Re: Time Machine Helpers

FROM : Adam Leonard
DATE : Thu Jun 19 23:09:06 2008

Yup, it probably would be a useful thing in third part apps, but 
unfortunately there is no public API to do this.

(There is a way to do this using private APIs that you could find 
online, but I would not recommend it and it is of course off topic to 
discuss here)

If you want an API for this in 10.6, please file a bug report.


Adam Leonard

On Jun 19, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Omar Qazi wrote:

> I want to enable my application to be able to display it's own 
> interface when time machine opens, so that users can see what the 
> data in the application looked like at that point in time, similar 
> to the way applications like Mail and iPhoto display their 
> interfaces in Time Machine.
>
> I did a little digging, and found that Mail has an application 
> called MailTimeMachineHelper inside it's bundle, but I don't see 
> this bundle referenced under Info.plist or anything that would tell 
> Time Machine to load this app.
>
> Is there a key I have to add? Is this functionality hard-coded into 
> Time Machine and only available in the iApps? Is this possible at 
> all, because apple doesn't seem to have any documentation on it, and 
> it seems like a useful thing to have in third party apps.
>
> Omar Qazi
> Hello, Galaxy!
> 1.310.294.1593
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