"Combine PDFs" Places New File In /private/var/folders/0Q etc. WHERE?

I have just used Automator to combine .pdfs.
Apparently it has put the combined file in ....
/private/var/folders/0Q/0QlZ-reFFvSsYn6CVY8VXk+Ti/-Tmp-/ftqdhY.pdf
So where on earth is that?
I can summon up the new file by double-clicking it in the Automator "Results" window and save it somewhere convenient, but I would like to be able to drag the original from where it is hiding and put it in a place of my choosing.

Thanks! The nearest I could find to your suggested action was "New Folder", which I didn't hold out much hope for, but it worked!
Any idea how to access the weird place my original attempts were put into?

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Accidentally deleted /private/var/folders

Hi folks,
yesterday I did something really stupid, I deleted recursively /private/var/folders
But I was able to restore it from backup like follows:
+ mounted external drive (Backup with SuperDuper! on it)
+ created a tar ball from <backup>/private/var/folders (as root)
+ extracted tar ball in /private/var/ (as root)
Now my questions...
What is /private/var/folders used for?
Because my backup was maybe two month old, any suggestions on the possible gap and changed data?
Any chance that I lost some important data/metadata?
Any useful help is highly appreciated.
Kind regards
Jens

There should be a set of folders inside the /private/var/folders with cryptic names such as 90, LB, zz and so on. Each of the cryptically named folders has a sub-folder that begins with the same two characters, and continues with something even more cryptic, for instance
/private/var/folders/90/90gu9daQFSitP4FD2179ck+TI
And inside that folder are sub-folders for caches and two temp folders: a -Tmp- folder and a TemporaryItems folder. These ought to be empty when you first startup your computer. Many programs use them for storing stuff as they are working. The -Caches- folder has a similar function, except the data stays there thru a restart. If those files are removed no harm done, although some things may be a little slower until the cache for it is rebuilt.
The problem that can happen is that the ownership and group of each of the really cryptically named folders (shown above) and the three sub-folders must be correct or you will run into some VERY strange problems with some programs that use those folders. In the case above, that is my main user's temporary and cache folder home. There will also be a folder for each user on the computer, and the others will belong to the system and to other "users" such as a proxy server, the Guest account, the printer demon (anyway I think that's what _lp is) and so on. The two-character parent folders (90 in the above example) should all be owned by system, group wheel. It's their sub-folders which must have owner and group correct.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Mavericks private/var/folders keeps growing

Been having some issues with MacBook Airs with Mavericks installed. The private/var/folders continues to grow in size over the course of 1-2 months consuming all the disk space which leads to the computer being unusable. I've had to write a small script to go in and delete the folder from the machines or do it manually.
I know this folder should be deleted automatically from the system. Has anyone else seen or encountered this issue?
Thank you in advance

"/private/var/folders") is "per-user temporary files and caches". It is created and managed by Mac OS X.
The directory will be created if it does not already exist.
By default, files in this location may be cleaned (removed) by the system if they are not accessed in 3 days.
The cache will only be deleted with a safe boot and only files older then 3 days are cleaned out of temp. Either way, you can delete "/var/folders" and reboot whenever you would like without danger of ruining anything.
Lex

I am getting the following error message when I try to import photos into iPhoto from my camera: "/private/var/folders/GB/GBl4wh8-ELqUVMI5dO-ryU TI/-Tmp-/iPhoto/DSCF2033.JPG". Have already tried removing and reinstalling iPhoto to no avail.

I am getting the following error message when I try to import photos into iPhoto from my camera: "/private/var/folders/GB/GBl4wh8-ELqUVMI5dO-ryU TI/-Tmp-/iPhoto/DSCF2033.JPG". Have already tried removing and reinstalling iPhoto to no avail.

Does this happen if you try to Import to Library within iPhoto, or is it when you connect your camera (and which is set to automatically use iPhoto) that this error message occurs?
If you open Image Capture > Preferences is iPhoto selected as the choice when a camera is connected?

/ /System/Library/CoreServices/ReportCrash /usr/lib/libgenkit.dylib /usr/share/icu/icudt51l.dat /private/var/folders/_p/d1ckn47x4wsghc2vb1rk82vm0000gn/C/com.apple.LaunchServic es-044501.csstore /usr/lib/dyld /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64 /

Ever since I upgrade to Maverick I keep getting this error. Any have an idea. Its really messing up my computer.

Hi,
Your doing what and when this appears would be useful.
It also looks like it has extra spaces dotted about in this copy of the info.
There appear to be several spaces before some of the forward slashes that are not expected.
On the other hand it could be several different lines of a report as when I look ReportCrash is an Executable item and cannot be opened further.
/ /System/Library/CoreServices/ReportCrash
/usr/lib/libgenkit.dylib /usr/share/icu/icudt51l.dat
/private/var/folders/_p/d1ckn47x4wsghc2vb1rk82vm0000/C/com.apple.LaunchServic es-044501.csstore
/usr/lib/dyld /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64 /d
Did it read like the above originally ?
It would appear that Report Crash is triggered and it might have something do do with something in Launch Services but then again they might not be related other than an app reporting it is using those two things .
8:40 pm Saturday; May 3, 2014
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 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

Saving PDF under new file name

Hi,
I'm using adobe to complete forms and wish to save the form under a new file name every time I complete one. Is is possible on the iPad?
Thanks

We do not yet have the ability to rename or make copies of documents, but that is a very good feature request!

Run time error when Combining PDF or WORD files

Good morning everyone
I have a client who is trying to merge two files either word or PDF files and every time she does this she is getting a run time error on the process.
the Machine is a Lenevo Desktop with Xp SP3 on the machine
Running Office 2007 with SP 3 now on the machine
Adobe Pro X with the latest and current updates Licnesed
I have done the repair on this unit several times as well as repair of the Office.
We can convert the Word files no problem but i get a an error on the merging of the files
has anyone seen this problem before?
what do i need to do to resolve this issue?

Operating system is Windows Vista Home Premium..
Version of Adobe Reader is 10.1.13.
Any thoughts on what the issue is?

Just put all the files in /private/var/vm in the trash.

Before I did my research, I thought it took too much space, so I put it in the trash (a space-freer app helped me find the root cause of it). Now I can't take it out.
My computer will now not start up, and is stuck at the white loading screen. How can I fix this, if I even can?
Cheers.

I will tell you that trying to delete that was a BIG mistake. That contains system files. Hope others can bail you out of this one. I have no idea. Good luck. From now on, ask in here before you delete anything you are unsure of.

Trojan .exe and zip.000 showing up in /private/tmp and private/var/folders

I continually have .exe files and zip.000 files showing up inside two folders on my iMac. My antivirus software (Trend Micro Smart Surfing for Mac) finds and quaranteens them daily. Usually it is about six a day. Today it found 18 or so. I am not worried about them themselves since they are a windows problem, but I can't seem to figure out where they are coming from. Is there a way to track these folders and find what is placing these files in there? Thanks for any help!
OSX Lion 10.7.4

Well, it's running somewhere on your Mac, see if any clues here...
http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/
http://www.zdnet.com/cross-platform-trojan-checks-your-os-attacks-windows-mac-li nux-7000000656/
Disable Java in your Browser settings, not JavaScript.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5241?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=142064
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20turn%20off%20Java%20applets
Flashback - Detect and remove the uprising Mac OS X Trojan...
http://www.mac-and-i.net/2012/04/flashback-detect-and-remove-uprising.html
In order to avoid detection, the installer will first look for the presence of some antivirus tools and other utilities that might be present on a power user's system, which according to F-Secure include the following:
/Library/Little Snitch
/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
/Applications/VirusBarrier X6.app
/Applications/iAntiVirus/iAntiVirus.app
/Applications/avast!.app
/Applications/ClamXav.app
/Applications/HTTPScoop.app
/Applications/Packet Peeper.app
If these tools are found, then the malware deletes itself in an attempt to prevent detection by those who have the means and capability to do so. Many malware programs use this behavior, as was seen in others such as the Tsunami malware bot.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57410096-263/how-to-remove-the-flashback-ma lware-from-os-x/
http://x704.net/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5844&p=70660#p70660
The most current flashback removal instructions are F-Secure's Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.K.
https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193454/Flashfake_Removal_Tool_and_online_c hecking_site
More bad news...
https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193467/SabPub_Mac_OS_X_Backdoor_Java_Explo its_Targeted_Attacks_and_Possible_APT_link

/Mac HD/private/var/folders/hw/gblkb20s77bcj2wxv_pcm8f80000gp/T/decryptedFile.dmg

This is showing up in Disk Utility. I have no clue what it is or how to actually get to it.
I'm not seeing any issues on my system, but this has never been there before. Any help appreciated.
Lloyd

Link is good on my machine. And no, it isn't a server.
But I got to the file, mounted it and found out it was the Flash Player installation crap! I deleted it since my flash player is up to date. Who knows what the heck Adobe was doing stuffing that there.
Thanks for the reply.

Private/var/log/asl files are huge: weird iTunes stuff

Hi all,
I am running ancient OS 10.5.8 on my ancient MacBook. I noticed some rather large log files in private/var/log/asl eating up HDD space, and wanted to delete them, but I scanned through them first to see if I could get an idea of what was going on.
It turns out I'm getting this same thing from iTunes over and over: it will always be just over 11316 lines long.
Example:
Sun Jul 24 15:36:06 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x22022\].org.mozilla.firefox[194] <Notice>: Debugger() was called!
Sun Jul 24 15:42:47 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x22022\].org.mozilla.firefox[194] <Notice>: Debugger() was called!
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11316
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 1
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 2
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 3
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 4
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 5
<snip... it goes through every number>
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11313
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11314
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11315
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11316
Sun Jul 24 15:54:43 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOHIDSystem::relativePointerEventGated: Capping VBL time to 20000000 (was 20164690)
Sun Jul 24 16:38:41 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort: Link Down on en1
Sun Jul 24 16:38:42 HBs-MacBook airportd[601] <Warning>: AirPort off, bailing - GetPower() = off (0)
Sun Jul 24 16:39:33 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: 11D beacon causing regdomain change to CC 840
Sun Jul 24 16:39:33 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
Sun Jul 24 16:39:33 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165
Sun Jul 24 16:39:35 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort: Link Up on en1
Sun Jul 24 16:42:51 HBs-MacBook Alarm Clock[131] <Warning>: Shutting down Alarm Clock...
Sun Jul 24 16:42:51 HBs-MacBook Alarm Clock[131] <Warning>: Unregistering for system power notifications...
Sun Jul 24 16:42:51 HBs-MacBook Alarm Clock[131] <Warning>: Thank you. Come again.
Another example:
Mon Jul 25 15:45:14 HBs-MacBook /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[48] <Error>: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(Honey McBunny's Public Folder) returned -14135
Mon Jul 25 15:45:33 HBs-MacBook Finder[96] <Error>: CGImageCreate: invalid image size: 0 x 0.
Mon Jul 25 15:45:33 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0xc00c\].com.apple.finder[96] <Notice>: Mon Jul 25 14:45:33 HBs-MacBook.local Finder\[96\] <Error>: CGImageCreate: invalid image size: 0 x 0.
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11316
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 1
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 2
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 3
<snip>
Mon Jul 25 15:46:27 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11314
Mon Jul 25 15:46:27 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11315
Mon Jul 25 15:46:27 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11316
Mon Jul 25 16:04:26 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:04:28 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:04:28 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOPMrootDomain: idle cancel
Mon Jul 25 16:28:32 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:28:32 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:28:32 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOPMrootDomain: idle cancel
Mon Jul 25 16:35:36 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:35:36 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:35:36 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOPMrootDomain: idle cancel
Mon Jul 25 16:40:33 HBs-MacBook loginwindow[31] <Notice>: DEAD_PROCESS: 0 console
This happened over and over again. Anyone have any idea what is going on here? iTunes is 10.6 if that matters.

I think the following will do the trick for you (from http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329979-263.html?tag=mfiredir):
Fix: Restart log managers after removing asl data
Open the Terminal application and enter the following two commands to stop the log managers:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.syslogd
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.aslmanager
Then create a folder on your desktop called "temp" (to store the moved "data store" files), and enter the following command in the Terminal to move the "ASL" data to the new temporary folder:
sudo mv /var/log/asl/* ~/Desktop/temp/
Finally, restart the "syslogd" process with the following command (the aslmanager will be started when needed by syslogd, so it doesnt need to be manually restarted):
sudo launchctl start com.apple.syslogd

Upgraded to Mavericks - System errors popping up in /private/var/tmp ... Help!!

Hi there,
Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, and installed my standard software, I'm getting some odd behaviour.
Every so often (no discernable pattern so far) my Finder pops up with a new window in /private/var/tmp. There is a huge system stacktrace printed out in a file with the following format: "
sysdiagnose_2013.10.30_19-53-16-MDT_9956.tar.gz
There are a ton of files in there, so I have no idea how to figure out what is crashing and causing it. I get no "system crash message" to go along with it.
$ la
total 51592
drwxr-x--- 55 brandon staff      1870 Nov 2 12:23 ./
drwxrwxrwt 10 root     wheel       340 Nov 2 12:23 ../
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 brandon staff       136 Oct 31 05:50 Brandons MacBook.mdsdiagnostic/
drwxr-xr-x   7 brandon staff       238 Nov 2 12:23 DiagnosticMessages/
drwxr-xr-x 10 brandon staff       340 Oct 31 05:50 SystemConfiguration/
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       343 Oct 31 05:50 airport_info.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     24735 Oct 31 05:50 apsd-status.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      3623 Oct 31 05:50 bc_stats.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       838 Oct 31 05:50 bootstamps.txt
drwxr-xr-x 29 brandon staff       986 Nov 2 12:23 crashes_and_spins/
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       888 Oct 31 05:50 dig-results.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       368 Oct 31 05:50 disks.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      5034 Oct 31 05:50 diskutil.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      1339 Oct 31 05:50 error_log.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    312320 Oct 31 05:50 footprint.fpdata
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      6671 Oct 31 05:50 footprint.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff   1635003 Oct 31 05:49 fs_usage.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     11583 Oct 31 05:50 fsck_hfs_user.log
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     24176 Oct 30 23:45 fsck_hfs_var.log
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      1112 Oct 31 05:50 gpt.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      2317 Oct 31 05:50 ifconfig.txt
drwxr-xr-x   8 brandon staff       272 Oct 31 05:50 ioreg/
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       556 Oct 31 05:50 ipconfig.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     12945 Oct 31 05:50 kextstat.txt
drwxr-xr-x 22 brandon staff       748 Nov 2 12:23 logs/
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     84574 Oct 31 05:50 lsappinfo.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff   1003463 Oct 31 05:50 lsof.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    948932 Oct 31 05:50 lsregister.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff   2603456 Oct 31 05:50 microstackshots
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff 12050663 Oct 31 05:50 microstackshots_lastday.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff   1701106 Oct 31 05:50 microstackshots_lasthour.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    133219 Oct 31 05:50 microstackshots_lastminute.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       195 Oct 31 05:50 mount.txt
drwxr-xr-x   8 brandon staff       272 Oct 31 05:50 netstat/
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff         0 Oct 31 05:50 nfsstat.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     22642 Oct 31 05:50 odutil.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    189162 Oct 31 05:50 pmset_everything.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    119937 Oct 31 05:50 powermetrics.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     39115 Oct 31 05:49 ps.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    130781 Oct 31 05:49 ps_thread.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       143 Oct 31 05:50 reachability-info.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       305 Oct 31 05:11 resolv.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      1409 Oct 31 05:50 scutil.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff      8942 Oct 31 05:49 smcDiagnose.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff   3027018 Oct 31 05:49 spindump.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    514781 Oct 31 05:50 stackshot-last-sym.log
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     31697 Oct 31 05:50 sysctl.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     31827 Oct 31 05:50 sysdiagnose.log
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     64463 Oct 31 05:50 system_profiler.spx
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    953612 Oct 31 05:49 taskinfo.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    395179 Oct 31 05:49 top.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff       305 Oct 31 05:11 var_run_resolv.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     10930 Oct 31 05:49 vm_stat.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff    169255 Oct 31 05:50 vmmap-38738.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 brandon staff     25105 Oct 31 05:50 zprint.txt
Any help you could provide would be appreciated!

When pressing Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-Shift-Period, 'sysdiagnose' is triggered. It takes a few minutes to complete. When ready, the output will automatically be revealed in a Finder window.

Time Machine Not Backing Up New Files

Time Machine is NOT backing up my recent files.
I recently noticed that Time Machine was backing up really quickly instead of taking several minutes as usual. I checked previous backups and discovered that NONE of my recent files were backed up.
I have a very basic setup. An external usb 1 tb drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) being used as the time machine backup drive. A new i5 mac mini with OS X 10.8.4. About 200 gigs of data with one user on the internal drive.
I have followed all of the Pondini troubleshooting steps. I have restarted into safe mode to force a deep traversal. I have repaired permissions and verified all disks with Disk Utility. I have deleted time machine preferences and followed instructions as per Pondini #A4. The backup seems to run but then finishes quickly but DOES NOT BACK UP any recent files.
I have run TMUTIL COMPARE, it showed that many files needed to be backed up.
I have run TMUTIL ISEXCLUDED on some of the files that were not being backed up. It showed that they were not flagged for exclusion.
I have run a manual backup after starting up in Safe Mode, which forced a deep event scan, but then exhibited the same behaviour..
I have acquired a new external hard drive, backed up the complete main drive (using Time Machine which appeared to be successful on the first time full backup), then run a manual backup on that new drive after adding new files and had THE SAME PROBLEM.
Here's the latest console output, which is typical since I have noticed this issue. There appear to be many megabytes of new files to be backed up, but then the operation completes within seconds and no files are backed up at all.
6/23/13 7:15:16.422 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Starting manual backup
6/23/13 7:15:16.966 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Omnius/Backups.backupdb
6/23/13 7:15:17.916 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Using file event preflight for Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:20.277 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Will copy (375.1 MB) from Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:20.298 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Found 845 files (375.1 MB) needing backup
6/23/13 7:15:20.311 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: 1.91 GB required (including padding), 747.18 GB available
6/23/13 7:15:29.264 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Copied 400 files (1.4 MB) from volume Olympus.
6/23/13 7:15:29.298 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Using file event preflight for Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:29.299 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Will copy (Zero KB) from Olympus
6/23/13 7:15:29.300 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Found 5 files (Zero KB) needing backup
6/23/13 7:15:29.301 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: 1.46 GB required (including padding), 747.17 GB available
6/23/13 7:15:30.439 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Copied 140 files (33 bytes) from volume Olympus.
6/23/13 7:15:30.511 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Created new backup: 2013-06-23-071530
6/23/13 7:15:30.608 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Starting post-backup thinning
6/23/13 7:15:30.608 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
6/23/13 7:15:30.689 AM com.apple.backupd[643]: Backup completed successfully.
Please help. Time Machine is currently useless as a backup solution.

Results (username obfuscated in exclusionpaths):
   -=-=-=-=-=--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>sourcePaths</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/</string>
          </array>
          <key>standardExclusionPaths</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/.MobileBackups</string>
                    <string>/MobileBackups.trash</string>
                    <string>/.MobileBackups.trash</string>
                    <string>/.Spotlight-V100</string>
                    <string>/.TemporaryItems</string>
                    <string>/.Trashes</string>
                    <string>/.com.apple.backupd.mvlist.plist</string>
                    <string>/.fseventsd</string>
                    <string>/.hotfiles.btree</string>
                    <string>/Backups.backupdb</string>
                    <string>/Desktop DB</string>
                    <string>/Desktop DF</string>
                    <string>/Network/Servers</string>
                    <string>/Library/Updates</string>
                    <string>/Previous Systems</string>
                    <string>/Users/Shared/SC Info</string>
                    <string>/Users/Guest</string>
                    <string>/dev</string>
                    <string>/home</string>
                    <string>/net</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/com.apple.backupd.backupVerification</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/efw_cache</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/Spotlight</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100</string>
                    <string>/private/var/lib/postfix/greylist.db</string>
                    <string>/Volumes</string>
                    <string>/Network</string>
                    <string>/automount</string>
                    <string>/.vol</string>
                    <string>/tmp</string>
                    <string>/cores</string>
                    <string>/private/tmp</string>
                    <string>/private/Network</string>
                    <string>/private/tftpboot</string>
                    <string>/private/var/automount</string>
                    <string>/private/var/folders</string>
                    <string>/private/var/run</string>
                    <string>/private/var/tmp</string>
                    <string>/private/var/vm</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/dhcpclient</string>
                    <string>/private/var/db/fseventsd</string>
                    <string>/Library/Caches</string>
                    <string>/Library/Logs</string>
                    <string>/System/Library/Caches</string>
                    <string>/System/Library/Extensions/Caches</string>
                    <string>/private/var/log</string>
                    <string>/private/var/spool/cups</string>
                    <string>/private/var/spool/fax</string>
                    <string>/private/var/spool/uucp</string>
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          <key>systemFilesExcluded</key>
          <false/>
          <key>userExclusionPaths</key>
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                    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Pictures/cam_in</string>
                    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Epsilon</string>
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Hola
I've been notice that when I save a file as PDF, in CS5 it increase the file size to double that before.
Even saving it with the same setting than before.
For example, most of my Business Card file that I sent to print, use to be 1.5 or so megabytes
Now if I open the same file, --or a new file-- and save it, it will increase it to double that size
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hola and Thanks for your help
Ok, I've been using Photoshop since version 6 or so (around year 2000)
Just upgrade to CS5
Before, for example, I'll make a file in PS, merge the layers, open a new file whit the same dimensions, resolution etc,
and save this file as PDF to send to printers.
Tthe file(s) that I have or were create them in CS4, than saved as PDFs have a file sizes of 1 to 2 megabytes as average.
The NEW files (in the same sequence) that I create now, have an average of 3 Mbytes
Even do, I save them with the same --I believe-- setting in PDF
There's may be a new feature in PDF save dialogue box that I'm not getting?
or, it just more information that it is put into?
Thanks

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Of course in the real world, you have to exchange data sometimes. But you should try to avoid it.
So I say, that order of decreasing preference:
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