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In article <cnisaeFk2liU9@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> > you missed the point.
> >
> > time machine *can* work the way davoud described, but that would be an
> > intentional decision by the user to exclude stuff from the backup, in
> > which case the excluded stuff would need to be manually restored.
> 
> Man, you can be incredibly thick and stubborn. Davoud didn't mention
> anything about excluding anything and seemed to say that Time Machine
> simply does not include such things:

it's not me who is stubborn. i said that someone would have to manually
restore apps if they had excluded them from the backup. you even say
the same thing below!

> "If you are relying on TimeMachine you have only your files backed up."
> 
> Davoud could simply believe that Time Machine doesn't back up apps and
> settings. Or, he might have simply failed to mention that what he
> said does *not* apply to the default configuration of Time Machine.
> 
> But it doesn't matter, because either way, what Király said is true for
> many, many people who don't bother to exclude applications and settings.
> Unless you have gone out of your way to do something to prevent Time
> Machine from backing up apps and settings, you don't have to manually
> reinstall all apps and reconfigure everything since it's possible to
> restore apps and their preferences from Time Machine backups!

that's exactly what i said.

you're arguing just to argue.

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