Disable Time Machine's warping background

someguy · May 15, 2008, 12:56 PM

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere. I searched, and also searched Google and couldn't find any solid answers.

I have Leopard on my PowerBook G4 and it runs great, with the exception of a little bit of lag when using the Time Machine interface. I'm looking for a way to disable the animated background, or completely remove the "outer space" style backdrop altogether if possible.

It'd be great if I could have Time Machine do it's thing without moving away from my desktop, but whatever I can do to make things run a little smoother would be great.

Anyone know any tricks/hacks/tools that can accomplish this to any extent?

karenflower · May 15, 2008, 02:20 PM

Mac Pilot has some options to tweak Time Machine, including disabling the space background animation.

someguy · May 15, 2008, 05:48 PM

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

upi · Apr 13, 2009, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by someguy

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

You can also edit the the 'com.apple.finder.plist' using Property List Editor.
Set the Key '_FXShowBackgroundAnimation' under 'Root' to boolean 'False'

matthew12 · Oct 10, 2010, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upi

You can also edit the the 'com.apple.finder.plist' using Property List Editor.
Set the Key '_FXShowBackgroundAnimation' under 'Root' to boolean 'False'

Where is that file anyway?

someguy · Oct 11, 2010, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthew12

Where is that file anyway?

~/Library/Preferences

Also, nice thread resurrection!

May 15, 2008, 12:56 PM	#1
someguy macrumors 68020 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Still here.	Disable Time Machine's warping background Sorry if this has been posted somewhere. I searched, and also searched Google and couldn't find any solid answers. I have Leopard on my PowerBook G4 and it runs great, with the exception of a little bit of lag when using the Time Machine interface. I'm looking for a way to disable the animated background, or completely remove the "outer space" style backdrop altogether if possible. It'd be great if I could have Time Machine do it's thing without moving away from my desktop, but whatever I can do to make things run a little smoother would be great. Anyone know any tricks/hacks/tools that can accomplish this to any extent? __________________ 
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May 15, 2008, 05:48 PM	#3
someguy Thread Starter macrumors 68020 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Still here.	Just what I was looking for. Thanks! __________________ 
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karenflower macrumors 6502a Join Date: Dec 2007	Mac Pilot has some options to tweak Time Machine, including disabling the space background animation.
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