On 2017-04-18 (09:00 MDT), "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
I wouldn’t say it’s a problem. > 1. We were forced to switch to Outlook (I had always used Apple Mail before). That would explain it right there. > 2. Citrix was installed, so that I could access my work email in Outlook from > home. > > Is there some large file Large? No. Large if you are thinking floppies? Yes. > (e.g., a database) associated with Outlook that keeps getting updated and > thus backed up again and again? Yes. > If so, what is it called and where is it located? It used to be in ~/Documents/Outlook but that was years ago. It *SHOULD* be in ~/Library/Application Support/ > 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. By difference between a tens-of-gigabytes file and a db that is a couple hundred megs. > 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. Backing up Library and System is pretty much a one-time event and makes it much easier to restore your computer. -- Apple broke AppleScripting signatures in Mail.app, so no random signatures. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
