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• Time machine is unable to perform a backup. Not able to access the sparsebundle. Problem occurred first on snow leopard OS. Followed Dragon upgrade to El Capitan. Only difference has error code of 109 changed to null. What about someone?

  Time machine is unable to perform a backup. Not able to access the sparsebundle. First of all, there is problem with the Snow Leopard operating system. Dragon followed in the upgrade to El Capitan. Only difference was error code 109 changed to 'null '. What about someone?

  We need some info.

  You can access from the finder Time Capsule? If this isn't the case, then Time Machine will not work.

  You upgrade the computer snow to El Capo and keep the same name?

  If you want to backup, it is best to start again... clean the new backup any attempt to add a previous backup failed.

  I recommend that you actually erase the TC... do a complete factory reset and start again.

  The previous backup if necessary can be archived on a USB drive connected to the TC assuming that Airport utility can still access it. Airport utility accesses the TC?

  With update installs all sorts of things can go wrong... so tell me more if you can not get anywhere.

• My time machine is just stuck on the preparation of backup but does not - any help appreciated.

  Hi, my Apple Time Machine is just sitting on "Preparing Backup"... .initially it says cannot backup disks so I hard re - adjust time machine and now he is right on "Preparing backup" for hours and hours, any help would be appreciated.

  'Préparation' is going to take ages if you did a Hard Reset on the Time Capsule.

  Make sure that you are not trying to save more wireless, which will take 3 - 5 times longer, on average, that direct Ethernet connection between your Mac and the time Capsule.

  Even with a direct Ethernet connection, you might see "Préparation" for a few hours before the real return to start.

• 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.

• Time Machine is unable to retrieve e-mail

  I want to retrieve e-mail using Time Machine. I open my Mail box and launch of Time Machine. I can find the message and read it. When I hit the button recover Time Machine returns me to my Mail box but the message is not there. I tried several times but it isn't same after that I have rebuild my Inbox. How can I recover and old e-mail with Time Machine?

  Is it on my Mac?

  IMAP account must always be on the server

• Time machine will not be finished

  Time Machine won't complete a backup of 900 GB on my mid-2012 Mac Book Pro with 8 GB of RAM and 1 TB of disk. the OS is 10.11.2. The external drive is USB - 3 5 to Seagate and there is nothing else on the disk.

  24-hour backup. For the last three hours, I've seen 35 minutes remaining; There seems to be no progress. What could be wrong?

  

  Run the Console application - it's in your Utilities folder. You can find it by selecting utilities in the Finder go menu.

  If the list of newspapers on the left column is not already displayed, view journal list by selecting view list of newspapers on display menu of the Console. Select Show toolbar if it is not already displayed.

  Locate system.log in the list, and then select it. Many date and time-stamped entries will appear, hundreds of them, and you need to find the relevant entries to your Mac problem.

  Do that type backupd in the field of filter of the Console.

  One or more of these log entries may reveal the reason for the problem you describe.

  Copy and Paste the log entries in a response. If hundreds of same repetitive messages appear, please change them before posting. There should be no need of several journal entries.

  Most of the entries will be cryptic but will contain information that you consider personal as the name of your Mac. If you don't want the information to appear, delete or obscure when you post your answer. Leave enough information so that the Scriptures can be deciphered.

• Time Machine is unable to locate my missing document

  TIme Machine opens ok, I select Pages, TM back in time, I don't want to restore at this point, I click on Pages and a window says it's 'size calculation' forever. I am not able to focus on my missing document. What I am doing wrong?

  Is there a reason that miss me that you posted this on Photos for Mac forum?

  You can not open file from a TM backup - you must use the TM = tipn applicai to restore then you open once they have been restored

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

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

  LN

• 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."

• Need help | Time Machine: An external drive to an another external backup

  I have two external drives connected to my Mini.

  1. Elementary school: a 4 to format ExFat (because it must be compatible; he must remain this Windows format).  Currently, it is half full.
  2. The second: Time Machine.  It is currently formatted as OS X Extended (journaled).  I can change the format of it if necessary, although the documentation I've read online indicates that this is the required format.  He is currently empty, eagerly waiting to be filled.

  I recently had to upgrade both of these drives.  For the past three years or so this configuration worked.  Since migrating my data to the new material and permutation of readers, however, my main drive is now listed under Time Machine-> Options-> excluded items.  It is grayed out so I can't remove it from the list and can therefore be saved.

  Can anyone offer advice?  On the phone that I was told all upward could never work, but, again, I do this for several years (even on this version of El Capitan).  It was a headache Time Machine restore (perhaps because of the formatting), but at least my data has been backed up with precision.

  I was surprised (and dismayed) when, on the phone, I was told by the representative of Apple to get just Carbonite because what I do is impossible.

  You can read and write on the main drive of the Mac computer?

  Which lists Get Info for the primary drive?

  In particular, what is listed under permission & sharing. Post a screenshot of the window would be useful to read the information with wider sharing & permissions

• You want to restore only lost Apple Time Machine Mail. Is this possible without full system restore?

  I have an iMac with OS X (El Capitan).  I had to delete my email account in System Preferences due to a problem with my email provider.  Set up a new account.  Noticed that all my Inbox subfolders have been maintained, but kept in the Inbox emails have been deleted.  Thought that I have may be able to restore from a Time Machine backup, but don't want to do a complete restore of the system.  Is it possible to isolate and restore only Apple Mail?

  Yes.

• Time Machine do not wake the Macbook to perform backups

  I'm saving a Macbook Pro on a Mac Mini with OS X Server installed. Previously, I supported it up to a USB hard drive connected locally. It is 1 year and Yosemite, can it take hourly backups while you sleep as expected.

  In both cases, Time Machine works fine, except one thing... Hourly backups do not, occur when the computer is in standby. In other words, the Mac does not wake itself for the backup as expected (Power Nap is enabled.)

  I've seen similar to this, other issues involving a UPS connected by USB, but I have no one.

  What I tried:

  1. I did a clean (with format) installation of El Capitan of the recovery partition and did not restore from Time Machine (just dragged my music, photos, documents to their respective homes manually).

  2. I have also reset the SMC and the PRAM without effect on this issue.

  3. I upgraded 10.11.2 and the problem persists.

  4 past of connected locally to target (USB) for a target of network (on OS X Server) without change

  Starting from what a manual backup works perfectly and automatic backups occur as planned then I use the computer (that is, as long as it doesn't go to sleep).

  Energy Saver preferences are using default values, Power Nap is enabled.

  So my question is just... Before I contact support, does anyone know if there is a bug open for this report?  I * have * read the other threads and they speak very precisely a connected UPS number and that a fix was imminent in 10.11.2. The other owners of Macbook having this problem?

  Time Machine wakes you up only the Mac to perform a backup, if the Mac is connected to a power outlet. If you did that, then it might be a bug that I don't know a solution.

• Unable to see in the full backup

  Hello

  I can't see the full backup to my iPhone to iTunes to remove so that I can free up space on my mac

  What do you mean by incomplete?

  Did you delete the backup listed in iTunes > Preferences > devices?

  The following lists where the backup file > can you go and delete it?

  Find backups of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch - Apple Support

  You close iTunes?

• Interval of time Machine

  How can I set the interval of time machine.

  Hi peterfromerlangen,

  I understand that you want to change the time interval when Time Machine backs up your Mac.  You cannot change the interval.  However, you can disable automatic backups and choose to manually back up your computer when it is most convenient for you.

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac

  Backup using Time Machine

  After you set up Time Machine, it does automatically hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the month past and weekly for the past few months a whole. Older backups are deleted when your backup drive is full.

  • To back up now rather than wait for the next automatic backup, choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu .
  • To stop the automatic backups, turn off time Machine in Time Machine preferences. You can always back up manually by choosing back up now from the Time Machine menu.
  • To pause a backup, choose Stop Time Machine backup on the menu. To continue, choose Back Up Now.
  • To check the backup status, use the Time Machine menu. The icon shows what Time Machine backup , slowed down until the next automatic backup , or unable to finish the backup .
  • To exclude the elements of your backup, open Time Machine preferences in the Time machine menu, click Options, and then click Add and select the item to exclude.

  

  Your first backup may take a while, depending on the number of files you have. You can continue to use your Mac while a backup is in progress. Computers Mac some make backups, even while you sleep. Time Machine backs up only files that have changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.

  See you soon,.

• Time Machine blocked preparation backup

  Hi community

  Time Machine, I get the iMac to backup, Time Capsule 371 GB of the preparation phase of backup available 998 GB for one eternity, as others have reported.

  My system is an iMac (27-inch, late 2009), processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 12 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB video card and a physical disk internal 1 TB ST31000528AS Sata media.

  My last backup was September 16, 2016 @ 1257 GMT and my software was the last version of El Capitan.  (I backup to another external HARD drive, using Carbon Copy Cloner and backup guru Mac unfortunately I don't have a big enough other ext HDD to run a time Machine backup to as well).

  When the TC is connected I can see the iMac and iMac.sparsebundle backup folder and when I enter the time Machine I can see the chronology running back from 16 Sep and it allows me to access the files in the folders.  So, I guess that the disk HARD of TC is OK.

  Software changes have been: 1 MS a copy of CCleaner Free 1.14.451, 2 Ms Security Update 2016-001, 13 Sep Adobe Flash, 14 Sep 12.5.1, 16 Sep Digital Camera RAW compatibility update iTunes.  Never had a problem before with these downloads.  Safari updated September 20, then to Sierra 22 Sep having saved first using the CCC and MBG.

  Through the various pages of help through Google.  Follow-up advice given to reset the SMC and the PRAM, deleted Sophos home and com.apple.TimeMachine.plist and com.apple.TimeMachine.plist.lockfile.

  Rebooted and restarted the iMac and Time Capsule several times, done many backups check the reset even the time Capsule disk, but all without success.

  I'm still stuck in preparation of backup when I reselect the backup drive.

  Can someone help please?

  Finally, I had a problem in 2014 when Apple recalled the iMac to a HARD drive replacement program.  This was successful, but a few days later the Time Machine and time Capsule would not save.  This is due to the component change when the UUID was different.  The advice I would have given were to know how inherit backup and controls disk associated within the Terminal. Stupidly, I started again when the TC asked me to and then discovered the Terminal commands a few days later.  The loss of backups of 4 years was no big problem, so I suppose that if I have to, I won't again unless a member of the smart community can better advise me please?

  Good community

  I forgot to tell you that I save on a Capsule of 1 GB bought in 2010 with the iMac.

  Don't know how, but not before I finished posting my above query Time Machine kicked back in action and performed a backup pick up all the changes, about 50 GB since Sept. 16.

  He did once again this morning, so I'm sorry I can't post what Time Machine and my Time Capsule due action to act properly.

  Concerning

• Photos say too old version after restoring from Time Machine

  I tried to update my wife 5 c's iPhone but iTunes (version 12.4.3.1) kept saying unknown error (-50). I read that a possible problem might be something on an xml file in the pictures with a conflict or missing. I thought that this might be a good time to try my first restore with Time Machine. I thought I would restore Photos only a few hours of this day. While I was doing that in the middle of the restore, Time Machine was trying to make it's hourly backup and I got an exclamation point saying that he was unable to save. After the backup is complete, I tried to open the pictures and it says "library old Version, please update your library 'Photos' using iPhoto free library upgrade available at Apple. So I downloaded the file .dmg and still nothing. I don't want even if an earlier version of Photos, I want to what I had and I thought of making a time Machine would be restore was supposed to get back to how I had it. My Time Machine works again but the new backup, he's trying to back up my photo library. I know because I recognize the size of the backups as being the same size as my library of Photos. I went about this Mac and checked the storage. He showed my disk as empty and my regular hard drive on my Macbook Pro (retina 13 "- beginning 2015") showed use of backup almost exactly the same size as my library of Photos. A few moments later my external drive shows correct usage, but big backup on my regular HD space always shows the same backup use suggesting that it stores my library as a backup, or at least that's my guess. One thing that I tried was the Option key pressed when opening pictures to try to select another library that I have an old migrated iPhotos library in my folder of photos I thought that maybe Photos was trying to open. As a side question I was wondering if I could remove the migrated iPhotos library as whenever I click on it, more or less said that he has already been migrated, he discovers in a compatible version of Photos. I hope that I have given all the good news. If I'm missing something I apologize. I'm under El Captain 10.11.6

  I thought I would restore Photos only a few hours of this day. While I was doing that in the middle of the restore, Time Machine was trying to make it's hourly backup and I got an exclamation point saying that he was unable to save. After the backup is complete, I tried to open the pictures and it says "library old Version, please update your library 'Photos' using iPhoto free library upgrade available at Apple.

  What did restore exactly the time Machine? You write "Restore Photos", indicating you restored the Photos app, but the error messages seem to apply to the photo library.  You have restored a library of old Photos?  If you restored the photo library, try to open it directly by double clicking it or dragging it to the Photos icon in the Dock.