Yes,I know all about that one. I was hoping for someone to tell me from
a sighted user's perspective what it would look like if the Time Machine
drive were unavailable--like maybe a red icon or something in the Extras
window, something like that. For example, when she boots her system in
the morning, she pays close attention to the drives on the Desktop, and
when the icons turn from yellow to green, she knows everything's OK, and
obviously when something's red, red means wrong. I was hoping for
something like that, so she doesn't have to actively go hunting for the
info, it'll just stand right up and shout "Problem!"
On 4/30/2021 3:53 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote:
Hi Steve,
Go a head and hide the drives.
Then when you want to show them just hit.
command shift c this will show all your connected hard drives and you can pick
the one you want to look at.
You can also find this command under the “go” menu
HTH
Chuck
On Apr 30, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote:
I currently have all disks showing in Finder on my wife's machine, but
somehow, and nobody seems to know how this happens, drives get renamed to
strange things. I suspect a cat is involved, walking on the RETURN key, pressing more keys, then walking on the RETURN key again to effectively rename things. Sometimes the things that get renamed are the system drive and the Time Machine drive. While this does not appear to affect the system's functionality or behavior in any way, the only way I know to stop it from happening is to take those things off the desktop via the Finder Preferences window. But if I do that, how will my wife know if there's a problem with, say, the Time Machine drive if the icon for it isn't there any
more? Is there somethin in the Extras area under the Time Machine menu to
indicate absence of the TM drive? Just trying to ward off potential problems caused by little creatures that walk on and among things on and among
which they really oughtn't be walking in the first place, but always do!
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