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aliciaviola

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Automatic Library Backup
« on: January 30, 2025, 09:48:31 am »
On my Mac there is every two days a new automatic Library Backup, each about 112 MB. Within some weeks this needs a lot of space.
Of course I can delete them by hand. Is there any setting to automise that only the newest backup will be kept and the older one deleted?
Frank
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EnglishTiger

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Re: Automatic Library Backup
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2025, 03:52:39 am »
No and unfortunately the laws of unpredictability could result in you regretting only the latest backup being available; as in if and when some form of library corruption occurs and it happened between the library backup that got deleted by such a routine and the only backup available.
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Re: Automatic Library Backup
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2025, 07:06:51 am »
AKA Murphy's Law.

You can set up some scheduled task to delete files older than X on the backup folder. Don't ask me how to do that on a Mac.
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aliciaviola

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Re: Automatic Library Backup
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2025, 02:09:15 am »
Thanks for the answers.
Frank
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Re: Automatic Library Backup
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2025, 10:17:16 am »
Also, if you are backing up thumbnails that can take up a lot of space. You can turn that off in settings. Search on thumbnails
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