Re: External HD polling?

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: External HD polling?
Date	2015-09-08 18:38 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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References	(1 earlier) <d4fknvF9tp3U2@mid.individual.net> <6e94e991-23ea-4ded-905d-b466ec08964d@googlegroups.com> <barmar-9EEB1C.17034908092015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> <080920151707082103%nospam@nospam.invalid> <d592g7FlthoU3@mid.individual.net>

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In article <d592g7FlthoU3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> >> Can't you just look at the Time Machine icon in the menubar when you 
> >> hear it spin up? If it's doing a backup the arrow in the icon rotates.
> >
> > not anymore.
> 
> You can certainly click the icon to see whether a backup is in progress,
> though.

true, but clicking it all the time to find out if a backup is in
progress gets old.

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Re: External HD polling? The Translucent Amoebae <thetranslucentamoebae@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 12:14 -0700
  Re: External HD polling? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-09-08 17:03 -0400
    Re: External HD polling? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 17:07 -0400
      Re: External HD polling? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-08 21:32 +0000
        Re: External HD polling? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 18:38 -0400
          Re: External HD polling? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-09-09 11:49 +1200
            Re: External HD polling? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 19:58 -0400
            Re: External HD polling? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-09 00:00 +0000
  Re: External HD polling? henry999@eircom.net (Henry) - 2015-09-10 08:06 +0300
    Re: External HD polling? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-10 06:03 +0000

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