[Will Brook]

Thank you, John, your response was very useful.

First off, I had found superuser.com’s website, but I was looking to do the fix myself, not bring in another program to do it. This is my way of learning more about programming, Mac os, etc. I still have some work to do to gain control on my own of Timemachine, but I’m working at it.

Your note on copying, editing then moving the file back finally did work. The plist is edited. I had tried to copy, make the edits and then copy back, but it hadn’t worked. I did it without the sudo command, just by changing permissions, and it hadn’t let me make changes. Seems an obviously fix using sudo bit it hadn’t clicked at the time. Thanks.

Also the script you provided in the second paragraph is the other thing for which I was looking. The use of “:” and how to write the command to edit specific sublevels within a plist.

Thanks again.

[Will Brook]

Any help anyone?