Hi Ray, If you connect an external hard drive, you will be prompted to make a time machine backup. You can get to the time machine menu by pressing voiceover keys+m twice. Kristyn On May 17, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Hi, > > On may 7th, I deleted my Ray/Library/Preferences/Com.Apple.mail file and had > to rebuild my mail account because Mail keeps getting sluggish on me about > every ten days or so. In fact, sometimes, it gets so bad that it makes me > wait about three to five minutes before I can do anything with it at all. > I'm getting tired of this and sure wish I had some notion of how to either > prevent it or quickly restore it to a more snappy response. If I knew how to > do a Time Machine back up I would try that, but, I went to the disk utility > ap and couldn't quite work out how to do a time Machine back up. Is it done > from the Disk Utility or Time Machine itself? Time Machine itself doesn't > appear that accessible. Thanks. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!!! > > Now a proud Mac user!!!!! > > e-mail: > rforetjr at comcast dot net > skype: > barefootedray > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >