I have backed my Mac Book pro up to my external hard drive using time machine. My iPhoto now does not show any images, even when I upload from my iPhone

I have backed my Mac Book pro up to my external hard drive using time machine. My iPhoto now does not show any images, even when I upload from my iPhone

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  • Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's

    Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB external hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's update. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    My guess would be it has created an entirely new backup of your drive when you upgraded to Mavericks.
    See Here: http://pondini.org/TM/1.html
    And here: http://pondini.org/TM/9.html
    Peruse the whole site. There is a lot of information there.

  • I just backed up my mac to an external hard drive using Time Machine. What would happen if I turn Time Machine off and then plug the external hard drive back into my computer?

    I just backed up my mac to an external hard drive using Time Machine. What would happen if I turn Time Machine off and then plug the external hard drive back into my computer?
    What I am ultimately wanting to do is make more room on my computer by backing up all of my files onto the external hard drive and then deleting them off of my computer. However, neededing to be able to retrieve them from the external hard drive later down the road.
    From what I have read and am trying to understand, is that I probably shouldn't have used time machine. I need to use the external hard drive like a basic flash drive where I can put things on and get things off without having it automatically update through time machine everytime I connect it to my computer.
    Not tech savvy at all and barely understand basics. I need very simple and easy to understand explanations.

    sydababy wrote:
    and then deleting them off of my computer.
    BIG BIG MISTAKE ..... youre making a linchpin deathtrap for your data trying to shove everything on a single fragile HD.
    Dont suffer the tragedy other people make, buy another or 2 more HD, theyre cheap as dust.
    The number of people who have experienced terror by having a single external HD backup is enormous.  One failure that WILL HAPPEN, and kaput,......all gone!
    Dont do it, its all about redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
    follow here:
    Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection
    Deleting them off your computer is fine....having only ONE copy is extremely BAD.
    The Tragedy that will be, the tragedy that never should be
    Always presume correctly that your data is priceless and takes a very long time to create and often is irreplaceable. Always presume accurately that hard drives are extremely cheap, and you have no excuse not to have multiple redundant copies of your data copied on hard drives and squirreled away several places, lockboxes, safes, fireboxes, offsite and otherwise.
    Hard drives aren't prone to failure…hard drives are guaranteed to fail (the very same is true of SSD). Hard drives dont die when aged, hard drives die at any age, and peak in death when young and slowly increase in risk as they age.
    Never practice at any time for any reason the false premise and unreal sense of security in thinking your data is safe on any single external hard drive. This is never the case and has proven to be the single most common horrible tragedy of data loss that exists.
    Many 100s of millions of hours of lost work and data are lost each year due to this single common false security. This is an unnatural disaster that can avoid by making all data redundant and then redundant again. If you let a $60 additional redundant hard drive and 3 hours of copying stand between you and years of work, then you've made a fundamental mistake countless 1000s of people each year have come to regret.

  • HT201250 If time machine puts all of my photos onto my external hard drive using time machine, can I then delete the photos from my computer put view them again from the external hard drive? Basically, can I free up space on my mac but not lose years of p

    If time machine puts all of my photos onto my external hard drive using time machine, can I then delete the photos from my computer but view them again from the external hard drive? Basically, can I free up space on my mac but not lose years of photos?

    To add to Niel's comment bear in mind that if you have a backup copy on an external HD and later delete the orignals on your Mac HD you will then only have one copy - so no backup.
    If the pictures are precious you should have at least two copies, and ideally another copy kept off site,

  • I am backing up my computer to an external hard drive using Time Machine.  It has been at 288.91 "used" for a while... should I just let it ride?  It's been going for about 7 hours now.

    I am backing up my computer to an external hard drive using Time Machine.  It has been at 288.91 "used" for a while... should I just let it ride?  It's been going for about 7 hours now

    It does not immediately delete the files that are missing.. it merely tries to backup the new files it has discovered on the external drive. Since you moved the files there, the backup at least for a while will contain both copies.. and that is why it doesn't have enough space to backup.
    Fixing the problem.. hmm pondini is the expert.. you should be able to delete the backup of the photos in existing backup.. there are instructions to do it.. but it is a very poor way to do things.
    Much better. .archive off the existing backup.. this is long and slow but worth it. you need a usb drive of the same size as the TC drive. Then erase the TC and start a fresh set of backups.
    The alternative is to use the USB drive as a new target.. but it is much slower than the TC internal drive.
    http://pondini.org/TM/12.html

  • I back up with an external hard drive using time machine.  I am trying to reload my iphoto library from an earlier date then it will let me.  How do I get to an earlier date in time machine?

    I back up with an external hard drive using time machine.  I am trying to reload my iphoto library but it won't let me get back to a date that I need to.  How do I do this?

    Try Pondini's articles;
    http://pondini.org/TM/15.html - scroll down to the pink box for iPhoto restoation.
    Also http://pondini.org/TM/15A.html to clarify how to use the timeline.

  • How can I get my new Mac book Pro to read my external hard drive?

    I have recently upgraded to the new MacBook Pro and have a new 2T external hard drive. I used my old MacBook Pro to transfer all my files from my old 1T hard drive of the same make to the new one. This all worked without isssue and I can open the ne external hard drive on my old Mac but my new Mac is reading it. It does not show up in finder at all but it does show up in Disk Utility. Any suggestions? Do I need to do something on my new Mac for it to be read? The new Mac has no problem with the smaller USBs I use.

    How do you have Finder Preferences set?
    Ciao.

  • How can you tell which files have backed up to external hard drive using Time Machine?

    Hello Mac Users,
    I have Macbook Pro (early 2011) and recently purchased a WD My Passport for Mac external HD. I have completed a back up using Time Machine, however how do I tell what files actually were backed up? I have a ton of audio, documents and photos that I would like on there. Its a 2 TB HD, my memory is 750 GB... Im using 632. At end of back up, the drive still had 1.88 TB left. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks
    Linz19

    This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.
    Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
    tmutil compare | open -ef
    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
    Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
    Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
    The command may take several minutes to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered.
    A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Don't post all the output; just read it yourself. Each line that begins with a plus sign (“+”) represents a file that has been added to the source volume since the last snapshot was taken. These files have not been backed up yet.
    Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
    Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
    Files that you’ve excluded from backup, or that are excluded automatically, are ignored.
    At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
    Added:
    Removed:
    Changed:
    These lines show the total amount of data added, removed, or changed on the source(s) since the last snapshot.
    Caution: Under some conditions, tmutil may falsely flag files as not having been backed up when in fact they have been. It can be confused by multi-linked files, or by files with a modification date earlier than the one in the snapshot. This will not be an issue for most users. If the results of the above procedure surprise you, inspect your snapshots directly.

  • I recently updated to Mountain lion 10.8 . I backuped using external hard drive using time machine . I used Lacie drive. I had to format it MAC OSX " extended journaled" before I could back up my dat and after that I backed it up.

    1) I cant seem to restore my data back from Time machine as many files seem Locked. I cant use the Migration app since it doesnt show me my external hard drive when I try to use it. Plus Ive heard that Migration app copies whole drives rather than selecting and copying some folders/data.
    2) Even if i use the time machine to restore the data , It does copy on to my mac but that locked symbol is still there .
    3) I have read that my drive wont show on migration application cuz the OS should be same before and after the backup and there shouldnt be any difference , otherwise the migration app wont show the drive. This is absurd cuz mostly ppl back up because they want to upgrade their computers . It will never be the same , I mean the OSX , cuz after i have done the back there would have been an upgrade .
    Can anyone help Linc Davis .

    If you mean you're getting the same message:
    see #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.   It will show you how to locate the message(s) that describe the problem, then help you fix it.    If that doesn't help, post back with details, including all the messages, your setup (especially the destination for the backups), what you've done, and the results.
    If that's not the message you're getting, please clarify.

  • How to back up an external hard drive using Time Machine

    I have a Macbook. I have iTunes. I have my iTunes folder and contents stored on an external (Lacie) hard drive. I want to be able to back up that external (Lacie) hard drive and my mac using Time Machine to a separate external hard drive. At the moment it is only my mac that is backed up, and not the Lacie.  How can I also back up the Lacie so that only the recently added iTunes content is added? Cheers.

    You may consider reading the detail in what third-party clone utilities could
    do in regard to a backup clone and then use their utility to update that clone.
    Once the copy/clone is made (a bootable backup, btw) the same utility can
    be used to update the clone. Not certain how it works, and am a bit behind
    on making backup bootable clones of my several Macs as it is. I do a whole
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    SuperDuper or CarbonCopy, I don't remember if one of them or both, do this.
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  • How do I access photos that were backed up onto an external hard drive using Time Machine?

    I used to own a PC. When my computer got too full, I would back up some of my photo albums onto an external hard drive (simply by copying and pasting what I wanted to save on the hard drive) and then delete them on my computer to free up space. Occassionally, I would still plug in my hard drive to access and use those photos when needed. I now own a Macbook Pro and after having issues with my old hard drive, I bought a hard drive compatiable with Macs. I plugged in the hard drive and backed up my entire computer using Time Machine. Now I would like to delete some of my photo albums to free up space on my computer. Before I do that, I would like to double check that they are indeed on the hard drive, but every time I try to open my iPhoto Library from the hard drive I get this error message: "The iPhoto library is a Time Machine backup, and so cannot be used as the main library. Reopen iPhoto with the Option key held down to choose another library." So I tried doing that, but the only option that comes up is my main iPhoto library on my computer. I can't seem to access what is on my hard drive.
    I don't plan on deleting ALL of my photo albums, just a few. So I also want to make sure that the next time I plug in my hard drive to back stuff up, it won't copy just what is on my computer and override the last backup, because that would mean losing missing albums I had already deleted. I just want to be able to access photos on my hard drive when I want and occassionally manually add a few more albums to it. I don't intend to keep backing up my entire computer. My main concern are my photos.
    Can anyone help?

    Try Pondini's articles;
    http://pondini.org/TM/15.html - scroll down to the pink box for iPhoto restoation.
    Also http://pondini.org/TM/15A.html to clarify how to use the timeline.

  • Backing up an External Hard Drive using Time Machine

    I have a brand new iMac 21.5" (late 2012) 3TB Time Capsule, and a 1 TB Western Digital Passport external drive. I use the Passport to share files between my iMac and MacAir.
    I am using Time Machine to back up all my Apple Computers to Time Capsule.
    I have formatted my Passport in Mac OS Extended Journaled, Encrypted.
    I have the Passport set up to back up through Time Machine on the iMac.
    It seems it backs up the entire Passport every time I hit Back up now onto the Time Capsule. But it only shows NOW as the only available revision in Time Machine.
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    I have disabled the security on the VCD portion of the Passport, it has Western Digital Software on it.
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    Any ideas on how to get it to back up to Time Machine properly?

    I backed up the iMac and Passport yesterday. It was successful. The issue seem to be incremental backups. It did not backup after my First original backup of the passport. The backups of the iMac seem to be working normal and at ever hour.
    Here is a string of a Automatic backup this morning when the computer was "sleeping" with the passport connected. I did change the passport yesterday to Sleep to never before i plugged it in to my iMac using the software on my Mac Air.
    12/21/12 7:46:29.454 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Starting automatic backup
    12/21/12 7:46:29.459 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Brad%20Smith;AUTH=SRP@Smiley%20Blue._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
    12/21/12 7:46:40.211 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data using URL: afp://Brad%20Smith;AUTH=SRP@Smiley%20Blue._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data
    12/21/12 7:46:40.000 AM kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0
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    12/21/12 7:46:51.394 AM mds[55]: (Error) Volume: Root store set to FSOnly with matching create! (loaded:1)
    12/21/12 7:46:52.069 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    12/21/12 7:46:52.070 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
    12/21/12 7:46:52.904 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
    12/21/12 7:46:52.966 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Will copy (8 KB) from Macintosh HD
    12/21/12 7:46:52.966 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Found 11 files (8 KB) needing backup
    12/21/12 7:46:52.968 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: 900.9 MB required (including padding), 1.77 TB available
    12/21/12 7:47:03.425 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Copied 227 files (8 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
    12/21/12 7:47:03.437 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
    12/21/12 7:47:03.438 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Will copy (Zero KB) from Macintosh HD
    12/21/12 7:47:03.438 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Found 5 files (Zero KB) needing backup
    12/21/12 7:47:03.438 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: 900.8 MB required (including padding), 1.77 TB available
    12/21/12 7:47:07.789 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Copied 125 files (82 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
    12/21/12 7:47:08.391 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Created new backup: 2012-12-21-074707
    12/21/12 7:47:08.509 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Starting post-backup thinning
    12/21/12 7:47:08.509 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
    12/21/12 7:47:08.711 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Backup completed successfully.
    12/21/12 7:47:11.153 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle
    12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/Data, flags 0, pid 2097
    12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last mnt/sbmnt using volume /Volumes/Data 0xffffff81c8d40008
    12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last volume using socket /Volumes/Data 0xffffff81c8d40008
    12/21/12 7:47:11.609 AM com.apple.backupd[2069]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
    12/21/12 7:47:11.000 AM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : afpfs_DoReconnect sent signal for unmount to proceed
    I am currently trying to run a Manual backup. When I go into Time Machine preferences it shows it backing up. But it is incrementally increasing what needs to back up. As it backs up what needs to be backed up keep increasing. It is currently at 25 GB and increasing.
    12/21/12 11:32:29.083 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Starting manual backup
    12/21/12 11:32:29.085 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
    12/21/12 11:32:30.476 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
    12/21/12 11:32:31.628 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    12/21/12 11:32:31.629 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
    12/21/12 11:32:32.748 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Passport" (mount: '/Volumes/Passport' fsUUID: 953CB615-811D-34EF-A58D-6DD7A90A193B eventDBUUID: 01E640D8-2915-484E-8715-B9C29176B241)
    12/21/12 11:32:36.354 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Deep event scan at path:/Volumes/Passport reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
    12/21/12 11:32:36.354 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Finished scan
    12/21/12 11:32:52.530 AM System Preferences[2466]: Cannot setMachineString without first being authenticated
    12/21/12 11:32:52.570 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
    12/21/12 11:32:52.571 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
    12/21/12 11:32:52.573 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
    12/21/12 11:32:52.574 AM System Preferences[2466]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
    12/21/12 11:33:05.236 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Found 74801 files (52.7 MB) needing backup
    12/21/12 11:33:05.239 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: 964.1 MB required (including padding), 1.77 TB available
    12/21/12 11:33:18.575 AM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.qtkittrustedmoviesservice[2447]) Could not terminate job: 3: No such process
    This String seems to pop up a few times while it is doing this manual backup
    12/21/12 11:36:30.487 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
    12/21/12 11:36:31.645 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    12/21/12 11:36:31.726 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
    12/21/12 11:36:33.084 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
    12/21/12 11:36:34.334 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Disk image /Volumes/Data/iMac Home.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
    12/21/12 11:36:34.411 AM com.apple.backupd[2297]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
    It is curretnly at backing up 36.0 GB of 39.65 GB and increasing.

  • Need some help with backing up external hard drive using Time Machine

    Hi all, I'm trying to work out the best way to back up multiple iPhoto libraries using Time Machine.
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    So, as I want to have the library on two seperate drives in case one fails, what I want to know is whether I could use Time Machine to back up my external hard drive as well as the internal drive of my MBP?  Also, would I need to have the external drive connected at all times for Time Machine to "see" it?
    I hope that makes sense, all I seem to be doing currently is going round and round and can't work out whether what I want to do is possible or not.
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