Economy in File Management

[garycurtis]

My desktop includes only icons for the internal HDs, and one folder labeled Active Work. That is where all my projects go.

It seems my TM backups are always around 15+Gbs, and take 40 minutes. Even when there has been little activity on the computer. Should I stow that one large folder on one of the HDs? Would it speed things up for backups?

Could it be eMails (Safari) that is creating the bottleneck?

(Running a G-4 Tower on OS Leopard, with a 1.6 Ghz CPU)

 

[garycurtis]

Didn't get any response so I took a shot in the dark. I dropped the large (7Gb) folder on my desktop into the largest harddrive. Ran Disk Warrior and then did a backup with Time Machine.

Time: about 3 minutes. So, apparently the file path routes directly through a drive, rather than on the desktop, it is more direct. I've seen a few other posts here expressing agony over the speed of TM backups. It's not the cable, folks.

Happy me.