Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tom Stiller Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: How to find the SuperDuper schedule Date: 9 Mar 2014 23:04:12 GMT Organization: Old Men With Beards Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: clusterfux X-Trace: individual.net N7WVIy+8yiwGskOSMaV9UA/oW+xNmrCezIhM0vXqthEEHvGf69 Cancel-Lock: sha1:McY6Xd4feS/sdP9PF7nrgZBIqTY= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:21432 On 2014-03-09, micky wrote: > On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:49:08 +0000, Calum > wrote: > >>On 08/03/2014 14:58, micky wrote: >>> Related to my previous thread. But a specific topic. >>> >>> My friend who had the problem with his mail on Thursday had bought >>> SuperDuper but that was 2 years ago and we can't remember what it was >>> scheduled to do. I click on SuperDuper and there isn't a menu. There >>> are 2 or 3 buttons that are greyed out, including Schedule. How I know >>> when it was scheduled to run and when it actually ran? >> >>I don't use the schedule feature myself, but what's in Window > >>Scheduled Copies? > > I don't see "Scheduled Copies", only "Schedule" and that is greyed out > and clicking on it does nothing!! > > I have the target drive disonnected now, so it won't be updated and the > problem spread to it if it hasn't already, but that shouldn't keep my > from seeing the schedule, right? The "Schedule" button isn't active until you've specified a source and target drive. Nothing will be written to the target drive ynless you specifivally instruct SD to copy and even then, it will ask for conformation. For what it's worth: as of version 2.7.2, SD no longer uses cron to schedule backups. It now uses a launchdaemon plist file: