Time Travel (Machine).... beware before you get in

[skippybangkok]

Grrrrr. Been working on a google earth file for yonks ... 146 MB worth.

Thought i would save it as a back up, over wrote the old file, but accidentally did not select all layers.... end results.... 146MB back up is now a 60kb back up

Thought ...yayyy, have Time Machine on my Mac.... Nope... file not there.

New learning -

if you update and existing file..... Time Machine does not keep a copy of the old one.

Anyway, after an hour of messing around, found the auto back up in google earth library.

careful of Time Machine..... not that great.

[Lammbock]

You blame TM for your own fault.

When you set up TM there is an option to exclude certain files and folders. Make sure your Google Earth file are not in such an excluded file/folder.

[skippybangkok]

You blame TM for your own fault.

When you set up TM there is an option to exclude certain files and folders. Make sure your Google Earth file are not in such an excluded file/folder.

Thanks Lammbock... my failure is maybe not to be clear. Apologies. Will try again.

I save manually in G Earth using "File>save>save places as"..... to a folder which is within the time machine back up domain. Also have Dropbox which is kinda useless cause the file gets over written immediately too.

Really seems to me that if you update a file, old versions of it will not be saved in Time Machine. Strange

Cheers

[VerbalKint]

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Time Machine should keep copies of your old files, even/especially when you make changes to those files.

The only time it should overwrite data is when the backup disk is full. (you'll get a warning popup)

Go into time machine and go back to a previous version of the file, restore it somewhere and you should be fine.

[skippybangkok]

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Time Machine should keep copies of your old files, even/especially when you make changes to those files.

The only time it should overwrite data is when the backup disk is full. (you'll get a warning popup)

Go into time machine and go back to a previous version of the file, restore it somewhere and you should be fine.

Very Strange.....

just simulated it, created a file, backed it up, then modified the file, backed up again

could recover perfectly.... unlike the google earth file.

Spooky.