I'm having issues with Time Machine since my upgrade to Mavericks, running at a snails pace. Is anyone else experiencing the same? WiFi is running fine, disabled all the Anti-Virus, still barely runs.

Is anyone else experiencing the same? WiFi is running fine, disabled all the Anti-Virus, still barely runs.
2013 27" iMac

I'm having the same issue, mine says prepairing to backup. I let it run for 12 hours and it never performed a backup. I have a Mac Book Pro

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TM sees it and it is mounted but cannot go any further. HELP?!!!!
Thanks
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How should it be connected? It has a usb port and ethernet. The USB on the ExHD looks like the port on the back of my computer, so I would need one wth the same ends? Do they make those?
I can usually fix most my comp problems myself, but this new ExHD has stumped me.
Thanks for your help.
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The "solution" is probably to increase your knowledge. You've done good things. Perhaps this article will educate you a bit more about location services.
Basically, they can be very useful, but can cause a lot of iPhone use. A major example is "Remind me to ... when I leave home."
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5594

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Hello everyone,
I have just bought a new Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion and I am currently having problems with Time Machine.
The issue begun in Snow Leopard: Time Machine was taking too long to backup, and would often not finish the backup because the external hard drive would be unwillingly ejected.
Now with Mountain Lion I have reformated the drive (Mac OS Journaled) and about a third of the way through had the same issue: the drive was ejected before the backup could be finished. I restarted the machine and it happened again. However, now the computer won't even recognize the external drive when I plug it in. I have also tried to power off/on the drive itself to no progress.
I have tested the USB port with another drive and the port is fine. I have also tested the usb cable and it is fine. And Disk Utility does not recognize the drive (even when I try the >diskutil list command in terminal).
Now, I can hear the drive humming normally when I turn it on, and it is not usb-powered (my electricity current does fluctuate).
Could the interrupted backup procedures have damaged the drive? And if so, wouldn't the computer recognize it anyway?
It is a 4 year old WD 1 TB that is used exclusively for TM and has never left the house.
Thank you for your time reading this and let me know if you need any more information that could help out.
Cheers!

From your description, I'd suspect a failing drive. Maybe time for a new external, especially as you've already re-formatted and it's still playing up.
I had a similar problem with one of my clone backups a few weeks ago - it failed, I erased it, re-cloned, worked a couple of times and then it failed again. Disk Utility didn't throw up any errors after re-formatting. I guess all disks die at some point.

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The late, great Pondini was investigating that issue before he passed away.
See here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5125969
I think there might be information there on how to reset Time Machine to do a full backup. I think you basically have to reset it and start over.

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Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

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Why has the TimeMachine drive run out of space?
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Will you have this problem with a 3TB drive?
I always recommend that people look at how much they'll be backing up in total, add a bit extra for the future, and then multiply that by at least 1.5 and even better to double it. That indicates how large the TM backup drive should be. The TM drive should only be used for TM backups. It is ok to use one drive to back up more than one computer but if doing so, add up the contents of all the computer drives, adjust for the future and then double it.
Moving Forward
Disconnect the old TM drive for now. Connect the new drive and let TM do its job. I don't recommend that you try to transfer the TM backup from the old drive to the new one. Keep the old drive around for a couple months just in case you find you need it and then after a few months, if you like, you can erase it and use it for something else.

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Hi,
I'm trying to back up my macbook with time machine on the Lacie external driver I usualy use for this, but today my computer doesn't find the driver. I haven't done back up in 6 month.
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Some things to consider:
Is the drive mounted, i.e., visible via Finder and/or on the Desktop?
Is the drive still selected in System Preferences, Time Machine? If not, use the "Select Disk" button.
Is Time Machine still turned on (System Preferences, Time Machine)?
Can you see the drive (and mount it) using Disk Utility (in your Utilities folder)?
charlie

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Not only it is slow but it never ends.
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Without end.
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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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christopherfromadelaide wrote:
In fact, when I turn off Time Machine, I still get the ... message, which flashes up every 30 secs or so, and only goes away when I unplug the external drive.
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Issues with time machine software to view tm backups

this is both a question and comment on this issue.
I started to noticed that on entering 'time machine' on my imac all the 'backed up' folder screens that are stacked up behind each other had a black screen instead of the 'finder desktop window'. Worse still this problem was intermittant - sometimes I could view backed up data.
I use a late 2013 IMAC (latest update of OSX) connected wirelessly to a 6 month old 2gb time capsule (TC).
I spoke to Apple (April 2014) and they are unaware of any similar problems
The guy who was trying to help suggested it was a wireless interference problem and I agreed to try a number of things before just deleting the backup and starting all over again (not for the first time). I note that 6 months ago I replaced a WD NAS as I was having repeated problems using it with TM.
Digging around a little more what seems clear to me is that the issue maybe with how TM communicates with the TC, rather than any wireless interference.
If I open finder and select TC > data > 'computer name' sparse bundle.
Clicking on the sparse bundle file loads the 'time machine' server in the DEVICES list.
From there you will see all the backups taken since day1 - date/time folder name.
Selecting one of these reveals the actual folders from your computer that were backed up and clicking through the folders you can open any file that was backed up.
The point is here; using finder over the same wireless network I can view any file that TM has backed up to the TC, however at the same time (having ejected the time machine device) I am unable to view the same files through the TM software as the stacked windows are all black.
I have to assume that TM is using a different method to access the TC commpared to finder, otherwise I would have the same issues in finder.

this is both a question and comment on this issue.
I started to noticed that on entering 'time machine' on my imac all the 'backed up' folder screens that are stacked up behind each other had a black screen instead of the 'finder desktop window'. Worse still this problem was intermittant - sometimes I could view backed up data.
I use a late 2013 IMAC (latest update of OSX) connected wirelessly to a 6 month old 2gb time capsule (TC).
I spoke to Apple (April 2014) and they are unaware of any similar problems
The guy who was trying to help suggested it was a wireless interference problem and I agreed to try a number of things before just deleting the backup and starting all over again (not for the first time). I note that 6 months ago I replaced a WD NAS as I was having repeated problems using it with TM.
Digging around a little more what seems clear to me is that the issue maybe with how TM communicates with the TC, rather than any wireless interference.
If I open finder and select TC > data > 'computer name' sparse bundle.
Clicking on the sparse bundle file loads the 'time machine' server in the DEVICES list.
From there you will see all the backups taken since day1 - date/time folder name.
Selecting one of these reveals the actual folders from your computer that were backed up and clicking through the folders you can open any file that was backed up.
The point is here; using finder over the same wireless network I can view any file that TM has backed up to the TC, however at the same time (having ejected the time machine device) I am unable to view the same files through the TM software as the stacked windows are all black.
I have to assume that TM is using a different method to access the TC commpared to finder, otherwise I would have the same issues in finder.

I'm having issues with Time Machine since my upgrade to Mavericks, running at a snails pace. Is anyone else experiencing the same? WiFi is running fine, disabled all the Anti-Virus, still barely runs.

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