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Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives?

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From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject	Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives?
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On 2016-10-22, Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
> On 10-20-2016 10:27, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2016-10-19, Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
>>> On 10-19-2016 10:50, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> Nonsense. Time Machine was *never* marketed as a backup utility for
>>>> anything other than Apple file systems on Macs. If you want to back up
>>>> other file systems, use suitable backup software for those file systems.
>>>
>>> It's marketed as a backup utility.
>>
>> For Macs, yep.
>>
>>> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250
>>>
>>> "all your files"  Not.
>>
>> Common sense tells me "all your files" doesn't include files that are
>> not on my Mac, like files on your floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, and yes, also
>> Windows-formatted USB sticks. And the fact that Time Machine *will* back
>> up Mac-formatted USB sticks is a mere bonus.
>
> Common sense tells me that "all my files" doesn't mean "some of them."

Whatever. You're just looking for someone to blame for your own mistake.
It's up to you to back up your data.

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JR

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Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-18 12:17 -0500
  Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-10-19 09:15 +1300
    Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 00:19 -0500
      Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 15:50 +0000
        Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 17:57 -0500
          Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-20 15:27 +0000
            Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-21 20:13 -0500
              Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-22 01:40 +0000
                Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-22 16:51 -0500
  Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-19 12:46 +0000
    Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 17:58 -0500
      Re: Anyone know a trick for forcing Time Machine to back up SD cards or USB drives? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-20 04:16 +0000

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