Time Capsule - accessing backup via Time Machine

[John Musbach]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Kevin Callahan <kcall at mac.com> wrote:
>  If I haven't accessed Time Machine in a while, there's a 15 seconds
>  delay for TM to get the drive up and running (sleep mode?).  Then,
>  once I'm in Time Machine, I can't click CANCEL to change search
>  parameters or exit.  The cancel button is unresponsive .. for up to 30
>  seconds or so.  After Cancel has been activated and I'm brought back
>  to my desktop, my Dock disappears and I see a spinning pinwheel.
>  Eventually, my desktop comes back to life.  Is this the Finder having
>  difficulty with a drive that it's mounting ?  or a drive that hasn't
>  fully spun up ? or ?

This is probably expected when a drive mounted over a ethernet
connection has to spinup, mac os x likes to lockup while waiting for
network mounts to respond



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Best Regards,

John Musbach