Time machine is not including new directories in its backup My Time Machine is going for a year quite strong, but I recently noticed it is not including new directories in its backup. Basically new directories are being excluded by rule or error and I'd like some help figuring out which. 


It still does its normal backup. The system log files says:

Dec 21 19:35:59 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: Starting standard backup
Dec 21 19:35:59 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Wisdom/Backups.backupdb
Dec 21 19:36:02 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: 2.28 GB required (including padding), 319.50 GB available
Dec 21 19:36:04 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: [...]
Dec 21 19:36:07 leosbook com.apple.backupd[2218]: Backup completed successfully.

The newly created directory is not excluded. Checking via tmutil reveals in Terminal:

&gt; tmutil isexcluded "/Users/bongu/Pictures/Import/Eye-Fi/NewDir"
+    /Users/bongu/Pictures/Import/Eye-Fi/NewDir

However the new directory NewDir never gets backed up. The directory is not part of the latest backup:

&gt; ls /Volumes/Wisdom/Backups.backupdb/leosbook/latest/book/Users/bongu/Pictures/Import/Eye-Fi/NewDir
ls: /Volumes/[...]: no such file or directory



How does this possibly happen? And any idea how can I resolve it?
In your System Preferences &lt;&lt; Time Machine you can tell Time Machine which files to skip. Maybe you listed the directory in this list?