HT3275 Hi anyone help me with time machine issue,

I'm getting message, 'the backup disk image "Volumes/data/Colin M's iMac.sparsebundl is already in use.... and that Time Machine could not complete the backup... so for now can't complete any backups? any solutions or fixes, I'm mistified!
Colin

No mystery.. this is the most common fault reported here.. you are about number 6 today..
If you look down the front page of this discussion are there still should be one or two.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4944252?tstart=0
Do it the easy way.. pull out the power cord on the TC.. count to 10.. (it gives the caps time to discharge). plug it back in.. voila.. crude but effective power switch..
It will in 90% of cases now work.
Welcome to the new Apple. That makes products that need continual reboots to work.

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P

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
pacoclandestino1 wrote:
What i need to know is if it is possible mirror my Imac,System,data,settings,files.. everything) into an external HD to later install OSX into a new machine from the external HD, so the new machne is exactly as this Imac am sellng?
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pacoclandestino1 wrote:
I never backed up my osx via Time Machine before,does it takes long in copying for he first time?its a 250GB internal drive...
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sudo rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
Press Return
Then
cd /
Press REturn
Then:
sudo rm -r /Users/yourname
Press return.
Then:
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Then, shut down the machine immediately.
-mj
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Error log. Can anyone help me with time capsule??

Ok my problems started when I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
So today I tried again using an ethernet connection. Took ages to verify back up and then prepared for back up and then failed. Here is my log
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Martin%[email protected]/TC01%20MJM
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Martin%[email protected]/TC01%20MJM
Running backup verification
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Backup verification passed!
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
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Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Martin Murray’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb
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Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
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Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Applications/Adobe Bridge CS4/Plug-Ins/multiprocessor support.plugin, /Volumes/Backup of Martin Murray’s MacBook Pro/Backups.backupdb/Martin Murray’s MacBook Pro/2010-07-25-152744.inProgress/7DAFB63C-32BA-4824-9546-AEFA2F7CC9E9/Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Bridge CS4/Plug-Ins/multiprocessor support.plugin
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Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Martin%[email protected]/TC01%20MJM
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
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Martin

mjm81 wrote:
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Applications/Adobe Bridge CS4/Plug-Ins/multiprocessor support.plugin
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Sharlo wrote:
So here's my question: After reinstalling system TM started normal back-up procedure and I get message not enough space on external disk. I use 200Gb for around 100Gb that I have on my computer (I know not so much but works well for me). What I do not get is why does TM need around 30% more space compared to the space I'm using (wants to back-up 130Gb) and why is it not backing-up the system I've just installed but tries to back-up everything from scratch? Is there a procedure to back-up only changed files since the last version?
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powpow wrote:
So, my 2003 iBook was dying a slow death and I had to reinstall Leopard. I did a Time Machine backup first.
After the clean install, I migrated apps/files and all of my applications seemed to transfer fine, but my bookmarks for Safari and Firefox did not import automatically?
Is this a bug? Can I find them somewhere on the Time Machine backup?
Thanks!
The Bookmark directory is located here:
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Where YourAccount is your username.
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Mine will NOT finish any backup so it's constantly running the HD. THe onscreen panel will say
"Backing up 132,386 items" and "492.2 MB of 492.2 MB" and it just keeps thrashing the drive.
For hours, I mean.
I told it to "Stop Backing Up" (on right click popup menu) and then I went into "Time Machine Preferences" and turned it off with the switch and clicked the padlock to lock it in the OFF position, and it's STILL RUNNING.
The only way I can stop it is reboot, cold.

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I've installed Boot Camp because I wanted to play an old game. I understood eventually that laptops are not made for that purpose (my one year old MBP was heating too often and I didn't like that). Unfortunately even during that period I've started experiencing some oddness when switching to Snow Leopard 10.6.2. Eventually I've decided to uninstall Windows and after three hours playing with Snow Leopard in order to make it as it was before I understood I'm not qualified enough to mess with plists and I do not know what else, so brut force solution - reinstalling entire system from the Time Machine.
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Thanks in advance and cheers,
Sharlo

Sharlo wrote:
So here's my question: After reinstalling system TM started normal back-up procedure and I get message not enough space on external disk. I use 200Gb for around 100Gb that I have on my computer (I know not so much but works well for me). What I do not get is why does TM need around 30% more space compared to the space I'm using (wants to back-up 130Gb) and why is it not backing-up the system I've just installed but tries to back-up everything from scratch? Is there a procedure to back-up only changed files since the last version?
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First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
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HT3275 Hi anyone help me with time machine issue,

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