<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 4:00 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1d1" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">I found instructions for deleting a folder from the TM backup, e.g. <a href="http://superuser.com/questions/577995/os-x-delete-single-folder-of-time-machine-backup-via-terminal" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/577995/os-x-delete-single-folder-of-time-machine-backup-via-terminal</a><br>
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Can I use the same approach for renaming, i.e. use the mv command instead of rm? And what will that do exactly? Will it rename all snapshots (so that I'd see the new name browsing back through history in TimeMachine)? Or will it only rename the latest snapshot (meaning I'd see 1 backup with the new name, and then the older name when browsing further backwards in time, in TimeMachine)?<br></div></blockquote></div><br>It should affect only that snapshot. There's nothing particularly magic about TM backups; the backup date/time is part of the path leading to the backup, anything you do inside that backup affects only that backup, aside from overwriting a file (you'd want to break the hardlink first if you only want it to affect that backup, and for that-backup-and-forward you'd need to re-hardlink the later backups with the original inode number).<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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