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From: John McWilliams on 1 Apr 2010 17:44 Tom Harrington wrote: > In article <michelle-A2CE64.11560801042010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > >> Use Time Machine to restore files from the future >> What it does: Enables one to restore files from a future date, not >> just the past, thereby fulfilling the promise of the Time Machine name. For >> instance, instead of typing that essay due in two weeks, install this >> modification, enter Time Machine, navigate to your Homework folder, and >> move the time slider forward just under two weeks. You'll see there your >> completed essay; hit Create (the renamed Restore button in future-forward >> mode) and you'll find the essay in your Homework folder when you exit Time >> Machine. >> Terminal command: defau1ts write com.apple.TimeMachine >> RestoreFromFuture -bool TRUE >> Credit: From reader zpjet > > I tried this one last month when someone told me about, and you really > need to be careful with it. The thing is, the documents only exist in > the future if you actually create them at some point. I didn't realize > this-- I used TM to get a number of future documents, but once I had > them I figured I didn't need to bother doing the work since, hey, I had > the results already! This caused a Groundhog-day style time loop, and I > was stuck in the same day for several weeks before I figured out why it > was happening. Finally I sat down and did the work, creating the > documents, and this broke the loop. > > This is a really cool feature, but be VERY careful that you do the work > of creating the documents BEFORE the date on the TM future entry you > retrieve. I've been using it to track my investment portfolio. I've been selling today what is showing declines three weeks out, but I am also stuck in some sort of loop. -- john mcwilliams
From: Wes Groleau on 1 Apr 2010 17:51 On 04-01-2010 14:56, Michelle Steiner wrote: > This is from Mac OS X Hints: > 10.6:Use newly-found hidden prefs hacks in Snow Leopard Of greater importance: http://www.google.com and click on the new logo. -- Wes Groleau Heroes, Heritage, and History http://UniGen.us/PGV
From: Paul Sture on 2 Apr 2010 15:17 In article <michelle-A2CE64.11560801042010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > � Credit: Reader wishes to remain anonymous (probably someone at Apple!) But _which_ Apple? ;-) -- Paul Sture
From: Paul Sture on 2 Apr 2010 15:25
In article <010420101538010671%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <michelle-A2CE64.11560801042010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > Use Time Machine to restore files from the future > > this is not a hidden preference. time machine actually did this to me. > my 'next backup' date somehow was 4 days ahead. i then went into it and > deleted the future backups. it resumed backing up but it was still > screwed up. i ended up nuking it entirely. Many years ago we were testing month and year end processing on a project by setting the computer date and time forwards (this wasn't a Mac system). We discovered that the file system wouldn't let us open files dated in the future. We could see them but not open them. Weird, and the solution was to run a disk repair utility after setting the date and time back to the present. -- Paul Sture |