Do you work from a normal user account rather than an admin one? This should let you check Time Machine using the T2M2 app.
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Summary of the hidden folders and files you’re most likely to encounter at the top level of a volume, and at the top level of your Home folder.
An important section of a document that you’re working has gone missing. Do you search back through backups, or use the versioning system to recover and replace it?
Check earlier versions by previewing them using Quick Look. This also fixes the bug which gave incorrect sizes for bundle documents such as RTFD.
As I was revising and revamping my Keynote presentation, my free disk space was falling in from of my eyes. Each time I saved my work, macOS swallowed another gigabyte of free space.
Apple has today pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data, which should have been silently installed on your […]
Simply select those versions you want to remove, and click the Delete button. You can’t remove the latest version, and there is no Undo, though.
Does Time Machine manage the versions database? Doesn’t it contain lots of sensitive and private documents? How can I open a confidential PDF without it getting saved as a version?
Can now duplicate all the versions of a file into a normal folder; works with RTFD and other bundles; new tabular view and detailed info about versions.
Adds display of the total size of xattrs, total data fork size, and their sum in its window.
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