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Nothing was backed up, all that's left are broken symlinks #1630
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I encountered something similar on macOS 10.14.6 upon attempting to sync to Dropbox. This is a major issue and needs a warning at minimum. |
Same here. This is incredibly irresponsible by the devs. |
If you feel like there isn't enough warning and confirmation questions, please propose a change. But keep in mind that there is never enough warning for the least responsible people. A balance needs to be kept to keep software usable.
Thanks for your support. This ticket is about both icloud and dropbox without a way to reproduce the issue. More details on how to reproduce the issue would help. |
I feel like the OP ran |
I think this is happening to many people because they don't read the documentation, particularly Bullsh*t, what does it really do to my files. But it's expected that people don't read everything in the documentation. Usually, "backup" doesn't change the original files. I think it would be better (safer) if the |
So I just yeeted all my "backed up" dotfiles because I wanted to try out different config options. I know this is my fault for messing around without carefully reading the entire docs... But why tf is the command called |
Propose a better name. |
Well, how about |
Only sysadmins know what a link is. |
If non-sysadmins don't know what a link is, then it is especially bad that they are told that this creates a backup. A backup is supposed to be a redundant copy, which is why I believe the use of the term "backup" here is very misleading. The command should be called something like |
Have to uninstall and forget about this app, unfortunately, after dropbox beta update which broke all of my backup-ed apps |
Please, could you be so kind to simply add an option to copy instead of create symlinks? I am also having issues now with Dropbox and Python 3.12. and since mackup fails I cannot revert the symlinks. Mackup is great but at the end of the day it is something used once a year or so and it needs to be very reliable. |
Mackup has lost the settings to all of my apps. All that remains is symlinks to files that don't exist. Many programs will not even open. I simply followed the installation tutorial, ran backup and then restore. Upon restoring I ran into an issue that said the file wasn't present for one application and when I checked the iCloud folder directly, saw that nothing was there. I don't know whether this is a mackup or iCloud issue but it's incredibly frustrating
I'm on Catalina 10.15.5 on both macs, using iCloud as storage the engine.
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