"When you connect" greyed out...

[chatoyer]

If I have a USB external drive connected to my 13" MBP, the option for "When you connect <DRIVE NAME> to your Macintosh is greyed out.

Tried with two different external drives. Neither lets me schedule "when connected".

Running Version 96 on 10.11.1

Thanks in advance for any insights...

David

[dnanian]

Are you backing up to an image on that drive, or directly to the drive?

[chatoyer]

Morning Dave - backing up straight to the drive. I can manually invoke the backup, no problem.

[dnanian]

I have no idea why the option would be disabled. The only items that are disabled are images and drives that aren't returned as "ejectable" by the OS. I've got a number of USB drives here and I can turn the option on for all of them...?

[chatoyer]

Interestingly enough, when I plug in either of the two USB drives I have here on my desk, I do not get the little triangle icon in my Finder to allow me to eject. I can right click on the drive and select Eject, and it will eject, but no triangle.

Both drives work fine otherwise...

Hmm....I'm wondering if I may have some corruption somewhere.

[dnanian]

Clearly something weird is going on. But that's why "on connect" is disabled - we only enable on connect for a drive the system says is "removable", basically.