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• 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."

• Time Machine hangs on the Application file that I deleted

  Hello:

  I'm doing a new installation on my parents computer because Flash Player was completely broken somehow. I can't uninstall or update.

  This isn't my problem right away well. Their backup disk was on his last breath so that I had to get a new and Time Machine hangs first various office applications, which I excluded, now it's of iDVD. I tried that it excludes everything first, but Time Machine has always tried to save. Given that my parents don't use it and it is no longer supported then I thought to uninstall. I deleted the program and demand corresponding is support the file and did a search in the Finder for all of the remaining files. No, zip.

  However, Time machine is still backing up files which I can't find for the life of me. He would make iDVD themes 1, 2, 3, etc. I can't exclude in Time Machine because he's not here. I deleted the partial backups each time and it keeps immediately suspended 19,25 GB on iDVD.

  Please, Please help. I spent a ridiculous amount of time is already and should just get this done.

  I look forward to all points of view.

  Thank you

  Justin

  Edit: misspelling.

  Try re-indexing of Spotlight.

  Spotlight - re - index

  Start with A4 in the 1st article linked.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

  Troubleshooting backup problems

• Copy the old Time Machine files to the new disk TM

  Sorry people, I have to ask two (related) questions:

  (1) I have a WD My Passport for Mac drive connected to an Airport Extreme and 2 Macs use for backup via Time Machine. Now, the disk is full. I bought a WD My Book for Mac drive with a capacity of 4 TB and am ready to go.

  Question: can I copy the old files of Time Machine on my new book?

  (2) until now 2 different Macs used the My Passport as a Time Machine drive with no problems.

  Question: Should I partition the new drive (My Book) and every Mac uses its own partition as Time Machine or can proceed us as is?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  Question: can I copy the old files of Time Machine on my new book?

  Yes you can, but there is a lot of work, a little complicated, time consuming and not worth the effort for most users.  The main reasons for this are...

  (1) the older backups will take a good amount of space on the new drive, limiting the space on the disk again.

  (2) Time Machine backups for the old files will continue... it will make a new copy of every Mac and then go forward again with incremental backups.

  A better plan would be to keep the old drive on hand for a few months, in which case you need to go back and look for a file. After a few months, you will have a beautiful story from backup to the new hard drive and no need of older backups so you can remove the old disk and keep around as a spare part or use it for other purposes.

  Question: Should I partition the new drive (My Book) and every Mac uses its own partition as Time Machine or can proceed us as is?

  While you can partition the drive and save each Mac to a separate partition if you wish, there is really no need to do this since Time Machine will automatically create separate for each Mac backup files.

• Time Machine indicator on the menu bar does not turn when you save

  Got two iMacs a 24 "OS 10.6.8 and one running OS 10.11.4 27" and both have supported by Time Machine.

  On the 24 "when running the backup takes place the indicator Time Machine on the menu bar. On 27 ", this does not happen. Although this does not mean that Time Machine does not work I have when even being able to see what happens sometimes as I then know backup is done. Any ideas?

  Tony,

  Read: Re: Time Machine "icon" in the old system (2006 iMAC w/OSX Lion) used to rotate. With the new MacBook/OSX it doesn't. for an answer to your question.

  

• I have an attached external hard drive, I selected through Time Machine. But Time Machine also save the hard driver separately?

  I have an external hard drive attached I selected through a Time Machine, I found in the system preferences. Is - this time Machine even save the documents that I have on the hard drive? In other words, I want to be sure I have two back ups until I upgrade of the OS,

  Time Machine backs up all the readers who were not placed in the exclusion list.

• I need to reinstall photoshop elements 8 after having problems with my hard drive. I use MacBook Pro and a timemachine. After restoring the program of the Time Machine, I got the error 6 code: a license for this product has stopt working. How can I cancel

  I need to reinstall photoshop elements 8 after having problems with my hard drive. I use MacBook Pro and a timemachine. After restoring the program of the Time Machine, I got the error 6 code: a license for this product has stopt working. How can I cancel it?

  See here:

  Error "Licensing has stopped working". Mac OS

• Transfer Time Machine backup on the new disk, preparing already > 24 hours!

  I followed the instructions on the web site (Time Machine: how to transfer backups from a current backup disk to a new backup drive - Apple Support -essentially a copy via the Finder) and after more than 24 hours the copy process is still "preparing to copy" and lists currently more than 4 million items.

  Yes, I have a large number of files, 2.65 TB of info I want to spend on a new disc of 6 TB, but this method of copy will take too long. I'm afraid I have to stop the process of copying in the morning, because I have to take my MBP on the road.

  Is there another "clever way" of making a Time Machine backup on a new external drive?

  You can try using the software clone to make a copy, but I'm afraid that the size of the data you are trying to copy will take a long time with any method.

  I suggest starting with a new Time Machine backup disk 6 to and leave the old time in the form of a Machine archive to use if necessary.

  Software used to Clone:

  SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/

  CCC http://www.bombich.com/download.html

• Time Machine backup after the installation of the Sierra

  I installed Sierra, which lasted 1 hour and went well. Everything was in place. I did a clean install with El Capitan, so I've updated with Sierra. I connected external drive, kept saying PREPARATION BACKUP, but she never did.  Just stuck.

  Does anyone else have this problem?

  Resolution?

  It is normal for a backup after an upgrade of the operating system to take some time.

  Please read If a backup time Machine takes longer than you expect and Sierra macOS: If Time Machine is slow.

• Cannot transfer Time Machine backups on the new drive

  I store my backup Time Machine on a Seagate 1.5 TB drive when the drive starts giving errors.  I had files on this computer and was able to transfer all except for 2 who were on unreadable sectors.  Fortunately, one of these files was an older archived version that I could afford to give up and the other was a temporary file in the photo library and since all other items were okay, I think I'm good.

  The problem came when I tried to transfer my Time Machine backup of 800 GB for a new disk.  When I copy and Exact-paste (cmd-opt-shift-v) the Backups.backupdb to the new drive, it gets the extent of November 23, 2015 and then dies because reports of the Console to the system, it gets an IO error when you try to read:

  /Library/SystemMigration/history/migration-245250B6-4F52-4FBB-BD61-546A8C19CCD5/ QuarantineRoot/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64

  in the relevant backup.  And because it's an IO error it simply abandons the whole process so I have no backup from November 23, included, for now.

  Because the disc is unstable, I wasn't able to use disk utility to make repairs on it.  The disc is what is and I have to deal with the mess, that I do not have the disorder, that I would have.

  I tried to manually place the missing files in the database, but the operating system will not let me.  I want to just copy my backup / OS X stop abandonment and be more like Windows and give me the options to "try again" or "fail" instead of just quitting!  I mean, why should I lose my backup all hierarchy of 23 November and beyond, simply because you cannot read a file, a file that I could simply replace in the backup of the current version or you can just ignore it.

  I tried to copy files on and setting xattr on them to be backup items, but they are wrong.  I tried chflags parameter to make the writable directory, but it does not work.  I can't copy the missing files to fix my archives.  Help.

  Please, don't try to transfer backups of a failed drive. Placing the disk aside until you don't know no longer you need the data, then delete and recycle. Start a new backup set on the new drive. For more security, you always have more than one backup.

• Is - this time machine back up the record of the iCloud drive in the Finder?

  Background: I recently started using iCloud drive on my iMac with OS X El Capitan 10.11.5. I also continue to use a 3 GB CAP to automatically back up my computer using time machine.

  Discussion: I copied some files more in player iCloud (under Favorites in the Finder) folder to appear on my drive to iCloud. Obviously the synchronization service iCloud provides is great, but I want to that I am also able to backup these files on my time capsule as well for peace of mind, and it would be a nuisance if I constantly have to move files out of the iCloud drive to another location on my computer to make sure that the files are also backed up regularly on the time capsule.

  Question: Time Machine also backs up everything (all types of files - excel, pdf, word, etc.) that I added in iCloud drive folder on my computer?

  Thank you!

  Yes. Time Machine back to iCloud by car, but not where you'd expect.

  Look for the path below in your Time Machine backup...

  

  It's YOURdriveNAME > users > YOURaccountNAME > library > mobile Documents > com-apple-CloudDocs

• Time Machine may be the cause of spinning wheel

  I run a diagnostic test of material on my computer iMac 27 "end 2012 with 24 GB memory and running OS X 10.11.4 and found no problem.  I ran some more test scope and her found no problem. Over the past 2 weeks I started randomly get a wheel that rotates when I return to the computer or try to log in after it was locked. Opportunity, it won't let me log on, all I have is a spinning wheel.  I chatted with Apple and they have me delete some files in my library. This did not help.  I think the problem is with the time machine because I have noticed that this problem begins when the hourly backups are missed. I have a 3 GB CAP and an external hard drive. Backups run every hour for readers. I think that maybe it's time capsule which is the culprit, but I don't know about you. My time capsule is a 3 TB Apple I bought in November 2015.  No matter what advice would be greatly appreciated that the wheel rotation and freezing my system is getting very boring.

  These must be run as administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

  Please launch the Console application in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Step 1

  For this step, the title of the Console window should be all Messages. If it isn't, select

  SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ all Messages

  in the list of logs on the left. If you don't see this list, select

  List of newspapers seen ▹ display

  in the menu at the top of the screen bar.

  In the upper right corner of the Console window, there is a search box to filter. Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes).

  Each message in the journal begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the BOOT_TIME message that corresponds to the last boot time when you had the problem. Now, clear the search box to display all messages. Select those recorded before starting, during the time that something unusual was happening. Copy to the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command + V.

  For example, if the system is unresponsive or unable to stop for three minutes before you forced a reboot, post the timestamped messages within three minutes before the start time, not after. Please include the message BOOT_TIME at the end of the extract from newspaper - not at the beginning.

  If there is a long series of messages, please post only one example of each. Do not post of many repetitions of the same message.

  When you post a journal excerpt, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

  Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

  Please don't dump blindly thousands of lines in the journal in this discussion.

  Please do not post screenshots of log messages - text poster.

  Step 2

  In the Console window, select

  DIAGNOSIS AND diagnostic USE information reports ▹ System

  (not diagnose them and use Messages) in the list of logs on the left. If you don't see this list, select

  List of newspapers seen ▹ display

  in the menu bar.

  There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points downwards. You will see a list of reports. A crash report has a name that begins with the name of the process crashed and ends with ".crash". A report of panic has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends with ".panic." A report of stall stop has a name ending with ".shutdownstall". Select the most recent of each, if any. The content of the report is displayed at right. Allows you to copy and paste to validate all of the content, text, not a screenshot. It is possible that none of these reports exist.

  I know that the report is long, perhaps several hundred lines. Please report all this anyway.

  If you don't see any report, but you know, there was a crash or panic, you can have selected diagnostic and using the list of Log Messages. INFORMATION on the USE of DIAGNOSTIC AND choose instead.

  In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you change the UUID ' anonymous, ' a long string of letters, numbers and dashes in the header of the report, if it is present (it cannot be). "

  Please do not post other types of diagnostic report - they are very long and rarely useful.

  When you post the journal excerpt or the accident report, you might see an error message on the web page: "you have included content in your post that is not allowed", or "the message contains invalid characters." It's a bug in the forum software. Thanks for posting the text on Pastebin, then post here a link to the page you created.

  If you have an account on Pastebin, please do not select private in exposure menu to paste on the page, because no one else that you will be able to see it.

• How can I PREVENT Time Machine back on the wake from sleep?

  I leave my machine on the work week and when I finished the night, I SLEEP there.

  In the morning, he has no need to backup first thing. But Time Machine insists on execution from the moment I have a mouse and he wakes up from his sleep.

  It was fine when it was new and fast, but now he is old and slow (especially - but mostly because I really push to the limit with multiple Safari Windows opens and executes a large number of software design at the same time, I have to do for work).

  My question is simple:

  How to tell Time Machine to does not have a return on the wake from sleep? or;

  Say this do not back up from 06:00 to noon? or;

  Is it a third party plug in that allows me to customize the time Machine more?

  Another idea on what just said or it to no return for even the first hour or two when it comes in the morning or even in any time to sleep during the day. Automatically.

  I also have my drive main external file mirroring AND use Super Duper once per day to fool the internal drive (I total plan control) AND back up all files off site (I total plan control). But, Time Machine is also always at hand to get it done. If only I had a little control over it, so she did not have the necessary step back up the minute I sit down. Significantly slow down my work time productive morning!

  Time Machine really shouldn't bog down your machine that badly.

  If Time machine running interferes with your ability to use the machine, then something else is wrong. It shouldn't affect performance in this way.

  If it's all just "annoying"... Well... Why is this a big deal?

  Maybe you should run a report Etrecheck and post the results here. If something is moving your system, which can help us identify what it is.

• migrate time machine again Mac... then re time machine without duplicating the entire hard disk?

  Hello

  It should work, but it is not for me!

  My MacBook Pro retina is 3 years old. Running the most recent El Capitan.  I time the Machine every day, and everything's fine.

  You just bought a new MacBook Pro to replace my old.  All the information has migrated to the new machine through Migration.

  Everything worked successfully, and my 'new' machine is a 'mirror' of my old.  (Finally, especially!)

  But now... after a few hours I want to re-time Machine my new Mac to the same backup drive Time Machine I just migrated to.  I use about 200 GB on my Mac, and he wants to take about 2 hours and re back up everything!  But I've only added a few emails in the last 2 hours. My question - WHY Time Machine wants to fundamentally rewrite all or most of my data again?  It's all there and nothing is changed?  My current user administrator name is the same on both.

  Hmmm... I saw somewhere my old mac was named Larry (2) Mac and I see it now has named Mac Larry (3).

  I did that, I guess El Capitan did.  Would be - which is why he wants to rewrite all the data?

  Thank you very much - I think I'm not the only one out there who has this from happening?

  Larry

  Hello, Larry Cohen,.

  I understand the desire to have a time Machine just continue to use the existing backup with the new computer. It takes time to backup everything, and unless you erase the disc, first you'd have muliple backups on it.

  This article gives the instances when you can have the new Mac inherit the backup.

  OS X El Capitan: If you want a new Mac "inherit" your backup history

  Best regards.

• time machine updates when the iMac is in sleep mode

  Should I stop using energy saver, when is my time machine backup. In the past, I noticed that when I was copying files copying stopped when the machine went to sleep snd started again when I woke the machine.

  What is there to back up on your computer when it is ' sleep?

  I put my iMac to sleep every night.  Never a question of backup w/Time Machine because there is nothing to back up!