Comments on: TimeMachine: it’s alive, alive! http://blog.coriolis.ch/2008/05/09/timemachine-its-alive-alive/ Just another Coriolis weblog Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:59:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Stephan http://blog.coriolis.ch/2008/05/09/timemachine-its-alive-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Stephan Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:37:21 +0000 http://blog.coriolis.ch/?p=5#comment-281 I havent checked if this still happens with MacOS X 10.5.6, but in my example above, there was no need to open the Excel file to have a difference between the backup and the orginal file. I will check and post the results. I havent checked if this still happens with MacOS X 10.5.6, but in my example above, there was no need to open the Excel file to have a difference between the backup and the orginal file.

I will check and post the results.

]]> By: rOger http://blog.coriolis.ch/2008/05/09/timemachine-its-alive-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-280 rOger Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:26:19 +0000 http://blog.coriolis.ch/?p=5#comment-280 This is a normal behavior of Excel: As soon as you open an excel file the file gets modified. The interesting part is if you close the file without saving it it will restore the original file date (before you opened it in excel). But the content of the file is still modified. I personally do not know what excel changes in the file but I guess excel will track there when the file was opened by the user. In fact the change is not essential and you can savely ignore it. We never had a problem or wrong data in the files because excel makes this little change in the file - we also synchronize (like TimeMachine) many many excel files... This is a normal behavior of Excel: As soon as you open an excel file the file gets modified. The interesting part is if you close the file without saving it it will restore the original file date (before you opened it in excel). But the content of the file is still modified. I personally do not know what excel changes in the file but I guess excel will track there when the file was opened by the user. In fact the change is not essential and you can savely ignore it. We never had a problem or wrong data in the files because excel makes this little change in the file – we also synchronize (like TimeMachine) many many excel files…

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