It sounds like your mail file. Mac Mail uses one file per message. Old unix mbox format is one file with all of your messages.
This sounds like outlook/citrix is using unix mail format, rather than one message per file format. On 2017-04-18, at 8:00 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <di...@niehs.nih.gov> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Time Machine for many years, but lately the backups seem to > be much larger than usual (i.e., hundreds of MB rather than just a few MB), > even when I have not done anything. > > This problem is on my Mac at work, where the only things that have changed > lately (that I recall) are: > > 1. We were forced to switch to Outlook (I had always used Apple Mail before). > > 2. Citrix was installed, so that I could access my work email in Outlook from > home. > > Is there some large file (e.g., a database) associated with Outlook that > keeps getting updated and thus backed up again and again? If so, what is it > called and where is it located? This reminds me of the time when I used > Parallels, which kept the virtual Windows machine in a large file and every > time something changed in Windows, even something small, the entire large > Parallels file would get backed up again in Time Machine. Eventually I > excluded that file from my backups. > > Currently I only backup part of my main system drive. I exclude > /Applications, /Library, and System Files and Applications. Essentially I > just backup my user files. > > Does anyone have any thoughts about what might be causing my Time Machine > backups to be so much larger lately? It seems like it might be related to me > being forced to start using Outlook, since the timing is right. > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
