Time machine says it didn't back up

I'm using a GoFlex Home wireless....finally got it to run a backup but now when I open Time Machine Preferences it says there is no Oldest Backup and no Latest Backup.  Another backup is scheduled however.  Any advice?

Start with C1 in the 1st linked article.
Time Machine Troubleshooting
Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

Similar Messages

  • Time machine says unable to complete back up an eror occurred while creating back up folder

    Time machine shows error message "unable to complete back up an error occurred while creating back up folder" No error code is diplayed but if I turn the whole system off and restart it time machine backs up just the once

    If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an 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. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
    Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
    View ▹ Show Log List
    from the menu bar.
    Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message that corresponds to a failed backup. Now
    CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
    so that all messages are showning, 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 (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
    If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
    If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
    When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
    Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
    Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

  • HT3275 what do I do when time machine says: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder?

    I am trying to back up my imac using an external storage: My passport Studio 1TB.  Each time it trys to back up Time machine says: Unable to complete back up. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.  Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? Thanks

    Plowie,
    Do a search in Discussions, "An error occurred while creating the backup folder."
    Many of us are having this problem and no fix has been offered, that I could find.
    Unless you call "eject the external HDD; turn off; turn back on" a fix.  That's what I have to do every 2 or 3 days; I even have to "force eject", with the concomitant warning message that you could lose data, etc.

  • My external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive. Same thing has happened with Final Cut Express.

    My new LaCie external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive.
    The same thing happened recently between Final Cut Express and my other LaCie external hard drive used as the Scratch disk. It fixed itself.
    I've run out of ideas. Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

    have you done some searches on FCPx and time machine? Is there a known issue with using a TM drive with FCPx? dunno but ...wait...I'll take 60 sec for you cause I'm just that kind of guy....   google...." fcpx time machine problem"  Frist page link 
    http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/fcpx-bug-best-practices-for-using-external-hard- drives-and-final-cut-pro-x/
           You cannot have time machine backups on your hard drive if you intend to use it in FCPX.
    booya!

  • My time machine says it is full after backing up 1.5tb from my hard drive.  The time machine itself is 3 Tb.  Should I reset it?

    I have recently acquired a new time machine 3 tb.  After backing up succesfully twice (My backup is circa 1.5tb) I get an error message saying there is not enough room to continue the back up. Maybe it is writing the back up as a different computer each time?  How do I check and create space?
    Thanks

    Seems to be very odd.
    BTW Time Machine is the software in the computer. What you bought is a 3TB Time Capsule.
    Both the TM application and the airport utility will show you the free space.
    If the freespace is reading wrongly as indeed it sounds to be.. welcome to Mavericks which I guess you are running.. (not old snow leopard as per your profile).
    Reboot the TC .. reboot the computer.. is there now enough space?
    Check by using Finder.. open the TC disk and check the size of all the sparsebundles you can find. There should be one, unless you have multiple computers.
    I also think you would know if it backed up twice the whole 1.5TB because it would take days and days to do it.

  • When I tried to back up my computer, Time Machine says 'an error occurred while creating the backup folder.' When I check the side of the partition where I manually saved old files, the folders are there, but NONE of the files are.

    I haven't backed up my computer in over a year. When I tried to back it up today, Time Machine says 'an error occurred while creating the backup folder.' When I check the side of the partition where I manually saved old photos and documents (including all the pictures from the year I studied abroad/traveled a bunch), the folders are there, but NONE of the files are.
    Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be, or how I could fix it? I really don't want to lose all those photos

    So you were doing a time machine backup to another partition on the same hard drive? Just trying to gather some information so i can provide a helpful response.

  • My time machine says it need more room to complete back up, how do i make more room? up

    My time machine says it need more room to complete back up, how do i make more room?

    Delete the old backups..
    There is a reason though for this to happen. Tell us what model Time Capsule you are using and what size disk it has .. how much free space is available and how much is now required. If you upgraded to Mavericks it probably needs to do a whole new  backup and simply doesn't have the space .. nor can it delete the old backup.
    Please read Pondini FAQ for details of these issues.. deleting backups for example Q12
    http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
    There is also info on how much space is required for backups.
    eg Q9

  • Time machine says back up is too large.

    I am trying to back up my iMac with Time Machine and a connected G-Drive.  I have deleted many old files and in Finder I have 320 GB available.  Still, time machine says: "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 210.66 GB but only 9.15 GB are available."  What to do? 

    Try C4 in the 1st linked article.
    Time Machine Troubleshooting
    Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

  • Recently installed a 1TB hitachi travelstar hard drive into my Macbook 10.6.8  however Time Machine says not configured hence cannot back anything up

    Recently installed a 1TB Hitachi travelstar hard drive into my Macbook (13inch mid 2010) OS X 10.6.8 .
    However now having problems with configuring , latest issue my Time Machine says Not Configured hence cannot back up using this device !
    Can anyone help ?

    You installed the new hdd with new install of Mac OS .. or did you recover your old TM setup??
    If TM cannot locate the Time Capsule .. is it visible in airport utility or finder??
    Are you even using a TC?? If you are using an external drive you need to spell it all out.
    Time Machine may not recognise the old backup.. you can usually inherit the old one.
    See B5 and B6 here.
    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
    Otherwise use A4.. delete the existing TM setup and reconfigure it from scratch. If you do that TM should discover and reuse the old backups if possible.. but a new hard disk might not be possible it may need to start over.

  • Time machine says back up is too large but there is room in my HD

    ok searched the forums but could not find the answer....time machine was working perfectly...then..suddenly stated that the back up was too big. TM says the back up is 255.5mb but when I do a get info on my HD here is what it says...capacity 232.76gb available 11.77gb....i thought TM overwrites older stuff...can anybody help. my external HD is 250 gb. the other odd thing is tm only shows two back ups now.
    Message was edited by: Chris Harmount

    Chris Harmount wrote:
    my back up drive is supposed to be 250G total. It says it has 185G available.
    My computer drive is also 250G total. It says that I have about 20G available.
    Time machine says my current back up is 260G??? I thought that 1. time machine overwrites old backups as the hard drive fills up. 2. I no longer see the history of when I first started theTM back ups. I only see one back up now and I can no longer use TM due to the error message?
    It sounds like you internal drive has about 230 GB of data and the entire TM drive is 250GB? that will never work. TM needs some head room to operate. I don't know how much exactly but I know that it does.
    also, i suspect that 250Gb is the advertised decimal GB capacity. the actual binary capacity is smaller and is probably around 230GB or less.
    You definitely need a bigger TM drive.

  • My time machine will not complete the back up.  It say that my sparsebundle is already in use.  What do I do and how do I fix it?

    My time machine will not complete the back up.  It tells me that my sparsebundle is alreay in use.  I currently have imac ungraded my sofeware to the latest.  What do I do to correct this?

    Try here...
    The Backup disk image ... sparsebundle ... is already in use.
    From Pondini’s excellent Information Here...
    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.htm

  • Time machine says my drive is full, but it's not

    time machine says my drive is full, but it's not. it is a 298 gig external drive with 51 gigs available. my internal drive on my lap top (the one I am backing up) is a 148 gigs with 44 gigs available. the backup folder on the external drive is
    152 gigs.
    how can i fix time machine so it can figure out that the external drive isn't full?

    Lisa W wrote:
    Thank you both for your replies. Something is seriously wrong with a backup program that needs that much extra space! So much for incremental back ups.
    It doesn't, necessarily. We still have no information on what's going on with your situation.
    It's a back up for a laptop and I would like to connect it to the backup hard drive once a week or so, but from what I read time machine only works one way... for a computer to have it active all the time.
    No. It works BEST that way, but isn't required.
    That just won't work for me for many reasons. Most importantly, time machine slows up my computer and I have to leave it off to run my applications.
    Then something else is wrong. Again, without any details, we can't help you determine what.
    There is no setting to have it turn on in the middle of the night or once per week.
    Not in TM itself. But there is a free 3rd-party app that will do this, Time Machine Editor: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/
    It would sure be nice if I could back up when I want. Seems like time machine is just one of those ideas that apple didn't think all the way through.
    You can. And TM works just fine for most people. There is something unusual in your setup, or the way you're doing things, that's causing your difficulties.
    Let's be clear: if you'd like some help with this, please answer my previous questions and download and post the messages from the wIdget.

  • Time Machine says both of my external hard drives require reformatting to case insensitive. What do I do?

    I have been successfuly using Time Machine to back my iMac  to an external hard drive (via usb) and everything has been fine for the last year. I have been using TM to back up to a HD called Terra LaCie via usb.
    A week ago, my iMac hard drive was full--so I spulrged and bought a 6 TB external hard drive (Western Digital My Book-Thunderbolt). I set up the new Thunderbold HD to use RAID 1 (mirror) and copied most of my iMac hard drive over to the Thunderbolt HD.
    I kept my working photographs (most recent) on my iMac and felt good to know my older photographs are on my new Thunderbolt hard drive.
    For a few days, Time Machine seemed to work fine (backing up my iMac to Terra LaCie HD. I haven't been concerned with backing up the Thunderbolt drive (as I feel that mirroring is same as backing up).
    Yesterday, Time Machine indicated the lastest back-up failed (for the HD called Terra LaCie). Now, when I go into Time Machine, the dialog box indicates the following message:
    "Are you sure you want to erase the backup disk “Terra Lacie”? Erasing will destroy all information on the disk and can’t be undone.
    The disk must be erased before it can be used for Time Machine backups because a disk you are backing up is case sensitive, but the backup disk is not."
    When I open Time Machine to look at my external hard drives (I also have a third usb portable drive); two of the three drives indicate the following:
    "reformat required; case insensitive disk".
    The small, portable hard drive (that I'm also using) doesn't say it needs to be reformated (but my new Thunderbolt and my old usb HD both indicate the same message (above).
    What should I do? I just spent days transferring my photographs from my iMac to my new Thunderbolt. Should I just not use Time Machine any longer and work from my Thunderbolt drive?
    Am I to understand that my iMac suddenly become case sensitive? Sorry if this was too much information about my hard-ware set-up.
    Any help someone can provide me would be greatly appreciated. I suppose I need to understand Time Machine and perhaps my Thunderbolt better.

    Hi BDAqua,
    Bravo, you helped me solve my problem.
    The Case Sensitive Disk was the small portable hard drive that I was using termporarily.
    I just disconnected it and I started TM machine and everything seems to be working just fine.
    Thank you very much!!!!

  • My Time Machine keeps repeating the error message "Time Machine could not complete the back- The back-up disk image "/Volumes/Data/User's iMac.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1). How can I fix this?s/

    My Time Machine could not complete the back-up.  The error message says "The backup disk image "/Volumes/DataUser's iMac.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error-1).  How can I fix this problem?

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
    See > http://pondini.org/TM/C17.html

  • HT3275 Why does my Time Machine say No Latest Backup even though I ran a backup?

    I have backed up my MacBook Pro several times to an external drive by following all the directions. But, the Time Machine says "Oldest Backup: None" Latest Backup: None, Next Backup: Today 11:19 AM. I have selected the drive and turned it on. Has it backed up? Shouldn't it say there was a latest backup?

    Enter Time Machine, via the application, to see if it has backed up. If not try C2/A4 in the first linked article.
    Time Machine Troubleshooting
    Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

Maybe you are looking for

  • 10g on SuSE 9.1 Pro issue

    Hi everybody! I am a newbie in this area (Oracle & Linux) and I need some help here... I have succesfuly installed Oracle 10g on SuSE 9.1 Pro (kernel 2.6.4), following the step by step procedures as described by Oracle (oracle user account, dba and o

  • OWB Repository Configuration Error

    Hi All, I am getting the following error when i try to configure the OWB repository. java.sql.SQLEXCEPTION - ORA - 22905 cannot access rows from a non-nested table item. ORA - 06512: at line 17. Please help me out in this regard as it is urgent. I go

  • Camera Profiles in CS3 Camera Raw 4.6

    I've had a major computer failure and had to buy a new one. I loaded PS CS3 again, did the upgarde which seems to have been  sucessful and now have Camera Raw 4.6, but when I go to look at the  camera profiles it only shows ACR 4.4, ACR 3.6, none of

  • Vendor-wise stock

    I want a report of material in a storage location vendor-wise. regards VS

  • Unable to update bootcamp in windows 7 enterprise

    I'm using Windows 7 Enterprise and bootcamp 3.0 on my MacBook. Problems is I can't update to bootcamp 3.1 manually or by software update. What's wrong