The Unreliable Time Machine

Many bytes have been spilled the past few years over macOS&rsquo;s declining software quality. This piece recounts an aspect of my own experience with this. I have been using Time Machine to backup and restore files since Apple introduced the feature back in 2007 with OS X Leopard. The space-age UI was both cool and convenient for retrieving files. But more importantly, the simplicity of hourly…