TMBuddy

See and manipulate Time Machine exclusions, right in Finder.

Features

• See exclusion status for every item of each monitored folder/disk:

  

• Toggle sticky or fixed-path ¹ exclusion via contextual menu (or toolbar item):

  Exclude from Time Machine	Remove Exclusion from Time Machine

• Toggle exclusion of disks via contextual menu (or toolbar item):

  Exclude from Time Machine	Remove Exclusion from Time Machine

• Reveal the parent folders which implicitly affect the exclusion of the given item:

  

Installation

1. Get the app

   • if you're on macOS 12 or later, from TestFlight: Join the ™ Buddy beta - TestFlight - Apple

   • from Homebrew:

     brew install grigorye/tools/time-machine-buddy
     

2. Launch the app and follow the checklist, making sure all the red lights:

   

   turned green:

   

When selecting folders for the application, typically you want to navigate to Computer and select all the disks for which you want to employ TMBuddy:

Troubleshooting

• Sometimes attempt to toggle sticky exclusion results in nothing. Try re-adding the monitored folders in this case.
• If attempt to change fixed-path exclusion fails, please add TMBuddy.app (in addition to .appex) to the list of applications eligible for full disk access and make sure the access is enabled.

TODO

• Menu bar item

System Requirements

• macOS 10.15 or later

License

MIT License. See LICENSE.

Footnotes

1. Fixed-path exclusions are not availabile in AppStore/TestFlight version, but in Homebrew due to the need to install the privileged helper. ↩