Carbon Copy Cloner bug/error?

[2012Tony2012]

There is something confusing me with my Carbon Copy Cloner. I backed up my Macintosh HD yesterday and today I installed Opera Web browser. And then after I decided to restore the Carbon Copy Cloner image from yesterday. So I then rebooted my Mac and selected to boot from the USB Hard Drive where my Carbon Copy Cloner image from yesterday resides, but when I loaded the Carbon Copy Cloner image from my external Hard drive, and type opera in the Finder, it says OPERA TODAY is listed! But how can that be when I never installed Opera on the image from yesterday?

And when I type Opera into Spotlight, it also shows up there! But HOW and WHY? If I booting into an image yesterday, how can Opera have copied itself over to my image?

[maflynn]

Did you select delete files/folders on the destination drive within CCC? I think by default its not selected so any newer files/folders will not get removed.

Edit: CCC uses rync to copy files/folders, it doesn't create an image file so any files on the destination drive will remain unless you specify a different course of action

[blevins321]

I might be reading this wrong, but did you actually erase the old partition on the internal disk before searching for Opera? If not, it's probably finding the version on the internal drive even though you're booted external.

[2012Tony2012]

In addition, today when I booted the image from yesterday it had Google Chrome missing, but WHY? I only removed Chrome from the hard drive this morning, yet when I boot the CCC image from yesterday which had Chrome installed, it's missing from the yesterday backup image. HOW? WHY? Why does it seem like what I am doing today on the Mac Hard drive affects the backup CCC images as well?

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Originally Posted by blevins321

I might be reading this wrong, but did you actually erase the old partition on the internal disk before searching for Opera? If not, it's probably finding the version on the internal drive even though you're booted external.

So when I search a file in Finder from my booted external hard drive image, it searches the internal hard drive as well? But why has Chrome been removed from my backup image even though I only removed chrome from my internal hard drive?'

How do I tell Finder to only search the current partition and not every single hard drive and partition?

[2012Tony2012]

Does SuperDuper have this problem?

[maflynn]

Originally Posted by 2012Tony2012

Does SuperDuper have this problem?

Its not a problem, its an option to select/deselect and yes you can choose to have files/folders not get deleted in superduper as well.

[2012Tony2012]

Originally Posted by maflynn

Its not a problem, its an option to select/deselect and yes you can choose to have files/folders not get deleted in superduper as well.

But how do you explain the backup image having had Chrome removed? I backed up that image yesterday when I still had Chrome installed. Maybe finder found chrome on the external hard drive which I think was plugged in and removed it from the external hard drive as well?

How do I tell Finder to only search the current hard drive partition?

[Rob Compton]

Tony,

Could you submit your logs and question to use at help.bombich.com we would be happy to help you out with this.

Best wishes,
Rob

Rob Compton
Bombich Software, Inc.
http://www.bombich.com
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