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While giving a presentation in Keynote for a job interview, the presentation suddenly exit and I got a Time Machine message telling me that the last backup was more than x days ago, which was very bad timing. Is there a way to disable this reminder? I can see from the menubar icon whether Time Machine thinks I should do a backup (from the ! symbol) and I don't need an additional reminder that interrupts presentations... Any ideas?

Daniel Beck
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  • It is better to backup minimum every day :) – tig Mar 31 '11 at 09:58
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    Related to [this question on Ask Different](http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69036/how-to-disable-or-delay-time-machine-hasnt-backed-up-your-computer-in-x-days), which unfortunately doesn't have a good answer yet IMO. – the Aug 18 '14 at 23:53

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I think by clicking on the time machine logo in the menubar and opening time machine preferences and turning off hourly/daily backups it will stop the messages

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I think it maybe because there are 'ghost' references to the backup drive in /Volumes.

I've just removed all mine as I also am getting the annoying pop up. If it no longer pops up I'll update here.

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  • Please explain what you mean by "removing ghost references" by [edit]ing your answer. – Kevin Panko Feb 03 '14 at 22:04
  • http://superuser.com/questions/20879/how-to-remove-duplicate-ghost-network-drive-on-os-x see first answer here. So far I've had no time machine popups since removing ghost references. – Keegan 82 Feb 04 '14 at 18:12
  • Well bang goes my theory, the damned message has just popped up :( – Keegan 82 Feb 04 '14 at 21:45