{"id":14148,"date":"2016-04-11T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14148"},"modified":"2016-04-11T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:48:05","slug":"mobile-time-machine-creates-root-file-with-no-visible-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/11\/mobile-time-machine-creates-root-file-with-no-visible-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Time Machine Creates Root File With No Visible Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openradar.me\/23549929\">jvmscholz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.openradar.me\/23549929\"><p>mtm creates a plist without any name whatsoever on \/ which contains mtmUUID, file is 263 bytes in size and should at least be hidden (and maybe have a name?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/7373217?tstart=0\">Nickholl<\/a> posts an example of the contents:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/7373217?tstart=0\">\n<pre>&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?&gt;\n&lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-\/\/Apple\/\/DTD PLIST 1.0\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/DTDs\/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\"&gt;\n&lt;plist version=\"1.0\"&gt;\n&lt;dict&gt;\n  &lt;key&gt;MTMUUID&lt;\/key&gt;\n  &lt;string&gt;E1C0D530-54BA-442E-8F22-FD1C26E3076E&lt;\/string&gt;\n&lt;\/dict&gt;\n&lt;\/plist&gt;<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have this file on one of my Macs but not the other. I think it&rsquo;s new sometime since installing Mac OS X 10.11. It appears with a generic document icon in the Finder. The file actually does have a name, but it&rsquo;s a non-printable character. This is what the output from <tt>ls -lB<\/tt> looks like:<\/p>\n<pre>-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   263 Apr  1 09:54 \\001<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jvmscholz: mtm creates a plist without any name whatsoever on \/ which contains mtmUUID, file is 263 bytes in size and should at least be hidden (and maybe have a name?) Nickholl posts an example of the contents: &lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-\/\/Apple\/\/DTD PLIST 1.0\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/DTDs\/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\"&gt; &lt;plist version=\"1.0\"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;MTMUUID&lt;\/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;E1C0D530-54BA-442E-8F22-FD1C26E3076E&lt;\/string&gt; &lt;\/dict&gt; &lt;\/plist&gt; [&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":[131,30,1199,216],"class_list":["post-14148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148","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=14148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14149,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions\/14149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}