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I changed MACs recently and my Time Machine back-ups of my actual documents has not happened although I've reconnected my hard drive

I changed MACs recently and my Time Machine back-ups of my actual documents has not happened although I've reconnected my hard drive and have seemingly set everything up correctly. Here is an image. You can see that the backups of my files stopped on the day I switched my MACs out. It seems to update the DATA folder, but when I drill down, the other folder have not been updated.


How can I correct this?


Posted on Jun 13, 2023 11:30 AM

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Posted on Jun 13, 2023 12:54 PM

Time machine is an amazing work. It keeps the equivalent of every file that ever existed on your Mac and yet only copies an incremental backup when it runs.


It does this by creating a database of actual files, supplemented by links to files that already exist in your backup SET. It only looks to back up stuff in a Folder when MacOS data structure, the File System Event Store, indicates that Folder has recently changed.

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Jun 13, 2023 12:54 PM in response to debeurre123

Time machine is an amazing work. It keeps the equivalent of every file that ever existed on your Mac and yet only copies an incremental backup when it runs.


It does this by creating a database of actual files, supplemented by links to files that already exist in your backup SET. It only looks to back up stuff in a Folder when MacOS data structure, the File System Event Store, indicates that Folder has recently changed.

Jun 13, 2023 12:42 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

use Time machine's "view other backups" feature, -OR- "inherit" that backup as your backup.


Browse Other Backup Disks

But there is a somewhat hidden way to access the timeline just for a specific disk, and that’s by holding down the Option key on your keyboard and clicking on the circle-clock icon in your menu bar.

from:

https://www.techjunkie.com/browse-other-backup-disks-time-machine/


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I changed MACs recently and my Time Machine back-ups of my actual documents has not happened although I've reconnected my hard drive

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