Time Machine turns itself on?

I never turned it on, never configured it or designated a volume to back up to. Earlier toady, I took a look and it showed it was off, but later, it showed to be on. I turned it off and clicked the padlock icon.
I'm guessing it's been running every day and that's why every two days I have a full startup disk.
Anyone else have this problem?

DMorgan wrote:
I never turned it on, never configured it or designated a volume to back up to. Earlier toady, I took a look and it showed it was off, but later, it showed to be on. I turned it off and clicked the padlock icon.
I'm guessing it's been running every day and that's why every two days I have a full startup disk.
Anyone else have this problem?
That's not been reported, that I can recall.
What might have happened is, you connected a drive, OSX asked if you'd like to back up to it, and you accidentally said yes. Then you ejected the disk. Apparently if this is done in just the right way, at just the right instant, TM doesn't realize the disk is gone, but backs up to a "phantom" disk in your /Volumes folder. That's the only way I know of that it would put backups on your startup disk.
From a Finder window's menubar, select +Go > Go to Folder+ and type /Volumes in the prompt. The resulting list should have an alias for every disk/partition on your system. If anything listed there is not an alias, that's probably where the "phantom" backups are. If there's a folder containing a Backups.backupdb folder, that's it. Delete it (it will take a long time to empty the trash).
Are you on Leopard or Snow Leopard? Your profile says Tiger (please update it).
If you're on Snow Leopard, there is a way to stop OSX from asking if you want to use disks for Time Machine. Click here to download the +Tinker Tool+ app. Click the +Snow Leopard+ icon in the toolbar.

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