Apple have kept Time Machine preferences to the minimum and changing  
the backup frequency from hourly is not possible. Having said that,  
yours should not be running the TM backup 'almost continually'. Have  
you checked, perhaps using Activity Monitor application that it's not  
something else that's running instead? If you keep the TM preferences  
window open whilst your working you will be able to see when it is  
actually performing a backup then you will be sure.

Stephen

On 26 Apr 2009, at 09:11, Phil Tomlinson wrote:

>
> Hi I wonder if anyone has experienced some of the frustrations I have
> had in using Time Machine and Time Capsule? I have a fairly new intel
> iMac and, since attaching the time capsule and using time machine, the
> mac often runs slowly and sometimes freezes because Time Machine back-
> ups start running almost continually while I'm working. The
> Preferences box for time machine doesn't seem to have any settings to
> select back up times for oneself. (I'm imagining that you can
> personalise back up times to suit one's own working patterns but I'm
> just too dumb to find out how!)
> Any ideas?
>
> Phil T

BBC news November 2006: "China has some of the world's most polluted  
rivers, and is accused of overlooking the protection of the  
environment to develop its economy."

Appalling. We'd never do anything like that in the West...



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