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What Time Machine leaves behind I mentioned earlier that while I like Time Machine a lot, depending on it as your sole backup is rather fraught with peril. This post on macosxhints gives another good reason -- apparently some applications (including notably, VMWare) silently exclude data files from Time Machine. You can see which files from the Terminal: Turns out that Apple's doing the right thing here and using the metadata store. This means we can find the files with the Spotlight engine. To do this from the command line, do this: sudo mdfind "com_apple_backup_excludeItem = 'com.apple.backupd'" (note: that command will require you to enter your password) The macosxhints article also gives several variations of an Applescript you can use for this task. The...