tg44/heptapod

.venv folders not being ignored

GBrachetta opened this issue · 4 comments

GBrachetta commented

Hi!

I open a new issue to keep things a bit more organised.

The app is working really a lot more reliably, but .venv folders are not being ignored after running.

Others, non dot folders are working great and I don't have now node_modules folders in my Time Machine backups, but .venv are still there.

They don't show up either when I run heptapod tm ls, so perhaps there's an issue with the dot starting the name of the folder?

I hope I'm clear!

Note: The .venv folders show up in the dryrun and the log file, but are not added to the Time Machine Ignore.

tg44 commented

This is a tricky one :)

The problem is basically this; https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/55497

The tools I use under the hood;

  • tmutil addexclusion ~/asd/.env adds ~/asd/.env to the time machine exclusion (if the folder/file exists)
  • tmutil removeexclusion ~/asd/.envremoves...
  • tmutil isexcluded ~/asd/.envif the line starts with [Excluded] it is excluded (I use it for per file check before I add/remove)
  • mdfind com_apple_backup_excludeItem = 'com.apple.backupd' lists the files/folders with the com_apple_backup_excludeItem label, but this works from some kind of index which doesn't contains some hidden folders :(

So it is ignored, we just doesn't list it...

GBrachetta commented

That's fine, as soon as it's excluded. It took a full Time Machine backup to finally disappear from the backup file. It didn't the first time.

Good to know the command to remove exclusions: experimenting with Heptapod I created a lot of unnecessary folders and I would like to remove them now. For this then the command would be tmutil removeexclusion ~/test/.env, correct? I don't think there is an Heptapod command to do that yet.

But maybe a very nice solution (I don't know if it's possible) would be to have a heptapod clean command with which the app checks if folders previously added still exist and, if not, remove them.

By the way, I watched Arrival because of this app. 😀

tg44 commented

Things documented here. I hope this will help others too, and clear some air.

By the way, I watched Arrival because of this app. 😀

I hope you enjoyed it!

GBrachetta commented

I don't entirely understand how to automatically remove from the exclusion list all previously added folders that don't exist anymore.