Hi, Thanks for responding.
It seems that you agree that there is some file that Outlook keeps updating, which then repeatedly gets backed up by Time Machine. This file is not as large as the Parallels file, but it's large enough to be a nuisance. I just got to work and Time Machine is trying to backup 970 MB of something (also, it says it will take 7 hours -- I don't know why it's so slow). I was not even at work doing anything and it still found nearly a GB to backup. Maybe that sounds small, but if it does this every hour, it won't take long to fill my backup drive. I looked in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ and in ~/Library/Application Support/, but neither was anywhere near 970 MB. The first folder was 289 MB and the second folder was 198 MB (for all apps, not just Outlook or Microsoft). So, neither seems to explain the 970 MB. Any other suggestions? Is there an easy way to get a list of files, ordered by file size, so that I can see which files are largest? Back in the NeXT days, I think there was a program called Dark Forest, or something like that. Thanks, Gregg -----Original Message----- From: "@lbutlr" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 7:23 AM To: MacOSX-Talk Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: why are Time Machine backups so large lately? On 2017-04-18 (09:00 MDT), "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]" <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
