On Dec 9, 2010, at 14:55, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2010, at 19:47, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> Everyone keeps telling me how much better Mac is than windoze, but they >>> can't figure out something as simple as how to store a "not to do anything" >>> instruction on a hard drive, and Micro$soft can? >>> >> >> If you read Mr. McAllister's post, he makes it clear that the reason Time >> Machine keeps fussing is that it is configured to run (ie, it is ENABLED) >> but has never been told what drive to back up to. > > If you read Mr. Sessom's post, he says "The computer belongs to the > school, and I'm not allowed to change any of the settings on the > computer." So telling him to change settings on the computer is not > likely to help. >
Sounds like he needs to talk to his IT department then. Or go all techno with writing that "do not use me for Time Machine" file onto each and every external drive he plans to use... "Standard" users on a Mac do not have the option to disable Time Machine. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
