Do not back up: What to expect?

By listing certain folders as "Do not back up:" (TimeMachine | Options), I would expect that Finder would not see these folders when looking at TimeMachine backups.
In my case, I find this to be not so. The presumably excluded folders appear in TM and are ostensibly indistinguishable from all others.
Am I missing something in my understanding of what "Do not back up:" means?

Check the dates that those folders were actually backed up. Originally Time Machine backed up my "Downloads" folder, at some point later I excluded the "Downloads" folder. If I look at Time Machine it still shows that folder, but it hasn't been backed up for weeks.

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I tries to backed up and storage on iCloud but its just shows down below "Estimating time remaining" but theres no time remaining !!! And i connect to the Wifi already and i buy a storage capacity !!! But its not backing so what should i do in that case !!!?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
First check that your device is correctly connected to the wifi/internet (settings > wifi)
If your back up continually fails, you might try turning off back up on your mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup) and then deleting the backup file from iCloud by swiping the backup file on the mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup > manage…) and then turning back up on again.
If this doesn't help, try turning off some items for back up in a pattern to try to establish if your problem is being caused by specific data on your device.
Being able to back up to the cloud can be very useful, especially if you don't have access to a computer or have infrequent access to one, however unless you specifically need to use iCloud for back up, you will find backing up to iTunes significantly more convenient and possibly more reliable.

HT1766 Ipad not backed up , whats mean?

When I turn on my Ipad, it shows
Ipad not backed up ,and freeze.
What should I do or bring to Apple store?

Have you tried a reset ? Press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider if it appears), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.
If that work you can then do a backup (Settings > iCloud)

HT4859 some purchased apps have not backed up, what to do?

I backed up in iCloud and reset iPad, and then restored from iCloud but three apps, bought from iStore did not restore. what can I do?

iCloud will only restore apps currently in the app store. If these missing apps are no longer in the app store, you will have to sync them to your iPad from your iTunes library. If the apps aren't in your iTunes library (or in the App store), there is no way to get them back.

My iPhone will not back up, what should I do?

My iPhone 5 will not back up. I have plugged it into the laptop several times but as I proceed to sync my phone, it gets to step 2, "Back Up", and stays on this, failing to back up. Cannot put anything onto my new phone as it is failing to back up, please HELP

then do it yourself manually IOS how to back up http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

EPUB sync back behavior, what to expect?

What would be really nice would be to have some documentation on what behaviors to expect rather than having to discover things by experiment. For example, I am currently trying to figure out what is supposed to happen with ePub documents downloaded directly from iTunes U to an iPad or other iOS device.
Here's what I have observed. I have a collection (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=421137560) that contains an ePub document titled "Raskin Invents First Mac." I use an iPad 1 under iOS 4.3.1 and the iTunes.app on it to directly download this ePub document to the iPad from iTunes U.
The ePub document appears in the iBooks.app and is fully functional there. Connecting that iPad with the Mac to which it is synced and clicking the Sync button, I then look at the Devices > Books and see that the ePub is listed twice despite the fact that only one copy of it can be found on the iBooks bookshelf. Thus, the weirdness begins.
Looking next at Library > Books, I fail to find that ePub document at all despite repeated Syncs. I know that when I "purchase" an ePub from the iBookstore that syncing invokes a dialog asking me whether I want the item synced back from the iPad to the computer and explaining that if I decline to do so that the item will be deleted from the iPad. That doesn't happen when the ePub document comes from iTunes U. To summarize, downloading free ePubs from the iBookstore entails the opportunity to sync back to the "home" computer whereas downloading free ePubs from iTunes U does not offer that choice nor does it do that automatically.
I'm not a UI or HIG expert but consistency seems to be a basic requirement for effective interfaces with digital devices. What I've observed really can't be characterized as consistent.
Surely, this behavior cannot be intentional. It must be a bug, right?

Check the dates that those folders were actually backed up. Originally Time Machine backed up my "Downloads" folder, at some point later I excluded the "Downloads" folder. If I look at Time Machine it still shows that folder, but it hasn't been backed up for weeks.

Calendar.MONTH not giving me what I expect?

Hello All,
Can anyone tell me whey when I do calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, 10); i get November and when I do calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.OCTOBER); I get October? I'm expecting to get October.
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println("Now:\t\t" + new Date(calendar.getTimeInMillis()).toString());
calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2007);
System.out.println("New Year:\t" + new Date(calendar.getTimeInMillis()).toString());
calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, 10);
System.out.println("New Month 1:\t" + new Date(calendar.getTimeInMillis()).toString());
calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.OCTOBER);
System.out.println("New Month 2:\t" + new Date(calendar.getTimeInMillis()).toString());
Here is what is prints out.
Now:          Thu Dec 21 23:53:24 EST 2006
New Year:     Fri Dec 21 23:53:24 EST 2007
New Month 1:     Wed Nov 21 23:53:24 EST 2007
New Month 2:     Sun Oct 21 23:53:24 EDT 2007
Thanks,
Karl

You shouldn't need to know or care what the values of those numbers are. Sun should be able to change them tommorrow to 37, -5, 888, etc. and your code should not be affected.
Use those only as Calendar.JANUARY, etc.
If you need the month numbers, use SimpleDateFormat.

My iphone5 will not back up what was on my iphone 4s!!!

For some reason both are on differing iOS versions (iPhone 4s is on 6.1.3 and 5 is on the latest 6.1.4)
When I go to restore from back up for my 5 it literally only restores the bare basics-no contacts, no profiles, no photos or anything
I have the 4s backed up so what is going wrong
Any help appreciated

I was trying to back it up from iTunes in spite of just backing up my 4S an hour earlier. My 4S has 14gb of data but for some reason none of the info gets backed up and sure enough only about 3gb is used on the 5
I'm going to try backing up from the cloud...

Extract Pages- and the Split- not doing what I expect them to

I have a document created in Illustrator (CS4) which has multiple artboards. I want it split into multiple documents, one art board—> one document with only that artwork. When I use the Extract PAges… and the Split… comands to generate multiple documents, I get the multiple docs (same number of docs created as pages in original doc).
Only thing is every doc has all the artboards and all the artwork as the original doc. I could understand all the artwork being there but all the artboards also?? What's going on?
Appreciate any pointers on this.
Trying to write a JSX to run in AI but struggling so far. Thread for AI solution started here: AS) export single page PDFs from multi-artboards

I don't expect mind reading but I'l settle for careful reading
I tried to explain how pages and artboards are qualitatively different objects only to be told they are the same thing and that's all I needed to say.
I tried to explain that opening the very same file in Illustrator showed a lot more objects than it did in Acrobat. You probably don't remember because you breezed over something that you didn't think you needed to know because you were, at each stage, a step ahead of me (slow down already!).
From my second post:
I can't remember if Splitting gave enumerate files or the one file but either way ALL the artwork was in the enumerate files if they got made [.…] I ended up saving as CS3 .ai files which gives a Save artboards to seperate files option and, unlike the artboard range option on Save As PDF, it actually works.
From my third post
An artboard is not a page as far as Acrobat and Illustrator apps are concerned. I was trying to highlight the distinctly different way the two apps handle them. I can watch a one page with just one shape document in Acrobat become a 20 artboard, 40+ objects layout in Illustrator. Same document interpreted as one Page in Acrobat and 23 artboards in AI.
I was on this forum because even a manual Document Menu> Split… command is not doing what I expected with the AI generated 23pp PDF file. I expected the 23 individual 'artboards' and content to each make a separate file.
Thom Parker wrote:
I don't remember you mentioning that you re-imported the PDF files into Illustrator. This is an important detail. You also posted to an Acrobat scripting forum and never said you were not interested in an Acrobat Script. You also never explained the problem you were seeing. You were never clear.
Covered that but note Illustrator doesn't import PDF files. .ai .eps and .pdf are all native files for Illustrator and just open, sometimes with an additional dialogue to choose a page from multiple pages. It imports .dwg, .svg and that sort of thing relying on translator plugins. This is the fourth time I'm saying I should have posted in Acrobat Win or Mac not scripting, apologies I was scripting when I made OP and probably frustrated. You were more clear it's true, clearly ignoring what I was getting at in each post re artboard cf. page objects.
You see, in a PDF file each page has it's own content stream, i.e., a stream of vector graphics operators. Graphics can be drawn anywhere in the coordinate space, but the page view is clipped by a crop rectangle. So graphics can exist in the stream, but never be visible to the user because they are outside the crop. I get the impression that in Illustrator the Artboards all exist in a single coordinate space? And that the conversion to PDF places this entire coordinate space into a single content stream. Then each page would be a different crop of the same content stream. If this is the case then I believe there are PDF optimization operations in Acrobat that would fix your problem by removing all content outside the crop.
Yeah I've hacked lots of PDF files in AI. They use more than one clipping rect per page from memory. Correct, the artboards are defined in a single co-ord space it would seem — artboards are discretely and independently located on the document canvas and can even overlap each other. Yes those operations might work, I never though of that, I came across an Illustrator based solution early on in this thread. There's no conversion going on in Acrobat though I think, the file stays native PDF from AI to Acrobat and back to AI. As I've noted it's the way Acrobat displays or parses the data that in effect hides all the 'off-page' objects but open the same file in AI and it's all still there.
You know, we can't read minds, you actually have to explain what it is you need.
I didn't know it, but I needed to get a confirmation on the artboardRange property bug in Illustrator CS4 and/or a confirmation that artboards are not treated as page objects, and I ended up having to lecture you on something you may have no interest in, sorry if I've been a pain. This is part of bigger bug elsewhere that I've been trying to get resolved or around on and off for a month. Every turn another bug, it gets confusing and frustrating at times

How do I not update my Ipod? It is in recovery mode, and I don't want to lose my files, so is there any way I can just cancel and go back to what I had?

Title ^
So yeah, is there anyway I can just go back to what I had? c:

If one of these programs will not kick the iPod out of recovery mode:
For PC
RecBoot: Easy Way to Put iPhone into Recovery Mode
or
http://joshuabailey1997.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/recboot-v1-3/
If necessary:
Download QTMLClient.dll & iTunesMobileDevice.dll for RecBoot
and
RecBoot tip
RecBoot may have problems on 64X windows, then try:
Tenorshare ReiBoot – Enter & Exit iPhone, iPad, iPod Recovery Mode with a Single Click
For MAC or PC
The Firmware Umbrella - TinyUmbrella
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via How to perform iPad recovery for photos, videos
Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS: iPhone Data Recovery - Wondershare Official
http://www.amacsoft.com/ipod-data-recovery.html
iPod recovery software to restore lost music files
-iPod touch Deleted Photo Recovery Tips You Should Know

HT1766 I'm wanting to back up my iPhone to my PC but the following message keeps coming up - iTunes could not back up "Neil's iPhone " because a session could not be started with the iPhone. What does this mean and what do I do to resolve problem please.

What do I do about message:- iTunes could not back up iPhone because a session could not be started with the iPhone.

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HT1386 My iphone 4S is not syncing properly. Some things that were on my iphone calendar are no long there but are still on my entourage calendar. I cannot get them to go back to my phone. Other things move ok, but not all. What is happening and wht c

Something has changed with my iphone syncing and I don't know what. I use entourage exclusively for my calendar and contacts on my Mac computer.
My calendars were syncing fine using itunes, both with wifi and connected. Then some things disappeared from my calendar, and I can't get them back. New events sync fine, but my computer has events that will not go over at all. I even tried to replace all my phone calendar with everything from my entourage calendar, and again the same things did not move. What could I be doing wrong.
Now, I have a bunch of stuff on my Mac entourage calendar double. There is sooooo much work to get that back to normal. I am starting to think that my phone and calendar syncing is tooooo much work. I don't have the time for this.

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Hello my name is Omar Andres Santacruz, finished iMedicalOffice buy a program you have in the app store but what he said on the page is not what I expected, I was very disappointed that, frustrated and reweighed when I check my account had gained 139.99 f

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If you would have spent half the time actually reading the Terms of Use of this forum that YOU agreed to by signing up to post, as you did composing that usesless, inappropriate post, you (and the rest of us on this forum) would have been much better off.

How do I delete my old iPhone backup since I can not back up my new phone. Will I lose any pictures? Can you ever see what is actually on the cloud? Last, how do I delete the old iPhone back up. Thanks, been trying to do this for a long time.

I want to delete my old iPhone backup since I can not back up my new phone. Will I lose any pictures? Can you ever see what is actually on the cloud? Last, how do I delete the old iPhone back up. Thanks, been trying to do this for a long time.

Deleting the backup only permanently deletes the backup from iCloud. It doesn't do anything to the data currently in your account or on your devices. To delete it, go to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage, tap the name of the device that you want to delete the backup for, then tap Delete Backup.
You can't see anything in an iCloud backup, if that's want you're asking. You can only restore it to your device. You can, of course, see your other iCloud data.

I am getting error message "iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone". I have deleted the backup and restarted my computer, but continue to get this error message. What do I need to do now?

I have recently updated my phone and am attempting to sync it. I got the error message "iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone". I deleted the backup, restarted my computer, and even restored the iPhone, but continue to get the same error message. What do I need to do now?

iTunes places the iPhone backup in the following location. Navigate there & delete everything in the backup folder, but not the folder itself. You will have to turn on "Show All Hidden Files & Folders" to see it:
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Do not back up: What to expect?

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