TimeMachineEditor is a free, simple application that lets you change the default setting for your Mac's Time Machine hourly backups. Time Machine Editor. TimeMachineEditor is a software for Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine.You can change the interval or create a more sophisticated scheduling. A common issue Mac users have with Apple's Time Machine tool (tool for backing up and restoring data on your computer) is that it lacks the ability to schedule backup tasks based on your needs.
TimeMachineEditor can also let you set a precise time at which you want to carry out backups. Choose whether you want to be monthly, weekly or daily. You can type in a precise hour and choose the day of the week. TimeMachineEditor is easy to use and great if you want to control your own backups. However don't expect anything more from it. In all, it's a good complement on your Mac if you use Time Machine. TimeMachineEditor is a specific application to tewak when your Time Machine performs backups.
TimeMachineEditor is a software for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine. You can change the interval or decide to make a backup once a day, once a week or once a month. This is usefull if you don’t need to backup every hour and don’t want the performance penalty. This is also especially usefull if you manipulate lots of data within one hour as you would spend the whole day backing up.
TimeMachineEditor merely updates a system configuration file to change the Time Machine scheduling. If you want to revert the change back to the original setting, you just need to apply a new schedule with an interval of one hour.
Once you have changed the scheduling, you can still use the Time Machine preference pane from “System Preferences” as you did before. However the preference pane won’t reflect your new scheduling, in particular the next backup date won’t be correct. By Anonymous Does what it should, and does it great. TimeMachineEditor sets out with one goal, to give the user a way to cha. Does what it should, and does it great. TimeMachineEditor sets out with one goal, to give the user a way to change the very sparse default settings of the Time Machine. It does it with a simple, easy-to-understand user interface.