Excluding items crashes prefs

Hi--
I'm trying to se up my new iMac with my existing Time Capsule. Because most of my music (and videos) are already on the TIme Capsule from another Mac, I'd like to exclude those items, but when I try to add items to exclude, nothing happens except that System Preferences hangs and I have to force quit. The invidual items don't show up in the list. I've done "select all" for the music, not wanting to select each of the hundreds of songs one by one.
Any suggestions? Should I just go to cloud and forget about the whole thing?
Thanks for any help,
Michelle

MMPJ wrote:
Hi--
I'm trying to se up my new iMac with my existing Time Capsule. Because most of my music (and videos) are already on the TIme Capsule from another Mac,
Do you mean another Mac backing-up to it, or have you put it there separately (ie, outside any backups)?
I've done "select all" for the music, not wanting to select each of the hundreds of songs one by one.
If you mean you got a list of all the music, then used Cmd-A to select it all, how many items are you talking about? It's not really set up for a huge list of items -- it may just be too large to handle. For most things, you can exclude a few items, or the folder(s) containg them.
If so, can you estimate roughly how many files you have, and how many or what percentage you want to exclude?
when I try to add items to exclude, nothing happens except that System Preferences hangs and I have to force quit.
Unless you have a huge list, that sounds like the preferences file (where OSX keeps the exclusions, etc.), is corrupted. Try a "full reset" of Time Machine, per #A4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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