Others might have a different and better method of starting Time Machine backups manually, but I have it so the Time menu will appear in the status bar. If you have this, you just type control-F8 and then right arrow until you come to Time Machine. After that, down arrow and you will come to, start Backup now and just hit enter on that. You can have Time Machine show in the status menu by going into System Preferences and to the Time Machine preferences. There is a checkbox that you need to check if it is not showing up n the status menu. Take Care John Panarese
On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Laura Bratton wrote: > HI All, > Last week I got an external hard drive. I was able to perform the first > backup just fine. > Now I want to perform another backup since it has been a week. I am not able > to do this though. I connected the external drive to my mac and then opened > timeMachine. Nothing happened when I opened time-machine. What am I doing > wrong? any help would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Laura > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
