TimeMachineEditor
Key Details of TimeMachineEditor
- Change your Time Machine backup schedule & more.
- Last updated on 2/21/2024
- There have been 3 updates
- Virus scan status:
Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)
Full Specifications
- GENERAL
- Release
- September 11, 2020
- Latest update
- February 21, 2024
- Version
- 5.2.1
- OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Platform
- Mac
- Operating System
- Mac OS X
- POPULARITY
- Total Downloads
- 31,319
- Downloads Last Week
- 0
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User Reviews
3.9/5
33 User Votes
No Prior Info On OS Compatibility
gbcurtis4/30/2014- Pros
- Fine for Maverick.
- Cons
- Won't work for lower OSs
- Summary
- Wasted my download time.
Description is off. Only time based settings.
BradMacPro4/18/2014- Pros
- Still a useful function.
- Cons
- Description says "You can also set Time Machine to automatically back up when disks are mounted or when the computer wakes from sleep." There is no option for these functions, which is a shame. At least for version 2.5.3
- Summary
- <br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Apr 18, 2014<p/>I checked and version 3.1 under Mountain Lion also shows no option for backup on mount.
Doesn't control back up time
DesertRatR1/25/2013- Pros
- None. Doesn't work as advertised.
- Cons
- Doesn't control time back up specified. Seems to like to back up randomly, rather than at specified time. It doesn't seem to hurt anything. It is simply superfluous.
- Summary
Added flexibility Apple refuses to give.
rayvogel12/17/2012- Pros
- Control update frequency
- Cons
- Not part of Apple software
- Summary
Doesn't work.
ajustaperson10/2/2011- Pros
- Easy to configure. Nice idea.
- Cons
- Doesn't work. I configured TimemachineEditor to have Time Machine backups run only at 5:00pm daily. Time Machine still wakes up my Mac at 3:30am, lighting up the room. Why Apple didn't include basic scheduling, I don't see.
- Summary
- Pointless.
Give YOU control over the backup schedule
Benoit Evans9/13/2011- Pros
- Works flawlessly.
- Cons
- A one-trick pony, but it does it's trick extremely well.
- Summary
- Basically, you turn TM off and then TimeMachine Editor replaces you to do "manual" TM backups. You decide your backup schedule in any combination of daily, weekly and monthly backups, with more than one backup per category. Now I use TM Editor to do daily backups at 4-hour intervals, as well as a weekly and a monthly backup. For redundancy, I use SuperDuper on another disk to do a monthly bootable backup.
One of Time Machine's missing features
JonCalgary6/19/2011- Pros
- Gives you actual control over when you want backups, unlike Apple's "we know best" attitude. Over a wireless G network, and on a 3 year old MB Pro, hourly backups are a pain and can slow things down. This free app eliminates that issue.
- Cons
- Documentation is lacking. Just by trial and error, I figured out I need to turn the system preferences control panel for TM to OFF to make this work (this is on the website, but not the app). So, it loses one star for that, as I almost deleted it.
- Summary
- You're getting more than you're paying for. Note to developers: We still need better ways of excluding files from TM.
Never could get it to work.
pshoustontx4/8/2011- Pros
- None that I can ascertain.
- Cons
- Need to improve install instructions.
- Summary
- Don't bother to down load.
Simple, does what it says, no glitch.
fedtho3/20/2011- Pros
- See summary above ;-)
- Cons
- One might want even *more* control over Time machine... but hell, this certainly is one feature that was missing!
- Summary
But does it delete the oldest backups on a full disc?
Glenn Emond3/8/2010- Pros
- Works like a charm
- Cons
- I'm bothered by my initial question.
- Summary