Hi Peter, TimeTracker 0.6.2 - 04 Dec 2018
Version 0.6.2 released Dec 04, 2018 Version : Add workaround for Mojave issue resulting in permissions errors when accessing the Time Machine preferences Remove some erroneous captions on the toolbar buttons Now notarized by Apple for Mojave <https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36691/timetracker/version-history <https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36691/timetracker/version-history>> Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 > On 10 Feb 2019, at 12:24 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Hi Ronni, thanks for asking this one and sorry I wasn’t a little clearer. The > two Photos libraries are on a 1TB external drive attached to the MBP USB > port. The two libraries are the only two files on the external drive > (formatted OSX Extend Journaled). The TM Options panel is set to include the > external drive in the backup of Jo’s MBP. > > The Time Machine Backup of Jo’s MBP is located on the Time Capsule (with 3TB > internal drive) - so not sharing location with the Photos library. > > For many years this has worked faultlessly with the single library on the > external drive, all I have done is created a new Photos library alongside the > existing Jo’s Photos library. > > It’s a puzzle. I do remember many years ago you let the group know of an app > or program that allowed one to look into the contents of previous backups. If > you’re able to remind me of this program, I can look into it directly and > find out what the contents of that back up last night were. > > Regards > > > Pete > > On 10 Feb 2019, at 11:43 am, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com > <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote: > >> Hello Peter, >> >> I’m not sure if I understand your Time Machine Backup of these two Photos >> Library’s? >> >> WARNING: If a Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t use Time >> Machine to store a backup on that external drive. >> The permissions for your Photos library may conflict with those for the Time >> Machine backup. >> >> <https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/photos/back-up-the-photos-library-pht6d60d10f/mac >> >> <https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/photos/back-up-the-photos-library-pht6d60d10f/mac>> >> >> <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201517 >> <https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201517>> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> >> macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 >> >>> On 10 Feb 2019, at 10:47 am, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au >>> <mailto:petercr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote: >>> >>> HI, during Saturday i was consolidating the photos back up for my mother in >>> law (she has no computer) using my wife’s MacBook Pro. My wife has her >>> Photos library on an exclusive Photos only external 1TB drive. So I created >>> a second library “Carol” on the external drive to import photos for my >>> mother in law alongside the existing System library (420GB) for Jo. This >>> import all went very successfully but the next time a TM backup came >>> around, as expected it recognised the new library (~4GB) but the backup was >>> ~460GB in size. Given that the original library was unchanged and nothing >>> in particular was changed on the main SSD, why would TM decide the entire >>> external drive plus other material it seems, needed backing up again. I >>> connected it to the Ethernet to speed this process which finished during >>> the night but I am puzzled why TM decided to apparently update such a large >>> quantity of data. My TC 3TB drive is now down to 1.2TB remaining which is >>> still plenty, but has copped 455GB it didn’t need to and reduced my balance >>> unnecessarily. >>> >>> Any clues why this would happen and how can I undo this other than blowing >>> away the whole backup file and redoing a full new backup? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> Pete >> >> >>
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
