![]() It's working incredibly well now, and I'm quite happy with how it turned out. This is, by far, the most complicated, most tested (over 3,000 uses across the testers and myself), and probably most useful macro I've ever written. Popular and for good reason Mac automation app Keyboard Maestro has a new version 10 update out with a long laundry list of changes and improvements. New features include favorite actions, the ability to put Macro Groups in the menu bar, and more. If you use Keyboard Maestro a lot, and rely on your macros, check out MacroBackerUpper as a way to ensure you never lose any of your work. Keyboard Maestro 10 is now available for download. Within each folder is a backup report, showing the exact changes between the latest backup and the second latest backup (click for the full report): And like Time Machine, any macros that are identical to those in the prior backup have been replace by hard links, saving a ton of disk space (as most backups will consist primarily of unchanged macros). But as seen above, the end result of using MBU is a set of timestamped folders in Finder.Įach folder contains a full backup of all my macros at that point in time. ![]() The above-linked post on the Keyboard Maestro forums contains an overview of MBU, and you can read the online help for a more-detailed look at the macro. Introducing MacroBackerUpper (MBU), the Time-Machine-like backup macro for your macros: ![]() As I couldn't find an existing solution that worked in that manner, I wrote my own. I wanted Keyboard Maestro Time Machine, basically. I also wanted it to be completely risk-free to use, never modifying my macros in any way (so no import tool in the macro). You could also use BetterTouchTool or Keyboard Maestro instead of Shortery. I wanted a tool that created something close to versioned backups that were browsable in Finder, that didn't take a ton of drive space, and that made it super-simple to restore any single macro or macro group * Time Machine backs up the entire macros file, not individual macros or groups from some point in history. Make sure you are on the latest macOS and Lungo versions. So I set out to find a better backup solution for my macros. I recovered the older macros, but the new work was just gone. And a while back, that caused an issue: Between the regular backups (Time Machine and removable external drive), I had a sync issue and I lost a few hours' worth of work on a new macro, and some untold number of old macros vanished. I back up my macros reliably, as part of my overall backup plan. I use Keyboard Maestro a lot- a quick search here reveals how often I write about it, and I use it much more than I write about it. ![]()
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