Macworld - UK (2022-02)

24 Macworld • February 2022

MACOS TIPS & TRICKS

Networked Time Machine backups appear on the host machine as disk images, and

need to be mounted to view their volumes by snapshot date and time.

drives plugged in – how do you access

its Time Machine backups if you can’t

use the Time Machine system menu’s

Enter Time Machine option with the

volume open in a Finder window?

Easy: use the backups directly on

your Time

Machine

volume.

With

a Time

Machine

volume

directly

connected

to the Mac,

you can

simply

browse its

snapshots

list. Look

through the

dates and

times in the snapshot names to find

the one that is as recent or as long

ago as you need, and then click the

expansion triangle or double click

the snapshot icon.

If Time Machines is backing up

Browse through snapshots in the Finder to find archived versions

of files on an external disk that’s not currently mounted.