[mjames]

I recently signed up for .Mac and I have two backups scheduled daily -- one to my iDisk and one to my iPod. They are scheduled an hour apart and my computer's not asleep or anything. The iPod backup works fine and starts automatically like it is scheduled. However, the iDisk one simply doesn't start as scheduled.

I've checked the help files and it says it won't launch if your .Mac password is incorrectly entered in the .Mac part of System Preferences. I've noticed that I enter the correct password in the .Mac part of System Preferences, but when I close it out and go back to it, the password is changed, I noticed more characters are there. Could that be why my iDisk backup isn't loading as scheduled? And if so, why is the password changing?

Thanks for your help! My precious 15" Powerbook just had a dead hard drive, so I'm taking backup really seriously now.

[mjames]

Anyone? I noticed Backup says it will do the backup "within two hours" of the time I set it to automatically launch. I'm confused as to why it does that rather than exactly when I schedule it.