You could but why? Unless you want to erase ALL instances of a
particular file. In that case you could go into TM and starting with the
most recent date of backup, open Finder and run down the file and delete it.
As Tim says, TM will make incremental backups of any file that has
been modified since its last backup.
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On 12/19/2018 3:07 PM, Traci Duncan wrote:
Interesting…
So I could go in and delete an entire back up, but not necessarily a
file or folder? For example I could delete July 2014 back up, but not a
specific PDF file?
Thank you,
Traci
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On Dec 19, 2018, at 2:25 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
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Hi,
A backup is not something that you should manually change. If you
wish to make changes to a file, then it should be done in the current
version. Then the changes are recorded properly, and the backup can
be used to get at versions before the change was made. If you no
longer have the file in your current file structure, you use Time
Machine to recover that file and make any changes you need to the
recovered file.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
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(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Dec 19, 2018, at 15:20, Traci Duncan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
I am not super familiar with Time Machine. I just started playing
around with searching inside old backups. I want to modify some old
files. Probably delete some older backups of files. I have some dmg
protected folders. Outside of Time Machine, I open these like normal.
They are treated like a folder with a password. I enter the password
and it opens in a finder window. The same thing doesn’t happen in Time
Machine. They open in quick look.
Does anyone know of workarounds? I’d like to open these dmg folders,
remind myself what’s inside and see if I need multiple backups of them.
Along with that question, is there a way to search a Time Machine
backup for a specific file? Say I want to find all backups of
shopping.rtf, or notebook.dmg. End up with a list of all those
backups. Then I can decide to delete the ones I don’t want.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Traci
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