Disabling Time Machine notifications | The Apple Den | Page 1

simple warren Feb 16, 2025, 11:49 AM

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Since I backed up my MacBook with that Time Machine thing I get notifications everyday “no backup for X days”
How do I disable that is so annoying

simple warren Feb 17, 2025, 11:22 AM

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Really helped

neon kestrelBOT Feb 17, 2025, 11:50 AM

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<@&1142976431584989255> Hey, a little help in here please.

raven bough Feb 17, 2025, 4:42 PM

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simple warren Since I backed up my MacBook with that Time Machine thing I get notifications ev...

Either keep the external drive plugged in, or plug it in at least daily and let it do its daily backups. Like most backup systems, Time Machine is designed for multi-generation backups — hourly, daily, etc. The hourlies are done to the same drive (they’re designed to allow you to recover a file you accidentally deleted or modified earlier in the day, while the single full backup and periodic incremental backups allow recovery of the system to the state it was in at any time since the full backup.

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if you don’t do this, you will find available disk space shrinking, as the incrementals get held waiting for you to plug the external drive in.

simple warren Feb 17, 2025, 4:44 PM

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Oh I only back up like once a month

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I’m no genius like u in these things so I barley understood

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I guess that means no

raven bough Feb 17, 2025, 4:49 PM

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simple warren I guess that means no

Yeah. Just plug the drive in whenever you plug the system in and just let it do its thing.

#Disabling Time Machine notifications