Time MachineI Just had an Apple moment! A moment where you truly feel the amount of thought that goes into creating all the cool stufffan boy, so deduct 10% of my enthusiasm for everything I say about Apple">1 at Apple.

I was just about to install the latest beta of the iPhone 3.0 SDK, when I ran out of disk space. What to do ? -  I could get up from the couch and find an external hard disk, but that one was also stuffed… I think…

Well I didn’t bother to check, instead I chose a random2 folder in my home directory that weighed in at just under 3 GiB. I then went on to install the SDK.

After the installation I deleted the SDK disk image, and then “Entered the Time Machine” and restored the folder.

Quite useful! – So if I one day need a lot of storage, and I am far from home,  I’ll just delete3 my iTunes music folder and restore it when I get home.

  1. Yes, I know I sound like an Apple fan boy, so deduct 10% of my enthusiasm for everything I say about Apple [↩]
  2. Well not completely random, I chose a folder that I knew hadn’t changed in the last couple of days – i.e. I knew it was backed up properly! [↩]
  3. Please don’t delete just any random folder, pick one you know hasn’t changed since the last time Time Machine backed up your hard disk [↩]

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