I can give several examples, but the one staring me in the face atm is Time Machine. New thunderbolt external drive, and time machine transferring at less than 1MBps. Lol, apple you have known that Time Machine sucks for YEARS now. At this point I don't consider Apple great anymore, merely adequate and the least crappy OS.
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Apple is blowing it
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What's wrong with Time Machine? I've been using it for years with great success.
The general consumer doesn't even care about, or much less understand that. Most people don't even have a backup drive.
The general consumer is an imbecile. Thanks to google however, I found the solution. Why don't Apple engineers fix this?
The solution is to disable Spotlight in Terminal:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Once this has been resolved, you'll be able to re-enable Spotlight with the following command;
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
The solution is to disable Spotlight in Terminal:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Once this has been resolved, you'll be able to re-enable Spotlight with the following command;
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Apple sells mass produced products. In other words, products for the masses. If you're unhappy with Apple then move on.
What a great solution! I think I'll set my alarm clock to wake me up every hour... so I can do some terminal hacking which will enable my TM incremental backups can complete in 30 seconds rather than 60.
Do you know if this trick works for Crashplan+ backups too? If so... I'll have to set my alarm clock at 15 minute increments to match that backup schedule.
/Jim
You are trying to base a more broad argument on a weak supporting point. Seriously, you're complaining about the performance of a background process?
I'm doing both local time machine backups, and cloud based backups at the same time. It still isn't noticeable.
I'm doing both local time machine backups, and cloud based backups at the same time. It still isn't noticeable.