"Operations are in progress" hangup and ATI scheduling
Well, I just upgraded to ATI 2014 yesterday and I received my first "Operations are in progress" never-ending system hangup when trying to shutdown today. Not. Happy.
From my reading here, it appears that the bug may be related to ATI attempting to start a delayed scheduled backup when the PC was commanded to shutdown but the backup media (in this case, an external hard drive) was not connected. So it just sat there, with the "Operations etc." message on the screen, requiring a forced shutdown (long power key press) to regain control of the system. Not. Happy.
Question: Is there some way to globally disable all "scheduled" backups? To never, ever, ever attempt to start a backup unless it is manually initiated? Or, at the *very* least, throw up a dialog box asking whether to commence the backup. Please?
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Roger that. The reminder message would be a minimum fix but not a preferred solution.
My main, work PC is a notebook and the backup disk normally sleeps in a locked fire-safe (with a second kept off-site). Sadly, I'm not disciplined enough to drag it out at the same time every week (much less every day) so I really just want to run the backups when I have the time.
What shocked me was the new (at least since my last installed version, 2012) behavior that defaults to a daily backup *and* enforces it. Not a pleasant surprise when I was ready to shutdown and toss the notebook into its bag for the trip home. Waiting ... waiting ... waiting ... No indication of what process had the machine hung. No way to get back to the explorer window to shut it down. Ctl-Alt-Del did nothing. Not, as I mentioned, happy.
I did feed ATI the backup disk yesterday evening and changed the new (2014) backups to never, not ever, don't even THINK of it! and since then the machine shutdowns have been without drama.
But it's still a really inconvenient default behavior.
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