Quick Look lets you tap the Space bar to view the contents of a document’s icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it. That’s not the only routine-changing feature. The more people who can be persuaded to turn it on, the more will be spared the misery of losing their photos, music and e-mail. But making Time Machine attractive - and prominent and effortless - is all part of the mission. Not everyone falls under the spell of that gorgeous animated starfield critics call it unnecessary eye candy. The window that once contained your files remains floating before you, with dozens of iterations of itself, like file cards, receding into the background. The sleek, modern-looking Leopard desktop falls away like a curtain, revealing - startlingly - a deep-space starfield. If disaster strikes - sunspots, clueless spouse, overtired self - you enter Time Machine’s recovery mode. (Apple assumes that it won’t take you a whole month to notice that your hard drive crashed.) At day’s end, Time Machine replaces those hourly backups with a single daily backup at the end of the month, those are replaced by a single month-end backup. Time Machine updates its mirror of your main drive every hour, although you can also trigger updates on demand. One click - that’s got to be the shortest setup of any backup system in history. When you connect the second drive, Leopard asks if you want to use it for Time Machine.
Besides, hard drives are cheap you can buy an internal 250-gigabyte one for $75. The need for a second drive is a drag, but it’s a necessary evil. Time Machine keeps multiple backups of everything - programs, settings, files, photos, even the operating system itself - on a second hard drive (or another Leopard Mac on the network).
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