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CHAPTER 7 BACKUP, SYNCHRONIZATION, AND RECOVERY OF DATA<br />

will be the main focus (Figure 7-3). You can navigate through the single Finder window normally,<br />

and you will find all the currently backed up Finder items. If you go to the far-right side of<br />

the window, though, you will notice a time line. If you click back through the timeline, the<br />

Finder window will change from showing you the latest backup files to showing you the files<br />

backed up as far back as you go in the timeline. If you want to restore any file from any time or<br />

place in the Finder, simply select it, and click Restore at the bottom. This will bring the item out<br />

of Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine and put it back in its original location in the Finder. If an item of the same<br />

name exists in that place, then you will be prompted to keep one or the other files or both files.<br />

Figure 7-3. Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine browsing Finder items as they were backed up through time<br />

NOTE The timeline will go back pretty much as far as you let it. When you click the Configure<br />

button in the Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine preference pane, there is an option to delete files after a certain<br />

amount of time. If your backup volume is low on space, you may want to utilize this.<br />

If you want to leave Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine without restoring any items, just click the Cancel button<br />

in the lower-left corner of the Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine interface.<br />

One interesting aspect of the Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine is it will attempt to open Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine in the<br />

frontmost open window on your screen. If you double-click the Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine icon in your<br />

Applications folder, the Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine will open with a Finder window open to the Applications<br />

folder. On the other hand, if you are working in a Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine–enabled application and you<br />

open Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine from the Dock (either from an icon on the Dock or from a stack), an interesting<br />

thing will happen: instead of getting a Finder window, you will get an application window<br />

that you can browse backward through and restore changes in that application. For example, if<br />

you launch Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine while running the Mail application, then Time <strong>Mac</strong>hine will open<br />

with a Mail window (Figure 7-4), allowing you to go back in time and view old mail messages<br />

that have been deleted.

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