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Apple Computing Products:
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Time Machine backs up everything every hour!
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<blockquote data-quote="PeterSG" data-source="post: 1460928" data-attributes="member: 275331"><p>I have methodically excluded folder by folder most of the folders in my hard drive's personal location.</p><p></p><p>These included folders containing images, programs, and files such as word files.</p><p></p><p>Repeatedly the following resulted.</p><p></p><p>-- Time Machine selects approximately 8,300 items to prepare and apparently back up.</p><p></p><p>-- The back up process takes 19 to 22 minutes each time, regardless of whether I use Firewire 800 or USB.</p><p></p><p>-- If I initiate another Time Machine back up, 30 seconds or so after it has finished a back up, it finds the approximately 8,300 items to back up.</p><p></p><p></p><p>-- It seems apparent that some "force" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> is setting bit codes or somehow telling Time Machine that these approximately 8,300 files have been changed since its last back up run -- even when the next back up run is about 30 seconds later!</p><p></p><p>~~~~~</p><p></p><p>I have been using Snow Leopard since it was released over two years ago. Does anyone know if Time Machine has been improved or changed in later operating systems?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PeterSG, post: 1460928, member: 275331"] I have methodically excluded folder by folder most of the folders in my hard drive's personal location. These included folders containing images, programs, and files such as word files. Repeatedly the following resulted. -- Time Machine selects approximately 8,300 items to prepare and apparently back up. -- The back up process takes 19 to 22 minutes each time, regardless of whether I use Firewire 800 or USB. -- If I initiate another Time Machine back up, 30 seconds or so after it has finished a back up, it finds the approximately 8,300 items to back up. -- It seems apparent that some "force" :D is setting bit codes or somehow telling Time Machine that these approximately 8,300 files have been changed since its last back up run -- even when the next back up run is about 30 seconds later! ~~~~~ I have been using Snow Leopard since it was released over two years ago. Does anyone know if Time Machine has been improved or changed in later operating systems? [/QUOTE]
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