aircool00 Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I work as an Assistant Editor and On Set Data Manager for Red One and other cameras that use Hard Drives as recording devices. I connect 7-8 or more devices that are affected by Time Machine's 'Would you like to use xxx__xxx as a Backup device? I really want to disable it so I don't take a risk of hitting 'Yes' by accident. Any clues would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116183-how-to-delete-or-disable-time-machine/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNoob Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Well, nothing happens if you click "Yes". It won't format the target hard drive, if it isn't HFS+ it will create a "sparsebundle" file that is nothing more than a disk image. But if you don't disable some folders to be backup'd the image will eat all your free space. They tend to get big if you don't disable the System folder to be backup'd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116183-how-to-delete-or-disable-time-machine/#findComment-822508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
markzipan Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 turn it off in system preferences! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116183-how-to-delete-or-disable-time-machine/#findComment-823331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircool00 Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 I wish it was THAT easy... which plist correlates to whether the system will ask if I would like to use as a backup device? There must be a 'yes' 'no' setting up whether it asks or not. is there a command that can control the way Time Machine behaves? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116183-how-to-delete-or-disable-time-machine/#findComment-823863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Times_Infinity Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Go to System Preferences, Go to the Time Machine preference pane, and pull the little slider to OFF!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116183-how-to-delete-or-disable-time-machine/#findComment-823995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
markzipan Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 type this in terminal defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool YES to change back change YES to NO if you haven;t set up time machine and the above doesn't work you could try defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool YES Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116183-how-to-delete-or-disable-time-machine/#findComment-825683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircool00 Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 I just found that on Thursday night, I was going to post results. It works fine, also you put the same command for both options, except the first command you must cd to that directory that is listed in the second command. Alternatively you can just delete the prefs, app, menu icon, plist. to eliminate it entirely. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116183-how-to-delete-or-disable-time-machine/#findComment-825943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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