Re: Junk mail

On Aug 11, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: On 11 août 2012, at 16:24, LuKreme wrote: On 10 Aug 2012, at 08:38 , Andrew Brown li...@c18.net wrote: I get a deal of spam, and have to check it all to make sure that there are no legitimate messages in there. I decided to get clever

Re: Junk mail

There is another option. Gmail does a terrific job of filtering out spam. Yes, and pretty much else too. My number one colleague, with whom I exchange hundreds of mails a year, uses Gmail, and none of my messages get through. The Gmail pages explaining why would take centuries to read and

Re: middle button

I have a mac book and no mouse. How can I do 'middle click' on the touchpad? Options: http://magicprefs.com/ http://clement.beffa.org/labs/projects/middleclick/ http://www.boastr.de/ I was looking for this just this morning, and found those three. Have not yet tested them, but magicprefs has

Upgrading a backup disk to encrypted, and it died: help

reasons). 2. If not, is there a way to at least make it usable again? 3. Is complete loss of everything if the encryption is interrupted something that should be considered a bug and reported to Apple? 4. Is there any way to turn on File Vault for the UserData partition? keybounceMBP:~ michael

Re: Upgrading a backup disk to encrypted, and it died: help

storage physical partition, and it won't do anything to the drive (tells me to use the command line diskutil), and I don't know how to use diskutil to manipulate anything more than emergency ejects / getting information about partitions. On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Michael wrote: I decided

Re: Upgrading a backup disk to encrypted, and it died: help

On Jul 14, 2013, at 9:01 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 14 Jul 2013, at 21:14 , Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Verify Disk at the encrypted partition fails. You are backing up your system to the same physical drive? Don't do that. That external drive has four partitions; one has a backup

Can a shell script easily find itself?

I feel silly for asking this. But I just realized I don't try this very often. Is there a way for a shell script to find itself? Or more precisely, the directory it is in? I am trying to run a program that wants an ini file specified on the command line; but it defaults to the assumption of

Re: Can a shell script easily find itself?

Use the command pwd. Nope. That tells me where the user is, not where the shell script is. On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I feel silly for asking this. But I just realized I don't try this very often. Is there a way for a shell script to find itself

Re: Can a shell script easily find itself?

, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Use the command pwd. Nope. That tells me where the user is, not where the shell script is. Are you sure? If you do say, SCRIPT_DIR=`pwd` echo $SCRIPT_DIR the echo should return the directory the script ran in. 100% sure. keybounceMBP:Applications

Re: Can a shell script easily find itself?

Hm, here is a discussion on Stack Overflow of your question. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324348504578606493979321554.html I think that's the wrong paste :-). Correct one:

Can partitions be moved; can several free gaps be combined?

With Disk Utility in 10.7.5, it's pretty simple to shrink partitions. Can the result of several free gaps be combined; can those shrunk partitions be moved so that the free space is all in one place for allocating something else? (Note that the only way I know of to grow a partition is to

Unable to burn a Lion install DVD -- what am I doing wrong?

I'd like help to burn a Lion install DVD. I have downloaded the lion installer from Apple. I have found the InstallESD.dmg file inside of it. File size is: 4,706,314,014 bytes (4.71 GB on disk) Attempting to burn it from the left hand list in Disk Utility, onto what I thought was a standard

Re: Upgrading a backup disk to encrypted, and it died: ** Potential solution for the next victum

On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: So I'm asking again for some help here. As I said before: I attempted to encrypt a time machine partition. Things went bad. At this point, I'd be happy if I could figure out how to reformat the partition and start over.

Java visual memory observations ...

So I'd like to know how to use the visual display of memory allocations in Java on Mac OS. I'm using Java 6. Apparently, and I'm not sure if I understand this correctly, there are three different tools for microsoft windows based systems: jconsole, visualvm, jvisualvm. Which are available for

Reducing battery charge to try to prolong battery life ...

So as I understand it, keeping the battery at a lower charge level is supposed to prolong the life of the battery. With that in mind, I'd like to know if anyone knows of software to restrict the charge level, or any way to disable the charging of the battery while plugged in. The

Re: Reducing battery charge to try to prolong battery life ...

On 2013/11/19, at 8:25 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: Siracusa would be your best friend. The only Siracusa I can find related to macintoshes is a reviewer for Ars Technica. --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___

Determining excluded files from Time Machine?

Is there an easy way to determine which files are excluded from a time machine backup? The backup itself does have a plist containing the standard excludes, and the fixed-path excludes. But I'm concerned about finding files tagged from tmutil addexclusion. Those are not listed in the backup,

Re: Surprised ...

It pisses me off when I see these swapfile explosions. Fifteen years ago if you'd given me the specs of Apple's puniest 2013 computer, and told me a browser couldn't trivially have 200 web pages open at once, and that it would matter if I left the browser running for a day, I would have

Re: Swap file tracking

10.7.5 definitely will reduce swapfile size when programs free up memory. Today, for example, I was at 8 GB of swap file, and now I'm down to 4 GB. Earlier versions would not; at least as recently as 10.4, and I think 10.5 on the PPC, swapfile space would only be reclaimed if everything after

Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?

On 2013/12/21, at 11:39 AM, Macs R We wrote: She had established her iPhoto library on an external drive, and something she did or some way she disconnected the drive ended up with iPhoto establishing a new iPhoto library off /Volumes but resident on her root disk, that was only visible

Running a GUI program as root (setuid)

Is there any way to permit a program to run as root? 10.6.8 did; 10.7.5 does not. I'm not even sure when the SUID bit got turned off. The program in question does not write data out; it only reads, so I figure it's safe to allow it to run as root. It's a tool for analyzing Time Machine stores.

Usability: 10.8 versus 10.75?

I have some questions on the usability of 10.8 versus 10.7.5. First: I have tried using 10.9 at an apple store. Between the finder's refusal to accept opening directories in new windows as a default behavior, and the new iMovie's dumbing down (no longer allows filtering by keywords in the event

10.9: Library/Mobile Documents ???

Can someone explain what is happening with the Library/Mobile Documents directory in 10.9.4? I have not used icloud, nor used TextEdit's Create your documents in the cloud feature (did not even know it existed until last night), yet I still have stuff in there. What's going on? (Porting from

Cloning a directory tree

Is there any way to clone a directory tree in OS 7 or 9? By clone, I mean: timestamps (including Ctime) extended atributes ACL's I have tried both rsync (version 3.0.9) and cp (version 8.21), both newer than Apple's, and they both fail to maintain Ctime timestamps on directories, as well as

Re: Cloning a directory tree

On 2014-07-16, at 9:28 AM, LuKreme wrote: On 16 Jul 2014, at 09:43 , Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to clone a directory tree in OS 7 or 9? Command-D? I have tried both rsync (version 3.0.9) and cp (version 8.21), Neither of these run on Mac OS 9 nor System 7

Re: Cloning a directory tree

On 2014-07-16, at 9:15 AM, George N. White III wrote: I gether you are looking for a command-line tool. Have you considered ditto Yep. Also failed, although I forgot what it messed up. I do remember running into the: ditto foo bar is not the same as cp -r foo bar issue. Ok, retested: same

Re: Restoring account from TM onto a different machine

You can use tmutil restore, from the command line, to restore files off of the drive. You will probably need to run it as root, and the files will have the same owner UID as before. So, a chown -R will probably be needed. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: Java error message in OS X Yosemite

So if Java 7 is not supported in OS 10.10, what do I do if I have a java program that requires J6 or J7, and won't run in J8? (A minor language change trips a bug; the bug is harmless, along the order of a string constant being written to in old C programs prior to GCC enforcing the constant.

Re: App store/software update won't update 1 app?

Make sure you do not have another copy of the application on your system. And here is the issue I have with appstore: How do I tell which app will be updated? Standard safety procedure is to have a different partition for different OS's, right? So I've got one partition with OS X 10.9.5, a

Re: App store/software update won't update 1 app?

On 2014-10-27, at 1:08 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Temporarily dismount all other boot partitions before opening the App Store. Err ... simple ... yea I like that. Thank you. On Oct 26, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Make sure you do not have

Putting a dashboard widget on a normal desktop?

Is there any way to put a dashboard widget on the normal desktop? (this widget in question displays internal temperatures and fan speeds.) --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Using mdfind -- how?!?

What am I doing wrong here? keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ mdfind -name Xcode.app keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ ls -d /Applications/Xcode.app/ 0 /Applications/Xcode.app// Mdfind does not return anything, yet it is there. --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce

Re: Using mdfind -- how?!?

-name search only match on the filename portion of bundles. It may not be quite that simple, but I know it works as expected with .pdf .txt .jpg etc extensions, but things like .app and .sparsebundle are only matched on the name portion. I don’t think this is new/ But it's not very

Converting a 16 bit text file to 8 bit text (removing every other null)

What's a simple way to convert a text file that has every other character null into a plain normal text file? I tried using vim: :g/ctrl-Vctrl-shift-2/s///g but it did not work. I tried using pbpaste, which is supposed to strip things to plain text, but it kept all the null's. Any good way?

Re: Converting a 16 bit text file to 8 bit text (removing every other null)

On 2014-11-11, at 4:44 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2014, at 17:08, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: What's a simple way to convert a text file that has every other character null into a plain normal text file? BBEdit and use zap gremlins. Ok, where can I get

Re: Blank screen screen saver?

On 2014-11-23, at 12:16 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's black. Not for my external display. I get a bright blue screen, and No Input flowing across it. Additionally, during the daytime, I might want the

Re: Blank screen screen saver?

On 2014-11-23, at 12:16 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's black. Not for my external display. I get a bright blue screen, and No Input flowing across it. I would check your monitor’s onboard settings. It

Verifying a time machine backup

I'd like a way to verify a time machine backup. What I envision: 1. A tool to list which files on the backup do not need to be backed up -- in other words, the list of files that time machine think are worth backing up but can be skipped. These can then be sent to a diff-tool to verify that

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

On 2014-12-04, at 8:06 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like a way to verify a time machine backup. If Time Machine completed without an error, it’s verified. That is just silly. 1. Any program can have bugs. Time

Re: Verifying a time machine backup

On 2014-12-05, at 10:50 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: So, you want a list of files that have already been backed up, that haven't changed on the filesystem, so you can verify that the data has been correctly

Re: Blank screen screen saver?

So, if I understand everything that's been said: Yep. Perfect. The goal is to get a black screen when not in use. Energy saver can't be used because, instead of going black, the screen goes blue like a TV from the 80s. The screen can't be turned off because that kills color accuracy for

Store Agent checking for updates every 19 minutes?!?

So my system log files show store agent checking for software updates every 19 minutes. That seems excessive -- is there any way to lower the frequency? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Disk1s2: i/o error

So my external 500 GB drive is giving me I/O errors. I'd like some advice, other than throw it away. In the past, when I had drives directly attached inside the computer, I could do a low-level format, and generally had good luck letting that solve errors. This is a USB drive. I don't know how

Re: Mounting a sparse bundle as read only?

On 2015-03-28, at 12:36 AM, @lbutlr krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 21:33, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to mount a sparse bundle as read only? keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mount -o ro /dev/disk3s2 mount: /dev/disk3s2: unknown special file or file system

Re: Mounting a sparse bundle as read only?

, to prevent them from changing, messes up Time Machine's ability to just say these have not changed. On Mar 29, 2015, at 6:57 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-03-28, at 12:36 AM, @lbutlr krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 21:33, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote

Mounting a sparse bundle as read only?

Is there a way to mount a sparse bundle as read only? keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mount -o ro /dev/disk3s2 mount: /dev/disk3s2: unknown special file or file system. keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mount -o ro /Volumes/Isolated\ old\ stuff/ mount: /Volumes/Isolated old stuff/: unknown special file or file

Can't manage symbolic links ... what did I mess up?

This should be simple. So what am I blind to? keybounceMBP:Overhead Cobble Descends michael$ ls ../../../../../../Kleiman\ Movies/Archived\ Recordings/Reasonable\ Realism/Recordings/ total 0 0 OverheadCobble 3 15-03-28-01.cmrec/ 0 OverheadCobble 3 15-03-28-04.cmrec/ 0 OverheadCobble 3 15-03-28

Displaying a dialog box from a script

Is there a shell command to display a dialog box and return which selection was made? I'm thinking of a main text string, and 1 to 3 choice boxes (like Save, Cancel, Discard), that returns a value corresponding to which box was selected. . --- Entertaining minecraft videos

Re: Displaying a dialog box from a script

Is there a shell command to display a dialog box and return which selection was made? I'm thinking of a main text string, and 1 to 3 choice boxes (like Save, Cancel, Discard), that returns a value corresponding to which box was selected. You can use Applescript, either by making your

Re: How can I force a full time machine backup?

On 2015-07-04, at 9:16 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > How can I force a full time machine backup? > > I have several months of time machine history on my drive. I don't want to > reformat the drive (and lose it all), but I do want to force a full

How can I force a full time machine backup?

How can I force a full time machine backup? I have several months of time machine history on my drive. I don't want to reformat the drive (and lose it all), but I do want to force a full backup. I know that there are files that got skipped (thanks for the tmutil compare trick), and I strongly

Command-line way to list all seen wireless networks?

Is there a command-line way to list all seen wireless networks? Or, for that matter, to select one and provide a password? Both of these can be done from the GUI's; can this be scripted? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce

Power consumption question

So a quick question. How much power is 600 mA? (Macbook pro) I have determined, via "pmset -g rawlog", that when running on battery, the difference between integrated video, and discrete video with an external monitor attached, is about 600 mA. How would I use that to determine the actual

Bash: Stop "cd" from "go to home"

Is there a way to stop "cd" with no argument from going home? Alternatively, is there a way to make tab completion with nothing typed, in a directory with only one non-dot file, to match that one file? My issue: I type "ls", see only the directory that I want to go to, hit "cd ", and it fails

Command to flush buffering?

Is there a command to flush all file buffer memory, load as much swap space into memory (off the disk) as possible, and uncompress as much compressed memory as possible? Activity monitor just told me that I had a 9 GB file cache, 2 GB of used swap, 1 GB of compressed memory. I think I could

Re: Command-line way to list all seen wireless networks?

Thank you! On 2015-09-25, at 11:03 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > On 17 Jul 2015, at 16:05, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a command-line way to list all seen wireless networks? > > /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/V

Looking for a Linux file system driver (ext2) with write access

Is there an Ext2 filesystem driver that supports write mode? I've found two fuse-based drivers that are read only, and an older driver that won't work on 10.9. --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce ___ MacOSX-talk mailing

Re: task_for_pid failing: how/why/fix?

On 2015-12-18, at 8:45 PM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > On 17 Dec 2015, at 18:08, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am attempting to debug a java program with JVisualVM. > > I think you posted to the wrong group. No, not really. I'm trying to use

Re: task_for_pid failing: how/why/fix?

>OK, let me rephrase. I think you posted to a group that has exactly one person >using JvisualVM. Perhaps, but I bet there's a lot of people that have run into task_for_pid failures, possibly with gdb. And perhaps someone that has a solution that doesn't involve codesign on a bundle (since

task_for_pid failing: how/why/fix?

I am attempting to debug a java program with JVisualVM. Sometimes it works. Other times, I get messages like attach: task_for_pid(4756) failed (5) and the debugger can't read the program. What can I do? What causes this? I have verified that both the terminal launching jvisualvm, and the

Re: printing txt file

On 2016-06-11, at 11:42 AM, @lbutlr wrote: > On Jun 8, 2016, at 11:29 PM, William Ehrich wrote: >> I have an unformatted text file with lines of up to 72 monospace, 7 bit >> ASCII, characters which I want to print on a PC. How can I do this? > > Type

Re: How do I see what Time Machine just backed up?

> > I compared two snapshot paths and I believe I found the culprit. I have > TechTool software installed. I did not realize it, but apparently it was > doing a Directory Backup to save "valuable directory structure information" > every 4 hours. Time Machine was backing up the TechTool

Re: Rewrite a drive with DD (was: What to do when a root file system cannot be repaired?)

>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> OK, now for a switch: a DD question. >> >> I was able to read the entire drive (cat /dev/rdisk0 > /dev/null) without >> error. >> So, I want to try a "write each

What to do when a root file system cannot be repaired?

I have an iBook G4, running 10.5.8. Today, it rebooted on me, at "random". During startup, it complained about problems with the root file system, and said that an fsck would be forced at next startup. So, I forced a reboot from the login screen. Naturally, it did not do the fsck. So, a reboot

Re: Rewrite a drive with DD (was: What to do when a root file system cannot be repaired?)

y already be answered. > > Drive Genius scan/extended does what you want to do as safely as it is > possible to do it (which may still lose some data) and has been well > pre-tested for you. > >> On Mar 26, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >&g

Re: What to do when a root file system cannot be repaired?

orth getting. > >> On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have an iBook G4, running 10.5.8. Today, it rebooted on me, at "random". >> >> During startup, it complained about problems with the root file system, and

Re: What to do when a root file system cannot be repaired?

probably be better off getting a new > drive for that $120, and reloading your Time Machine backup onto it. When you > start getting file system corruption, it's usually the fault of the disk (as > I learned the hard way :O) > -Carl > > >> On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Mi

Re: What to do when a root file system cannot be repaired?

of tests back then, all of which passed. > > On 2016-03-26, at 7:14 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > >> I believe it would use an Ultra ATA/100 hard drive (60GB?). Not sure about >> availability of those anymore... >> -Carl >> >>&

Adjusting an image

I'm trying to adjust an image, a .png file. What I want to do is a gamma adjust, to lighten it. In the past, I remember a program, I think it was called Core Image Fun House, or something like that, for doing that sort of thing; but that program is no longer around. I did find some quartz

Re: Adjusting an image

> I think the answer is the latter. Yes, it's possible to screw up and export > the original file without the edits (I've done it too), but if you're > careful, you should be able to export the edited version. If you can't make > that work, you can always choose "Show in Finder" to get the

Re: Adjusting an image

On 2016-05-03, at 12:31 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: > On 3 mai 2016, at 09:10, Peter Frings wrote: > >> And yes, I’m not so wild about Apple’s document system, either. Don’t mind >> the auto-save, but I find the UI a bit odd. But that’s probably my 20 years

Re: Adjusting an image

>>** EDIT: AAAGGGHH! STUPID STUPID DOCUMENT SYSTEM!! >> Assume that any change you make will be *saved out even if you are just >> playing around*. AAUGH. >> >> That, by the way, is a really good reason not to use Apple tools for playing >> and testing. Forced auto-save in place is a dumb

Re: Adjusting an image

>> On 30 Apr 2016, at 21:37, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to adjust an image, a .png file. What I want to do is a gamma >> adjust, to lighten it. > > Maybe I’m missing something, but why not use Preview? Open the PNG, select &

Getting control over apps launched at login

I'd like to know how to control which apps run at login. I know that for anything that has an icon on the dock, I can select options -> run at login. But there are other apps that run besides those -- mostly things that live in the menu bar, for example. How do I make something auto-launch if

Re: Getting control over apps launched at login

THANK YOU!!! p.s. There's junk left in that list from years ago ... heck, I can tell that this login profile has migrated from a few versions back :-) On 2016-05-01, at 3:19 PM, Charles Dyer <charles.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2016 May 01, at 16:44 , Michael <keybou..

Re: Getting jvisualvm to be an approved debugger -- taskgated, task_for_pid, etc

Right now, I am looking at jvisualvm that was able to open Eclipse with full access, and yet unable to also open the Minecraft client that Eclipse started ... sigh. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com

Getting jvisualvm to be an approved debugger -- taskgated, task_for_pid, etc

So the mach/xnu system that Mac OS is based on has a potentially big security hole: if you can get the task post of a task, you can do things to it. So, Apple put security features on get_task_for_pid, and put taskgated in charge of it. And, apple-supplied debuggers, such as GDB, are blessed

Finding bundles above a certain size

Is there an easy way to find bundles above a certain size? Specifically, I want to find recording/editing save "files" that are bigger than a gig. Generally, they will contain many smaller video files. --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce

Re: Finding bundles above a certain size

On 2016-07-20, at 6:38 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > On Jul 17, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there an easy way to find bundles above a certain size? > > But the simplest way is simply to use Spotlight/Find in the Finder. >

Re: Moving a TM drive to a new machine

On 2017-02-15, at 11:29 AM, Carl Hoefs wrote: > A mid-2010 iMac (Yosemite) mobo flaked out on me so I transferred its > external TimeMachine drive to a late-2009 iMac (Sierra). In Sys Prefs I > selected the new drive to be the TimeMachine drive. But when I

Is there a tool to validate a time machine database?

So I have an issue. I have a time machine backup drive. I did a verify disk on it, and got a clean bill of health. But if I try to enter time machine, finder just spins its colored disk, and activity monitor lists it as non-responsive. I cannot do anything with time machine. And just two days

Re: Is there a tool to validate a time machine database?

Wow, safe mode ... So: 1. Only "pixel doubling" / low-res graphics modes 2. Very slow display, especially on horizontal scrollbars, or the left-side menu of mail.app. 3. Very slow to start up. 4. Found these in the log on startup: keybounceMBP:/ michael$ grep safe /var/log/system.lo

Re: Is there a tool to validate a time machine database?

On 2016-12-30, at 10:46 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > On Dec 30, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> deleted all backups of some files > > How, exactly, did you do this? >From inside Time Machine, with a file selected, selectin

Re: why are Time Machine backups so large lately?

On 2017-04-19, at 7:58 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] wrote: > 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

Re: why are Time Machine backups so large lately?

On 2017-04-19, at 9:20 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <di...@niehs.nih.gov> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for your input. > > I realize that most people probably think 970 MB is nothing, but my entire > system is only 279 GB and only 86 GB is being considered

Forcing time machine to do a deep scan?

So I've discovered that some files are NOT being backed up on time machine. The odd thing is that it is some files in a directory that are not in the current backup, but are in the oldest backup. Of course, finding some such files over here makes me worry that there are others elsewhere that

Re: why are Time Machine backups so large lately?

It sounds like your mail file. Mac Mail uses one file per message. Old unix mbox format is one file with all of your messages. This sounds like outlook/citrix is using unix mail format, rather than one message per file format. On 2017-04-18, at 8:00 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]

Time Machine and hard links

ACK! So I just found out that time machine does not backup hard links. Nor does it backup meta-data to permit restoring hard links. Repeat by: keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mkdir test-link keybounceMBP:~ michael$ cd test-link keybounceMBP:test-link michael$ echo file a > a keybounceMBP:test-l

Time Machine and hard links

ACK! So I just found out that time machine does not backup hard links. Nor does it backup meta-data to permit restoring hard links. Repeat by: keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mkdir test-link keybounceMBP:~ michael$ cd test-link keybounceMBP:test-link michael$ echo file a > a keybounceMBP:test-l

Re: Time Machine and hard links

> What is the best way to backup a file system? The goal is "perfect > restoration" (including meta data / file structure, not just data > restoration), with historical replication (so not just disk cloning)? Ok, minor nit: If you have a file system inside a sparse bundle, and backup that

Using core storage / logical volumes to extend a partition

So one of my partitions filled up too soon :-). It's on a 4 TB drive, and I figured I'd shrink the time machine backup on the same disk to make more room. Except that I found that the partition layout put the time machine partition at the front of the drive, and the data partition at the end of

Re: Using core storage / logical volumes to extend a partition

On 2017-07-20, at 7:15 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> On Jul 20, 2017, at 6:09 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 2017-07-20, at 1:22 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >>> N

Re: Using core storage / logical volumes to extend a partition

otocol (figured a two-bit enumeration at some point in the connection protocol.) > >> On Jul 20, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 2017-07-20, at 12:51 PM, Andy Ringsmuth <a...@andyring.com> wrote: >> >>>&

Comparing two directories

What's a good, relatively fast way to compare two directory trees? My first thought was "diff -r", but that's trying to compare the content of the files. Now, corruption can occur in data transfer, yes, but if I just want to see that every file is there, same meta-data (size, date, owner,

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

a pipe, and use the dearchival > invocation to re-extract it into the target space. So, the best way is to make a time machine backup, and the restore that??? Sheesh :-) > >> On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What is the be

Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

mand -- keybounceMBP:/ michael$ man -k clone Clone(3pm) - recursively copy Perl datatypes curl_easy_duphandle(3) - Clone a libcurl session handle nano(1) - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone snmp_pdu_add_variable(3), snmp_varlist_add_variable(3),

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

>>>> On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> What is the best way to duplicate a directory tree on a mac? >> >> Considering that my first attempt failed to account for all 5 timestamps >> (remember

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

ets pretty high marks on actually cloning everything. > > >> On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What is the best way to duplicate a directory tree on a mac? Considering that my first attempt failed to account for all 5 timestamps (rem

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

TM? > >> On Jul 23, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 2017-07-23, at 12:00 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >>> The way we used to evade this problem 30 years ago was to select an >>>

Re: [amugtalk] Sierra Time Machine -- new, cleaner interface

On 2017-07-23, at 1:21 PM, Macs R We wrote: > Oh, this is precious. I honestly don't know whether or not to feel stupider > than the guy who programmed this user-hostile UI. > > If the window you are trying to retrieve backups for (Finder, Mail, whatever) > happens to be

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