OS X Mavericks :: Time Machine Menu Bar Icon Grayed Out?
Jun 24, 2014
In the above picture, you can see that the time machine menu bar icon is "grey" instead of "black".Â
It seems that backups occur as normal (when I click on the icon, and choose "Backup now", it seems to backup).
When I click "Enter Time machine", everything seems to work as normal. I can see the latest backup that I made by clicking on "Backup now".Â
- I have two external hard drives that I use for time machine backups.
- I use OSX 10.9.3
- Macbook Pro 6,2 Inter Core i7 2.8Ghz, 8GB Ram, 500GB HDD,Â
I have tried:
- Disconnecting both the external hard drives and reconnecting.
- Restarting my Mac.Â
Why is the icon grey
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Mar 19, 2012
When I go to the Time Machine menu and hit option to get the Verify Backup command, "verify backup" is grayed out. How do I verify backups?I'm using a G-Drive Mini ext hard drive with a Mac Lion 10.7.2 machine.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iLife '11; Microsoft Office fo MAC
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When I select 'Enter time machine' from the context menu of the time machine icon in the menu bar at the top, nothing happens. Otherwise it works fine and does its regular updates. I can see the result on my backup drive. But how do I now restore something if I have to?
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May 16, 2012
I was listening to my itunes through headphones today, and right after I took the headphones out, my volume icon and slider are grayed out and unresponsive, and my volume buttons bring up the volume square-thing with a white "no" circle under the volume level. I've restarted my computer multiple times, blown out the headphone input with compressed air, verified my disk through disk utility and it said everything is fine, yet the problem persists.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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I can find the "new folder" icon, but it is grayed out in the finder window. I am trying to add a new folder under the "administrator" log in on my Mac Mini and it won't let me and it won't let me under any user name. I am trying to add a new folder under the "Public" folder. I have search high and low on the internet and have not been able to find an answer. How do I turn on the ability to add a new folder?Â
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Ever since upgrading my 2012 Mac Pro to Yosemite, I cannot get the green Time Machine icon to stick. After the first Time Machine backup, which took many hours, the icon suddenly appeared all by itself. Then after a reboot, the icon reverted back to a generic internal hard drive icon (my Time Machine disk is an internal drive).  I went into settings and re-selected the Time Machine disk, then the icon came back by itself. On the next reboot, it was gone again.Â
I've run Disk Utility and everything appears fine. No, I've verified there is no custom icon set via the Get Info window, nor do I care to use a custom icon as a band-aide to this problem.  I'd like to find/fix the root problem. (I'll only apply a temporary custom icon if this a verified bug in the OS.)Â
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Mac Pro (Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 3.33 GHz 6-Core with 32 GB RAM
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 24-inch, Early 2008
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Mbook 08, iPhone4, 5th Gen ipod
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Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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OSX 10.9.4
MacBookPro 17" i7 2.2Ghz. - SSD 512 - 16GB
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OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 4 GB RAM, Win XP Pro-Boot Camp
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