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PSA: Keep Time Machine disks out of your Finder sidebar

by cjv on 3/27/21, 4:33 PM with 18 comments

• by jrmg on 3/27/21, 9:27 PM

  There’s nothing in that thread that supports the assertion that this is taking ‘half a core’.

  The Finder sample shows it taking less than 10% of the wall-clock time of one (mostly idle) thread, and it doesn’t seem likely that WindowServer is spending another 40%+ of a core in response.

• by snuxoll on 3/27/21, 5:13 PM

  You’d think Apple, having developed the thing, would have used Core Animation for this.

• by throw0101a on 3/27/21, 6:08 PM

  Great.

  And how do I make this change? What setting do I have to check or un-check? Or is it a defaults(1) thing?

  Proviso: I would like to keep my "Hard disks" and "External disks" visible.

• by tinus_hn on 3/28/21, 9:14 AM

  When they still had iTunes the same thing happened with the colored bar that spins showing sync activity, using 40% of a cpu. I’ve filed bugs on it, they don’t seem to care.

• by meibo on 3/27/21, 5:22 PM

  Is this the "Apple Quality Experience" I keep hearing about?

  Seems like an intern's first task that wasn't double checked(in arguably one of the most important parts of the OS).