Disabling while certain apps are running

Apologies if this has been asked before and answered, but I can't find it anywhere.
Is there any way (other than manually turning time machine off in the sys prefs) to get time machine not to do backups when a certain application is running? There are obviously some applications (direct-to-disk audio, games etc) which don't appreciate having time-machine suddenly grinding into action while they are running, and I'm wondering whether there is a script or something to persuade time-machine to do a check of running applications before starting its business.
Actually, now that I think about it, the same sort of functionality could be handy for Spotlight and .Mac Sync too....

TM is designed as a low priority task and should stand aside when user-level resources are being demanded. If you are sure TM is not acting this way you should report this to Apple Feedback and give as much supporting evidence as possible.

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Well after some quick searching all I see are people asking how they can get 3rd party apps to run "in the background".
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You were saying "... or when the phone is switched off ..."
I'm sorry for the ignorance, but by switched off do you mean hitting the top button? Seems the terms like sleep, standby, off, locked, etc get thrown around I just want to be clear. I 'turn off' my phone while im talking on my BT in the car so I don't end up hitting buttons or hanging up by accident by pressing the top button twice.. once i think locks it and the other turns off the screen. I did the same while trying out the gpstracker app and later looked at the site to see that it was tracking the whole time my phone was 'off' (when i did turn it off, that app was currently running).

Disabling tabs while certain items are running

Hello,
In the following VI I am trying to get the "CAM" tab to be disabled and greyed out while the "ACQ Start" boolean is True and then become enabled again once the "ACQ Start" boolean becomes false. I also want the "ACQ" tab to do the same while the "Test" boolean is used. Both boolean buttons will be controlling functions that are using the same camera interface, only not at the same time, but I want to make sure I don't go from the active "ACQ" tab which is in the process of acquiring images to the "CAM" tab to test my camera settings while the camera interface is already being used by the "ACQ" tab functions. The VI I attached is a scaled down version of the main VI I'm developing, but hopefuly it has enough to give someone an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish. I've searched around and came up with the event structure that's in the VI. What I have disables the "CAM" tab when I press the "ACQ Start" button, but it doesn't become enabled once again after I stop the acquisition.
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Attachments:
Tab Disabling.vi ‏150 KB

It will become enabled again if you set the front panel controls for the "Page index" and the "Page Enabled State" correctly before you press those buttons. Why do these two controls even exist in the first place? Your code should handle accessing the correct tab and then setting the enabled/disabled state based on the value of the Boolean.
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Your architecture is dubious. Is the loop in case 0 supposed to be running until some condition? Right now it only runs once.
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Does anyone know of a VI or how to go about writing one that will prevent the computers time/date from being disabled while an application is running.

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I have written a script which kills all running processes using acrobat.exe and close all open PDF-files, also in IE. Then the Acrobat-MSI is started using a customized MST (including Serialnumber) with the parameter /qn. This script is mandatory launched by SCCM where the program-option “Allow users to interact with this program” is NOT set.
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Hi Vinod
Thank's very much for your answer. In the meantime I found the article
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/868930?tstart=0
too. It's pity that's no more possible to do a silent install of Acrobat even Office Apps.are running. Therefore I have to kill all of them and to disturbe all users by there daily work.
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JimHdk wrote:
No, when one presses the home button the open app does not necessarily close if it is capable of multitasking (for example Pandors radio).
The recent apps bar is really for selecting among recent apps. That is to say it is a way to switch between apps without having to go to the app screens to find the app.
Note only a subset of apps are actually capable of multitasking and these are rather obvious when they are running. There is an indicator to the left of the battery level indicator which indicates this (>).
Let me give an example. I just opened an app called My First Puzzle Toys. From the app home screen there is no close or exit option. With the app open, if I touch the home button on the bottom of the bezel, does this close it? Or is it still running? Similarly, if I double click the home button and choose Safari from the list, are both then running? Another example: I just double clicked the home button and launched Labryinth. The game's home screen has no exit choice. If I double click the home button and choose Safari, is Labrynith still running?
Maybe I just don't understand how this os works. Do apps not use memory if they are not actively shown on the screen?
Message was edited by: JimHdk
JimHdk wrote:
No, when one presses the home button the open app does not necessarily close if it is capable of multitasking (for example Pandors radio).
The recent apps bar is really for selecting among recent apps. That is to say it is a way to switch between apps without having to go to the app screens to find the app.
Note only a subset of apps are actually capable of multitasking and these are rather obvious when they are running. There is an indicator to the left of the battery level indicator which indicates this (>).
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