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<p dir="auto">On 31 Jan 2025, at 7:51, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 2025-01-30 at 02:10:17 UTC-0500 (Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:10:17 +1100)<br>
leo <a href="mailto:mailmate@lists.freron.com">mailmate@lists.freron.com</a><br>
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<p dir="auto">On 30 Jan 2025, at 10:41, Shoshanna Green wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">[...]<br>
(Whenever I'm updating an app, I generally compress my current version of it first. That way, I can easily revert if I find I need to.)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Good strategy! But what if you have forgotten and you are on teh go and don’t have your backup?</p>
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<p dir="auto">But you likely do, if you are running a modern OS on APFS...</p>
<p dir="auto">If you run "tmutil listbackups" you'll see all of the backups TimeMachine thinks that it has.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Cool! So this should work without the Time Machine disk connected? Thanks for the interesting tip!</p>
<p dir="auto">However, when I try this on my travel laptop I get the output “<em>No machine directory found for host.</em>”</p>
<p dir="auto">I am running APFS (Encrypted) on macOS 12.7.6. Time Machine is enabled, but the Time Machine disk is of course at home.</p>
<p dir="auto">Best<br>
Leo</p>
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