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Choosing folders for Time Machine
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Is there any way to choose that to backup in Time Machine? I don't care about the system and library files. I just want to backup Movies, Pictures, Music, and Documents.
Can someone help?
Thanks!
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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System Preferences > Time Machine > Options
Add the folders you don't want backed up into there.
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The Library folder in your home folder can contain important personal information though (mail, address book etc.)
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I've set my TimeMachine on a drive that is smaller than my boot drive. I just wanted to backup my Users folder so I had to exclude all my other external drives plus:
• /Applications/
• /Developer/
• /Library/
• /System/
When I chose my /System/ folder it also prompted me and asked if I wanted to exclude all the other "unix" and hidden system files.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Same here. I think it would be a handy feature to be able to select either the folders to exclude or the folders to include. Selecting folders to exclude feels counterintuitive.
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Addicted to MacNN
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Originally Posted by frdmfghtr 
Same here. I think it would be a handy feature to be able to select either the folders to exclude or the folders to include. Selecting folders to exclude feels counterintuitive.
Time Machine backs up everything – that's intuitive. There is no need for folder inclusion.
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