Tip 90Use Time Machine with iCloud

Apps that utilize iCloud, like TextEdit and Preview, are fully compatible with Time Machine. This means you can go back in a file’s history to retrieve an earlier version, for example, or retrieve a deleted file.

Simply start the app and open the file browser showing iCloud—usually this can be done by clicking FileOpen and selecting the iCloud tab at the top left of the file-browsing window.

Then click the Time Machine button at the top right of the desktop, and select Enter Time Machine from the drop-down menu. This will show the iCloud file-browsing dialog box within Time Machine, and you can “go back in time” in the usual way by selecting from the timeline on the right of the screen. See Figure 16, Delving ...

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