Copy TimeMachine preferences on login

maiksanftenberg
Contributor II

I have a question in relation to TimeMachine.
We want to use TimeMachine for machines in our environment.
We want to distribute the same settings across the office.

com.apple.TimeMachine.plist offers the SkipPaths that we pre-filled with settings.
/Library, /Applications folders are fine and will be not backed up.

But we also want to exclude some user folders like Download.
The path then is "~username/.....". by replacing this with "~/..." the plist file get corrupted and is not working any longer.
Is there a way to add this paths during the login somehow using $3?

Thanks a lot.

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barnesaw
Contributor III

I would think it would require plistbuddy or manually scripting the appropriate commands with defaults write.