Re: External HD polling?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: External HD polling?
Date	2015-09-09 00:00 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d59b5iFo0dnU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(3 earlier) <barmar-9EEB1C.17034908092015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> <080920151707082103%nospam@nospam.invalid> <d592g7FlthoU3@mid.individual.net> <080920151838431786%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1mahb7c.1e3i4goveht2kN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>

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On 2015-09-08, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Whichever system got rid of the spinning animation replaced it with a
> static indication, which is still used in Yosemite: while a backup is
> preparing or in progress, the curved arrow on the icon gains a second
> arrow head (at about 7:30 on the clock face).

True. Thanks for pointing that out.

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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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