From: Matthew Montgomery
On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:46 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
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?
Try this. Create a file called '.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent'
at the root of your portable drive. You might find it easier to do
this with the Terminal using the following command.
touch "/Volumes/The Name of Your
Drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent"
I am pretty sure I have see the option to never use a drive in the
Time Machine UI but perhaps something is amiss for you.
Thanks. I'll stop by the computer lab at school tomorrow and give that a
try. When I get to Terminal, do I type in:
/Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
(jsessoms_mac_drive is the name I gave my drive)
or do I need to type in:
touch "/Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.do not present"
The school has the Time Machine UI locked down where I cannot get to it.
That's what's amiss.
There are a couple of reasons I need the configuration stored on my
drive rather on the schools machines.
They've got a program named Deep Freeze that dumps any changes made to
the system while a student is logged on. Even if I could get into Time
Machine and configure it, any changes I made would be wiped out when I
log off.
Plus, I can't be sure I'll always be on the same computer, so I'd have
to load that configuration on 75 different computers in three different
labs.
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