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.
versioning
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.
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.
Two new tools which scan folders for documents with versions, and display full information about those versions, including size and age.
Versioning has been around for nearly 7 years, and has many powerful features. Here’s how to get the most out of it, including using it to copy content from old versions into the current one, and how to delete old versions.
Are still running macOS 10.12.6 (16G29)? Where can you find that build number of macOS? Should it matter?
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