Strange behavior of Time machine

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• Why finder hide Documents and office files in the home directory of the user by activating iCloud drive? What about the behavior of Time Machine backup or third-party applications?

  I'm under MacOS Sierra. I am connected to my iCloud account. I activated the option Desktop and Documents, but I did NOT activate the option optimize Mac storage, because I wanted to make sure that all my files would be available locally, just in case, I would need to work without an internet connection.

  -J' noticed there now a menu iCloud in my sidebar in the Finder, with links to Documents and desktop.

  -J' also noticed that Documents is no longer presented in my favorites in my side bar of the Finder.

  -This last suggests that files saved in 'Documents' are not saved more on my HD... but only in iCloud, which isn't what I want.

  -Then, sailing in the Finder Macintosh HD/users / 'My account' /, I noticed that my Documents and desktop folders are more visible, as if these files are not saved in my home folder most. Which raises the question: where are My Documents and files on my HD, so they are still?

  -Using a shell session in the terminal and again navigate to/Users / 'My account' /, I noticed that my Documents and desktop folders are still there. Which suggest that records and records of office reside actually still in my home folder under users, but Finder actually hide it and present them as being stored in iCloud only disc. It's very confusing.

  This raises several questions:

  -In the first place, why Apple hide Documents and office files in the directory? Why not view these folders in iCloud and directory?

  -Whence the iCloud folder or drive, reside actually on my hard drive?

  -What time Machine. Is it still back up my document files and folders?

  -What games third-party app mirroring backup of My Documents files and folders? They still work properly? (I use Livedrive backup and Sugarsync for files mirrored across several macs).

  -How can I understand that Apple is doing with my folders and files? Some users might be happy with the iCloud drive concept, without worrying about how it works, but I don't take chances, and I want to keep a good understanding about the functioning of my system.

  Could someone explain what is exactly happening?

  With office and selected Documents, access to these files are now in the iCloud Drive, not in your home folder.

  My guess would be that they do not appear in your file because it would be confusing for many people to make them in two places.

  If you want in the Favorites, open iCloud Drive and drag them in the sidebar here.

  All about iCloud drive has been saved on your Mac. With the exception of the office and the Documents, they are in ~/Library/Mobile Documents. However, if you choose optimized storage, older documents are removed from your Mac. I don't know what is "old".

  ~/Documents and ~/desktop have new metadata indicating probably Finder does not display them in a Finder window, only in iCloud drive. They are not hidden in one of the normal methods of unix.

  I have not tested Time Machine or any other backup program. The folder still exist in your directory home, and they still have all the files, I don't think that changes anything.

• Time machine logo disappears on desktop

  for some strange reason the time Machine logo (the arrow-dial clock in blue and white) no longer appear on the external hard drive shown in my office. The time machine still works but has metro logo-wise - and only on a single machine. What needs tweaking?

  It is possible that the drive is not mounted. Opened in Applications/Utilities Disk utility. Do you see the drive listed? Don't you see the possibility to mount the drive?

  Often a reboot will help you in a car which is difficult to climb.

  Then, open Finder preferences. Under Finder in the Menu bar, select Preferences.

  Under general, you checked external drives under "show these items on the desktop"?

• Time Machine extremely slow after upgrade to El Cap

  Time Machine problem with upgrade to Yosemite to El Cap on a laptop MBPr 15 "mid-2012.

  Time Machine backup plan: by wifi or LAN cable for two different hard disks attached to a Mac Mini that is on the local network. Two USB mini drives would serve as a backup for a total of 4 Mac disks at home.

  Behavior of Time Machine in Yosemite: dead normal. Backups were fast (10 Mbit/s in wifi, 80 MB/s when I plugged the MBPr on my LAN using a bolt of lightning for the Ethernet card.) Restored backups (I test them sometimes) fine.

  I upgraded yesterday to El Capitan. Behavior of the time Machine now: excruciatingly slow. All the steps (preparation, backup, cleanup) takes hours. My laptop was connected to the wired LAN for 9 hours now and is only 1.26 GB thanks to a backup of 3.82 GB. Speed (from MenuMeters) is under 10 KB/sec - Yes, it is * kilogram * bytes/s.

  Speed of transfer of files between the two machines via drag & drop is very good, ~80MB/sec both on the LAN, about 12 MB/s in wifi. Laptop computer interacts with the web at normal speeds. It does not appear that Time Machine, which is watered, and only on my laptop of Capitaned newly-El. My other domestic machines (all on Yosemite still) back up normally.

  I tried:

  -power / reboot both machines.

  -power / restart the LAN together.

  -cycle Time Machine power switch in the Prefs system.

  -Remove the two drives as backup targets TM laptop, then re - specify with preferences TM;

  -other things that I found through the search for this problem.

  It is a common problem in judging by the many valuation model who met it. I searched a lot and found nothing that helped me.

  I can't work without a viable backup. For now, I use Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate my SSD MBPr for an external hard drive. Not really satisfying.

  Did someone solved this problem? Can someone tell me or suggest a solution? Thank you very much!

  Please make a copy of test in the Finder of the source for the backup volume. Is it too slow? Delete the files copied from the backup volume after the test.

• Strange behavior of Yosemite after restoring from Time machine

  Hello

  After having passed my MacBook Pro to El Capitan, I tried the same thing with my Mac Mini (mid 2011).

  Has not completely, because the system is stuck on the gray screen with the bar locked (10 hours) in advance. Impossible to get on this screen (sometimes P - ram reset restart, try Mode safe without success), I decided to return to Yosemite using my full time Machine backup.

  This operation was successful, but with a few strange things:

  • Normally, my system language is set to French. But at startup (i.e. asking the password), the system speaks English. It's extremely confusing, because the layout of the keyboard is also different (for example, the first key of the letter is 'Q', where on a French keyboard the first key is 'A', other differences of keyboard also). Once a user is logged on, the system returns itself to the lay-out French!
  • The new pit of backup Time Machine does not start. It remains suspended in the "preparation of files for backup" (= free translation).
  • The fan is working at high speed.

  Repair permissions and restart didn't help.

  Someone has an idea?

  Details: Mac Mini (mid-2011), Yosemite 10.10.5, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5

  Thanks much, much in advance!

  First D1 in the 1st article linked.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

  Yosemite: If Time Machine still at the stage of the "preparation".

  Try a SMC reset. Article covers when necessary, but this will not affect anything.

  Reset the SMC

• behavior strange time machine

  This is not a complaint.

  About once a week, I get a message that does not have a time machine backup.  I could solve the problem by rebooting the system.

  About 4 days ago I got a time backup failure message. I rebooted the system, but not 'Back Up Now'.  I thought that the time machine disk was gone and had to be replaced.

  Then, miraculously, time machine started working!  With the new backups in progress.

  Two sets of questions:

  1. is anyone else seen this happen?  If so, what ended up happening?

  2. any advice?  I've never used time machine to recover a version of a file that I've trashed, only to do a full system restore, after that I had a system failure.

  Thank you.

  1. no idea

  2. I would use disk utility > first aid to check your drive internal and also check the volume of time Machine.

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201639

  To retrieve a version a file just chose the file and go back in the timeline you need.

  See restore from a backup.

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support

• strange behavior with script times

  Hi all

  I have strange behavior with one of my scripts, and I can't understand where is the problem.

  Before you post the code, here's the principle.

  My form has two fields of time: "Time of Injection" and "Post injection time.

  The script runs when the output of "injection time" event and look if the injection time is before time "post injection.

  Here is my code:

  //get the value of the field "Injection time"
  var injection = this.formattedValue;
  
  //create an new Date object
  var injectionTime = new Date();
  
  //split the string to get the HH MM and SS values of the formattedValue (HH:MM:SS)
  var injectionTimeHoursString = injection.substr(0,2);
  var injectionTimeMinutesString = injection.substr(3,2);
  var injectionTimeSecondsString = injection.substr(6,2);
  
  //parse the strings into integer
  var injectionTimeHoursInt = parseInt(injectionTimeHoursString);
  var injectionTimeMinutesInt = parseInt(injectionTimeMinutesString);
  var injectionTimeSecondsInt = parseInt(injectionTimeSecondsString);
  
  //set the integer values into my Date object
  injectionTime.setHours(injectionTimeHoursInt, injectionTimeMinutesInt, injectionTimeSecondsInt,0);
  
  
  //do the same for the other time field "Post injection time"
  var post = post_injection.post_time.formattedValue;
  var postTime = new Date();
  var postTimeHoursString = post.substr(0,2);
  var postTimeMinutesString = post.substr(3,2);
  var postTimeSecondsString = post.substr(6,2);
  var postTimeHoursInt = parseInt(postTimeHoursString);
  var postTimeMinutesInt = parseInt(postTimeMinutesString);
  var postTimeSecondsInt = parseInt(postTimeSecondsString);
  postTime.setHours(postTimeHoursInt, postTimeMinutesInt, postTimeSecondsInt,0);
  
  
  //calculate the difference between both
  var diff = postTime.getTime() - injectionTime.getTime();
  
  //if the difference gives a negative result, display a message, empty the fields and set focus
  if(diff<0) {
       xfa.host.messageBox("The time of injection should be sooner than the time of post-injection activity measure.\n\nPlease re-enter correct times.","Incompatibility of times");
       this.rawValue = "";
       post_injection.post_time.rawValue = "";
       xfa.host.setFocus(post_injection.post_time);
  }
  

  The code seems to run pretty well... except with certain values.

  If postTime is 12:00

  and injetion is 12:04

  I get the error message and everything, so it's OK

  BUT

  When postTime is 12:00

  and injectionTime is 12:08

  No message! as if the difference was not negative! (the difference is zero...)

  When I display the time in a messagebox, 12:04 12:04:00 GMT blah blah... gives but 12:08 gives 12:00:00 GMT etc...

  same problem with 12:09, but not 12:10 for example...

  Any thoughts?

  Thank you.

  Thank you, but since I'm used to javascript, I'll stick to it.

  I understand the problem. It's a javascript with the ParseInt method bug!

  Check here: http://www.breakingpar.com/bkp/home.nsf/0/87256B280015193F87256C85006A6604

  parseInt("08") = 0.

  How to lose 2 hours for a stupid bug...

• Time Machine acting strange

  iMac - Mountain Lion 10.8.5

  Since the last backup with time machine, I just added a few Photos to my iPhoto Library (1.4 MB) and made very few minor changes to certain documents. The next backup should have been more than 50 MB. Instead, Time Machine backup and backup. He went about like this:

  backup of 4 MB to 5 MB

  12 MB to 16 MB

  30 MB to 40 MB memory

  1 GB 2 GB

  and so it went upward and upward. I stopped the backup when she went from 14 GB to 16 GB of backup.

  What could it maybe be back up?

  Until the backup is started, I had just deleted multiple iPhoto libraries starting from Time Machine backups. Could it be, this time Machine tries to reconstruct those yet? I thought that when you delete something of Time Machine, it is permanently deleted.

  Hi, how do you delete things,™, in the Finder or™?

  Start the restore Partition holding CMD + r to start, use disk Utillity to repair two discs... any change after a normal start then?

• As a Time Machine backup, it keeps adding to the size of the backup?

  TM starts the backup and starts suddenly to add to the size of the backup, it will do. This means that no player will never be large enough to accommodate the backup because it keeps growing in size (as each block of data is added, the size of the backup continues expansion of the same amount). I have attached 2 screenshots showing what has happened in the minute to restart the backup. TM is backup on an external WD hard drive via the USB-3 port on my MacBook Pro (retina, 15 inches, end of 2013). 1.9 TB of data backup - there should not be a problem because the external hard drive has 3 TB of space and has been freshly formatted before being used for the first backup on this drive. As you can see from the screenshots, the backup is much larger than it should be.

  

  1 minute later screenshot:

  

  Before this behavior, I have had problems with Time Machine while using another backup drive (a drive LaCie Quadra) with for example, ignored backups, backups landed at calculation time, backups, partially blocked by a backup for more than 36 hours etc., error messages from read-only TM etc... I tried several solutions on this forum and none seem to have corrected these strange behaviors. It felt like I've solved a problem, shortly after another was about to begin.

  I stopped finally try the solutions suggested here in the forums, as well as some external sites such as Pondini and chose to use another drive (HD freshly cleared using disk utility - the WD drive that is currently attached to the MBP). The WD external drive worked well on the Mac Pro in the office, and I have no reason to suspect that this is the problem (I ran some tests after erasing it and there is no error reported).

  Well, the first symptom that something still was wrong was when backing up to disk WD has slowed to a crawl yesterday afternoon, but I left it on overnight. At noon today the backup was still running, but about ⅔ complete (very, very slowly - running data blocks are moving into very small pieces), but I have to bring the MBP to a meeting and everything stop. Then my back and everything by plugging, TM started upward and all seemed well, until I noticed that the backup data was almost 2.5 to. I restarted the MBP. It's once again, I noticed that Time Machine did not work as I expected. The size of the backup continues to expand... I was expecting TM that she had about 250 GB left to save, but as see you from the screenshots it much much smaller than that. I have let it run like that for about 2 hours, hoping that it was just a small mistake, but the HD continues to fill, only 185 GB of space left. Strangely, I can enter TM and see my data.

  Suggestions please? Very much appreciated.

  Stu

  Nobody answered, so I thought I'd share the temporary solution I came up with.

  I started in safe mode, deleted the backup external TM drive I was using and launched a full backup with TM (always in safe mode). I leave TM turn all night and a full backup has been completed. I rebooted, entered TM and restore some files to confirm that I was actually able to restore the backup pieces. Since that time, I did have problems with TM make scheduled backups, with one reading errors etc.

  I will continue to spend some time to know what triggered these questions... since I was able to make a backup in safe mode, this means that I have other avenues to explore.

  I will report back if I find anything.

  Stu

• Time Machine keeps make full backups

  I have a TM drive (3 TB) backup 3 partitions (about 1.2 TB total) since October 2014.  TM keep doing strange things when I'm doing something unrelated to the TM. For example, temporarily starting in Mavericks (I'm under 10.6.8) completely wrecks TM in same 10.6.8 so I turned off it and physically disconnected the disk until I'm back in 10.6.8.  I spent 2 months with the support of Apple earlier this year to try to figure out how to make it work again in 10.6.8.  I have reset TM (Pondini.org pages) several times.  The most recent problem occurred when I tried to resize a partition on a disk mirror (excluded in the TM).  After you have finished resizing, TM has made a backup of 600GO when he was that nothing changed on any of the 3 targets TM usually saves.  I had to upgrade to a larger disk, earlier this year because of this kind of behavior (2 TB-3 TB >) and I have reset the UUID of the new drive so that it would continue from where the 2 TB drive left using the xattr and fsaclctl commands (it worked perfectly!).  I'm slowly running out of space again.  Does someone understand why this is happening?  More importantly, is there a way to delete a backup and do not have TM do it again.  I could easily delete the most recent backup but I suspect that the next time that TM made a backup, it will be rebackup the 600 GB. I suppose that one solution is to buy another drive and reset the UUID, but this does not solve the problem of weird behavior.  TM is an archive history is important, but it's a royal pain!

  Start with D3 and 4 in 1 related article.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

• Issues coming out of "sleep mode" and strange behavior when restarting with GPU

  I use a desktop computer HP P7-1240 completely stock except for a GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 750 TI SC. The GPU works well when the computer is running (which is strange because the forums have several other discussions mentioning the 700 series must be incompatible with my BIOS).

  However, there are two main strange problems that have arisen since the installation of the GPU. One is that, every time that the computer enters mode "sleep", he refuses to wake back up correctly. It seems to me that the computer active but sends all the signals back panel (at the very least, no video because my monitors remain blank). On rare occasions, he wakes back correctly, but at least 90% of the time, it must be restarted. Upon reboot, the same problem sometimes (not), and the computer must be rebooted a second time until it will start again.

  This leads to the second problem. During startup, the computer goes to a black screen, listing the specifications of basic computer skills (see attached photo. In this screen, the computer does not meet any entry.  He proceeds to beep 3 times, all the same length and height spaced about 30 seconds of gap. After the third beep, the screen goes black and then the computer starts normally with no other strange behavior.

  Without the GPU, none of these problems occur. At the very least, not regularly.

  I saw another thread mentioned that, while the HP support for my office page lists not her, there is an update of the BIOS for my motherboard which has fixed issues related to the GPU more modern. By nature it is an update of the BIOS that does not (seem to) officially support Windows 7, I am reluctant to go forward with this potential solution.

  Although I intend to build myself a new computer from scratch at a certain point, I was hoping to get at least another year out of this machine, if not 2.  While this question does not seem to be immediately threatening the stability of the computer, I can't help but think that it is a question should I go quickly to avoid future problems (not to mention it would save me a good amount of electricity to be able to enter the mode 'sleep' on a regular basis).

  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

  

  Problem has been solved!

  For those of you who have trouble sleeping with the p7-1240 or computers with a card mother identical (MSI Jasmine Ms 7778 ver 1.0), I suggest that you follow this thread:

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/desktop-hardware/unable-to-boot-with-new-graphics-card/TD-p/3930544/highlight/true

  It is to use an update for your BIOS that is intended only for PC under Windows 8, but that seems to work perfectly well with Windows 7 PC. It solved my problems of sleep and makes the computer to behave at least semi normally while restarting.

  However, as indicated in the wire, an update of the BIOS should be a last resort because it can turn your machine into a very heavy and expensive paperweight if something does not work. Do not forget that you have the worm 1.0 card mother MSI Ms 7778 Jasmine and remember that you update the BIOS version 8.18.

  As I am looking for 2aeo on HP.com currently (according to the thread leading up to), I'm not find the same links I found last week when I went through the update. However, you can find elsewhere.

• Distnoted and Time Machine problem

  Since the update to El Capitan, I had a real problem with the stability of the iMac.  From time to time - a couple of maybe days, three times a day, maybe - it would just freeze with BBOD on the login screen.  So, in general, after wake from sleep or screen saver.  Execution of SSH on the iMac would show distnoted clocked at > 380%; kill that process would be to release all.  He seemed to be repercussions for this purpose - for example, Time Machine, notifications would stop appearing - backups work (depending on the Console) would simply not be notified.

  Anyway, I actually had my TM drive disconnected for more than a week now, and the problem occurred.  So it seems to be one of the three possibilities:

  • bad interaction between distnoted and TM or processes
  • defective drive.  It's a mobile hard drive from Lacie P9223 (but I also have a second desktop Lacie drive that causes the same behavior).  Disk utility shows no problem with either of the readers.
  • bad driver/firmware.  Maybe... in light of the same manufacturer.  I tried the update of the LaCie firmware but it just does not recognize the plugged into readers - I assume that the update is for one or more different models.

  Short run out and buy another drive from a different manufacturer - and who knows how different the internal components are really - someone has an idea how I could continue this?  Everything was ok before the upgrade; I remember that with a previous version of OSX external drives popular of some manufacturers stopped working, I had this problem at the time.

  Determine if the same problems occur when running in "safe" mode: OS X El Capitan: start in safe mode

• Time machine restore bugs too?

  I have MacBookPro Early 2015 with ElCapitan 10.11.4 installed on it. Offlate, MBP started erratic behavior, to be insensitive and frozen in the workplace.  Do not take the keyboard or touchpad controls.

  I took the latest TimeMachine backup.

  My question is if I restore the Mac with latest TimeMachine backup, he would restore the bugs too? If Yes, then what is the method to solve the bugs. And then, what is the use of Time Machine restore?

  If Yes, then what is the method to solve the bugs. And then, what is the use of Time Machine restore?

  The easiest solution is to simply remove the software that is causing the "bugs".

  The system itself and not operating not cause the problems you are having. They are probably caused by third-party software, but could be a problem with your trackpad or hard drive.

• What version of my file I respond Time machine?

  How Time Machine handle delete and updated files when rolling up hourly, weekly, monthly backups?

  -TM hourly day 1

  Monday morning: I have the v1 of 'myfile '.

  Monday afternoon: I have v2 "myfile."

  -TM rolls up day 1

  I have my backup file Time Machine Day1 V2.

  Tuesday: I have V3 "myfile."

  Newlyweds: I have V4 "myfile."

  Game: I remove V4 "myfile."

  ....

  -TM has day 1-7 in week 1, deletes the backups day 1-7.

  Q1: The last existing V4 will be there and can be restored, sauvegardΘ week1 - or not?

  -TM brings week1-4 months1, removes backups week 1-4.

  Q2: The last existing V4 will be there and can be restored, months1 sauvegardΘ - or not?

  Thank you

  Virtually everything known (by end users) on the behavior of the TM is here:

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

  Time Machine stores snapshots based on time, it is not a system of archives or a version control system. For these, you need other systems. Some OS X apps store previous versions of files.

  C.

• Folder by default, Time Machine

  I had this problem in Mavericks and now it also occurs in ElCapitan:

  I am in the Finder and want to enter Time Machine. The Finder currently on the top window can be anywhere on any of my internal or external drives.

  I will go into the Time Machine and the window comes down to my home folder. I then went back to the window, that I intend to display.

  This behavior was not there before the Mavericks, and I realized that it was a matter of Mavericks. Why then done in El Capitan? Is there some prefs to remove file or a way to solve this problem, while Time Machine opens the window that I am consulting?

  You can try to delete the .plist, but it may not work.

  Delete the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file (in your library folder level, not the library folder inside your home folder, where are most user preferences).