Re: Selective delete of TM files?

2014-07-23 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Neil, A completely agree with Daniel Re: Entourage Re: > I don’t have a copy of your October 2010 document: "How Time Machine Works - > How Time Machine Works Its Magic" - so if you could email me a copy it > definitely might help focus my thinking on this ;o) I'll email it to your Offlist

Re: Selective delete of TM files?

2014-07-23 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Neil As an aside,….Entourage also isn't supported anymore, so if you upgrade to Mavericks at all, it will "run",..but it does some quite strange things. The other thing that quite worries me with Entourage (having come across it quite a few times and had to "work through" fixing it, is that i

Re: Selective delete of TM files?

2014-07-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Thanks very much for that Ronni, I realise that Entourage database creates massive files on TM and that by switching off automatic back-up I am not really using Time Machine the way it has been designed to work. However, with a 4GB plus Entourage file, hourly automatic back-ups would fill even a 3

Re: Selective delete of TM files?

2014-07-23 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Neil, On 23 Jul 2014, at 12:41 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: > A quick question for the TM gurus. Might be a quick question for you... but it will be a very long answer for anyone to give you advice. Firstly you are not really using Time Machine the way it has been designed to work. Plus I wou

Selective delete of TM files?

2014-07-22 Thread Neil Houghton
A quick question for the TM gurus. I have my entourage database included in my TM backup - it has masses of emails filed in various folders & sub-folders and I need a back-up of these filed emails. Since the file is very large (my main identity folder is currently 4.32GB) and changes with every e