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Find files that will be backed up by Time Machine

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Mar 15, 20265069 views
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It'd be useful to see what Time Machine will backup before the backup actually occurs. I believe it should be possible to approximate this with . Is there a standard search query that accomplishes this? Or a way to ask Time Machine directly?

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Fix for: Find files that will be backed up by Time Machine

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In OS X 10.7 (Lion) you can use . To compare the current state of the machine with the most recent backup you simply use the command, But you'll probably want to redirect the output to a file because there may be a lot of it. You can restrict the co…

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