Just logged into my iMac and got the following error. Bit worried, what happens now? Have I lost all my TM history form the start of TM backing up? Is my TC on the way out?
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
I use Time Machine to wirelessly backup my MBA to a Buffalo NAS. It will work fine for weeks or months, then I will see the dreaded "Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.” error. Of course this means I lose all my backups.I have researched this pretty thoroughly and I know that using TM with a NAS has some risk. But I am hoping to not have to resort to dragging out a USB drive everytime (daily) I want to do a backup.Can anyone share sucess stories of how they make TM work reliably with a NAS? Is it a Buffalo problem and a different NAS works better?
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iPad 2, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I was trying to set up my Time Machine to an external hard drive. I didn't continue because it asked to "initialize" the hard drive which I had a lot of important things on.
I have another external hard drive I'd like to use but, my Time Machine has this error code of -43. What is this and how can I use my Time Machine on another external hard drive?
Recently when booting Yosemite on my MacPro early 2009 I get a message "could not load time machine prepare" but I am able to open it. But when I try to connect to my Time Capsule I get a message, "there is a problem connecting to time capsule". My iMac and Macbook pro both connect to the same time capsule with no problem. It seems the time machine prefpane on the MacPro has been corrupted. What to do?
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Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I have an issue with Face time the soft didn't work so I decided to upgrade my OS from snow leopard to maverick.So I tried to log in on face time..First time I filled my identified Apple and my password ok,...It began to check my email never ending..I shut down my mac and re-tried then after filling my email and my password, I touch "next", "check" and face time goes back to apple Id...
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), recently upgrade from snow leopard
When I access time machine it shows the backup screens for all the dates but when I click on any one of them, that date comes up but I can't access any file or function on the screen. It either takes me back to the latest screen or scans back to the screen before the first backup (blank).
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Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I got the this Error while trying to partition my hard drive after deleting my boot camp partition and then trying to make my Macintosh HD the full 250gb... Partition failed with the error: Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed. After I got this error I went to the "first aid" tab in disk utility and tried to "repair disk permissions" then try it and got the same error...
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I have a Mac Book Air with Yosemite installed. I also have Time Machine backing up to a Time Capsule. Plus, two other Macs are backing up to the Time Capsule. The problem I am having is that the Mac Book Air backups are not working. It keeps say "Preparing Backup" then after a while it says "Stopped". I have tried deleting the "In Progress File" but this has not worked. The other backups on the other machines seem to be working fine.
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
When I try to restore to an earlier time time machine gives message, 'time machine cannot be altered or deleted as it is being used by yosemite OS X.
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Mac recent Mini under Yosemite and TimeMachine on Hard Disk (1To) ....
No problem before to restore a file by choosing a previous date with yosemite impossible to select a file and choose a date in the backup...
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Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), New recent Mini /Yosemite
I just discovered that I am unable to restore mail since about the time I first installed Mavericks over a year ago. Prior to that time I can see the mail in time machine and recover a specific email. Since that time forward there is nothing shown to restore. I am now running Yosemite. I rebuilt my inbox to see and after completing that it still is not allowing me to see the any mail that was backed up. So I can restore any emails from prior to the end of September 2013, but it appears I have no backups of email since that time. This is disturbing. So much for relying on Time Machine for backups.
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OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Since upgrading to Mac OS X Yosemite, when I open Time Machine on a folder, I can't navigate backwards in time anymore, on any folder. The arrows are grayed out. Usually, this is because Time Machine needs a bit of time to load older backups, but I have given it a few minutes to load and it still does not work.
Strangely enough, the only time that there is no problem is when I restart my Mac. Once I restart, then I open a folder and open Time Machine, then I can navigate backwards in time, almost immediately, too. But after that, no folder that I open in Time Machine in the future will allow me to move back in time, until I restart once again, then I am able to only navigate a single folder.
Things I have already tried:
- Repair Disk Permissions on Macintosh HD
- Repair Disk on Time Machine drive.
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Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 2.3 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD
My kids erased all my bookmarks from my Favorites Bar.
How do I recover them from Time Machine?
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Airport Time Capsule 802.11ac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have recently upgraded to 10.10 (fresh install and only migrated network settings and documents). I was setting up my Time Machine and choosing which folders to exclude from the backup when suddenly when I clicked on the plus button to add another directory the finder window shows all the folders as greyed out and unable to be selected. This applies to ALL files on the hard drive. Screen shot attached. I have performed a repair permissions and still a problem. Also performed a repair on the disk to and no change. Needless to say I have performed a reboot as well.
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I am doing a backup prior to my first ever format & reinstall. Time Machine will not allow my use of this external hard drive that I had previously used for a Time Machine backup . Time Machine says, " The backup disk is not in Mac OS Extended ( journaled) Format, which is required." how do I change it to Extended (journaled) Format?
Yes the external hard drive in question is meant for Mac.
(Late 2009 Mackbook6,1 w/Yosemite 10.10.1)
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MacBook (13-inch Late 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10), 1T SSHD
I am trying to organize my external storage for a new iMac with an 500G SSD drive. I have a new thunderbolt G-Raid drive and an aging Airport Time Capsule. I was thinking of storing music and pictures, as well as a Time Machine backup of the SSD, and storing a Time Machine backup of my music and pictures on the Time Capsule. Will I need to partition the G-Raid?
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), SSD drive
My time machine hasn't backed up since November 22. Every time it went for it's scheduled back-up it skipped and went to the next scheduled backup. When I tried to reconfigure the time capsule it won't let me select the disk that I would like to use for the time machine. Everything else is working fine (airport wifi at least). Here are some screenshots:
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Is there a way to get time machine to display contents of the caches and metadata folders? If not, is there another way to restore an earlier version of my Safari bookmarks? I have separate backups on external drives in addition to the time machine backup.
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MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Am I understanding correctly (from reading some other discussions here) that there are issues with Time Machine back ups and Yosemite, and that it's not just me having these problems? Since I upgrade I am having major issues with wifi connection being dropped and my Time Machine hasn't performed a back up in 19 days. It looks as though it will but stalls at "preparing back up". When it finally stops I get an error message saying it can't find the disc. I've restored the Time Machine to factory settings and started over more than once but still get the same message. Am I doing something wrong or is this an Apple issue?
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MacBook Pro
12 Months ago I bought an external hard drive WD My Book. After I download Yosemite, successfully, I have been getting messages that that my Time Machine was not backing up. When I open Time Machine I get a message Time Machine disc not connected. Also the Oldest Backup 28th Sept October 2013 - Latest Backup 28th October 2014. I have checked My Book and that is working OK. What is happening with Time Machine.
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Each time im doing a time machine backup, the external drive does not eject, the icon becomes pale, but remains on the desktop. But when I did not just make a backup I can eject it normaly.
My disc contains two partitions, one with the backups. When my problem occurs the first partition is ejected but not the Time Machine one.
I tried to reformat the partition but the problem persists. My hard drive is a GDrive mobile usb 1 TO purchased at the apple store.
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I recently upgraded to Yosemite on my iMac and now I can not access backed up data on my time machine. Time Machine will open normal, but does not allow me to click on different favorites to the left in Finder. I tried my other iMac which was also upgraded to Yosemite and even though this Mac is connected to the time machine via cable, I still can not access favorites in Finder. Seems like Time Machine is frozen.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
I had an iMac (1TB) and backed it up on a external HD using Time Machine (running Mavericks) Now i want to make changes to the Time Machine HD (I don have the iMac anymore) I have a 500GB MBP, so i cannot restore the backup.
Is there anyway i can make the Time Machine HD writable as i want to delete / move a couple of folders/files from it.
If i can boot from the TM HD also i am ok.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 500 GB HD
I accidentally deleted an important Numbers file on my iPhone from iCloud, and desperately need it back. I've tried using my Time Machine to reclaim it but as soon as i select Cloud Drive, Numbers folder, or user/Library/Mobile Documents i can't go back to any previous backups, my timeline tabs all show up in red.
running Yosemite.
I want to upgrade my macbook pro to Yosemite (I have mavericks installed). The Apple guy recommended me to backup. So If I backup through time machine ON my Mavericks macbook, Will I be able to restore it on Yosemite after installing it ?
I am asking this because time machine captures the "look" of Mavericks and Yosemite looks different. Will the (Mavericks)backup be compatible to Yosemite ?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
I have Yosemite 10.10.1 installed on a new MacBook Pro and Time Machine doesn't seem to be working as it should. When I enter Time Machine it doesn't give me any backups to restore from. I see a bunch of dates on the right but when I click on them, nothing happens.
I have a 1TB hard drive that is only about 1/2 full backing up to a 4TB Time Machine drive. I also have an iMac with 750GB hard drive with 3/4 of that full also backing up to the same Time Machine Drive. The Time Machine Drive says it has 1TB free so why can't I access older versions of files on the Time Machine backup?
This is happening on both the Macbook Pro and the older iMac which both have 10.10.1 installed.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 15", 2.6GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB Hard Dri
