Comments on: Exclude Folders from Time Machine Backups http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/27/exclude-folders-from-time-machine-backups/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: andi http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/27/exclude-folders-from-time-machine-backups/#comment-447827 andi Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:19:16 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=26468#comment-447827 BUT .... how to 'invert' the exclude, i mean i want to select folder which i want to include in the backup system. so the folder i selected will be backup while the rest will be ignored. with the current feature (select to exclude), let say i want only to backup one folder from my disk where i have total of 1000 folders inside that disk. It means i have to click/drag 999 folders to exclude them! not to mention if the folder is in nested structure (folder inside folder). An optional 'switch' to set mode between 'exclude' and 'include' will be cool. Thanx BUT …. how to ‘invert’ the exclude,

i mean i want to select folder which i want to include in the backup system. so the folder i selected will be backup while the rest will be ignored. with the current feature (select to exclude), let say i want only to backup one folder from my disk where i have total of 1000 folders inside that disk. It means i have to click/drag 999 folders to exclude them! not to mention if the folder is in nested structure (folder inside folder). An optional ‘switch’ to set mode between ‘exclude’ and ‘include’ will be cool. Thanx

]]> By: Manasy http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/27/exclude-folders-from-time-machine-backups/#comment-329415 Manasy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:11:23 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=26468#comment-329415 Informative!! Informative!!

]]> By: anonymous http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/27/exclude-folders-from-time-machine-backups/#comment-325384 anonymous Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:53:08 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=26468#comment-325384 time machine automatically excludes ~/Library/Caches for you. there's no reason to exclude it yourself. time machine automatically excludes ~/Library/Caches for you. there’s no reason to exclude it yourself.

]]> By: Peter http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/27/exclude-folders-from-time-machine-backups/#comment-324450 Peter Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:16:22 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=26468#comment-324450 You will save a bunch of space in general if you only focus on the users home folder. Since the Mac App Store keeps all of our apps anyway, this is a fine strategy for those of us with not much outside the home folder. You will save a bunch of space in general if you only focus on the users home folder. Since the Mac App Store keeps all of our apps anyway, this is a fine strategy for those of us with not much outside the home folder.

]]> By: Bradley Dichter http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/27/exclude-folders-from-time-machine-backups/#comment-324374 Bradley Dichter Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:26:34 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=26468#comment-324374 You can use Time Machine (the application) to look at the ~/Library/, then highlight the Caches folder for example, control-click or right-click to get the contextual menu to delete all backed up copies of this folder to free up the space wasted if you won't be backing this folder in the future. You can use Time Machine (the application) to look at the ~/Library/, then highlight the Caches folder for example, control-click or right-click to get the contextual menu to delete all backed up copies of this folder to free up the space wasted if you won’t be backing this folder in the future.

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