OS X :: 10.6 - Backup Failed And HDD Filled Up?
Dec 25, 2009
I was making my first cloned HDD backup since upgrading to 10.6. I plugged in my external HDD and asked Superduper to do a smart update, but after coming back 4 hours later, I have found that the backup failed, and my 500GB is full! Now, I have inspected my hard drive and found that the operating system is intact and all of my current files are here but how did my HDD fill up, and where are these excess files? I am sure that Superduper somehow failed to copy the files to my external HDD and somehow placed them on my Macbook's HDD... but how do I find them?
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Feb 7, 2010
I was backing up my computer today and apparently my hard drive filled up in the middle of the back up so I got a notification telling me that Time Machine had deleted an older back up to make room for it. I need things that are on that back up...is there any way to recover it?
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May 3, 2009
I have a 1tb external for time machine back up and have about 750 gb of stuff to back up. I was under the impression that when time machine backs up my stuff it will automatically delete the oldest backup to create room for the newer backup.
My problem is that i did a back up a couple weeks ago and then today i go to back up and it tells me back up failed only 718gb available for 740gb of stuff to back up
anyone have this problem? how can i fix it?
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Aug 12, 2009
I've had no issues with data backup on my external hard drive since I got my iMac over a year ago. There was always plenty of space to make daily backups and last time I looked my data was backed up from about January.
Yesterday my backup failed for the first time. The volume saved to disk is 223GB and the computer says there's not enough free memory for further backups (only about 9.5GB left). Going into Time Machine I can see I've lost all my backups before yesterday lunchtime.
I've been trying to identify what I might have done to cause this and the only thing I can come up with is data capture overload during the importing of video from a camcorder into iMovie and/or Final Cut Express. Is it possible there are stray files left over from my video editing that are clogging up my system? I've checked out my Final Cut Express Documents files but nothing here seems to add up to the huge amount of data which seems to be causing this problem. If this isn't it then I don't know where all this extra data has come from... How can I find out where this extra data is which is preventing Time Machine from backing up?
Is it possible there is some problem with Time Machine configuration? Right now the configuration window reads this:
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Mar 3, 2010
I just lost an entire semesters worth of work and countless other files because my five month old computer's hard drive failed? Apple replaced the drive but told me it could cost an additional $500-$1000 to recover the data off my old drive? Granted, it was my fault for not having a backup in place since August, but I live in cramped quarters, travel a lot, and never have the space to lug around my external HDs, and I thought I could rely on having a computer's HD work for more than 5 months before crapping out. I'm furious right now. I've owned Macs since the 1990s, and I've never had an issue like this before today. I guess I can spend the $1000 now to get my work back.
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Mar 25, 2012
My time machine is not backing up my files anymore. Everytime I start it, it prepares for a very long time (maybe 30min or longer) and then eventually does start. But in the middle of the backup, an error pops up saying that I need to verify the space needed for the backup. But there is definitely space on my back up drive and Time Machine also recognizes the external harddrive. I've tried re-backing up a few times already but it doesn't work properly each time. I can still enter Time Machine and see the older back ups.
Info:Mac OSX (10.5.7)
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Apr 19, 2009
i want to re-install my OS from scratch. so i used SuperDuper to backup my HD onto my 1TB My Book but something went wrong. this is my first time trying this so i have no clue why it didn't work.
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Jun 2, 2010
We just came back from vacation 2 days ago; I checked time machine. It says latest backup is delayed; then latest backup failed; next backup when disk is connected. I have a WD external hard drive. I check to see that it is connected to my IMac and is plugged in for electricity. Restarted my imac - same problem. There is no lite on the WD; does it mean it died? Or what can I try? It is less than 2 yrs old.
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Jun 1, 2012
My orginial MacBook got stolen a few weeks ago and luckily my insurance bought me a new one. However, I have just managed to get hold of my external hard drive, which had my backuped time machine files on it.
So I went to my files from my time machine and this is what I did.
I went to the Time machine icon on the top of my screen and clicked on "Browse other Backup disks". I then clicked on my external hard drive and it opened Time Machine and then I found my latest update. I then clicked restored and the files got copied from my time machine to my new Mac.
The problem that I have discovered is that I restored my files incorrectly and that all I have just done is copied the files over and not restored my MacBook.
Now that I know how to restore my backuped files correctly, when I try and do it, I do not have enough space on my computer, because I still have the copied files on my Mac. I have tired to find the files without any luck on my computer. All I can think of is deleting my hard drive and start again, but I do not have the OS disks as Apple no longer supplies them when you buy a new Mac or it just didn't come with my new MacBook Pro.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 16, 2012
This morning everything was fine, but then it happened out of nowhere.Usually my MBP does it Backups on a Synology DiskStation212j, but today it got some errors. [code] Since the backup is made on a NAS i can't use the DiskUtility to repair permissions..(My NAS doesn't have any Errors)
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 2, 2012
I lost the main HDD on my Mac G5 running Panther 10.4. I have a TM back up onto an external drive and bought a new internal drive.How do I restore all my files from the external back up to the new internal HDD so I can run my computer as it was.
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Power PC G5, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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Mar 30, 2012
I bought a new drive and need to get my Time Machine files off the old failed drive. I'm sure there are plenty of discussions about this but I can't find any. (I so dislike the new design for the support communities.)The old drive sometimes lets me access TM so I want to take advantage of one of those times to get everything across. I know it is a very slow process if it can be done
Info:Mac Mini 1.83ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Great for a while.
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Jan 1, 2010
iMac 2.66 GHz, 640GB hard drive, 4 GB RAM.
I have a Western Digital external hard drive used by Time Machine. Worked perfectly for a few months. Now every day, I get a message that a backup failed because the disk appears to be read only. I launch Disk Utility, and run Verify Disk It finds nothing wrong. I ask Time Machine to back up again, and it does and continues hourly for the rest of the day. The next day, the same thing happens all over again with the read only problem.
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Apr 27, 2012
The OS X 10.6.x Server running Time machine, it runs daily backup to external HD, it is fine, but for couple of days, it failed, is there any logs or message that I can read what is going on? The external HD connected with firewire 800 and it still have enough space, so I think it is not a space problem
Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6)
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Sep 12, 2014
Time Machine reported it failed backup due to the shortage of disk space. But I see the total space of partition is 192GB，the whole backup snapshot estimated is 177.56G.
The massage said that " failed backup, 52.85 GB is needed for backup but it's only 25.17 GB available."
I know it's 166.35GB of ancient snapshot still exist, but why not OSX to delete it automatically and release more space for new snapshot?
By the way, I can't delete those ancient snapshot in Finder manually, perhaps permission denied.
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Apr 16, 2012
This happens frequently lately: "Latest backup failed. Files couldn't be copied on backup-disk because it seems to be Read Only. After I "verify" the disk in Disk Utility, it works for a while, then the same problem. What can I do?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Dec 8, 2014
2104 Mac Pro 10.9.5 250gb hd 32gb ram
All of a sudden this morning my Mac Pro hard drive filled up with data...completely. I had a Finder window open and watched as the available space went form 90gb+ to ZERO. About this Mac shows over 100gb of "Other" data and ran Space Gremlin and it shows 207gb of "Restricted" data.
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Work Desktop
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Oct 1, 2010
So I have a macbook pro old model.Recent Problems:graphics card failedsystem crashed had to reinstall system crashed again and would be stuck on apple logo
now after i reinstalled SL after the stuck on logo problem my mac was fine.3 weeks later which is now it started to lag,slow,unresponsive.So i tried repairing disk utility and FAILED then i tried reinstalling osx FAILEDthen i had to delete my whole harddrive :*( and reformated the harddrive.FAILED AGAIN.calling apple is a no because i already called alot before so now they want to charge.So did i reformat wrong? something?
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Jun 2, 2009
It was working last night. Now it says backup failed everytime. Whats going on? I've tried permissions, ejecting, restart, etc.
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Sep 9, 2009
I am new to Mac-have recently migrated from PC to a dear little MacBook.This may be a server problem, but thought I would ask. Suddenly my inbox filled up with 1500 old emails (3-4 months' worth all marked "unread").
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Apr 10, 2012
I just updated my iMac with the latest suite of automatic upgrades and now launch pad has 100s to 1000s of files in it. What happened and how do I get rid of all this junk? Scrolling through the launch pad just crashed my computer.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 13, 2012
I just updated my iMac with the latest suite of automatic upgrades and now launch pad has 100s to 1000s of files in it. What happened and how do I get rid of all this junk? Scrolling through the launch pad just crashed my computer.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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I recently received an iMac as a "gift"... turns out it has some problems. I am unable to reinstall the default OS (Mountain Lion) because I have yet to be able to partition the HDD correctly. The error I keep getting is: Partition failed with the error: Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed.At this point, the default Macintosh HD isn't showing, so it must of been erased/deleted.
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iMac
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Apr 28, 2009
I had my mac over the past 2 years, I filled it up. It got to the point where I only had 12 gbs of memory left. I know it is not good to fill a comp up, but a lot of applications started crashing. I got a 500 gb internal drive thinking this would help, but apps keep crashing, or "not responding". When I "force quit" them and restart them they work but it is annoying to have to keep doing that.
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Feb 12, 2010
My Trash is filled with very large files which I deleted from my Time Machine Backups. I tried to empty the trash many times and each time it took an age to prepare and delete and even then, it didn't delete it. How do I force the trash to empty and to empty quickly rather than take 12 hours? Is there a command line I can use or anything else which will do the job almost instantly?
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Apr 1, 2010
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Jun 21, 2014
After syncing my iPhone (4S, 32GB, iOS 7.1.1) with my iTunes (iTunes 11.2.2) on my MBP, iTunes said:
The data on the iPhone is corrupt, restore it (or something similar, my iOS is in German). iTunes did not even recognize my iPhone anymore.
So I did restore the iPhone from the last backup from a few days ago. Everything looks fine during the backup process. iTunes resets the iPhone, then syncs all my music (about 16 GB or some 4,000 titles).
But after completing, the music is not there! The iPhone's memory is filled with 18GB "other data" (the yellow one, you know), and when I open "music" on the iPhone, it is completely empty.
Obviously iTunes DOES transfer the music files to the iPhone, but they do not "arrive" there properly.
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Sep 19, 2010
I would like to Export or be able to transfer my Auto Filled UserNames and Passwords from Firefox to another MAC i have.Where would i find the Saved Data for all my 1000 Auto Filled Usernames and Passwords.. ??
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Jun 15, 2012
My MacBook Pro would not boot this morning. Did a safe start and then everything worked except Safari. It quits immediately with a screen filled with letters and numbers. If you click on the Reopen it does the same thing. Tried the utilities / Disk Utility / Repair Disk permissions ... still doesn't work.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1
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Apr 22, 2012
When I look at the utilities it shows that half of my hard drive is taken up by files listed as "other". I just moved most of my photos and movies onto a separate hard drive but these "other" files, when combined with my others, leave me little space on the hard drive. How can I remove these "other" files (if I can)?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
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