Hi, I'm very behind on my mail but this might have been said already but, you can also open up the context menu on the drive with VO shift M and just press enter on backup.
hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Apr 2, 2011, at 8:27 PM, Laura Bratton wrote: > John, > Thanks for the help. That worked. > Thanks again, > Laura > > John Panarese wrote: >> 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. > -- 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.
