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<blockquote data-quote="pendlewitch" data-source="post: 1448675" data-attributes="member: 214663"><p>Hi Barbara Jay,</p><p></p><p>The spinning arrow you saw was the Time Machine (TM) icon showing that a back up was in process. If you plug an external HD in and enable TM to work with that drive then it will perform it's first back up, which can take hours depending on how much stuff you have.</p><p></p><p>After that process it will only do incremental back ups every hour, and they can take less than a minute depending on what has changed since the last one.</p><p></p><p>The outer space scene is actually the TM desktop and always opens up by presenting you with your current file and folder situation, it tends to default to the Finder view for me.</p><p></p><p>You can locate previous versions of the file that you are working with by using the dates over to the right and once you've located it, click 'Restore' and it will be that version of the file that you will next open.</p><p></p><p>If you click on the TM icon it will give you the option 'Open Time Machine preferences..'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pendlewitch, post: 1448675, member: 214663"] Hi Barbara Jay, The spinning arrow you saw was the Time Machine (TM) icon showing that a back up was in process. If you plug an external HD in and enable TM to work with that drive then it will perform it's first back up, which can take hours depending on how much stuff you have. After that process it will only do incremental back ups every hour, and they can take less than a minute depending on what has changed since the last one. The outer space scene is actually the TM desktop and always opens up by presenting you with your current file and folder situation, it tends to default to the Finder view for me. You can locate previous versions of the file that you are working with by using the dates over to the right and once you've located it, click 'Restore' and it will be that version of the file that you will next open. If you click on the TM icon it will give you the option 'Open Time Machine preferences..' [/QUOTE]
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