Time Machine (TM) backups use so-called 'folder hardlinks' to alias unchanged data between multiple backups: If TM performs several backups a day, most files and folder contents do not change, and therefore TM does simply link to the same files and folders from within different backup times.
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When you search the entire disk (which uses the fast 'CatSearch' mode), then every real file will only be found once, even if it's hardlinked multiple times. This means that you find every different file only once.
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Once in a normal boot, a second in Safe Mode. While both scans did not find any issue, booting in Safe Mode temporarily restored (of all things) 'Get Help's app thumbnail image, which was previously the generic 'paper' icon. This did not come with any restored functionality however. The Store also continues to not start whatsoever. File size: 5.71 MB Find Any File is a program for Apple's macOS that lets you search for files on your disks. Contrary to Spotlight (or the search in Finder), it does not use a database but instead Find Any File (FAF) 2.1.2b5 macOS - Especiales.eu - Forum wielotematyczne, dyskusyjne, warez, download. Find Any File (FAF) Find Any File is a program for Apple's macOS that lets you search for files on your disks. Contrary to Spotlight (or the search in Finder), it does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations, where available. This lets you search for file properties such as name, dates, size, kind etc., and even for plain text contents quite fast.
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However, if you traverse the directory tree by choosing the Time Machine folder (leading to a slow search), every - even identical - version of every backup will be searched, and the same file will be found multiple times as it resides under every backup that TM has performed.
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So, if you find dozens of files when searching a folder on your TM disk, and compare that to the few files you find when searching the entire disk, you'll see that the set of many files actually has a lot of duplicates, just in different places, equalling the few distinct files that are found searching the entire disk in fast mode.