Well this was a crappy day.
Remember when Saturdays were fun days and you actually looked forward to the weekend? Neither do I, but somehow a rumor got started, and it's been propagated enough times that people actually believe it. Much like an "honest politician," the idea of a work-free weekend has receded into the myths of modern society. In the darkest recesses of your mind you think you remember it... but the truth is that it's a fantasy that dissipated somewhere in your childhood, never to be seen again.
And speaking of fantasies lost in time...
Today I accidentally overwrote a file that I needed. Usually, this would be a huge concern, but I'm on a Mac that's continuously backed up on a "Time Capsule" by an app called "Time Machine" so it's all good, right?
Well, no, as it turns out. When I "enter Time Machine" to go back to previous versions of my files, everything is blank and all my files are missing...
The "space" metaphor that Apple has going on here is ironically apt, as my Time Capsule has become a black hole from which nothing can escape.
Or so I feared.
Fortunately, ignoring Time Machine and manually accessing my backup drive allowed me to retrieve the file. So it would appear that the Time Machine backup engine is working as intended... it's just the spacey interface that's borked.
I'm trying to stay positive and just be thankful that my file could be saved... but seriously? Oh well. Maybe some third-party software developer will take this opportunity to write an app that can restore from Time Machine backups without the douchey interface messing things up.
If they can also write an app that will restore my Saturdays from the drudgery of work, that would be nice too.
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I find the interface annoying as well. Why not just give you direct access to the backups as the default mode of restoring them?
I get notifications to tell me something has been saved to my drop box. I can only assume its backing up something I have done. I hope so…
After numerous times where I had to repair my Time Machine disk(s), I finally had one of them be unrecoverable, even with Disk Warrior.
I should look into something that will provide remote notifications of Time Machine issues so that I can be informed when my kids’ Airs aren’t being backed up. Or, perhaps it doesn’t matter as they store everything in one cloud or another anyway.