On Dec 9, 2010, at 6:16 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Matthew Montgomery > >> On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:46 AM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >>>> OTOH, Time Machine ... not having any way to turn it off so it >>>> won't bug me "Do you want to use 'LaCie' to back up your hard >>>> drive?" every time I plug it into the school's computer. >>>> >>>> If the school wants the computer backed up let 'em buy their own >>>> damn drives. All I want to do is save my school work. >>>> >>>> If the program was worth a damn, you could tell it NO one time >>>> and tell it not to ever ask you about it again. >>>> >>>> Windoze can do that, why can't Mac? >> Try this. Create a file called '.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent' >> at the root of your portable drive. You might find it easier to do >> this with the Terminal using the following command. >> >> touch "/Volumes/The Name of Your >> Drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent" >> >> I am pretty sure I have see the option to never use a drive in the >> Time Machine UI but perhaps something is amiss for you. >> > > Thanks. I'll stop by the computer lab at school tomorrow and give that a try. > When I get to Terminal, do I type in: > > /Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent > > (jsessoms_mac_drive is the name I gave my drive) > > or do I need to type in: > > touch "/Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.do not present" > > The school has the Time Machine UI locked down where I cannot get to it. > That's what's amiss. > > There are a couple of reasons I need the configuration stored on my drive > rather on the schools machines. > > They've got a program named Deep Freeze that dumps any changes made to the > system while a student is logged on. Even if I could get into Time Machine > and configure it, any changes I made would be wiped out when I log off. > > Plus, I can't be sure I'll always be on the same computer, so I'd have to > load that configuration on 75 different computers in three different labs.
On the other hand, you could just click "no" when time machine asks if you want to use the drive as a backup. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
