Aperture and Leopard's Time Machine WARNING - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Aperture and Leopard's Time Machine WARNING - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog:

From Apple:

“Issue or symptom

Running Time Machine backup or restore operations while Aperture is running may lead to inconsistencies in the Aperture database.

Products affected

Hopefully, Apple will add an API to Time Machine so an application can register a file or folder volume as "don't back up for now". I'll bet someone will build some automator actions to turn time machine on and off, so you could simply run the action to shut down time machine and launch aperture, and a second one to turn it back on.

No biggie, but better documented than suprised.

Comments

[Steve]

Just FYI, Apple is reporting the Time Machine/Aperture issue is fixed in 10.5.2

See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306853 for more info

Steve

[Brian M. Criscuolo]

Chuq,

There is such an API that developers can take advantage of:

CSBackupSetItemExcluded

You give it a path and it will mark it for exclusion. It really does work, in my tests.

b