HT3275 Time machine icon yellow and not backing up

Had hard drive repaired and wiped clean computer, now time machine icon is the yellow color not backing up and can't find it in system preferences. I am able to open and access files though. How do I get TM to back up on new system?

The colour of the icon doesn't matter. The best resource for time machine problems is ...
http://pondini.org/TM/
Pondini FAQ

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HT3275 Time machine at home and it will not allow me to remove the listing of my external hard drive from the excluded files list.

Please help guys, I have a Time machine at home and it will not allow me to remove the listing of my external hard drive from the excluded files list.
I am trying to use time machine to back up the hard drive. For backing up from Macbooik pro and Imac, there is no problem. It seems to not want to allow the external drive to be removed from the Excluded list and as such will not back up from it.
Is there a way to be able to transfer files (music, movies etc) to time machine, format the external drive then put the files back to hard drive?
Sorry it is a long winded question but it is driving me nuts that I cant sort this out.
The <Macbook and Imac are both running mountain lion.
Thanks Guys

As for the hard drive to which you have never been able to write, is it by any chance in NTFS format? OS X can read NTFS for importing files, but it does not contain code for writing on an NTFS volume. That's a choice, not a bug.
There is third-party software available to install NTFS-writing capability into OS X. An example is Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X. Another alternative would be to use a disk format that both Macs and Windows systems can use for both reading and writing; this would require either a new drive or erase the existing data.
If by "the new system software" you mean OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you may want to repost that portion of your query in the Mavericks forum at https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mavericks . I haven't made the leap yet.
I don't know what other problems you have been having, so I cannot comment on them. You don't seem to have any other recent postings on these forums.

Re: TIME MACHINE on MacBook Pro - not backing up automatically

Hi,
I am new to the forum so I hope someone can help me.
I have a MacBook Pro running Leopard. I have a MAXTOR one touch 4 mini 120G EXTERNAL hard drive attached (I brought it before all of the bad comments about maxtor I have read). When I plug it in Time machine recognizes the drive however does not automatically back up. When I select preferences under next back up there is no time just --. I am able to manually backup by selecting "Back up now" from the Time machine icon on the Dock.
Is there something I should be doing?
I have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the hard drive without success.

Welcome to the forums.
Not sure I can help, but here are the obvious things to double check. Forgive me if this all seems super obvious, but once you do all these steps, if you are still having problems then we will know that its not something simple. Its always best to eliminate the obvious.
1) right click Time Machine in the dock, and select "Time Machine Preferences..."
2) In TM prefs, flip the "big Switch" to OFF.
3) Click on the "Change Disk..." button. Reselect your Maxtor and click "Use for Backup"
4) In TM prefs, click on the "Options..." button make sure nothing is excluded (unless you want it excluded). Hit the - minus sign to un-exclude something.
5) Now turn the Big switch back to on.
6) Close out of prefs, sit back and wait and prey to whatever higher being you believe in.
NOW if none of that worked for you (give it some time), then your next step is to wipe your Maxtor. Turn off Time Machine (the big switch in prefs) and use Disk Utilities (in /Applications/Utilities/) to Erase your MAxtor drive. Format it as HFS+ (journaled). And on the Erase tab in Disk Utilities, click on the Security Options button, and choose the second choice down to zero your disk. It should say something like "Write zeores".
Once you have completely wiped the drive, and reformatted it as HFS+ journaled, then you should set up Time Machine again (pointing to the the newly formatted disk). Obviously remember to turn Time Machine on with the big switch. As before, the first backup will take awhile. Once it is done with that first back up, restart your mac, and watch it for the next day to see if the problem is fixed.
NOW if that doesn't work, im at a loss.

HT3275 Time Machine doesn't see the back-up disk

Time Machine doesn't see the back-up disk after I've logged off and then back on, even though the disk is available to the iMac 24/7. Turning the disk off and then on in the current session works, but this seems to defeat the purpose of an unattended back-up disk. I can't find a setting that ensures the back-up disk is recognized after log-in or restart. Is there a solution?

Is this Mountain Lion??
It seems to have made some changes that make the disk drop out.. it does this even if you are continually connected to the TC and we don't have a solution yet.
For your login issue, is the TC using a disk password.. or are you setting it to default? Could you try just turning on the guest account in the TC to read and write access and see if this helps. Tell us how it goes.
There is another fix.. but it involves using disconnect all users from v5 airport utility.. Apple removed the function in v6.
If you are on Lion or Mountain Lion even you can install the v5 utility.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.

Can time machine be set to not back up when certain programs are open?

Yes, time machine can be turned off manually before playing games downloading a large file, etc. Is there any way for time machine to not back up while a specified game or program is open? Or is there an app that helps with this? Thanks!

Jeffery t wrote:
Thanks for the links, but I don't see in the pondini links, the scenario I am asking about.
Time Machine can easily back up multiple internal and/or directly-connected external drives and partitions simultaneously (but Time Machine cannotback up data that's on a network).
From the first link.
Jeffery t wrote:
... Please note that my iMac internal drive is backing up to external drive number 1 using time machine. I want my pictures on external drive two and those backed up to external drive three. So are you saying that if I have 500 GB of pictures on drive number 2, I will need a third drive that is at least 1 TB?
the confusion starts in your above statement...
There should be Only One Time Machine Drive.

Time machine blincks orange and goes back no further than 10 days

loosing work is always a stressful affair, time machine malfunction on top of it drives me up the wall

I assume you mean Time Capsule (Apple hardware that combines a wireless router and hard drive, often used as a destination for backups made by Apple's Time Machine software)?
If so, that means there's some sort of problem with the Time Capsule. Use Airport Utility to see what the Status is -- if it's not "Normal," there should be an indication of what's wrong.
It may be simply an indication that the TC is near full -- that could be why you only see 10 days of backups. That can be caused if there isn't enough room on the TC's internal HD to back up your Mac. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #1.

Time machine icon not rotating during backup

I'm doing my first Time Machine backup after installing Mavericks yesterday. The Time Machine icon seems frozen - not rotating as before during the backup. A glitch or just something new?

In the Finder Preferences set what folder you want new Finder windows to open to:
That should set the Finder icon in the Dock to open to the window you want.
As for the closed side pane, in a Finder window with the side pane showing bring up the View options and click on the Use as Default button:

Time Machine skipping files and folders

Running OS X 10.10.2 on a Early 2009 Mac Pro. System installed on a 256 GB solid state drive. 10 GB of memory.
I'm having a problem with Time Machine where it's not backing up some of my files and folders. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it, but it includes very, very important things like the parent directory for projects I'm working on, arbitrary hash directories in some git repositories, an assortment of emails, Messages attachments, random preferences files, and somehow the entire contents of my Pictures folder. And probably more -- I haven't checked everything.
I've recently forced Time Machine to do a full traversal when it made a recent backup (and confirmed that it was a full traversal by looking at backupd's output in Console.app), but these files are still missing.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do to fix Time Machine? I just want it to do a full backup, not skipping anything.
As a last ditch effort I could blow away my Time Machine drive and start from scratch, but I really, *really* don't want to do that because it contains several months worth of backups, and I occasionally do need to go back and get older versions of files.

It is a nasty bug of OSX 10.9 and 10.10 . Some workaround is described here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/170219/time-machine-is-skipping-files-a nd-folders-how-to-fix/170336#170336 by Pete.

Time machine icon does not rotate and back up icon on desktop does not show during backup session.

Time machine icon does not rotate and back up icon on desktop does not show during backup session since I installed Maverick. Why? How do I fix it?

That's the new look of it. No way to change it other than file a complaint with Apple. If ENOUGH people do thst they may "fix it".
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Time Machine appears to be doing back-ups, but they do not appear on the external hard drive. The last one I can find is June 30. I did a utility scan of the hard drive disk and it is fine.

Time Machine appears to be doing back-ups, but they do not appear on the external hard drive. The last one I can find is June 30. I did a utility scan of the hard drive disk and it is fine. What do I do?

Click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar. The time of the last backup is shown in the drop down.

Why is the Time Machine icon in menu bar not spinning when backing up? It stop working when I changed to Maverick.

Why is the Time Machine icon in menu bar not spinning when backing up? It stop working when I changed to Maverick.

my imac came with lion and don't think it ever span with lion and mtn lion and now maverick not sure if it's a setting

I just fix my macbook air because it was kernel panic. They changed the hard drive. I could not back up with Time Machine, because it did not work and I had over Adobe creative suite 5 design premium student. But I finished my studies last year and I'd li

I just fix my macbook air because it was kernel panic. They changed the hard drive. I could not back up with Time Machine, because it did not work and I had over Adobe creative suite 5 design premium student. But I finished my studies last year and I'd like to know how to get the serial number for me to reinstall Adobe creative suite 5 design premium when I am no longer study because I would still like the used? It is not fair if I do anymore because I really need.

You can download Creative Suite 5 here:
Other downloads
To deal with the issue of the serial number and using it again, you'll have to use Web Chat. Here's a link:
Adobe ID, sign in, and account help
See the bottom of the page for a link

I recently deleted imovie 9 .and i don't have a cd and i have not made backup from time machine ..i want it back.plz help me..

i recently deleted imovie 9 .and i don't have a cd and i have not made backup from time machine ..i want it back.plz help me..

It depends how you installed it.
If you installed from your iLife 11 DVD, then you can insert the DVD and install it again.
If you purchased it from the Mac App Store, you can open the Mac App Store, go to the Purchases tab, and reinstall from there.

I used to have an icon next to the Time Machine icon in Safari that allowed me to sync my devices. It disappeared and I don't know how to get it back. Any suggestions?

I used to have an icon next to the Time Machine icon in Safari that allowed me to sync my devices. It disappeared and I don't know how to get it back. Any suggestions?

Lion no longer has iSync

HT3275 TIME MACHINE GONE... EARLIER, OTHER OS APPS NOT THERE, DAMAGED MAC from what??

MAC: OS 10.5.8, LEOPARD, Purchased in November, 2008. One year later, MAJOR ISSUE OCCURRED! SEE FOLLOWING DETAILED DESCRIPTION.
MAJOR QUESTIONS ARE AT THE BOTTOM! (Included volumes of information, as without it, I don't think anyone could even begin to help me. APPLE COULDN'T AFTER ~2 YEARS!)
"Damaged" Mac, (from what?) OS Apps gone, NOW Time Machine GONE, can't save info fr Mac to Re-Load OS. TRIED the page on how to repair/fix to no avail. I bought my Mac in November of 2008 & paid for Apple Care for 3 years & paid for 1 year of classes. About 1 year after purchase, & nearly one year of classes, I had NOT been told to trash my downloads, but had been told that I would NEVER lose anything, to not be afraid to try things. However, after checking at least 6 times to make sure that the things that I had SAVED, did not go away when "trashed" from downloads, I set my Mac to send all downloads to trash, believing, based on my testing & what I had been told by APPLE, that IF pics, pages, documents, folders, albums, etc had been SAVED, that when sending the same downloads to trash, I would NOT lose any of them. And that they would remain in folders & albums & such.
I walked away from my Mac as I had many downloads, but had happened to leave my iPhoto open & when I passed by I saw that nearly ALL my pics were being DELETED TO TRASH!!! It was the middle of the night, so there was no one to help me. The only option that I had was to BRING BACK ALL 8,000+ FILES TO MY DESKTOP, WHICH of course, STOPPED MY MAC from FUNCTIONING.
I called Apple Care when the next day & they set me up for an hour appointment with the "GENIUSES", who only take 15 minute appointments.. The "GENIUS" was rude... Said, “I have already spent 10 minutes on you!” "What do you want me to do?" I said, "I want all my folders, pics, documents back... AND I want to know what happened?? As I checked 6X to make sure this would NOT happen."
He took my Mac to the back & PUT ALL THE FILES IN ONE FOLDER, AS IF THAT WOULD HELP ME. NO ONE HAD ANY IDEA AS TO WHAT I COULD DO or WHAT HAD HAPPENED, BUT TO DEAL WITH EACH FILE INDIVIDUALLY & PUT IN FOLDERS OR ALBUMS OR WHATEVER. (And YES, I AM YELLING... not at you people, but at APPLE & THE **** I HAVE GONE THROUGH THE PAST NEARLY 3 YEARS!)
They "didn't know" & said that "you must have done something wrong"... "WHAT"???, I asked repeatedly & got the same answer, "I don't know, you must have done something wrong" THEY ARE THE GENIUSES! SURELY ONE OF THEM COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT WENT WRONG??? I was toward the end of my classes & was desperately seeking help for this "mess", instead of learning more about Macs... & that was a total waste of time. I NO LONGER HAD FOLDERS, ALBUMS OR ANYTHING BUT >8,000+ SINGLE FILES TO DEAL WITH MYSELF!!
I spent months & many hours over the next 2 years talking with Apple Care on the phone to NO AVAIL. I would get the "newbies", even when I asked for the "supervisors" or the "specialists" because they were inundated with calls & would transfer to agents who knew only the very basics & after 45-60 minutes, they would tell me that I needed to talk with a "specialist". DUH!!
Toward the latter months, they finally decided that I needed to talk with several "SPECIALISTS" for whom I would have to call & then they would call me back. For a while, they were good about that, not that anything was resolved, then all of a sudden, NO CALLS BACK FROM TWO OF THEM... nothing more was being done for me even though I was still under APPLE CARE!
NO ONE ELSE FROM APPLE could ever tell me just what might have happened, UNTIL MAYBE TOWARD THE END OF MY COVERAGE, BUT THEN they were NOT SURE & the damage had been done for nearly 2 years & I was within 2 months of the end of my contract when I had to have bilateral eye surgery, so I was no longer able to SEE to even deal with Apple Care.
A few weeks back, I thought I would try MacKeeper for a trial... & after getting the "free scan & PARTIAL fix", I "online chatted" with an agent & found that if you ask, you can get a 14 day "Free Trial" that actually clears up everything! So, I went for that. (You have to ask for it, btw!!)
It 'appeared' that MacKeeper was scanning & fixing. I had asked how often one should do this... every 2 -3 weeks... well, that would have meant that my 14 days would have been a moot point, so I tried it on a daily basis for 3 days & it always had "issues" & said it fixed them, but somewhere I found that IT HAD DONE NOTHING!!!
So, I "online chatted" again with a very "knowledgeable guy" who asked if he could take over remotely to check my system to see why MacKeeper was NOT working for me. (I still don't know why it 'appeared' to be working?? And could never get an answer to that one.) Anyway, he took over remotely & "whizzed" through all sorts of stuff & then told me that my MAC WAS DAMAGED!! I asked "as in what?" As in, Launch Agents were missing, for example. I had told the 'Geniuses' when I had my "issue" in December of 2009, that it looked like some of Garage Band, (which I had never used) had disappeared & that it seemed that some of the OS had been deleted along with my files, but they ignored that!
IT TOOK SOMEONE FROM MACKEEPER TO FIND THAT OS APPS WERE MISSING AFTER DEALING WITH APPLE GENIUSES & SPECIALISTS FOR ~2 YEARS WHO HAD NOT A CLUE AS TO WHAT WAS WRONG OR HOW TO FIX IT!!! .......... (WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE????)
Apple-->NO HELP >2.5 yrs...... >3 years paying Apple-->natta. MacKeeper found missing OS Apps in ONE REMOTE VISIT!!!.
THE MACKEEPER GUY SAID THAT I NEEDED TO RE-INSTALL MY OS! To call APPLE... When I told him how I had paid for help & the hours & months of phone calls & frustration with my MAC, he gave me their site to help me to Re-install my OS, but this was a ONE time deal via the internet with only the "trial version". I am past the date... but justifiably so. I, again, "online chatted" with THREE PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME, who didn't want to help me & who left me hanging for 30 minutes & never came back... grrrrrrrr.
BUT I CANNOT RE-INSTALL MY OS w/out backup with TIME MACHINE, WHICH IS NOT WORKING NOW,......NOT ON MY MAC ANY LONGER!!! [Why??? I have NO idea!!!]
I know that I need to be sure that ALL THAT IS ON MY MAC IS DOWNLOADED TO AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE TO SAVE, AS WHEN I RE-INSTALL MY OS, IT WILL CLEAR MY MAC & I WILL START ALL OVER AS I DID WHEN I FIRST GOT THE MAC, SO, I HAD BEEN BACKING UP WITH MY TIME MACHINE.... (OR SO I THOUGHT???), BUT DISCOVERED YESTERDAY, THAT MY TIME MACHINE WAS NO LONGER FUNCTIONING... ONLY "READING?" & NEEDED TO BE RE-DOWNLOADED, as well, which means that what I have on my external HD, (Western Digital MYBOOK) will still be there, but that the RE-INSTALLED TIME MACHINE WILL DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING AGAIN, NOT JUST FROM THE LAST TIME IT WORKED.
I called Western Digital tonight to SEE IF my MYBOOK(s) were working properly. He said that they should come up on my desktop, but they rarely ever have, but for a few moments last night & once tonight. I went to the site that tells one how to "fix" TIME MACHINE PROBLEMS, but had already been there & nothing there worked.
He suggested that I go on an APPLE SUPPORT COMMUNITY FOR YOUR HELP & so I am.
SO, HERE ARE MY MAIN QUESTIONS/PROBLEMS/ISSUES:
     *HOW DO I FIND OUT JUST WHAT OS FUNCTIONS ARE MISSING?
     *WHAT CAN I DO TO GET THEM BACK BESIDES RE-INSTALLING MY OS WITH MY DISKS?
     *IF I AM UNABLE TO BACK UP WHAT IS ON MY MAC ONTO MY EXTERNAL HD, THEN WHAT CAN I DO? I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE ANY OF MY PICS, DOCUMENTS, CREATIVE WRITING, IMPORTANT INFO?
    *I AM ON DISABILITY & HAVE NO MONEY TO HIRE A MAC SPECIALIST... (& AFTER MY DEALINGS WITH APPLE'S SPECIALISTS, I AM NOT VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THAT ANYWAY!) Besides, my MAC is ~4 years old, the clicker on the mouse pad has not worked in ages, it has not enough memory...
     *HOW CAN I TELL WHAT IS "SAVED" ON MY EXTERNAL HD (MYBOOK), IF WE CANNOT ACCESS IT? (I CAN HEAR IT RUN & FEEL IT RUN, BUT AFTER TRYING TO "CLEAR" IT, IT IS THE TIME MACHINE ISSUE THAT IT KEEPS SAYING IS THE PROBLEM.
   (I AM BETTING THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE OS FUNCTIONS THAT ARE MISSING, AS I HAVE BEEN CURSING THIS MAC ALMOST SINCE I GOT IT.)
     AFTER I AM "ONLINE" FOR A WHILE, THE "SPINNING BALL OF DEATH" GOES ON & ON & SAFARI MAY JUST CLOSE DOWN... & IT IS NOT JUST SAFARI, THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE ONE THAT I USE THE MOST!
NOTE: *RECENTLY HAVING PROBLEMS SUCH THAT OFTEN WHEN I HIT /.... IT GOES TO SOME OTHER PART OF THE PAGE or deletes the whole thing!
           *ALSO, I OFTEN LOOK UP & WHAT I HAVE TYPED HAS TOTALLY DISAPPEARED AS JUST HAPPENED HERE... OMG
           *MAY FIND A FEW WORDS IN ANOTHER PARAGRAPH!.... (WHAT IS GOING ON??)
[PLEASE DON'T BE ANGRY WITH ME FOR ALL THE CAPS, AS IT IS THE ONLY WAY THAT I KNOW TO REALLY EMPHASIZE THE SERIOUS STUFF & AS I OFTEN SAY IN FACEBOOK, "YES, I AM YELLING", but it is at APPLE & my Frustration over the past 3 years!]
Thank any & all of you for any help that you can give. Please be VERY SPECIFIC, as I don't "cookbook" so well.
ONE MORE THING:
CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF ANY OF THESE ISSUES COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A LIGHTENING STRIKE, WHICH FRIED ALL OF MY TV & INTERNET COMPONENTS?? (If so, my insurance will buy me a new Mac, which would be awesome!)... May need to post this as another question, but am “fried” right now & thought I would just add this. [Most say that because these are “software issues” that ‘NO’, lightening could not have been the culprit or even part of all that is additionally going on, that it would have to be a “hardware issue”. If any of you REALLY SAVVY MAC FOLKS CAN TELL ME DIFFERENTLY & HOW TO PROVE IT, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! As you can see, I desperately need a new Mac.
PEACE!

Oh, My! I am so confused & scared. Haven't acted on this or anything else in my life. I am nearly paralyzed with all the issues going on in my life. If ONLY I could GET MY MAC BACK TO PROPER FUNCTIONING. I had issues before the MacKeeper, & lightening strike in March which "fried" all of my components, except this "bloody" Mac, but the problems keep piling on.
Help me, please, someone. I know that you are trying, BDAqua, but I just don't understand?
Yes, that is the window.. says do not open use MacKeeper Downloader, but then shows the "UNINSTALLING MACKEEPER" WEBSITE, which IS MacKeeper's... I don't even know how to do the "Quote Previous Message" for philastokes site, only YOURS & that is NOT what I need.
What is SW???? Calls for Driver 9 For Time Machine, but I think that is related to Time Capsule, which I don't have.
NOTE: SOMEWHERE HERE I SAW SOMETHING ABOUT "LAUNCH AGENTS"... THAT IS ONE OF THE OS PARTS THAT IS MISSING PER MacKeeper... & who knows how many others? Clearly, something has happened to my TIME MACHINE & MY EXTERNAL HD, (MyBook). MacKeeper said that my system was damaged, e.g. "LAUNCH AGENTS" & THAT I NEEDED TO RE-INSTALL MY OPERATING SYSTEM, but without having a FUNCTIONAL BACK UP, I WILL LOSE EVERYTHING.
WESTERN DIGITAL, [MyBook External HD which I used for Time Machine Back up Storage] COULD NOT HELP ME UNTIL I GOT MY "DAMAGES" FIXED & of course MACKEEPER SAID TO CONTACT APPLE OR THEIR "GEEK ON DEMAND" VIA EMAIL, which I have not!
ALL ATTEMPTS AT "FIRST AIDS" FAILED OR WERE NOT AVAILABLE!
What you, BDAqua sent me, I did, but no change... Your "procedure", not the websites.
It is hard to tell from the Philastokes writing what is to BE used & what NOT to use???
Under:
SEP 21
Posted by philastokes
MacKeeper – also known as 911 Bundle‘ in the App store — yes, you’ve seen the ads all over the internet, pop ups on your favourite webpages, it seems to be everywhere.
Many people that download and use MacKeeper experience severe problems as a result. My advice regarding this program is:
***DO NOT USE IT!***
It is extremely dangerous, particularly its Fast CleanUp option. If you are in any doubt, have a read through some of the several hundred comments below this post. If you have already installed MacKeeper and wish to remove it, read on.
IS THIS THE EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO USE??? ONLY SHOWING US WHAT NOT TO USE???
Then he states this:
Uninstalling MacKeeper 2012
If you have used MacKeeper to encrypt any data, unencrypt it now. If you remove MacKeeper without unencrypting your data first, you will not be able to access it later. This only applies to data encrypted with MacKeeper, and not data encrypted using Mac OS built-in encryption services or using any other program.
Once that is done, you can follow MacKeeper’s uninstall instructions here:
http://help.mackeeper.zeobit.com/Manual/GettingStarted/UninstallingMacKeeper.htm l
These instructions promise that they will remove all MacKeeper’s associated files (see the note ‘Important’ at the bottom of their page). However, you may wish to do Step 4 in the procedure below for earlier versions of MacKeeper to check MacKeeper does not have access to your Keychain.
IS ABOVE WHAT NOT TO USE???_________________
Mine is NOT an earlier version of MacKeeper. I installed in 2012, so it is not clear... but I am guessing that that is what he meant?? Then I read on, & am not sure about a lot of things.
I have NO IDEA whether I have encrypted anything via MacKeeper. I don't even know what encrypting is or whether MacKeeper DID THAT WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE??
Uninstalling earlier versions of MacKeeper
If you have a version of MacKeeper earlier than MacKeeper 2012 you should follow the procedure below. You may not find ALL of the following, but any you do find should be removed.
Preparation:
i. Again, a warning: if you have used MacKeeper’s encryption feature, be sure to unencrypt before you uninstall MacKeeper.
Time Machine
ii. If you use Time Machine, leave it connected and do the Time Machine Step (TM step) where indicated. Instructions for the TM step are given in the box in step 1 below.
Clones
iii. If you use a clone without archiving, disconnect the clone and run the procedure below on your internal disk. When it is complete and you have verified everything is OK, connect your clone and wipe the partition using Disk Utility. Then make a new clone.
iv. If you use a clone with archiving, reboot into your clone now and run the procedure below on the clone first. Then shutdown you computer, disconnect the clone from the system and reboot into your internal drive. Run the entire procedure again on your internal drive.
v. If you have anything in the Trash, empty it now before you start.
My Time Machine says "IT IS NOT CONFIGURED", "BROWSE OTHER TIME MACHINE DISKS... (There are none there, only empty window.) & "OPEN TIME MACHINE PREFERENCES". WHEN I TURN IT ON, A BLANK WINDOW OPENS UP WITH ONLY ONE OPTION, "TURN YOUR TIME CAPSULE ON".
I DON'T HAVE THE TIME MACHINE CAPSULE!So, what do I do here?___________
I DO have TIME MACHINE IN THE UPPER BAR & THE ICON IN MY DOCK.
I don't know what a "clone" is... sort of, (thought it was an "alias/copy", but am probably wrong?? I have no idea whether it is being used or not?? There may be tons of clones on my Mac, or are they "aliases" from the original issue ~3 years ago. NONE that I intentionally put in!
How do I know if I am "archiving" and/or how do I disconnect the clone... "to run the procedure below" on my internal disk?
Then How Do I Connect My Clone, (when I don't even know what it is?) and wipe WHAT PARTITION? (I don't have access to my Time Machine or my EXTERNAL HD, (MyBook) where the Time Machine HAD been backing up my Mac. My MyBook won't even show up on my desktop.
WHAT IS THE CLONE? .... "IF I USE A CLONE WITHOUT ARCHIVING" VS. "IF I USE A CLONE WITH ARCHIVING".... I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS MEANS???
I HAVE STUFF IN TRASH, BUT AM AFRAID TO DELETE IT... SO DO I BRING IT ALL BACK TO MY MAC? I have so many things brought back from trash.
The Uninstall Procedure:
Once you have prepared everything as above, you’re ready to start the uninstall procedure.
1. If MacKeeper is running, quit it. From the sidebar in any Finder window, choose your hard disk icon and go to your Library folder. Look in the Application Support folder for the folder inside it called ‘MacKeeper’:
/Library/Application Support/MacKeeper
Click on the folder once.
TM Step
If you are using Time Machine do the TM Step now.
Enter Time Machine via the TM icon on your menubar at the top of your screen.
Click the little gear/cog in the Finder window and choose ‘delete all backups of xxx file’.
Enter your Admin password to confirm the delete. Exit Time Machine and then…
If you don’t use TM or after you have completed the TM step, hold down the ‘command’ key and press the ‘delete’ key once to send the file to the trash.
HELP!!------>
I DO USE TIME MACHINE, BUT IT IS NOT WORKING NOW NOR IS THE EXTERNAL HDI CAN'T ENTER TIME MACHINE!
And in Finder, what is the "gear/cog"?? And what are the xxx files? Are they all MacKeeper files???
Why would one complete the TM step IF one doesn't USE TM or have access to it.
*****How do I get my TM back???? _____________
2. Still in Library, look for and trash any of these you find in the same way, remembering if you have Time Machine to do the TM step first in each case:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.zeobit.MacKeeper.AntiVirus
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.zeobit.MacKeeper.plugin.AntiTheft.daemon
3. If you are using Lion, use the ‘Go’ menu in Finder’s menubar and hold down the ‘option’ key. Choose ‘Library’ from the menu (yes, this is a different Library folder from the one you were just in). If you are using Snow Leopard or Leopard, just click on the little ‘Home‘ icon in the Finder sidebar and navigate to the Library. Then trash any and all of these that you find, remembering to do the TM step (if applicable) first in each case:
Home/Library/Caches/com.zeobit.MacKeeper
Home/Library/Caches/com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper
Home/Library/LaunchAgents/com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper
Home/Library/LaunchAgents/com.zeobit.MacKeeper.plugin.Backup.agent
Home/Library/Preferences/com.zeobit.MacKeeper.plist
Home/Library/Preferences/com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper.plist
Be careful not to delete the wrong files: only those that have got the words ‘zeobit’, ‘MacKeeper’, ’911′ or ’911bundle’ should be trashed.
Since MY TM is not functioning properly, what do I do? I am so lost?
4. Go to Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access.app and double click on it. Notice the padlock in the window is up there on the left, rather than down the bottom. Click on it and enter your admin password. Now go through all the items in the ‘Keychains‘ list (such as Login, System, Root) with ‘All items’ selected in the ‘Category’ list. Anything you find related to ‘MacKeeper’ or ‘zeobit’, click on it, then choose Edit > Delete from the menu.
(Thanks to Al for also mentioning this point in the Comments below! ).
5. Open the Activity Monitor utility (Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor.app), make sure ‘All Processes’ is showing in the drop down menu just over on the right of the dialogue box, then scroll down the list and see if any processes called ‘MacKeeper’, ‘zeobit’ or ’911 bundle’ are still running. Older versions of MacKeeper may have a ‘WINE’ process running, so also look for ‘wine’. Anything you find, click on it and hit ‘Quit Process’ (top left).
6. Go to your Applications folder from a Finder window and select MacKeeper (if you have Time Machine, do the TM step now). Then, hold down ‘command’ and press ‘delete’ once. If you assigned MacKeeper to be pinned in the Dock, be sure to also drag the icon off the Dock and release it anywhere over the desktop. It will, satisfyingly, disappear in the ‘poof’ of a cloud.
Time Machine issue for me again!!
7. When you’re done filling up your trash can with all this junk, click on the Finder> Empty Trash.
8. Go to
 > System Preferences > Users & Groups (or ‘Accounts’ for Snow L) | Login Items
If you see anything to do with MacKeeper in the list of items there, highlight it, then click the little minus ‘-’ button near the bottom of the list.
9. Restart your Mac. Everything should be back to normal, but check the Activity Monitor one last time to be sure.
10. After restart, be sure to fix your system permissions. If you encounter any problems that you did not have before, fix the ACLs too.
**If you are running a clone, remember to follow the instructions given above under “Preparation: Clones”.**
Supplementary: If you have a problem with MacKeeper pop-ups while using your browser, try clearing out the caches, like this:
In Safari menubar, choose ‘Safari > Reset Safari’. Make sure all the options are checked.
This will not only clear out your caches, but everything else stored by the browser. Don’t worry, it won’t affect your bookmarks, but it will reset your ‘top sites’ and history.
In Firefox menubar, choose ‘Tools > Clear Recent History…’ and choose ‘Everything’. Again, it’ll clear everything out but won’t delete your bookmarks.
Obviously, if you use any other browsers like Opera or something you’ll have to find the same options for those too.
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NOTES
1. If you have any problems carrying out the steps, try starting your Mac up in Safe mode, and then running the procedure.
2. You can safely ignore any MacKeeper files that are in the Logs, BOM or Receipts folders.
3. If you have only downloaded the MacKeeper package but not ran the installer, you only need to send the .pkg file in your Downloads folder to the Trash. That’s it!
Acknowledgements
This post has been refined and improved over time thanks to suggestions and replies made in the Comments and on Apple Support Communities. Thanks especially to Al, Lyndon and Jack.
BDAqua, Is there any way for me to directly contact PhilStokes directly to have him read all that we have shared here, since he is the writer & obviously has had the experience & could possibly "Walk me through this" & answer some of my questions & asuage my fears??
Anything that YOU can do to continue to help is also greatly appreciated. I am doing nothing until I know what to do, with all the other issues that are going on, I just don't know what to do?? It is NOT simple as you can see!
BDAqua wrote:
As for the site that you gave me to Un-Install... are you sure? As that is MacKeeper/Zeobits' site! Andyou & everyone else said NOT to use their Un-Install???
OH Oh, if true something is redirecting your request, & guess what I think is doing it, or are you clicking on the zeobit kink on that page???
You should be seeing this...
Wonder why no one else is responding to my questions???
Feel free to start a new question, perhaps that'll work!?
Find that I am missing the "driver" for my external HD, & since it is so old, I can't find how to do it online.
You shouldn't need any SW to use the drive!???
BDAqua wrote:
As for the site that you gave me to Un-Install... are you sure? As that is MacKeeper/Zeobits' site! Andyou & everyone else said NOT to use their Un-Install???
OH Oh, if true something is redirecting your request, & guess what I think is doing it, or are you clicking on the zeobit kink on that page???
You should be seeing this...
Wonder why no one else is responding to my questions???
Feel free to start a new question, perhaps that'll work!?
Find that I am missing the "driver" for my external HD, & since it is so old, I can't find how to do it online.
You shouldn't need any SW to use the drive!???
BDAqua wrote:
As for the site that you gave me to Un-Install... are you sure? As that is MacKeeper/Zeobits' site! Andyou & everyone else said NOT to use their Un-Install???
OH Oh, if true something is redirecting your request, & guess what I think is doing it, or are you clicking on the zeobit kink on that page???
You should be seeing this...
Wonder why no one else is responding to my questions???
Feel free to start a new question, perhaps that'll work!?
Find that I am missing the "driver" for my external HD, & since it is so old, I can't find how to do it online.
You shouldn't need any SW to use the drive!???
BDAqua wrote:
As for the site that you gave me to Un-Install... are you sure? As that is MacKeeper/Zeobits' site! Andyou & everyone else said NOT to use their Un-Install???
OH Oh, if true something is redirecting your request, & guess what I think is doing it, or are you clicking on the zeobit kink on that page???
You should be seeing this...
Wonder why no one else is responding to my questions???
Feel free to start a new question, perhaps that'll work!?
Find that I am missing the "driver" for my external HD, & since it is so old, I can't find how to do it online.
You shouldn't need any SW to use the drive!???

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