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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: External HD polling?
Date: 8 Sep 2015 21:32:56 GMT
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On 2015-09-08, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <barmar-9EEB1C.17034908092015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> 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.

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