See and manipulate Time Machine exclusions, right in Finder.
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See exclusion status for every item of each monitored folder/disk:
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Toggle sticky or fixed-path 1 exclusion via contextual menu (or toolbar item):
Exclude from Time Machine Remove Exclusion from Time Machine -
Toggle exclusion of disks via contextual menu (or toolbar item):
Exclude from Time Machine Remove Exclusion from Time Machine -
Reveal the parent folders which implicitly affect the exclusion of the given item:
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Get the app
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if you're on macOS 12 or later, from TestFlight: Join the ™ Buddy beta - TestFlight - Apple
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from Homebrew:
brew install grigorye/tools/time-machine-buddy
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Launch the app and follow the checklist, making sure all the red lights:
turned green:
When selecting folders for the application, typically you want to navigate to Computer and select all the disks for which you want to employ TMBuddy:
- Sometimes attempt to toggle sticky exclusion results in nothing. Try re-adding the monitored folders in this case.
- If attempt to change fixed-path exclusion fails, please add TMBuddy.app (in addition to .appex) to the list of applications eligible for full disk access and make sure the access is enabled.
- Menu bar item
- macOS 10.15 or later
MIT License. See LICENSE.
Footnotes
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Fixed-path exclusions are not availabile in AppStore/TestFlight version, but in Homebrew due to the need to install the privileged helper. ↩