Turn off animation in Time Machine?

Does anyone know how to turn off the animation when browsing through files in time machine? I can not stand to look at it because it makes me nauseous. I am hoping there is a way where you can click the date or the window you want and it would instantly go there rather than watching all of the windows fly by. Thanks!

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Any expertise you could offer on the subject, I would greatly appreciate.
Come here for advice instead of Best Buy.
If you are encrypting a drive that already has data on it, then it will take a long time. You can continue to use the drive, and even shut off your machine, but it will still take a long time. The best approach is to erase a new external drive immediately and encrypt it right away. Then the encryption will only take a few seconds.
Either way, once it is encrypted, it will work fine and be just as fast an an unencrypted drive. As long as you know the password to the drive, you can restore it to any machine. You can even store the password in iCloud Keychain if you want. I keep all of my drives encrypted. Then, even if someone steals the drive, they will never get the data.

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What happens if i turn off my backup drive (it is a bit noisy) without touching Time Machine? Will, eg, all new files created while it was off be added to the backup when I turn the drive back on?
Thanks

All that will happen is you will get a dialogue box that comes up saying TM couldn't find the drive. If your EHD is noisy and that bothers you get a better drive. The ones I tend to recommend I'll list below. Once the drive is reconnected it will backup the new and/or changed files since the last backup.
OWC Mercury Elite Pro series
LaCie d2 Quadra series
G-Tech G-DRIVE series
All are similar in build quality and feature sets. Personally I have 4 of the LaCie's and have been using them for 4 years, all have performed without any issues. However I'd be happy to also have the OWC or G-Tech's on my desk too.

Negative Effects of Turning off Spotlight on Time Machine Drive

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@sanjampet; What does a link to Xsan servers have to do with Time Machine?
PJGNC wrote:
My external WD HD used exclusively for TM was going into what seemed to be an infinite spotlight reindexing loop after I upgraded to 10.6.8. The only way I have been able to ge it to stop was to select that drive under spotlight privacy settings. Does anyone know of any negative effects of doing this, other than the obvious negative of not being able to use spotlight on my TM backups?
Many thanks!
Read Pondini's excellent TM articles; http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Spotlight can't read the TM volume; it should be excluded as you have done.

Is there a way to get my photos off an old time machine backup from an external hard drive?

Is there a way to get my photos off an old time machine backup from an external hard drive?

You will have to connect the Time Machine HDD and click on the Icon. You will see one folder called Backups.backupdb. Click on that and you will have to continue until you find the home folder. The iPhoto library (where the pictures are, not the application) will probably be in your pictures folder. You will have to drag that to your desk top. Then you will have access to individual images.
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Can't turn off "Announce the time."

I have a MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 2 GB memory, with 249.2 GB storage of which I've used only 45.69 GB .
I recently uploaded Mavericks (OSX 10.9.4), and now have two problems.
First: I can't turn off "Announce the time." I schedule my MacBook to automatically turn off at certain time and before that I will de-select "Announce the time" but it won't turn off. I've tried doing it multiple times. I've tried to backdoor it via Notifications and ultimately did a "Repair Disk Permissions and verified my disk hoping that would help — to no avail. The only way I can get it to work is if I completely shut down the computer and manually start up. A simple Restart won't do; the computer has to be completely shut down for the setting to work.
This seems to be a Mavericks problem. I've never had this problem before.
Second: When my computer turns on (either manually or automatically) I have it set so the iTunes opens automatically with it. The problem is that even though the screen has iTunes on it Finder is front of it like some kind of invisible film. This prevents me from operating iTunes remotely unless I go and manually click the screen to bring iTunes to the front. How can I get it so iTunes is automatically "in front" when my computer starts up in the morning?

Boot into the Recovery Drive by holding down Command R when restarting.
Run Repair Drive and Repair Permissions using Disk Utility in Recovery.
Run Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs following steps described here **
Restart
Download and run the combo updater to refresh your OS X files.
OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update (Combo)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1755
Open System Preferences > Users & Groups
Login Items.
Make sure iTunes is last in the list.
Set the other applications to hide by checking box.
**(Fair disclosure: NeedHelp4Mac is my site. I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.)

How do I download the previos software iOS 6? I have the iOS 7 and my iPhone 5S gold keeps turning off all the time!

How do I download the previos software iOS 6? I have the iOS 7 and my iPhone 5S gold keeps turning off all the time!

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I cannot find how to turn off the date/time so it does not show in my movies. Lots of other stuff to learn, too.
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Go to Solution.

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My Ipod NANO 4gb keeps turning off at random times

My Ipod NANO 4gb keeps on turning off at random times. The battery is fully charged, and i've updated the IPOD and ITUNES. What can I do?
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My iPhone 4S turn-off all the time

my iphone turn off all the time without request.
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carri-bond

Hi, thank you very much for your reply. No my phone was never been jailbreak-ed. Never been dropped in water or in any wet surface. Dropped on the floor while texting yes, but it was just a one time incident, last year august i can clearly remember, but after that no more (phone still works fine even after.) restored the phone again earlier, but problem still occured. Will try to go to Apple also to ask and have it checked. Just worried because my phone is already out of warranty. Will keep you posted. Again, thanks. If you have any more advice just let me know. It would mean a lot.
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N

I phone 4 turn off alone all time

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Can I turn off Macbook while Time Capsule is archiving Time Machine backup to a USB drive?

My Time Capsule is archiving my Time Machine backup to a USB drive attached to it. I have initiated this process on my macbook (on the same lan with the Time Capsule), on which I am monitoring the archiving progress on the Airport Utility. Still almost a couple of days to go... Can I turn off my Macbook, or will that interrupt the process of archiving?

If LaPastenague is willing to do a "test", then we will all know more.
Opened my big mouth.
The archive is happening.. I turned off the computer it was setup from.. running Mavericks and latest utility once I got it started. I have been checking from v6 utility on Mountain Lion.. and it is excruciatingly slow. But is running.
I can check the progress but v6 utility is utterly and completely useless.. it continually shows the same numbers.
v5 utility does show it is crawling along.
v6
20min later..
Look, look, there is a tiny blue fleck in the progress bar!!
v5 utility shows the actual progress. Actually tells you total and amount backed up so far.
Amazing how advanced v5 utility is over v6.
The estimate of 10hours is probably correct at the present rate of progress. I suppose for 500GB, around 50GB/hr is about what we expect from TM backups etc.
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Turn off animations in Mail

Hi,
is there any way to turn off the animations when sending a mail in Mail?
Any help is appreciated!

Your design and animations copy the gmail style. Why should i go with apple, if i like google. Than i probably will go with android. Your os6 mail design was more asketic but perfecly balanced.
Give option to return to os6, please.
I do not need another phone looking lije iphone.
Many people like me just do not have time and will to s.it in forums like this.
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Slightly off topic - Force Time Machine to Backup Now

Hi All,
Being new to Macs and Logic, I have tried to organize my files, drives, etc. I use an external Glyph HD which has a root folder called Recordings. Under that, each project has it's own folder.
While using Logic, I turn off Time Machine and AirPort.
When I'm finished, I want to back up my projects to the time machine drive before I shutdown. I do Shutdown the iMac because I only use it for recording, and may not use it for days at a time.
Is there a way to force Time Machine to do a backup on demand? I have looked high and low and can't seem to do it.
In the PC world, I would just write a batchfile, or use a small utility to copy files that have changed since the last backup.
Having this backup utility built in, I was hoping to take advantage of it.
If this is not possible, can someone suggest a utility that will backup only files that have changed? Again, brand new MAC user here.
PS - I do have an external 500GB drive just for the backups.
Thanks in advance .... and Happy Holidays!
Peter

There are free apps, or shareware at least to give you complete control over when Timemachine backs up. Also if you're external is a LaCie they provide a very good free backup app called silver keeper.
There is also Carbon Copy Cloner, which I understand can be made to work in this way.

How can I turn off where every time I turn on iPad or mail it ask for password

I Have the iPad 4, after last update I changed my Apple ID and password, but iCloud won't change the ID but it allowed the pw change so every time I turn on iPad or go to mail it wants the password. This is frustrating as I'm the only one on here. Help how do I save PW so it's not always asking for it Thanks Susiecue

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Some assistance needed on getting data off of a Time Machine backup

To make this short, I had a major HD failure on an older external Lacie drive that I used as storage for all kinds of things. I had that drive backed up, along with everything else, onto another Lacie external drive. Coincidentally, after the storage drive failed, so did my newer Lacie drive used for backup, BUT it is assumed that this one if just a bad power supply. A new one should be here today so we'll see if it will spin up.
While waiting on the PS to arrive, I've decided to change backup strategy a bit and purchased a RAID array set up as RAID1. At least this way a drive failure won't screw me. I know, I still need to be careful since the drives are mirror's of each other so if the data is corrupted...anyway.
The RAID is up and running and Time Machine is working flawlessly (for now) on it. Once I get the PS for my other drive and providing it spins up, I need to pull data off of the old Time Machine backup in that drive, specifically for the storage drive. I know that on the TM drive there is a directory for that storage drive, but what I don't know is if I can just copy the latest dated directory for that drive and I'll get all the data or am I going to have to go through Time Machine to get at.
And that is the other problem. I don't think TM will give me access to that drives data since the drive is no longer connected to my system. I'm hoping I'm wrong on that and that there is a simple solution to get at the data.
So help if you can and keep your fingers crossed that the drive will spin up!
Anthony

WOW. After letting DW do it's thing and failing to be able to write a new directory, it WAS able to create one and use it create a preview of the the drive. It said the drive was damaged and the new directory couldn't be written.
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And all this leaves me with another question. What the heck caused the volume structure to get completely hosed at the same time the other drive failed totally? Since TM was backing up the "storage" drive to this one, could the failure have caused something to get majorly messed up on the TM drive?
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All this mess makes me feel really uneasy about using TM at all. Should I change to Retrospect or something? Should I continue to use it and ignore the errors that so many of us seem to be plagued with? Can TM totally FUBAR a drive with these errors?
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