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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: External HD polling?
Date: 9 Sep 2015 00:00:50 GMT
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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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