TimeMachineGrowler

Description

On a stock Mac OS X system, you only know Time Machine is backing up when you hear your back-up disk start churning and see the Time Machine menu extra's icon start spinning.

This app polls the system log looking for messages from Time Machine, and translates them into Growl notifications for back-up started, back-up finished, and back-up canceled. The back-up started notification tells you how long since the last back-up finished, and the other two tell you how long the back-up ran for.

The Time Machine started notification.
The Time Machine finished notification.

Known bugs

At least one user reported that TimeMachineGrowler's initial search of the log took an unknown but very large amount of time. The bug, if indeed there is one, is in the log-searching mechanism of Mac OS X, so there is nothing I can do about it.

Downloads

TimeMachineGrowler-1.0.2.zip: The application, in a zip archive.
MD5 hash: a6f9556f22b507c8fb39f7c8d20388fa
SHA-1 hash: 41f2944921b84481b7eef7dcd1b7334d1a373126
TimeMachineGrowler-1.0.2-source.zip: Objective-C source code and an Xcode 3.2 project, in a zip archive.
MD5 hash: bb8d548a83a2c0596355128335cfb8cc
SHA-1 hash: 17a3d6e878503272b6beb5126e4b235e998b1dd8
TimeMachineGrowler-1.0.1.zip: The application, in a zip archive.
MD5 hash: 771f3a0c5dccb332b400293de298218b
SHA-1 hash: 84119c0177ab909f082e4296616ae627ac6d2769
TimeMachineGrowler-1.0.1-source.tbz: Objective-C source code and an Xcode 3.1 project, in a bzip2ed tarball.
MD5 hash: 5ef73c391fc9430b7ed900d94d19e65e
SHA-1 hash: ec118e598bac98b35ecb829b30787b8c1868b55d
TimeMachineGrowler-1.0.zip: The application, in a zip archive.
MD5 hash: 0c9824d36766b20223c59acc0673f070
SHA-1 hash: 60402d3847103fdc7a53e41b8a73c81a27a744b8
TimeMachineGrowler-1.0-source.tbz: Objective-C source code and an Xcode 3.1 project, in a bzip2ed tarball.
MD5 hash: 350b3997480b862c8c58962aa05089bf
SHA-1 hash: d57df088963d64cceb55fa52971acba6c0282719

MD5 and SHA1 signatures were created using EasyHash.

Discussion group

I've created a Google Group where you can report problems and/or receive notifications of updates.

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Repositories

If you want to contribute bug-fixes or enhancements to TimeMachineGrowler, the easiest way to do that is to clone the Git repository on GitHub. See GitHub's help page on this topic.

This project used to be hosted in a Mercurial repository. The old Mercurial repository will never again be updated! It is frozen forever at 1.0.2. If you want to follow changes or contribute changes yourself, follow and/or clone the Git repo.

I provide TimeMachineGrowler—the application, and its source code—under a three-clause BSD license. For more information, see the file named LICENSE.txt that comes with it.

Version history

1.0.2

Growl 1.3 compatibility.
Fixed sudden termination support.

1.0.1

Snow Leopard compatibility.
Fixed and improved handling of your first backup (at least, the first backup that has any mention in the system log).
Fixed detection of log messages that come in while TimeMachineGrowler is already searching.

1.0

First release.

2012-08-28 http://boredzo.org/time-machine-growler