OS X Technologies :: Does The Exclusion Of A File Or Directory Remove Any Existing
Mar 15, 2012
Does the exclusion of a file or directory remove any existing, already backed up versions of that file or directory from TimeMachine? I have a large file I don't want backed up every time I connect to my backup drive. It's 50GB+. I rarely touch the file, and when I do, I don't use it for anything that needs to be saved, it is a historical only version of my Parallels from an older Microsoft OS. I occasionally need to open it to just look at something, but never 'do' anything with it.Â
I want to exclude it, but don't want any older version of the file to be removed from backup. Does anyone know if exclusions are retroactive into the TimeMachine database? Given this is 50GB+, trying it to find out is a quite slow process.Â
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MBP, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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Apr 24, 2012
Cannot seem to upload to a ftp server (permissions are correct on the home folder of the user!)But I get this result:
ftp> put /Users/[userfolder]/Documents/untitled.rtf
local: /Users/[userfolder]/Documents/untitled.rtf remote: /Users/[userfolder]/Documents/untitled.rtf
227 Entering Passive Mode (99,254,236,63,209,169)
553-Can't open that file: No such file or directory
553 Rename/move failure: No such file or directory Â
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Mar 8, 2012
Me again this script works but if you then delete the last folder creation and run again it won't create the folder. I was try to make an,  if folder exists then ignore else make folder? Matt  set folderPath to "Hal 9000:Users:matthew:Desktop:DIVA_WK30_PSD"set {oldTID, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, ":"}set folderName to last text item of folderPathset my text item delimiters to "_WK"set FolderEndName to last text item of folderNameset brandName to first text item of folderNameset my text item delimiters to "_PSD"set weekNumber to first text item of FolderEndNameset my text item delimiters to oldTID set this_local_folder to "Hal 9000:Users:matthew:Pictures:2011-2012"tell application "Finder"try set localWeekFolder to make new folder...
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 16, 2009
i recently deleted some stuff on my mac and i think i might have deleted something important so i used the mac os x to reinstall the mac os x. by doing that does it replace any missing files and removes all the history and everything and starts out fresh?
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May 2, 2012
I have created an automator workflow to remove and recreate my temporary directory in my home folder.Â
Is there a way to schedule this workflow to run at user login (or at boot time)?Â
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Apr 9, 2012
startup banner.JAWBONE UPDATER ERROR: Failed to inspect the lock file '/Users/[user]' (error 2: No such file or directory)."Â Jawbone support writes, "get in touch with Apple Support, so they can help you unlock the file on your Mac.Â
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Sep 7, 2009
I accidentally deleted all of the files on a friend's portable drive, when using terminal to try to delete a very large folder (the Trash Can was not working it was so large)--since the files/folders were very recently deleted I am looking into data recovery software to get the files back. The problem is that the HFS file system seems to be designed in such a way that once a folder/file is deleted, it is very difficult to recover it's name even if its data can be recovered, so most data recovery programs (such as FileSalvage) will recover only known file types and give them a a number (such as 0004.jpg). Does anyone know of any Mac/HFS recovery software that has found a way around this particular issue and can recover data with the folder structure/file names intact?
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Mar 12, 2009
Im trying to set up NetJukebox on XAMMP and I need to paste in the file references to where my music is held on the HDD. Now, on a PC I would just be something D:/Music/ or something, with 'D' referncing the drive where the folder Music is held. The trouble Im having is doing this but with the 'Macintosh HD' drive, because I dont think that /User/*UserNameHere*/Music/ will work by itself. Is there a way I can include the drive name as well in that folder reference?
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Apr 14, 2012
How do I remove Flashback Malware from a Mac running OS 10.5.8?
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Apr 25, 2012
I cannot remove my signature from my outgoing mail. Under the Mail tab, preferences does not send me to a signature option, only mailbox behaviors, etc.I created one about 2 years ago and it is no longer applicable, so I must delete it off every email I send because I cannot find the link to cancel it permanently.
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iMac
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May 30, 2012
I don't know why my MacBook Pro is working so slowly. I wondered if I had somehow gotten MacDefender downloaded and realised it was malware. I couldn't find it in the Applications but I did find mdworker. I don't know what that is. Could it be related to MacDefender?
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MacBook Pro
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Mar 1, 2009
If I open TextEdit, it seems to work ok. But if I open an existing file (RTF), TextEdit opens but is "not responding" (says the Activity Monitor), for about 2 minutes. Then the file I wanted to open suddenly appears and works fine.
How come? And how can I make TextEdit work normally again?
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Mar 17, 2012
I have some scanned PDF's files with big size (10Mb - 15Mb). The original document doesn't exist. How can I change these existing PDF files to a smaller size?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Sep 6, 2006
I'm looking for an easy way to create a list of every file on a hard drive, and create a .pdf of it in OSX. It would be good to be able to omit some folders from this list as well.
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Mar 23, 2012
Years ago, I could print out a list of files in a folder from the finder window. Is there now a workaround utility to do that? I don't want to use screen shots, as the directory is too long and would require several screen shots.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Jun 25, 2012
The directory seems to have to rebuild each session. I open a folder and have to wait 8 seconds for the file to build then I can see the contents. After that, the folder opens immediately and will operate without problems UNTIL I shutdown. After restart, the folder stalls again as it builds the directory once more. My machine has multiple drives so I have triple boot and the other drives work fine so it is the system, not the computer itself.
Info:Powermac G4 FW800 Dual 1.25, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
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Oct 2, 2010
i have a problem with i tunes, i'm trying to make a ring tone for my iphone from an existing file in my library. to do that i need to press "create an acc version" from the "advanced" tab amongst other procedures but the problem is that the aforementioned option is grey, meaning it can not be pressed, i have a similar problem where a simple thing as copy/paste can't be done on the computer because that to is grey and their fore i just cant press it.
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Apr 9, 2012
My AppleTV keeps showing old podcasts which don't exist anymore in my iTunes library. Of course I can't play them because the file has since long been deleted. I don't see them anywhere in iTunes, so I can't delete them from my library.Â
I found the reason for this behaviour: those old podcasts are still present in my iTunes library xml file. I deleted this file and restarted iTunes. iTunes will create a brand new xml file from the original .itl file. However, the old non-existent podcasts are still present in the new xml file. So the error must be present in my .itl file.Â
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Apple TV, iOS 5.1, (3rd generation)
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Jan 3, 2011
I have several old internal hdds that I have collected over the past 4 years and I would like to be able to see what is on them without actually attaching them to my Mac Pro. Is there a way to generate a text file (better yet, a Finder like graphical representation of the file structure) that would list the directories and files contained on a volume that is normally offline?
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May 1, 2012
When I have files in a stack and, in the file's directory, I hide the extension, stacks does not update the fact that the extension is now hidden unless I remove and re-add the stack.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Sep 26, 2010
I have installed ffmpeg using MacPorts and am trying to work out a script that will convert audio files in a specified folder to mp3 files, outputting the converted files as mp3 files in another folder. So far the script looks like this:
code:set convertPath to "Macintosh HD:opt:local:bin:ffmpeg"
set convertCommand to quoted form of POSIX path of convertPath & " -i {infile} -f mp3 -ar 44100 -ab 128 -acodec mp3 - "
tell application "Finder"
set inPath to "Macintosh HD:Users:nick:Desktop:new:"
set outPath to "Macintosh HD:Users:nick:Desktop:new2:"
set myFiles to (files of entire contents of inPath whose name ends with ".m4a") as alias list
repeat with i from 1 to count of myFiles
do shell script convertCommand
end repeat
end tell
With this script I am getting the error : "Can't make every file of "class ects" of "Macintosh HD: Users:nick:Desktop:new:" whose name ends with ".m4a" into type alias list." I am not sure how to define the do shell script command so that it outputs an MP3 file in the output directory.
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Mar 31, 2009
I am trying to connect my pc and mac for file sharing. Several websites I saw are telling me to goto Directory Access. They say its under (Applications > Utilities > Directory Access). I dont see it on my mac. All I see is Directory and Directory Utility thats it. I have the most up to date mac 10.5.6.
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Apr 10, 2010
Working on a friends computer he bought his wife for christmas. He has nothing on it, but the original OS. I don't have my disk with me and need to reset his password. I have watched several videos, but the part that gets me caught up is the
1. mount -uw/ (this part works)
2. rm/var/db.AppleSetupDone (this does not work) message says No such file or directory found.
He is running 10.6.
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Jun 4, 2009
I am currently facing the error : ruby: No such file or directory, when trying to run ruby scripts. when i type "which ruby" t returns: /usr/bin/ruby Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? I've googled around for about an hour and have found nothing.
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Jan 27, 2010
I have given up on getting home sharing to work properly amongst all my various computers at home on 10.5 and thought I would use an old style brute force method of simply setting up a file share to share my iTunes library. I set up file sharing to use the Guest account and it works fine for all of my other content. I have tried to create shares of the following directories and can only connect as a registered user (Guest user cannot even see these shares):
/Users/<name>/Music
/Users/<name>/Music/iTunes
I have gone into the terminal and looked at the ACLs on the Music directory (e.g ls -alte) and I can't see anything that would block access, but I am not an expert with this type of ACL. The ACL on the Music directory is this:
0: group:com.apple.sharepoint.group.2 allow search
1: group:everyone deny delete
I have an ACL called 0: group:everyone deny delete on one of my other shares that works fine so this can't be the culprit (more importantly the ACL looks like it is just preventing users from deleting anything).
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May 22, 2012
How can I make spotlight show the directory location of a found file?Â
Previous Mac search engines would show the directory location of a found file. This feature seems to be missing from spotlight in Lion. Am I using it correctly?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 17, 2012
I can't figure out how to move a crack into a game installation folder. It keeps saying I cannot moddify the folder.
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Apr 8, 2012
Is there a way I can use a very old .cwk file? I tried opening it in iWorks '06, the old version I have and it said it couldn't read it.
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Apr 24, 2012
Been up for a while trying to figure this out with no luck. I created an app that will uninstall a program and all of it's files.Â
example try                   do shell script "rm -rf /Applications/TestFakeApp"          end try    try                   do shell script "rm -rf /Applications/TestFakeApp2"          end try    try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.FakeTestApp.plist"          end try         try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.FakeTestApp2.plist" end try         try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/FakeTestApp*"          end try         try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/FakeTestApp" end tryÂ
there are alot more paths to remove but this is just a few for exampleÂ
I want to be able to create a log.txt file on the desktop to show what has been removed and or what could not be removed.Â
I then tried by creating a text document by usingÂ
do shell script "touch ~/Desktop/test.txt"Â tell application "Finder"Â open file ((path to desktop folder as text) & "test.txt") using ((path to applications folder as text) & "TextEdit.app")end tellÂ
but I don't know what to do next.Â
1. Have it check for each file to see if it was deleted or not
2. add it into the test.txt file
3. save the file once doneÂ
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 26, 2012
is it technically possible to load a file into ram?
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