Time Machine and right click
Minor but annoying issue: the first time I right click in any application with my Time Machine volume connected I have to wait ages for the beachball to disappear. I know there's generally a delay after an initial right click but this can take 3/4 minutes.
At first I thought it was just a case of having to wait for the drive to spin up if it hadn't been used for a while but there seems to be a lot more drive activity than this, it's almost as if its scanning the volume for something. Other than that Time Machine works fine, and if the drive isn't connected right click behaves normally.
Any thoughts?
I don't quite understand your issue, either.
What you see in TM depends on how you get there. A few apps (Address Book, Mail, and iPhoto) are "fully integrated" into TM: if you start from one of them, you get a specialized display, with a version of the app's window, and sightly different options.
If you enter TM from any other app, TM will show a Finder window similar to the last Finder window (or desktop) you used, and you can navigate in the backups mostly as you can from a Finder window. The exceptions are, if you enter from a Finder window without a toolbar and/or sidebar, there's no way to make them appear from within TM. You have to exit TM, change the Finder window in the usual fashion, then re-enter TM.
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--Happy Apple/Mac Chick since, who knows, Birth?Did you restore your iTunes library using TimeMachine?
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JessQuit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
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Envelope Index
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Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is damaged and that Mail has to quit. Click OK. Typically, the process takes a few minutes, but it may take hours if you have gigantic mailboxes. In that case, you may be able to speed things up by temporarily adding your home folder to the Privacy list in the Spotlight preference pane. Remove it when Mail has finished importing.
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I have this doubt. I've just bought an external drive, especifically a Seagate GoFlex Desk 3 tb.
I want to know if it is recomendable to make a partion exclusively for time machine and let another one so I can put there music, photos, videos, etc that I should need to use or copy to another computer.
May half and half, 1.5 tb for time machine and 1.5 tb for data.
I have an internal hard drive of 500 GB (499.25 GB) in my macbook pro.
Any recommendation?As I said, yes. Be sure your Time Machine partition has at least 1 TB for backups.
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
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Your Library has been damaged from being run on an overfull disk.
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