Hello. Be sure to turn of Spotlight Indexing, that should be the cause, open your spotlight prefrence pane, and drop the driver for timemachine into the privacy tab and you are done. On 7 Aug 2010, at 23:57, James Hurley wrote: > I have just implemented Time Machine on my Mac 10,5,8 > > There is a great deal of activity on the external HD after the hourly back up is completed. > > Activity Monitor doesn't tell me much, just Finder activity. > > What is going on? Is it indexing the newly stored files? Can I stop this? > > Thanks, > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > Best regards Tommy Bollman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.