Hallo. My time machine cant do the backup. It cant make the folder for the safety-backup. How do I solve this?

Have a look at Pondini's Time Machine information pages: http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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If you're in a country where there's an apple shop (unfortunately not mine), go check it and ask the employee about it: he's gonna check your Iphone on a "device"
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Don't tell me to switch TM off... it's off!!!!!!

ascanio wrote:
Never used any of these apps... and I am not very fond of reinstalling the OS, since I keep it in really good shape already (Mac user for over 22 years).
Pondini wrote:
The easiest way is to select a disk temporarily, then turn TM Off.
Just don't use one if the message says TM will reformat, as it will do that immediately.
have you given that a shot ?
As of your experience, do you know any other setting file related to TM other than this plist in the root Library? I will look in the user lib as well...
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