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 [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
