Mountain Lion and Time Machine does not work

After Mountain Lion upgrade I was able to backup once using Time Machine. Now TM suggest that I need 42 TB for my backup?!? I have 1TB hard disk on my Mac which has about 600GB of data on it. Time machine prepares the backup for around 10 minutes and then gives an error that my backup disk is too small (1.5TB) because the size of the backup would be 42TB. :-o I have booted my Mac, repaired permissions and searched for internet for tips. However, no luck until now. Any suggestions what could work?

Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup), launch Disk Utility, select the startup volume, and run Repair Disk (not Repair Permissions.) If any problems are found, repeat. Then reboot as usual.

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Time Machine could not complete the backup.
The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features.
What can I do to fix this?

Your network drive isn't compatible with Lion. See #C16 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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I Downloaded mountain lion and my audio input does not work. I am tryig to use it with Articulate.
I rebooted twice, I ahve taken out the external mic
I have looked in Utilities and see if the setting are muted but all ok
I have looked in Activity monitor
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Take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried.
1. If anything is plugged into the audio-out (headphone) port, unplug it.
2. From the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences ▹ Sound ▹ Output
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7. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store.
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*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed.

I have a 2013 macpro I upgraded to yosemite. Now I find time machine does not work, nor my old back up using a click free wireless back up. What is the status of time machine and yosemite?

What is the status of time machine not working with yosemite?
I upgraded mu mac pro to yosemite and since have found time machine does not work.
Also, my old backup via a clikfree wireless backup does not work any longer.
Is anyone working on this issue?
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yosemite get fixed?

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
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Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamp of the last "Starting" message that corresponds to the beginning of an an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showing, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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I just updated to OS X Mountain Lion and now Word will not work?
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You can also try Pages for Word / Numbers for Excel. Both can import/export Word and Excel files.

Upgrade to mountain lion, time machine does not work

After upgrading to Mountain Lion. My time machine does not save infomation anymore. I've also lost a folder on my macbook pro. This is the error message that I'm receiving. Please help
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time using URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Disk image already attached: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time /Charlie Soukhaseum’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
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Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time using URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
Disk image already attached: /Volumes/charlie soukhaseum's Time /Charlie Soukhaseum’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff65b209e10 {MessageParameters=(
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Charlie%20Soukhaseum;[email protected]/charlie%20soukh aseum's%20Time%20
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Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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That seems unusual unless you changed drives.
If you upgraded the drive it sees the computer as a different one to the original backup..
I am not sure that it isn't better to do a fresh backup but you can try and inherit the old backup..
See Pondini
B5 B6 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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Hi all,
I am having a problem with Airplay under Mountain Lion...but not under Lion.
On a MBP 13 (Summer 2009), I can use iTunes Airplay under Lion to stream music to both an Apple TV and to a Airport Express. In fact, I can play iTunes music on the MBP, the Apple TV, and the Airport Express simultaneously (all 3 or any 2 or any 1, individually). [Of course, Airplay display mirroring does not work under Lion, but iTunes Airplay does.]
On a MBP 15 (Early 2011), I can use Airplay under Mountain Lion to mirror the MBP's display on the Apple TV and thus through mirroring I can stream the music from iTunes to the Apple TV. I cannot stream from iTunes to the Airport Express, whether or not I an mirroring to the Apple TV. In other words, even when the mirroring to the Apple TV mirroring is Off and the Apple TV is off, I still cannot use iTunes to stream music to the Airport Express. Now the Airport Express speakers shows up as an option in the iTunes Airplay menu, but when I select it in the menu it does not do anything.
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...a little more experimentation...
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Switon

Time machine does not work properly in Lion

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I have upgraded from snow leopard to Lion but Time Machine seams to have a problem.
It continues to back up my files but I cannot enter the program to restore my files.

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Is this a known issue and is it any possible fixes in the near future?
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Thanks,
But i do not have a WIFI problem in general on my Mac, it's just Time Machine that does not reconnect with the backub network drive unit.....
All the rest is working fine.
This is what I get:

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Enter Time Machine does not work

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