Hi Eric,

*ah*
And I forgot something...

>> I'd like to use Time Machine to retrieve an older .vimrc, but I don't see 
>> any way to get Finder to show dot files. Is there a way?
> 
> Yes there is - you can use "tmutil" from the command line:
> 
> tmutil restore -v /Volumes/path-to-timemachine-backup/Users/username/.vimrc 
> ~/vimrc

DON'T just copy the files with "cp", because then the extended-attributes that 
timemachine uses will be copied along so you won't be able to edit these files 
without removing these attributes and permissions first.


Best

Frank

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