Hi Alan, I forgot to mention that as soon as Mountain Lion starts up the first time, Spotlight begins indexing (or re-indexing) all the files on all mounted volumes. This process can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, depending on how many files you have and the speed of your CPU and disk. During this time, you may notice a lot of disk activity (along with, perhaps, somewhat slower overall performance). If you click Spotlight’s magnifying glass icon on the right side of your menu bar during indexing, a drop-down list displays an estimate of the time remaining for each volume.
Cheers, Ronni On 02/08/2012, at 7:19 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > My comments in situ below. > > On 02/08/2012, at 6:39 PM, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> I have upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and was about to switch >> Time Machine back "on". But Time Machine in System Preferences shows >> oldest backup = none and latest backup = none. WAMUG discussion on the Lion >> upgrade stated that T.M. backups would just continue to accumulate as >> normal. Does this hold true with Mountain Lion? > > I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion but I'm fairly sure it is the same from > SL to ML. > Time Machine indicates that oldest backup & latest back is "none' until after > it completes the first full backup. > If I remember correctly it took some moments after the first backup before it > changed to oldest backup date and latest backup. >> >> The last step in "Ronni's tutorial" is to let Time Machine complete a full >> backup. Does this mean it will not be a normal incremental backup, but a >> new backupdb? > > It takes longer as it gives the impression of a full backup as it is a new > operating system (upgrade) and needs to check all files and changes to the > system, but it will carry on from your previous backup. >> >> A simulated Restore from Time Machine in Mountain Lion seems to show the >> history of Snow Leopard backups, so the data is presumably still accessible. > > Don't touch it; just let Time Machine do its job. Don't interrupt the first > backup, let it complete the backup. I quit all applications an just let TM do > its first backup. > > Cheers, > Ronni >> >> (The 4 GB OS X download was fine - but then another 3 GB of App upgrades was >> too much!) >> >> Regards, Alan >> >> Alan Smith >> iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 >> iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
