Actually, at the end of the list of recent backups is a folder called "Latest". Inside there you will find the latest copy of everything. Beyond that each backup is named in a fairly reasonable way. For example, the folders are named something like

2010-09-07-165406

So that backup is from September 7 at 4:54PM (1654) and six seconds. Inside you will find what seems like a complete copy of everything but secretly any file that didn't change is just a link to the original backup made in one of the previous runs.

CB

On 9/3/10 4:42 AM, William Windels wrote:
hello,
about time-machine,
it's true that the backup disc contains a exact copy of your harddrive and you 
can browse in it with the finder but:

since time-machine makes automatic backups on several moments, there is no 
place where you can find the whole copy of your hd with all the same elements 
that where on your computer when the last backup was made.

So, as I understand well, on the folders on the root of your backupdrive, you 
will find a list of folders with the date of the backup included in the name.

e.g. if you would like to restore a whole folder that you have deleted in 
several stapes: different files of that folder on different times and the 
folder itself on a later time, it would be a hard djob to restore the whole 
folder in one task.

The time-machine program , gives a visual environment todo that but this 
interface isn't accessible with vo at all.

any comments are very welcome

best regards,
William
Op 3-sep-2010, om 04:15 heeft Sarah Alawami het volgende geschreven:

OH cool! I'll have to play with it when I convert my older drive in to a time 
machine back up.

Thanks.
On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:

That's correct.  IF you take a look ast your backup disk, and if you go in to 
each back up, what you find there is an exact image copy of your Mac primary 
hard drive just as if you were looking at the actual hard disk itself.  In 
short, once you open each backup, you should be able to navigate to exactly the 
files you want to recover by hand because everything will be in the very same 
place on the backup that is was on your Mac's primary drive at the time the 
bacup was made.


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On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Scott Howell wrote:

Time Machine is actually accessible, but you can just go to the backup disk and 
pull the content you want to recover and copy back to your machine.

On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

It's taken my machine down but that was before I realized how to get around it 
with out a restart. All in all voice over is the best thing since sliced bread. 
As for the time machine restores don't you need to use your restore disk in 
order to restore? I mean your system disk? I would not know as I don't use time 
machine at all.

S
On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Scott Howell wrote:

Although you have some valid points, VoiceOver will improve and these issues 
will be addressed. The big difference is that windows-based screen readers have 
been around for quite a while, so admittedly they have a jump on VoiceOver in 
some respects. However, what APple has accomplished in the last five years is 
amazing. Give Apple five more years and I suspect VoiceOver will exceed what 
the windows screen readers have done in the same period of time. Of course you 
use what tools work best and no tool is perfect. THe one thing I can say is 
that at least VO has not taken my machine down and that alone makes me very 
happy.
On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:15 PM, William Windels wrote:

Hello,
I want also to say something about this topic:

Apple is doing great efforts to make their products accessible and macosx with 
voiceover is in global, working good.
Also , the trackpad is a very nice feature that don't exist on windows 
computers for blind users.

However, I have also some remarks:
since 10.6, voiceover isn't that stable like in 10.5.
Sometimes, voiceover is restarting while reading texts , I think because of 
some strange characters.
But, this is not a big problem while comparing with windows and the 
screenreaders because they are also crashing sometimes.

A bigger problem , in my opinion is that voiceover from apple is the only 
screenreader on the mac.

I mean: since safari 5, the braille isn't working correctly in formfields.

This problem can also happen of course on windows when a new release of a 
browser is installed but, on windows , there are at least 2 browsers that are 
fully supported by the most screenreaders: internet explorer, firefox and 
perhaps opera.

firefox 4 (beta) isn't also accessible with voiceover after a first look.

Also, the time-machine program, to restore e.g. a deleted folder from the past, 
isn't accessible with vo.
The automatic backup system of timemachine works great!

Pages, a great texteditor isn't also fully accessible : tables in pages are n't 
working with vo.

The numbers application has not the same features as excel with a screenreader.
Navigation in numbers is missing some important features.

Also: the braille representation on the mac has not the same contort as on 
windows, I give 2 examples:
The text on the brailledisplay isn't independent of the speech. so. in global, 
what the mac says, that will be shown on the braille display and revers.
It makes it much more powerful if you can configure what to read in braille and 
what to hear.
A second thing is the representation of controls on a braille display:
They should give a option to configure how the representation of a radio 
button, a button, a dropbox/pull down menu, a checkbox, a link, should be shown 
on a braille display.
The best solution here is to have language independent symbols for this kind of 
controls.
Since some people have only a braille display of 12, 20 or 40 characters, it 
doesn't make sence to see only checkbox on your display.

When I try to speak with other blind people about the mac and the included 
accessibility, the first question they ask is about particular programs they 
want to use.

When I compare this about text processors, internet, spreadsheets , databases 
(ms access), powerpoints, chatting, listening to music..., not all of this 
tasks gives the same confort on a mac as on windows.

Conclusion: I love the mac , osx  is great but the accessibility is still a 
work in progress and, in my opinion, not at the same level of most windows 
screenreaders.


best regards,
William
Op 2-sep-2010, om 22:47 heeft Mike Arrigo het volgende geschreven:

Just a few comments to add to this. First, I think gw-micro is a great company 
and window eyes is a great product, I'm using it with my work computer to write 
this message. With regard to supporting the web, at this point at least, 
voiceover is actually ahead of window eyes, because it handles the pages that 
change dinamicly. In window eyes, if a page changes through something like java 
script, you must reload the browse mode buffer. On the mac, as apple says, it 
just works. The new content is available as you navigate the page. I know 
gw-micro is working on this, and I'm sure once the work is done, it will work 
very well. Also, on a mac, you can install a new version of the operating 
system completely and totally without sighted assistance, with speech and or a 
braille display. This cannot be done with windows. Of course, this is not the 
fault of gw-micro, Microsoft gets the blame for that one, but I think it 
demonstrates the commitment Apple has to accessibility.

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