The thing I hate most about #macOS is how simple problems which should have simple solutions on any other operating system almost ALWAYS have no solution at all. The #Apple Forum's super helpful too, can always count on them to give you the "welp, you should've not had that problem in the first place - too bad <3".
In this case, the context is: you cannot copy over your #TimeMachine backups from a drive to another - which seems like a very fucking logical thing to do for when your backup is growing or your drive is aging. The solution provided by everyone is to just "start a new backup on the new drive" or "you should've used a bigger drive 3 years ago". These fucking bitches.
Is there a reason why the Photos app doesn't work with Time Machine in the same way that iPhoto did where you can open iPhoto, then go into Time Machine to restore individual photos you've might have deleted by accident?
With Photos, you need to restore your entire library from Finder + Time Machine so good look knowing where said individual photo was last copied over to Time Machine?
Astrophysicist says he's cracked the equation for #TimeTravel
By Sanjana Gajbhiye, 22 Mar 2024
…''[Prof. Ron] Mallett’s theory comes with a significant constraint. “You can send information back, but you can only send it back to the point where you started operating the device.”
In this sense, the #TimeMachine is like a one-way message service to the past. You can’t travel to a point before the machine existed''…
@rasterweb That is funny. NOT funny is that #timemachine - if there is no external disk attached and auto backup is on - seems to fill your internal disk with time machine backups! and the only way of finding and eliminating them I found is to buy a piece of software #daisydisk and upgrade to "professional" and bravely delete the 700 GB of junk time machine backups discovered. Apple is really really spooky creepy stuff. Now I ONLY trigger backups manually ... not good but hey.
"Scientific people," proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, "know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.... That line, therefore, we must conclude, was along the Time Dimension."
TIL about #Asimov, a tool to exclude build target folders for various tech stacks from a #TimeMachine backup. Be sure to install the latest head (for #Gradle support) and have your folder permissions set correctly (I had to fix mine to see my projects). https://github.com/stevegrunwell/asimov
I am this || close to disabling #TimeMachine on my #Mac and just adding a second #Arq target for whatever this year's S3-a-like service is called on my #Synology.
May as well just do the latter anyways (assuming I have the space 🤔) and then I can at least find out if TM's incredible slowness is its fault or, somehow, the Synology’s.
Typowa sytuacja we współczesnym #OpenSource, na przykładzie ekosystemu języka #Python.
Wiele projektów używa biblioteki #FreezeGun, by nadpisywać wskazania zegara na potrzeby testów. FreezeGun powoli przestaje być rozwijany. W końcu zaczyna mieć problemy z nowymi wersjami Pythona. Dystrybucje, takie jak #Gentoo, są odporne na te problemy, bo mogą łatwo dodać lokalne łatki.
Tak więc projekty zaczynają korzystać z #TimeMachine. Niestety, time-machine opiera się na hakowaniu detali implementacji CPythona (w imię wydajności, bo przecież nadpisywanie czasu w testach to wydajnościowe wąskie gardło), więc na #PyPy nie działa w ogóle. Niektóre projekty wspierają FreezeGun i time-machine równocześnie, inne nie.
Czasem time-machine łapie segfaulty na CPythonie. Z czasem coraz więcej segfaultów zostaje zgłoszonych. Nie ma więc zaskoczenia, że nowe zgłoszenia błędów nie spotykają się z odpowiedzią. W międzyczasie, FreezeGun na nowo zaczyna być rozwijany. No i zgadnijcie, co teraz się dzieje…
#TimeMachine/ capsule backup to a #Samba server on #Debian or any other #Linux ? Is that ever reliable (I have the feeling I always have to fix it and restart from scratch)
Is there any other cheap open source backup option for Mac? Duplicati is utterly broken with that silly permission system
Apple #MacOS with multiple #users. My 2Tb disk was getting #full for unknown reason. #Finder does not show file sizes.
Tried using #MacPaw#cleanmymac to clean disk. No change.
Massive 'system data' shown in storage menu 'about my mac'.
Only #daisyDisk installed as free standing app NOT from (Apple Store!) using scan as administrator was able to find the 1) users with large video files 2) delete 'purgable space' presumably containing #timemachine junk.
Can anyone justify Apple #macOS design?
#mac users, is there any #BackUp#software that works reliably with a #NASDrive? #TimeMachine keeps failing for unspecified reasons. #ChronoSync, which works fairly well with external drives, is still chugging away after two days with lots of errors and exceptions
I have a quite full schedule today... So many interesting talks and stuff. I would need n > 3 units of myself to visit everything I would like. Anyone having a #timeMachine that I can use? #cccamp23
#TimeMachine stopped working for some reason. Copying 6 gigabytes takes up to four hours, and then it gets stuck at ‘Freeing Up Space’, even though there is enough room for a full backup, let alone an incremental one.
Internet search didn’t yield any results other than ‘Reformat drive as APFS and try again’. I don’t have a spare drive on hand at the moment, so I guess no backups for me. #LivingOnTheEdge