I have one more question. When I hook up my extrnal drive again, will time machine autimattically start backing up files (And if so, how will I know when it's done since there seems to be no indicator that it's active)? Note: I have time machine set to on for the autimatic backups, if that is any help. Thanks, Nicole On Feb 20, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Sara wrote: > Here's some info on using Time Machine. If you find any mistakes, please let > me know and I will correct them. Perform the below steps at your own risk as > I can't guarantee that I didn't make any mistakes. > 1. Have your drive plugged in and turned on. > 2. Press VO-M twice to get the TimeMachine menu. [I'm going to write TM > instead of Time Machine from now on.] > 3. Arrow down until you get to open TM preferences and press enter. > 4. Once the window opens, navigate with VO left and right arrows until you > find the change disk button. VO space on it. > 5. You should get a dialogue with a table of disks. Interact with the table > and VO right or left until you hear the name field and then up and down until > you hear the name of your drive. > 6. Stop interacting with the table and then VO right and left until you hear > the table read out with the current selection and verify that it is the drive > you intend to use. > 7. VO space the use disk button. > 8. Read the preferences screen and verify that TM is doing a backup. You > might hear a count-down of how many seconds before it starts. > 9. If you hear off or on buttons, those control TM's automatic backup > settings. Press off to turn it off or on to turn it back on. Even if you turn > it off, you can still do manually started backups. > 10. I recommend leaving automatic backups on unless you have a good reason > for turning them off and doing manually started backups. To do a manually > started backup, VO-M twice and select Backup Now. > Sara > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole Hutchins" <nkhutch86@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:02 PM > Subject: [macvoiceover] setting up time machine > > > Hi, > Can anyone walk me through the process of setting up time machine? > I have a hard drive and it's set up, but I don't know how to set up the > preferences in time machine because voice over doesn't read everything to me. > > Thanks, Nicole> >> 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 >> > > 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 >