My dear Mr Sessions, We have been here before with your Macintosh foibles. Allow an explanation for you.
In your menu bar at the top of the screen, Time Machine has an Icon of a clock face surrounded by a counter-rotating arrow, that actually rotates when Time Machine is backing up, every hour if you are using the computer. Not when the computer is asleep though. When you click on that Icon, a drop down lists tells you when the "Last Backup" was done, asks if you want to force a "Back-up Now", in case you typed something earth shatteringly brilliant and are afraid the computer gods will smite you before the next auto-back-up occurs, an "Enter Time Machine" should you want to retrieve a particularly funny piece of porn your spouse deleted that you know was there day before yesterday, and finally, "Open Time Machine Preferences" which is what you want to do. NOW! Once that is open, there is a sliding electrical like switch that turns Time Machine off, or on. Turn it OFF. If in the next 24 hours you see any kind of dialog box asking if you want to back up anything to anyplace, it is not Time Machine asking you. You have another program running, like BackUp (comes with the Mac) or Retrospect, which probably came with your LaCie Hard Drive, and may have been set up at the LaCie factory.Your back up software may even be named LaCie for all I know. As a matter of interest, what is the "it" you are plugging into the school's computer. What is the school's computer? Is it the Mac you are referring to? Is the "your hard drive" it is asking about the one in a Mac, or your area on the school's server? Your statement is all quite vague. On Dec 7, 2010, at 16:46 , John Sessoms wrote: > From: Mat Maessen > >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kenton Brede <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I would like to purchase a mac since it's unix based, but I need a >>> > more compelling reason than that to justify spending the extra money. >> >> Time Machine. > > OTOH, Time Machine ... not having any way to turn it off so it won't bug me > "Do you want to use 'LaCie' to back up your hard drive?" every time I plug it > into the school's computer. > > If the school wants the computer backed up let 'em buy their own damn drives. > All I want to do is save my school work. > > If the program was worth a damn, you could tell it NO one time and tell it > not to ever ask you about it again. > > Windoze can do that, why can't Mac? Joseph McAllister [email protected] THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
