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mrgreen4242

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Feb 10, 2004
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EDIT: Nevermind - figured out Time Machine is system wide, not per user. All is well, thanks anyways. :)

I've got two user accounts on my iMac. Setting up Time Machine for the "main" user/admin account everything looks as it should. For the second user account, though, it reports that the total included space is about 80x what it should be (I've excluded just about everything other than that users home directory which is about 2 gb, but TM indicates that there is 160+gb included in the backup).

Am I doing something obviously wrong? If I enable Time Machine under the admin account will the other users automatically get backed up or do I need to do something to make sure that those user's directories are backed up?

Thanks.
 
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