03-16-2009, 03:31 PM
I haven't used Time Machine yet, but I have read about it.
Check to see if the search feature is restricting the time window for the search. For example is it searching only in the files from yesterday or March 1, 2009 or something?
The way Time Machine works is that it periodically makes snapshots that mirror the exact state of the files and folders at certain points in time. When doing your search it makes sense that it would limit the search to one of these snapshots. This would avoid the problem of finding hundreds of identical files (one for each snapshot.)
Note that even though the same identical file may appear in 1000 Time Machine snapshots, if the file never changes, it doesn't take up 1000 times the space. Aside from a small amount of administrative overhead space, only one copy of the file is actually stored in the backup and many references are made to the original.
Check to see if the search feature is restricting the time window for the search. For example is it searching only in the files from yesterday or March 1, 2009 or something?
The way Time Machine works is that it periodically makes snapshots that mirror the exact state of the files and folders at certain points in time. When doing your search it makes sense that it would limit the search to one of these snapshots. This would avoid the problem of finding hundreds of identical files (one for each snapshot.)
Note that even though the same identical file may appear in 1000 Time Machine snapshots, if the file never changes, it doesn't take up 1000 times the space. Aside from a small amount of administrative overhead space, only one copy of the file is actually stored in the backup and many references are made to the original.