Indeed there is. I don't like having to open System Preferences just to do this, and I hoped there would be a cleaner way. After all, if you're going to run a script that has to open the Time Machine preference pane anyway, it's little different from opening and reading the pane yourself, at least that's my feeling on the subject. > On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Jonathan C Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > TimeMachine uses the System Preference pane to control it, and there is > useful information in the system control pane like Disk size and backup > status. > > So we could probably find the “id” string of the time machine preference > panel, and then go from there. I know I saw a script in the UI Elements > folder called Get User Name that retrieves information from the Users > preference pane so that could be a starting point. > > Jonathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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