Where is com.apple.timemachine.plist

I discovered that by not excluding anything the Time Machine backup defaults to backing up both my volumes to the first main backup on my external hard drive.

What I'm trying to do is disable the second backup I set up on my external hard drive. It is one of several Time Machine backups listed, covering multiple external hard drive I back up to. This is what my Time Machine Preferences looks like. There is no scrollbar, and no option to add or remove any of these green time machine disk back ups. I would like to remove the bottom one which is hard to even see here. If I double click it it will move up, but no other choices are beneath it.

The Options button takes me to the Exclude window, but I am not trying to exclude files from a backup so that is no help. Thank you. There is no option to turn TM on or off in the new OS. When I restarted the Mac and opened Time Macine preferences, the exact same configuration was there. Surprise, a window appeared asking if I wanted to delete the selected disk - without being sure which disk it was referring to, I said yes and it immediately disappeared and the Add or Remove a Disk appeared as it was supposed to.

So, success. I do wonder if TM was confused by the external drive being partitioned. The reason I wanted to delete this second backup was both partitions werebacking up the entire hard drive and it seemed redundant.

Now my main backup is backing up both partitions. Much simpler. Any improvement? The only way is to disable SIP which is not a real solution. I am not sure why they find the need for this as this going to create more problem than what it actually solves. Posted on Oct 21, AM. Oct 21, AM in response to alanterra In response to alanterra.

You can selectively allow applications to full disk access. Here is what mine looks like. Oct 21, AM. Page content loaded.

Oct 20, AM in response to alanterra In response to alanterra. Add support to detect when Time Machine is running and halt Time Tracker's scanning until it finishes. Oct 20, AM. Oct 20, AM in response to leroydouglas In response to leroydouglas. Can you read that file on your machine? Oct 21, AM in response to aselvan In response to aselvan.

Thank you, aselvan. I agree with your comments. I have to think about whether it is worthwhile to install Mojave — I am thinking not right now. Any ideas? Improve this question. Corey Floyd Corey Floyd 3 3 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Chealion Chealion I am able to run this command successfully. Do yo uknow how I would change the volume? Without resorting to using the Time Machine Control Panel? Not really.

I don't know how to properly put the data into the. Works for me. Marek Ka. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.