Thank you, Rob. For posterity, I have learned after poking around online that ~/Library/Caches is indeed excluded by default. You can verify this by running
defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist UserPathsExcluded and seeing that "Library/Caches" appears on the list. On Monday, April 21, 2014 8:33:21 AM UTC-4, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On 20 Apr 2014, at 22:15, lopmenhed wrote: > > So my questions are: > > 1. What files and directories, if any, should I exempt from Time > Machine? Just QSPasteboardHistory.qsshelf? The whole Shelves folder? Are > there other bits of Quicksilver that need the same treatment? > > I don’t exempt any of them because it’s just not enough data to matter > to me, but I suppose you would want to exempt that file (but not the > General.qsshelf) and possibly ~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver. It wouldn’t > surprise me if Time Machine already excludes everything in > ~/Library/Caches, though. > > > 1. It there any reason for this file to ever get so large? > > I guess it depends on what’s been copied recently. > > For what it’s worth, it should be possible to prevent the clipboard > history from being written to disk in the next update of the plug-in. > > -- > Rob McBroom > http://www.skurfer.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
