only data stored or that changes is from this program) and therefore I figured that if I just found the largest filesize of a specific filename (crate) it would have the most of my songs in it that I was looking for and save me untold time. Hopefully that all makes sense, please don't hesitate if anything else unclear. Thank you again for all your help and advice, cheers. [/QUOTE]

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