Time Machine Icon Colour

This helped me !! Thank you.

Thanks for this. The "wrong" icon has been bothering me for ages now and your suggestion resolved it at a stroke.

Yellow again ! Terminal did not help.

HI

I had the same issue for 3 months until today!! I right clicked and chose view options and reduced the size slightly out of interest and it instantly turned green.

Could it be that simple???

Anyway, worth the 10 seconds to try.

That did it for me- Thx!

Yesterday, because of a thunder storm, I had to shut down the mac. When I re-started, the icon was orange, so I tried your method, FPR Boy, and unfortunately it didn't work, but it did when I typed ;;;; KillAll Finder into Terminal., The icon went back to grey/green. Weird, but thank you anyway. Maybe it's all about how we hold our tongue !!!

That does not permanently fix the dynamic nature of the icon. Resizing through view options, or using terminal to killallfinder, etc... is temporary. Once you unmount and remount the drive you will see that it will still remain generic orange. Copying and pasting a time machine icon over the generic orange also does not fix the dynamic nature of how the icon is supposed to work (change after a backup). It simply stays on the time machine icon even if a backup has not been conducted.

Yes, I've come to realise it is only a temporary fix, but I feel if the colour is orange, the time machine/external hard drive is not working. If the technology is working, despite the colour of the icon, I can then live with the change from green to orange.

Yes this is solve the problem

Thank you