HT201514 cant open time machine preferences from help page

I just purchased a new I MAC and I am trying to connect my new mack with the time machine I bought with my old mac
I have been to help trying to gain access to the time machine preferences so I can make changes. But when I click on the
help high lighted Open time machine preferences. What am I missing here. the computer seems to have found the time machine
but I cant make the changes I want to , or chk to see about deleting backups.
thanks
navbob

See the green box in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #19.

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I just did a clean install of Lion on my macbook pro. I used migration assistant to pull most things over, but not everything. I was going to go into Time Machine to pull out a few documents, when I encountered this error message. I clicked on Open Time Machine Preferences and got: An unexpected error occurred (error code -6584). Does anyone know what this means?

Snowmeister wrote:
"iMovie cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure iMovie works with this version of Mac OSX. You may need to reinstall the application" - this doesn't make sense, as I have reinstalled OS X)?
Are you re-installing from the original grey DVDs that came with your Mac, or from a retail SL installer? The retail version doesn't include iLife.
The OE discs should have iLife on disc 2, so if that's what you're using you can re-install from there.
As to what CleanMyMac has done, I don't know. To alter the apparent processor signature seems very odd. Maybe some of the other guys around here can come up with a theory.
Cleaning caches is totally unnecessary unless there's a specific problem to address; caches are there to help speed up the Mac. If you clear them, you slow down the Mac until all the various applications and processes have rebuilt their respective caches.
Removing language files can be tricky too. Remove the wrong ones and the System will cease to boot.
Likewise for fonts.
Logs are mostly harmless to clear, but they are there for a purpose too; to help you find the source of problems. In any case, the daily maintenance task built in to the OS does all that's needed in that regard.
Could be that one of those logs may have been able to tell you what that junk did.
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I just got a new MBA and want to restore some apps from my MB pro that has a larger disk drive than my new one.
So I don't want to restore everything as it will not fit on the new computer.
Can I restore some of my apps and folders from a previous MBP backup ?

You can do that through Migration Assistant (in /Applications/Utilities) > http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html It lets you choose which apps and folders you want to restore.
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I'm running into this new problem after upgrading a client MBP to 10.6.2.
I get an error message when trying to open the Time Machine Preferences:
The document "TimeMachine.prefPane" could not be opened. System Preferences cannot open files in the "Mac OS X Preference Pane" format.
Has anyone seen this?
I'm using Time Capsule for the backups. It is setup to extend a network with another Time Capsule.
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shellie619 wrote:
Time machine stopped working - my Mac is a problem in itself. I need to do a backup before I take my Mac to Apple to fix - so I try to go into Time Machine Preferences and I get the error message: You cannot open Time Machine preferences because it doesn't work on an Intel-based Mac. - ***???
Any suggestion please - I am down to the wire and need the backup today.
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That's a new one. It sounds like something has been copied from a PPC Mac, or something's been corrupted so badly it looks like that's where it came from.
Can you do a +Back Up Now+ from the TM icon in your Menubar?
If, as you say, TM "stopped working," you'd have to figure out why and fix it, anyway.
Can you make a partition on your TM disk that's at least 10% larger than the data on your internal HD? if so, your best bet might be to download CarbonCopyCloner. It will make a full bootable "clone" of your entire system on a separate partition. It's donationware, available at: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

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Hello. I have an icon on my computer that says time machine and when i select the open time machine preferences, it takes me to my set up for my airport extreme.. is this correct or is time machine something additional that i would purchase to set up?

Thanks for the star and no problem, I would recommend that you get yourself an external drive though for backup. With any computer not having a backup system is gamble and sooner or later you will lose. If you do decide on a TM backup drive it would be wise to get one that has Firewire or Firewire 800 connections (for speed) and it should be about 2x the size of your interal drive if possible. Once you connect one TM will automatically back up your system and continue to back up every hour only backing up changes and addtions. So for example if you keep music and pictures and are continually adding material to your computer those are memories that you don't want lost if your machine has a failure, TM will help prevent that from occuring. It is one of the coolest features of Leopard. Two pieces of good news, TM is simple and external hard drives are fairly inexpensive these days.

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Connect your backup drive then open Time Machine preferences. Click on the Set Disk button and select your backup drive and click on the Use Disk button. Click on the Options button and locate whatever you wish to EXCLUDE from your backup, if anything, then click on the Save button. Now click on the large Slide Switch ON/OFF gadget to enable Time Machine. That's all there is to it.
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obesity wrote:
It was really empty. Clicked on, nothing.
But no prohibited signs, like these:
Get info on folder, zero kb. Just one user account on each mac.
I did navigate back several days prior to my Mac dying. Still nothing.
Sounds like it may have been excluded, or perhaps damaged.
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^^ that's the main problem. Here's the full history.
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NeoOffice (similar to Open Office.)
LibreOffice (a new direction for the Open Office suite.)

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