Connection with iMac and Time Machine VERY slow

People
For the past of couple of days the connection with my iMac and Time Capsule has gone askew. The iMac shows the wireless connection at 5GHz with a transmit rate over 200. However, internet is slow and backing up about 300mb is in its 24th hour and it's only reached 180mb.
I don't understand what may have happened. The two machines have been best mates for a long time and now something's gone wrong. The only thing I did a couple of days ago is install the Update for the Apple Magic Mouse.
On the other hand, my MacBook, which also have the Magic Mouse update, has not trouble with internet speed - wireless, once again - and the Time Machine backups are happening without a hitch.
I bit the bullet and turned off the Time Machine and rebooted it. Unfortunately, it's made no difference.
Does anybody have any suggestions?

Both your 5 GHz band and the guest band have the same SSID unless you have assigned separate names to them. I think it's much easier to identify them if they have separate names of your choice.
If you have a separate name for the guest 2.4 GHz band, click on the Airport icon at the top of your screen and then click "Join other network". The 2.4 GHz band should appear as a choice and you can connect to it.
I'm using Leopard, not Snow Leopard so I don't know if things display the same way on our operating system. If you want your computer to connect to a given network:
Click System Preferences, then Network.
Click the AirPort connection on the left and then click the Advanced button at the lower right. You can drag the network that you want your computer to connect to first to the top of the list.

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          2 : Case Insensitive Key: Retry-After = <CFString 0x7fc952086140 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "3600"}
          3 : Case Insensitive Key: Via = <CFString 0x7fc9520cb850 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "HTTP/1.1 calgate003.cal.ac4.yahoo.com (YahooTrafficServer/1.19.11 [c s f ])"}
          4 : Case Insensitive Key: Age = <CFString 0x10a9fa110 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "0"}
          5 : Case Insensitive Key: P3P = <CFString 0x7fc952086050 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "policyref="http://info.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE LOC GOV""}
          6 : Case Insensitive Key: Date = <CFString 0x7fc95209e440 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:02:14 GMT"}
          7 : Case Insensitive Key: Server = <CFString 0x7fc9520b7490 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "YTS/1.19.11"}
          8 : Case Insensitive Key: Transfer-Encoding = <CFString 0x10bf826f8 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "Identity"}
          11 : Case Insensitive Key: Cache-Control = <CFString 0x7fc9520cff40 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "private"}
          12 : Case Insensitive Key: Vary = <CFString 0x7fc9520b67f0 [0x10aa25fd0]>{contents = "Accept-Encoding"}
31/01/2013 10:03:00.193 Folder Sync[495]: Scheduler: Run Check for 10:03
31/01/2013 10:03:23.921 iTunes[496]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x10717e180): Unexpected connection closure...
31/01/2013 10:03:23.923 ath[665]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x101b21180): Unexpected connection closure...
31/01/2013 10:03:25.439 mds[40]: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51
31/01/2013 10:03:29.551 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[141]: (com.apple.CalendarAgent[660]) Exited: Killed: 9
31/01/2013 10:03:29.000 kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 660 [CalendarAgent]
31/01/2013 10:03:45.425 iTunes[496]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x10717e180): Unexpected connection closure...
31/01/2013 10:03:45.427 ath[665]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x101b21180): Unexpected connection closure...
31/01/2013 10:04:00.203 Folder Sync[495]: Scheduler: Run Check for 10:04
31/01/2013 10:04:13.627 CalendarAgent[673]: *** -[IADomainCache init]: IA domains cache is out of date.
31/01/2013 10:04:16.750 Twitter[498]: will terminate
31/01/2013 10:04:16.789 Twitter[498]: Error: no oAuthTokenSecret set for account
31/01/2013 10:04:23.078 CalendarAgent[673]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.queue] [Account refresh failed with error: Error Domain=CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain Code=401 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (CoreDAVHTTPStatusErrorDomain error 401.)" UserInfo=0x7fca11285a50 {AccountName=Yahoo!, CalDAVErrFromRefresh=YES, CoreDAVHTTPHeaders=<CFBasicHash 0x7fca1160a910 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{type = immutable dict, count = 11,
entries =>
          0 : Case Insensitive Key: Connection = <CFString 0x7fca13581410 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "keep-alive"}
          1 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Type = <CFString 0x7fca11607420 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "text/html; charset=UTF-8"}
          2 : Case Insensitive Key: Server = <CFString 0x7fca11607450 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "YTS/1.19.11"}
          3 : Case Insensitive Key: Via = <CFString 0x7fca1160a8b0 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "HTTP/1.1 calgate007.cal.ac4.yahoo.com (YahooTrafficServer/1.19.11 [c s f ])"}
          4 : Case Insensitive Key: Age = <CFString 0x10f58b110 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "0"}
          5 : Case Insensitive Key: P3P = <CFString 0x7fca11610b00 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "policyref="http://info.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE LOC GOV""}
          6 : Case Insensitive Key: Date = <CFString 0x7fca135f2890 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:04:22 GMT"}
          7 : Case Insensitive Key: Transfer-Encoding = <CFString 0x110b206f8 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "Identity"}
          9 : Case Insensitive Key: Www-Authenticate = <CFString 0x7fca135f28c0 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "Basic realm="Zimbra""}
          11 : Case Insensitive Key: Cache-Control = <CFString 0x7fca116d2810 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "private"}
          12 : Case Insensitive Key: Vary = <CFString 0x7fca135f28f0 [0x10f5b6fd0]>{contents = "Accept-Encoding"}
31/01/2013 10:04:27.512 iTunes[496]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x10717e180): Unexpected connection closure...
31/01/2013 10:04:27.514 ath[665]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x101b21180): Unexpected connection closure...
31/01/2013 10:04:27.851 Dock[156]: trying to take pid 499 out of fullscreen but it is not the current space
31/01/2013 10:04:27.972 Mail[499]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0x0
31/01/2013 10:04:27.972 Mail[499]: void _NSMoveWindowToSpaceUnlessSticky(NSInteger, CGSSpaceID): CGSGetWindowTags(cid, win, tags, kCGSRealMaximumTagSize) returned CGError 1000 on line 1247
31/01/2013 10:04:27.977 WindowServer[106]: CGXSetWindowListTags: Invalid window 0
31/01/2013 10:04:33.945 iTunes[496]: 2013-01-31 10:04:33.944722 AM [AVSystemController] Stopping AirPlay
31/01/2013 10:04:34.218 WindowServer[106]: CGXGetConnectionProperty: Invalid connection 82119
31/01/2013 10:04:34.218 WindowServer[106]: CGXGetConnectionProperty: Invalid connection 82119
31/01/2013 10:04:34.219 WindowServer[106]: CGXGetConnectionProperty: Invalid connection 82119
31/01/2013 10:05:07.671 mdworker[671]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
31/01/2013 10:05:08.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(680) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
31/01/2013 10:05:08.457 sandboxd[680]: ([671]) mdworker(671) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
31/01/2013 10:05:21.289 com.apple.SecurityServer[16]: Killing auth hosts
31/01/2013 10:05:21.289 com.apple.SecurityServer[16]: Session 100012 destroyed
31/01/2013 10:09:59.228 WindowServer[106]: CGXRegisterWindowWithSystemStatusBar: window b already registered
31/01/2013 10:10:15.787 mdworker[697]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
31/01/2013 10:10:16.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(810) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
31/01/2013 10:10:16.708 sandboxd[810]: ([697]) mdworker(697) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

Unable to set wireless connection with imac and Canon MX860 printer ...

I recently converted to a Mac and bought a Mac Book, iMac, Airport Extreme, and a Canon MX860 printer. i have installed the canon software numerous times on my iMac to set up the wireless connection. yes, the airport extreme recognizes the printer and i am able to connect to my private and guest networks. the signal strength is good. It's the next part that I'm always stuck at. The Printer settings does not display when i choose More Printers and select Canon IJ Network. I called Apple support and we tried changing my network settings to an unsecured network and it still has the same issue. It was recommended this may be Canon driver issue and advised me to contact Canon. I reset the Airport, changed my network name and password .. i think i tried everything and it still does not work. What was I thinking when i said i wanted to convert to Mac? I can't move forward and connect my macbook or pc yet until I successfully connect the imac. Yes, i installed the latest canon IJ Network tool. of course the USB connection is fine but that defeats the whole purpose if why i bought this printer. please advise how to fix. this is getting very frustrating.

Some help at http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV352LL/A perhaps in the comments.
And maybe at http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PIXMA-MX860-Wireless-Printer/product-reviews/B001R4C 5BK in the comments.
"I ran into the same network installation issue that I've seen in other Canon printers. Canon's network setup forces you to connect by USB cable first. Only after you tell the program that you want to use the computer over the network can you remove the USB cable, move the printer if needed, and if you're using a wired connection, reconnect a network cable. The process isn't particularly difficult, but it's more cumbersome than what other printers let you do, which is simply put the printer where you want it, plug in an Ethernet cable, and install the software." source = http://shop.pcmag.com/shop/product/pcmag/84634068.aspx?SB=6&OB=1
"MAC wireless network printer setup requires turning off firewall, and works fine if you leave firewall off (not recommended). If you set firewall at "essential connections only," wireless networked MX860 won't work. You must add MP navigator and solution apps to your firewall enabled list. Then it worked fine on the admin account, but still won't work on users account which required additional permission settings and selections. After 2 hours it worked fine, but I would've expected better instruction manual for MAC." source = http://cnet.nytimes.com/multifunction-devices/canon-pixma-mx860/4852-3181_7-3352 9769.html
"The only trouble that I have had with this machine is setting up the wireless network. The manual instructions are impossible for me to understand and I ended up having to call for assistance. Which easily solved the problem. And again when I had to reconfigure my network settings it was impossible to follow the logarithm of instructions in the manual. Again I needed to call for assistance. If I need help after the year manufacture's warranty I will be charged for these calls." source = http://www.zimbio.com/InkjetPrinter+Reviews/articles/1932/Canon+PIXMA+MX860+Wireless+One+PhotoPrinter
Even Windows people have trouble:
"I NEED INTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CONNECT MY HP LAPTOP TO THE CANON MX860 PRINTER."
"I'm with you. I have my mx860 connected usb to my pc with the printer being shared but my wireless laptop can't find it no matter what I try."
And, unhappy Vista person:
"I had high hopes for this printer - it seemed to have it all. But the wireless feature never worked, it only worked on my gigabit network for about two weeks (only THREE print jobs including the test print), and never observed it to work via USB - Vista (x64 Ultimate) would throw an error saying it could not attach the device."

How big a hard drive do I need for iMac and Time Machine?

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere already. I am going to buy an iMac, probably the new 24" with a 320G internal HDD. I already have one Lacie external 320G HDD so I was wondering whether I can use this for Time Machine backups, or do I need to buy a bigger one? If so, how big? Is there a rule of thumb for working out how much hard drive space you need to have for Time Machine, for instance if I were to buy the 500G iMac what would I need?
thanks.

I agree with the "double the size" rule of thumb. You should also consider how much of the 320GB you are actually using and are likely to use in the next year or two. After all, it's the amount of storage you use that matters, not the size of the disk. Disks will very likely be cheaper soon. You should also keep in mind that TM deletes old archive data when it runs out of disk space. So as long as you have more disk space than you have data to back up, TM will work, though you will lose older versions of your data.
So if your 320GB drive only has 100GB used and you're not the kind of person who eats up disk like there's no tomorrow, the 320GB drive should be fine for now. If you expect that 320GB disk to be full soon then a 750GB TM disk is more like what you need.
The same logic applies to a 500GB iMac. If you only expect to use 250GB in the next year or two then a 500GB TM disk should be OK. A 1TB drive will be a lot cheaper next year or the year after.

Direct connect macbook air and time machine

Any idea how to direct connect my macbook air with my time machine?
I am wanting to do a large restore from my old mb to my new air. This would take 18+hours over my network.
Few tidbits: my time machine isn't the newest version so it doesn't have a thunderbolt port. One usb and several ethernets.

Complete an Time Machine backup of ypur old machine to an external USB hard disk
If the Air is "brand new", you are in luck. Use Setup Asistant on the very first Boot. Upon that boot, the system will aks if you would like to transfer files, applications and settings from another computer. You would then attach your USB disk, the Time Machine Backup, and direct the sytem to import all the information from the TM backup.
Here is everything you need to know, and more.

Failing imac and time machine backup reliability?

my imac is having some issues - symptoms include 10+ minute start up time, spinning ball during simple tasks such as opening a folder, disk utility failure to repair, even disk warrior consistently froze. apps freeze. calendars disappear from ical. time machine is reporting lots of errors (viewed in console), and it's running pretty hot. plus, when i ran disk utility from the install disk, it failed as well.
so i'm bringing my imac back to the genius bar again. the initial thought from my first trip to the genius bar was the fan was failing. once they opened it up, they said it was just dusty, and after cleaning it up, assured me it would be fine.
so a few weeks later, it's acting even worse. so i called apple care again.
the apple care people first said it was something to do with the directory being very badly damaged since disk utility and repair attempts were failing and unable to complete. the most recent apple care person said the hard drive was failing since it wasn't mounting (and showed up light gray) during the most recent disk utility / repair attempt.
i bought two new external d2 quadras, and i'm in the process of making a second back-up via time machine.
console is reporting odd errors. here are a few:
CoreEndianFlipData: error 4940
unable to rebuild path cache
event store UUIDs don't match for volume: HD
Journaling is disabled on the backup destination volume
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume
my biggest question is, how reliable will these back-ups be on my external drives from time machine if there's something going on internally with the imac?
if they need to install a new hard drive, or install the OS again, and we do a restore from time machine, would the back up be reliable? on my first external, the back up initially failed. but after leaving it on for a day, and repeated attempts, it finally became successful. still with those same messages in console, but it completed the back up nonetheless.
thanks for any advice. i'm disappointed that disk warrior couldn't help, which makes me think there's something else more serious going on perhaps.
thanks for any advice.
susan

ungabunga wrote:
CoreEndianFlipData: error 4940
unable to rebuild path cache
event store UUIDs don't match for volume: HD
Journaling is disabled on the backup destination volume
Was that followed by a message about enabling it, or if you check it via Disk Utility, is it enabled now? If so, it's fine.
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume
None of those are real error messages. If the backup completes normally, it's fine (as long as you didn't exclude anything important, and as long as the iPhoto app wasn't open, as that can prevent Time Machine from backing-up the changes to your iPhoto library.)
See #A1 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum) for a handy widget that will display the backup messages from your logs.

2 external hard drives with iTunes and Time Machine

Hi folks.
My 160gb hard drive on my iMac is full so I've bought 2 x 1tb external hard drives, my plan being to move my iTunes library to one of them (as this uses the majority of space) and run it from there and use the 2nd hard drive with Time Machine.
My question is this, will Time Machine backup any changes to my iTunes library if it isn't on the computer's internal hard drive?
Thanks!
Brian

Just be sure the iTunes volume is formatted +Mac OS Extended (Journaled).+ Most drives come formatted for Windoze, and TM can't back them up.
See #1 in [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Using Snow Leopard+ forum) if you need to reformat and aren't sure how.

Trouble with itunes and time machine

i am having trouble with my iphone and thought it may have been itunes, so i went into time machine and tried to replace my current version of itunes with the last one. Everything went fine until i got right to the end of replacing it. it said i didnt have the authorization to do that...or something along those lines... now i cant even open itunes, ill click on it and it just bounces once and thats it. can anyone help me!?

I haven't been able to back up to my FreeAgent external hard drive
The TM disk is your backup destination and I assume it is the Seagate FreeAgent disk. The source is your Mac.
Wireless. I have a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive plugged in by USB to the mac.
You say it is connected via USB, yet your are saying backups are done wirelessly.
From Terminal, can you post the output of tmutil destinationinfo (remove any personal information as you see fit)?

Time Machine Very Slow

I hope somebody can help with this. I'm about out of ideas.
The problem -- Time Machine is taking anywhere from 30 min to 1 hr or more to do an incremental backup. It takes so long that as soon as a backup ends, another begins.
The source disk is my system disk. Macbook Pro circa 2007. OSX 10.6.8
The destination is a 1.5T OtherWorld Computing external drive, partitioned into four parts, one reserved for Time Machine. Working fine in other ways.
The backup always happens in two steps, always the same, the first is about 147,000 files, the second, about 84,000.
The size of these files is tiny -- 147,000 files can equal as little 5 mb. That is essentially meaningless -- it would mean that each file is just a few bytes.
And it takes a LONG time to back up these tiny files. Several SECONDS per kilobyte.
I've done all the steps listed here
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/D2.html
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/A4.html
I finally ran Disk Warrior and, low and behold, that seemed to solve the problem. But then I upgraded to 10.6.8 and things are now moving at a crawl again. I ran DW again, and formatted the destination partion and started over. No good. Same thing. Maybe worse.
Help! Anybody have any ideas? I'm about ready to give up on TM. Would it be worth starting up in safe mode and running a backup from there as a test? I'll try anything at this point.
Steve

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
That is quite slow, but as other posts say, might not indicate a problem.
A couple of things you can do that might speed it up:
Exclude your TM disk/partition from any anti-virus scanning.
Also exclude it, at least temporarily, from Spotlight via System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy.
There might be a clue in your logs. download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget from: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. If you see something there that seems suspicious, copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).

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