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• Time Machine preferences shows no backup

  Very strange problem. I have not saved for a while, and when I attach my drive of Thunderbolt containing backups and go into the preferences panel, it shows no dates more old/last backup.

  However, if I run the Time Machine application, I get the full history of the backups and can browse and restore files as usual.

  If I turn YOU backup automatic, he said his will perform a first backup

  First question is: if I let it, that, is it the problem or composed it?

  How can second question, I get the preferences panel to see the history?

  Thanks in advance

  This simple procedure will erase your settings of the time Machine, including the list of excluded items. The backups themselves will not be affected. If you have a long exclusion list that cannot be easily re-created, you may prefer a procedure more complicated that maintains the list. In this case, ask for instructions. If not, see below.

  Please triple - click anywhere in the line below on this page to select:

  /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

  Right-click or Ctrl-click on the highlighted line and select

  Services ▹ reveal in Finder (or just to reveal)

  of the menu.* contextual A Finder window should open with a selected file. Copy the file to the desktop. Bring the original (not copy) to the trash. You will be asked for your administrator password.

  Restart the computer and re-create your settings in the Time Machine preferences window. Falsely, it will show that you have no backups. Don't worry; your backups have not been affected.

  Perform a backup to test. The backup can take much longer than usual. If TM now works as expected, delete the file that you copied to the desktop.

  * If you do not see the item context menu copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing combinationcommand-C. In the Finder, select

  Go ▹ go to the folder...

  from the menu bar and paste it into the box that opens by pressing command + V. You won't see what you pasted a newline being included. Press return.

• Error of Time machine

  Hello

  I got an error on TM recently that said 'files cannot be copied to the backup drive because she seems to be read-only. "

  I think it's because he is ' left only 49 GB on my 1 TB drive...  But I have a choice in TM to inform me when it deletes older backups.  It does not appear that have ever done however.

  I recently created another account on this computer, which has some effect on it?

  I'd be happy to go whipe two years ' worth of backups, just don't know what to do, but I don't want to return to automatic operation.

  It seems normal after a reboot, so, if you recommend doing nothing at all?

  Start with C6 in the 1st article linked.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

• Time Machine - there was an error preparing the Time Machine backup drive (could not mount the drive)

  I have a new HD but cannot set up encryption with system preferences. After ten minutes, I get the following error message:

  "There was an error preparing the Time Machine backup disk (disc name) - could not mount drive"

  Apparently, I need to set up the HD in this way:

  • If you are using an external drive connected to your Mac, use disk utility to make sure that your backup disk is formatted in HFS + extended (journaled) and is the partition type GUID Partition Table (GPT)

  It is not an option for the HFS + and so I used; OS x EXTENDED (journaled). GUID is ok.

  Can someone let me know what I need to do.

  Thank you

  Formatting: GUID Partition Table, OS X Extended (journaled).    (it is HFS +)

  For TimeMachine at best to a partition only.

  Do it again if necessary, then disconnect, reconnect, Start Time Machine preferences and "select disk".

• Time machine unable to complete upward "an error occurred when creating a backup folder".

  Hi, I just graduated to El increase captain and since I had problems with my hard drive backup and the Time Machine. After you have installed the El captain, I get an error message that says 'save the failure. Full backup impossible. An error occurred during the creation of the backup folder. "Run disk utility to repair your backup disk.  When I made that I received the error "update boot support partitions for the volume as required.  Failed to dismount the volume for repair. Operation failed.  I can see the name of the hard disk in the sidebar of finder, but it has no history icon to eject so I right click on it and select "Force eject". Unplug the USB and reconnect USB for hard disk reappears in the side bar of the Finder. Once again same message execution utility disk first aid. I try to partition the drive in disk utility, but the button is grayed until I have change the disc name in the text field "Partition" 'apply' reselect "OX extended extended (journaled)" in the menu drop-down "Format". I then click on apply and get the error message that it "cannot unmount disk '. "Move up" button at the top of the disk utility window seems to do nothing. I then tried to drive 'Erase' and got the error message "disc remove POSIX reports: operation could not be completed." Input/output error. Operation failed. "So I clicked once more"Force eject", disconnected and reconnected USB, hard drive selected in the sidebar"Finder"ran"Set_Up.dmg"that was on the hard drive. Who seemed to rise to recording on the Seagates Web site. Player again activated in selected Time Machine preferences 'Back Up Now' of Time Machine in the Menu bar has obtained progress bar "Preparation to Back up...". "in Time Machine preferences for half an hour... Back at the beginning of the loop. States of Error Message 'save the failure. Full backup impossible. An error occurred during the creation of the backup folder. "Run disk utility to repair your backup disk.

  Ref: http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html see espically - http://pondini.org/TM/C10.html

  Full backup impossible. An error occurred during the creation of the backup folder.

• Time Machine backup error

  I backup my iMac using Time Machine for a time capsule.  Since a few days I received the error:

  Time Machine, an error occurred while copying the files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use disk utility to repair your backup disk.

  I can see the Capsule in the Finder and have disconnected and reconnected that has not solved the problem.  Using Airport utility, I can see the time Capsule in the two Ethernet and Wi - Fi have green lights.  I also shot the Capsule of time, and then again in Time Machine preferences.  Still no go.

  Any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance,

  -Chris

  You must use Airport utility to repair or reformat a drive Time Capsule. Use the menu help in the utility Airport to search for 'clear' get instructions if you do not know how.

• Time Machine Error - backup failed

  Hello

  I get "could not complete back, an error occurred when creating the backup folder"-I have an iMac with an Iomega eGo external hard drive. I checked the previous discussions about this and can not solve. What should I do?

  Please take each of the following steps that you have not already tried until the problem is resolved.

  1. disconnect, then reconnect the drive.

  2. in the menu bar, select

  ▹ System Preferences Energy Saver power adapter ▹ ▹ 

  and uncheck the box marked

  Put the hard drives to sleep when possible

  If it is checked.

  3. some external drives ignore setting the energy saver and turn down in any case. The 'KeepDriveSpinning' of the Director Jon Stovell application can help in this matter. (Credit to ASC member dsrtmacusr for this solution).

  4. If the drive is connected to a hub, connect it to a port built into the computer. If it is already connected to a built-in port, and there is another such port, use.

  5. If the player has more than one deck (for example, FireWire and USB), try another.

  6. check the Web site of the provider of the car for an update of the firmware.

  7 contact the seller to see if there is a firmware setting, you can change.

  8. If you have installed the provider for the reader software, uninstall it.

  9. triple - click anywhere in the line below on this page to select this option:

  /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

  Right-click or Ctrl-click on the highlighted line and select

  Services ▹ reveal in Finder (or just to reveal)

  in the context menu. A Finder window should open with a selected file. Copy the file to the desktop. Then he (the original, not the copy) move to the trash. You will be asked for your administrator password. Restart the computer and re-create your settings in the Time Machine preferences window. It will show you that you have no backups. Don't worry; which is expected. Perform a backup to test. The backup can take much longer than usual. If TM now works as expected, delete the file that you copied to the desktop.

  10. If none of the steps above resolves the problem, the drive may be defective. Try another. You may be able to save an external drive mechanism by installing it in a different pen.

• Time machine always fails after a day or two

  It is so incredibly boring, I can't understand what is happening.

  I have an of UDB external HARD drive that I use for time machine. All the time after a day or two of the race, he's going to say "time machine could not backup"Backup"" when I click on the flag for the information, it is said...

  "Unable to complete backup, an error occurred when creating the backup folder.

  Research online, I found to delete the .inprogress folder, but there is nothing here that named (I looked in fFinder and Terminal)

  When I look at the console it gives me this error:

  21/07/16 8:00:49.676 AM com.apple.backupd [21664]: error: (22) setxattr(2)) for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/volumes/backup/backups.backupdb/jeff'aos MacBook Air size: 37

  21/07/16 8:00:49.677 AM com.apple.backupd [21664]: backup failed with error 2:2

  When I try to run disk utility it it fails, but the spectacle of newspapers is because he has failed to dismantle, if I try to unmount manually, it can not because it is currently in use.

  If I run 'sudo lsof - xf + d/Volumes/Backup /' I see this

  COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE SIZE/STOP NŒUD NOM_PERIPHERIQUE

  SDM 63 root DIR 21r 1.8 2 510 / Volumes / backup

  
  

  I've looked everywhere and I can't solve this problem on mine more, I spent hours and hours already

  Please take each of the following steps that you have not already tried until the problem is resolved.

  1. disconnect, then reconnect the drive.

  2. in the menu bar, select

  ▹ System Preferences Energy Saver power adapter ▹ ▹ 

  and uncheck the box marked

  Put the hard drives to sleep when possible

  If it is checked.

  Some external readers ignore setting the energy saver and turn down in any case. In this case, the drive to replace with another type, unless the manufacturer's website has a firmware update to fix the problem.

  3. If the player is connected to a hub, connect it to a port built into the computer. If it is already connected to a built-in port, and there is another such port, use.

  4. If the player has more than one deck (for example, FireWire and USB), try another.

  5. check the Web site of the provider of the car for an update of the firmware.

  6 contact the seller to see if there is a firmware setting, you can change.

  7. If you have installed the provider for the reader software, uninstall it.

  8. triple - click anywhere in the line below on this page to select this option:

  /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

  Right-click or Ctrl-click on the highlighted line and select

  Services ▹ reveal in Finder (or just to reveal)

  in the context menu. A Finder window should open with a selected file. Copy the file to the desktop. Then he (the original, not the copy) move to the trash. You will be asked for your administrator password. Restart the computer and re-create your settings in the Time Machine preferences window. It will show you that you have no backups. Don't worry; which is expected. Perform a backup to test. The backup can take much longer than usual. If TM now works as expected, delete the file that you copied to the desktop.

  9. If none of the steps above resolves the problem, the drive may be defective. Try another. You may be able to save an external drive mechanism by installing it in a different pen.

• Time Machine backup fails

  We have a time Machine that is inadmissible for automatic backups. I use a MacBook Pro (2012, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA drive) with OS X El Capitan v. 10.11.5. The backup of a now-dead Mac is also on the Time Capsule.

  I get a: "/ Volumes/data/users of MacBook Pro.sparsebundle ' could not be found (error (null)). "error saving is attempted.

  If I look at my computer in the Finder, I can see the backup drive and access it as a "Shared" disc (open the folder Data, look at content, etc.).

  So far, I tried to remove the Time Capsule disk, add it again and try to save again according to a previous thread on this site. Now, the only difference is that I get a message that he "expects full first backup", and in Time Machine preferences, it records all the previous backups. She cannot finish the backup, when she goes to the backup with the same error message as described above.

  I'm confused that I can connect to the reader through the Finder, but it will not save.

  Thank you very much for any help/advice on fixing this!

  Suggest that you first run an audit of your backups... to check that they are not corrupt. To do this...

  Press and hold the option on your Mac key while you click on the "clock" icon Time machine at the top of the screen

  Then, click check backups

  The process can take from 10 to 60 minutes or more depending on the amount of data on the Time Capsule disk. This will inform you when the process is complete.

  Report on the results

• Strange behavior of Time machine

  One day when nothing much was going on my system, time machine has failed.  I got the error message:

  "Time Machine could not complete the backup"Backups Time Machine".

  The backup drive ran out of unexpected place. Time Machine will try to make more space by eliminating backups expired during the next scheduled backup.

  Open Time Machine preferences to select a bigger backup disk or make the smaller backup by excluding files. »

  I don't want to exclude the files.  Once, I dropped my mac (stupid human tricks).  The mac was irreparable, and I was able to restore the latest mac with Time Machine.  Because I would like to be able to do a complete system restore, I don't want to exclude the files.  I don't want to make a larger capacity disk.

  My Macintosh HD is 500 GB on which 294 GB are available.  In other words, 206 GB are used.  My time machine drive is 1 TB.

  The backup failed was 48 GB.

  A few questions:

  1. How do I need to make a backup of 48 GB (23% of my system) when nothing much was going on my system?

  2 is it possible for a lot more free space on the disk, Time Machine?

  Go to this definitive web site for its use of Time Machine and operating problems:

  http://pondini.org/TM/home.html

  This is the troubleshooting section:

  http://pondini.org/TM/troubleshooting.html

  Ciao.

• How to transfer Time Machine backup to the new external hard drive

  I'm upgrading to a 1 hard external to the Western reader to with 5 TB of Seagate.  This is because Time Machine has used the 1 TB drive.  How can I transfer the files from backup Time Machine from the old to the new drive so that backups continue to have access to the old files.

  Although the documentation Apple says you can copy Time Machine backups in the Finder, it is very slow and sometimes does not.

  This technique works only if the volume that you copy to the same size or larger that that you are copying to.

  First of all, please open the Time Machine preference pane and click the Select Disk... button. You may be able to unlock the settings first, by clicking on the padlock icon in the lower left corner of the window. Log in as administrator.

  Remove the volume you want to copy in the list of backup destinations. Then turn off Time Machine.

  Launch disk utility, open the built-in Help and search for the term 'Double '. Follow the instructions. All existing data on the destination volume will be deleted. That shouldn't be a problem, because you do not want to mix non-sauvegarde and backup data on the same drive anyway.

  If the volume you are copying has been encrypted by Time Machine, you must first unlock it. Click the release button in the toolbar of the disk utility window.

  Turn Time Machine back on and select the new volume as a backup destination. Alternatively, you can continue to use the old volume, if you wish. Both will be alternated when both are available.

  ATTENTION: If you copy the volume is corrupted, as shown by the ERD or first aid in disk utility, while corruption is copied to the new drive. Do not copy data from a damaged on a faulty disk volume. Put aside the reader and do not use until you don't know that you no longer need the data. Then securely erase it and bring it to a recycling center. Do the same if the restore operation fails with "disk errors."

• Moving backups Time Machine - the operation cannot take place because the backup item is not editable

  I want to change the external hard drive that I use for my time machine backups. I went through the steps listed here:

  Time Machine: How to transfer backups from a current backup disk to a new backup drive - Apple Support

  It seems to work correctly. I shot TM back and adding the new drive. TM is now backing up files on the drive up, but there is a problem.

  For some reason, TM has begun to put backups "freely" for lack of better in the external hard drive, and not in the backups.backupdb folder for a week, then returned to save them in the backups.backupdb > ComputerName > files from backups. So in other words, when you click on the hard drive in the finder, it opens the player and you see a folder named Backups.backupdb and then a bunch of mixed in which files are backups time machine named 2016-01-24-XXXXXX, etc.. When you go to the folder Backups.backupdb, there's a more random "loose" time machine backup file 2016-01-23-XXXXXX, and then another folder with the name of computers and in the folder are all TM backups except loose ones I mentioned earlier.

  It seems that TM is working properly now, but I don't know why he put the files from the first days outside the backup folder. However, when I do drag, I get the error:

  The operation cannot be completed because backup items is not editable

  I want to just put all the files in the right folder so that I can A) keep my disk organized and (B) ensure what TM can find everything correctly should I have to go back.

  No idea what is happening and how to fix it?

  Although the documentation Apple says you can copy Time Machine backups in the Finder, it is very slow and sometimes does not.

  This technique works only if the volume that you copy to the same size or larger that that you are copying to.

  First of all, please open the Time Machine preference pane and click the Select Disk... button. You may be able to unlock the settings first, by clicking on the padlock icon in the lower left corner of the window. Log in as administrator.

  Remove the volume you want to copy in the list of backup destinations. Then turn off Time Machine.

  Launch disk utility, open the built-in Help and search for the term 'Double '. Follow the instructions. All existing data on the destination volume will be deleted. That shouldn't be a problem, because you do not want to mix non-sauvegarde and backup data on the same drive anyway.

  If the volume you are copying has been encrypted by Time Machine, you must first unlock it. Click the release button in the toolbar of the disk utility window.

  Turn Time Machine back on and select the new volume as a backup destination. Alternatively, you can continue to use the old volume, if you wish. Both will be alternated when both are available.

  ATTENTION: If you copy the volume is corrupted, as shown by the ERD or first aid in disk utility, while corruption is copied to the new drive. Do not copy data from a damaged on a faulty disk volume. Put aside the reader and do not use until you don't know that you no longer need the data. Then securely erase it and bring it to a recycling center. Do the same if the restore operation fails with "disk errors."

• Time Machine don't prune the old El Capitan backups and works out of space and "backup fails.

  With the help of El Capitan 10.11.1, I noticed a change in behavior with the handling of the time Machine of large files, specifically the files of virtual disk VMWare Fusion (about 50 large concerts).  After a few weeks of use of fusion VM virtual machine, Time Machine gives an error where it ran out of space and "backup failed."

  I had the same problem occur on a second iMac that I own.

  I reformatted my external drive for Time Machine and started fresh, but after a few weeks, I got the same error again.  It seems that Time Machine is not the size or remove older backups of VMware virtual disk to provide a space for the new.

  Previous versions of Mac OS X and Time Machine had no problem with the backup of large files such as these.

  Has anyone else noticed "backup failed" message with Time Machine on El Capitan?  I know that I can exclude the disk virtual VMware backup, but that defeats the entire purpose of Time Machine backups.  Any suggestions?

  Time Machine automatically deletes older snapshots to make room for the new. If your backup history is shorter than expected, it may be because you want to save one or more large files frequently.

  Software virtualization VMware, Parallels or VirtualBox creates a large virtual disk container that is constantly evolving. It will not be saved at all while the virtual machine running, and at other times it must be saved each Time Machine performance. Who fills up quickly any backup destination.

  You must exclude files from virtual drive of your Time Machine backups. To do this, click the Options button in the Time Machine preferences window. You can also do this to virtualization, application settings. Back up the files on the virtual disk within the comments system, using a native backup application.

  A compromise solution is to create a 'snapshot' of the virtual machine in the virtualization software (not a Time Machine snapshot.) This will give you a single large file that never changes and only has to be saved once. All future changes will be stored in a file that is much smaller initially, but will grow over time. You must always exclude this backup TM file. If you need to restore the computer virtual of Time Machine, you will have a working configuration, which will be easy for you to restore the rest of the data in the system of comments.

  See also this page of Parallels support.

• Mac OSx Sierra Time Machine WD my cloud

  Since upgrading to Mac OSX Sierra my Macbook Pro and Macbook Air are not capable of doing Time Machine back Ups to a WD MyCloud drive that is connected to our router.

  We have updated the firmware on the WD My Cloud drive to the latest version and contacted WD on this problem, so far they have not come with a solution to the problem.

  If you open Time Machine preferences and then observe what happens, by hitting 'Back Up Now' systems do "Looking to save the disc" then "Preparing backup" then stop and then go back to the status of 'rest' without backup anything to the top at all. It is the same on both machines. You can see here: Time Machine Back Up My Cloud

  Notice how the drive icon changes to the point where it stops working and then goes to the other drive which is a USB.

  Now, to complicate the issue further... an iMac connected via Ethernet to the router can go back to the My Cloud drive perfectly as before. If Apple changed something with the wireless protocols I think but that?

  Hi stevefrompembury,

  Thanks for posting in the Community Support from Apple! I understand that your or your Mac back up Time machine since the update. Backups are certainly crucial to ensure that your data remains secure, so I'm happy to offer some suggestions.

  You have already tried a few milestones. I recommend you take a look through this article so that you have covered all the steps mentioned, including the section titled 'Control your readers': If you can not back up or restore your Mac with Time Machine

  See you soon!

• Time Machine or backup from Sierra installed

  I backup my MacBook Pro and MacBook Air to Time Machine but show just 'preparation' constantly.  Tried rebooting the Machine and the time of the Macbook, and they are all connected via Airport utility.  Don't know what other troubleshooting I could undertake?  Any help gratefully received.

  Sierra is having issues and never use Time machine on top of an existing backup anyway.

  The steps are to.

  1. archiving of current backups.

  Plug a USB key that is equal to the size of the disk of the CT (you mix the terms Time Machine... software backup on the computer... and Time Capsule... material target for backups within a router).

  Archive is on the airport utility disk tab.

  

  2. once the backup is complete. It may take a day or two for 2 TB which is full drive.

  Erase the disc from TC... a quick erase is fine.

  It takes only a few minutes.

  3 factory reset the TC and reconfigure airport under Sierra on one of your Mac utility.

  Reset Time Machine preferences and it should start and run very well.

  But also, you should read some of the other threads here on the problem.

  For example... preparation is supposed to spend a lot of time when you try to use the existing backup... more wireless with two computers together... It will take days to complete.

  Open the activity monitor and ensure that other processes do not always use CPU. A person discovered photos was chew 90% CPU making a function which is part of the update and not allowing any time for TM backup in progress.