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Well, I feel your pain. I have a strong belief that files (especially Adobe files) are "sensitive" to Time Machine. I only experience this problem when TM is on.

Although I think my circumstance is slightly different. I believe time machine corrupts files that are in the process of being saved WHILE it is doing it's backup. Which is to say that if you decide to save a 120MB inDesign file, and while it is writing the file to disk, time machine decides to read the file for backup purposes... well that's two sources dipping at the same time.

I say this because I'll be "working" on files during a backup almost the entire time I'm on my Mac... and those files are all fine. I think it's the rare coincidence of writing a file to disk while TM is reading the exact same file. Both my Local file and the TM file will be corrupted.

As a result I've stopped using time machine because when you lose a catalog file you don't lose an image (like photoshop) you lose pages and pages of layout work.

Does anybody else have these suspicions? or experience.