The full log of my diff contained a few errors.

However, on closer investigation, the errors either relate to symlinks which various apps (eg VLC) have but are genuinely broken in the downloaded package.

The other sort were symlink which were relative and had been accurately preserved in the backup, but genuinely didn't exist.

Have you ever disabled (turned off) time machine rather than just having the drive unplugged?

My backup seems very accurate - and yes it does appear that diff gets confused by a few things.

For one, I think that code signing is responsible for differences in any App binaries.

Cheers

George

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