[X4U] Busy Time Machine

[James Hurley]

Tommy and Neil,

Thank you, thank you. That was driving me nuts, and wearing out my  
external drive.

I looked at the SpotLight preferences but somehow never thought of  
this is a "privacy" issue and so never looked under that rock (tab).

Jim


>
> 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
>>
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>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Tommy Bollman
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> Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:26:33 -0400
> From: Neil Laubenthal <neil at laubenthal.net>
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> It's probably SpotLight indexing the contents of the Time Machine  
> drive . . .you can turn it off in System Preferences by adding the  
> external drive to the Privacy tab.