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- From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
- Subject: Re: Using "FIND" for backup in System 7?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.114023.2926@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 11:40:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.045521.5664@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
- >Someone suggested using the Finder's "Find" for making backups. I can
- >set it to "All at Once" and "file created after xxx". Then all those
- >files are highlighted -- but so are the folder names containing them.
- >Anyone know a way to only select the files and not the folders?
- >Otherwise the backups are too gross...
- >
- After getting the stuff you want, select "Find..." again. Search for all
- whose "Kind" "does not contain" "folder". Before hitting "OK", go to the
- pop-up menu and search "the selected items." Does this make sense?
-
- I hope so.
-
- Jay (=
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-