every time TM kicks in on my Mac, BC nags me with "Time Machine Backups detected - BC needs your permission to use this device - Skip - Allow". Is there a way to stop BC from asking for permission permanently?
I'm not sure as I don't have a mac but surely this is a setting in Time machine (which as I understand it is simply an automated backup) rather than an issue for Garmin to resolve?
Just go into Options and set it to exclude Basecamp.
Peter is correct. It's not that T.M. is trying to back up BaseCamp or that BC needs to look at T.M. backup files; it's that BC thinks the mounted T.M. drive is a device it needs to know about.
For me (iMac running 10.9.5), the solution is to leave the T.M. drive mounted on the desktop all the time. BC seems to ignore it, only putting up the dialog box for a drive which mounts while BC is running.
I used to get this irritating nag all the time when I ran T.M. off a NAS and using a sparse bundle -- every time it mounted BC would put up that dialog.
Same problem here. BaseCamp 4.4.7 wants permission to access a network volume mounted by Time Machine during a periodic backup. This has been a problem for about as long as I remember, 1.x or 2.x days. Obviously Garmin developers are above using Time Machine and ever experience this issue. Also don't install MacOS on a case sensitive filesystem, BaseCamp uses at least two different capitalizations of /Volumes/GARMIN and will know your Nuvi is connected but can't read or write and won't complain, just silently fail.
This problem continues to annoy. I do not like the notion that Base Camp is scouring my mounted drives for files. It should not go looking until I tell it to. When Time Machine mounts a network backup volume that should not be an invite to Base Camp to scan for contents.
At the very least Base Camp should know enough to ignore /Volumes/Backups/
