Time Machine Saves My Butt Again

So I have been working on this little project that currently has 29 spreadsheets. Well, I should say, 29 workbooks because that’s the more accurate term.

One of the things in this process involved taking a previous spreadsheet, changing some dates and other relevant information and then saving it with a new file name. Pretty sure you can see where this is going. So I hit the COMMAND+S for save in Excel instead of COMMAND+SHIFT+S for “Save As” over-writing my previous workbook.

After contemplating harey cary for a few minutes, it became apparent that Time Machine would have run a backup in between the two edits. So, 1/2 praying while hovering the mouse over the Time Machine icon on the dock, and anticipating the feeling of nausea from the animation (Yes, sometimes, it induces motion sickness here. Of course that could just be the feeling of having lost something and hoping against hope that it will be in the backup.), I depressed the left mouse button.

And there it was, one click back in the past. Literally 3 mouse clicks and a file that was only created about an hour before was restored from the depths of stupidity. Becoming a serious fan of Time Machine. This is the 3rd time it has recovered something. Once was the full computer with it wouldn’t boot up properly, and two other times when it was just a simple mistake. Might be time to let Time Machine grow a bit and get it a bigger drive… Or maybe…