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Re: External HD polling?

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From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject Re: External HD polling?
Date 10 Sep 2015 06:03:19 GMT
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On 2015-09-10, Henry <henry999@eircom.net> wrote:
>
> As further information, let me add this: the 'activity' light of the
> external HD has just come on (steady). It is now 7:49. I look at TM
> preferences and find this:
>
> latest backup: today 7:26
> next backup: today 8:25
>
> In addition: both volumes of the external HD have been added to the
> 'Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations' list, so an earlier
> suggested explanation that the disk was spinning up because Spotlight
> was updating its index should be precluded.
>
> So, the mystery remains ... 

If you want to know what is accessing a volume, use the "lsof" command
to list all open files on that volume, like so:

sudo lsof /Volumes/nameofvolume

You need to do this in an OS X account with administrative privileges.

Do this when the drive activity light is lit. 

Feel free to post the output here for help interpreting it.

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  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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