![]() ![]() Go back to Terminal and copy and paste the following:ĭo NOT press ‘Return’. To remove the boot.efi file from the hidden trash, try the following:ģ. Click on these and have a look for the boot.efi file that we’re hunting down. You should see some greyed out folders called. Navigate to the TM disk starting from its icon in the left hand column. Open Terminal.app, copy and paste the following command into the Terminal windowĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall FinderĢ. To find out if that’s so, follow this procedure:ġ. Trash folder of your Time Machine (TM) or some other disk. If this doesn’t do it, the file may be in the. Set path2 to quoted form of item -1 of backupListĭo shell script "tmutil compare " & path1 & " " & path2 & " | open -f"Ĭlick on the Trash can on the Dock, hold down the ‘option’ key and click the ‘Empty’ button over there on the left side of the window. Set path1 to quoted form of item -2 of backupList Set backupList to paragraphs of (do shell script "tmutil listbackups")ĭisplay dialog "Sorry, couldn't find anything to compare. # indicating what was changed, added or removed # This script compares the most recent backup to the previous one Just pop it into the (Apple)Script Editor.app and hit the ‘Run’ ▶︎ button. To make it easier, here’s a handy AppleScript that will do it for you. You can do that in Terminal, too, but the syntax can be a bit tricky. You can find out what got backed up after the task finishes by comparing the most recent snapshot (the one that’s just completed), with the previous one (this is much faster, took about 35 seconds here). Which files did, or did not, get changed, added or removed? On the other hand, you might want to know more about what Time Machine has just done after a backup. Remember that you’re doing a diff on a moving target, so the less you can use the machine for other tasks while this command is running the faster it’ll complete. It could take somewhat longer depending on how much data you’ve got to trawl through. It took about 5 minutes on my mac, but I have a small hard drive. That will compare the machine as it is now against the last backup (See the man page for more options on the output). In particular, if you’d like to see what Time Machine is going to back up just before it’s about to run, execute the following command in the Terminal: If you find Time Machine’s taciturn silence on what it has and will do a bit frustrating at times, the command line utility tmutil can offer you a bit more insight. ![]()
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