This is the problem with a rainy Saturday.

It all started with me trying to use Silverkeeper to backup my Quicken files and realizing it wasn't working. No real surprise there as I believe Lacie stopped supporting it in 2009. So in the process of looking (unsuccessfully) for a replacement for Silverkeeper, I fell into a rabbit hole.

I made the mistake of diving into my Documents folder trying to clean it out a bit to allow for some simpler and smaller backups. Jeebus. I have crap in there going back to 2005. And it's mixed in with much more recent stuff that I obviously want to keep. My thinking is to just create a folder on the Desktop called Archival or something and just drag crap into it as I see fit. Then I can use Dropbox or Box or iCloud Drive to deal with backups that I could somehow automate. Does that make sense or is there a better (simpler) way?

To be clear, I still regularly use TimeMachine (when I think of it) and CCC weekly for full backups.

Thanks.

Wurm,

The Finder has options in its Menu/tool bar (Group) to sort by a variety of methods. Why not start with that to do your house cleaning. We all need to periodically clean house.

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Ed (modelamac)

I think I will just put an OUT OF ORDER
sticker on my head and call it a day.

I’m not sure what the question is?

Why not just leave TM running all the time? Let it do it’s job automatically.

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Edited 999 time(s). Last edit at 12:08PM by jdc.

Thanks. Yeah, good point about using Finder to just lump everything together older than a few years.

As for jdc's comment to Why not just leave TM running all the time? Let it do it’s job automatically., I don't even have a good answer for that. Especially now that I have another usb hub with open ports.