{"id":10097,"date":"2014-11-21T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10097"},"modified":"2014-11-22T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T13:43:05","slug":"browsing-versions-of-a-file-in-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/browsing-versions-of-a-file-in-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Browsing Versions of a File in Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/time_machine\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/time_machine\/\">\n<p>In Time Machine, the selector for picking how far to get back is finicky, and hard to use. As far as I can tell, it&rsquo;s impossible to know when specific files actually changed, unless you manually step through the history and check the file&rsquo;s modification date. The UI doesn&rsquo;t properly support what is probably the most common use case: getting back the most recent good version of a single file.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>All I needed was for Time Machine to show me what versions of a specific file it had backed up, so that I could pick the one with the most recent modification date. Not any old version &mdash; the most recent version. But I can&rsquo;t tell Time Machine to just show me what versions of a file it has. Instead, I&rsquo;m (sluggishly, because Time Machine&rsquo;s UI apparently requires more power than the most recent Tomb Raider) stepping back through Time Machine&rsquo;s version history, painfully trying to figure out which specific instance of the files it shows me is the one that I need to recover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/mac\/documentation\/Darwin\/Reference\/Manpages\/man8\/tmutil.8.html\">tmutil<\/a> looks very useful and can remove the Time Machine metadata that would ordinarily be messed up if you tried to manually restore from a snapshot. But it doesn&rsquo;t seem to solve this particular problem. The easiest way I&rsquo;ve seen is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soma-zone.com\/BackupLoupe\/\">BackupLoupe<\/a>, however even that will show you an entry for each snapshot containing the file, rather than each distinct version of the file.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Mathis: In Time Machine, the selector for picking how far to get back is finicky, and hard to use. As far as I can tell, it&rsquo;s impossible to know when specific files actually changed, unless you manually step through the history and check the file&rsquo;s modification date. The UI doesn&rsquo;t properly support what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,1060,30,32,216],"class_list":["post-10097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-backuploupe","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10098,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions\/10098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}