IMac 24" HDD issues, cant backup from Time maschine, EFI BOOT ERROR
Hi, after a failed Bootcamp experience I saw yesterday only my Windows Partition in the boot chooser. I booted then from Rescue DVD and formatted the hdd completey. Then I reinstalled from my latest Time Maschine backup the whole hdd. Took 7 hrs for 500 GB!
I restarted then the imac but its shows now only a "EFI BOOT" Drive in the boot choose. When I click on the drive, it shows gray screen than black and the Imac is shutdown °°
What can I do???
Although your machine does not match the model series of this
specific forum (this one is dedicated to iMac G4 LCD models)
you may be able to make sense of some of the links posted in
this Apple Discussions thread:
Re: Blank Grey Screen After Using Boot Camp - intel iMac:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8563101#8563101
{Since the G4 series can't run BootCamp and can't boot Windows,
if the link above has a desired coverage of information, the topic
should be closed; if not, you may have to rephrase the question
and re-post the problem in a new thread in the newer Intel iMac
Discussion forum; or search there for additional ideas on topic.}
re: Intel iMac Discussions forum (specific areas within)
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=189
Good luck & happy computing!
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There could be a few reasons for this.
First what version of OS X do you have installed?
What version of OS X is the Time Machine Backup file from?
Did Reinstalling OS X from Recovery install the same version you had before reinstalling?
If you have not changed OS X versions then:
It sounds like there may be a bad file in the backup that is causing the computer to not startup after restoring it. This is especailly true if the computer boots just fine after a fresh installation of OS X, but without the Migrated Data being restored.
If that is the case, then the solution is not a quick one. You have to hunt down the bad file.
Moving Files Manually (Not in Migration Assistant)
Manually access your Time Machine backup folder from within Finder (you should see the backup drive in a Finder Window or on your Desktop). Once open, manually move data from the User folder (documents, music, movies, photos etc.) into their respective folders on the Mac. Reboot after each folder you move to see which folder contains the corrupted file then delete the affected folder/file after reinstalling OS X from Recovery.
If none of the files cause the computer to hang at startup after moving all your User data, then the issue is from within the System or Library folders.
NOTE: DO NOT manually move Applications, System, or System Library files over to the Mac. You can cause major issues with the current installation by doing so. It is safer to just reinstall all the Apps from wherever you got them so they can recreate their support files and such themselves.
2- Using Migration Assistant
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Reinstall OS X after you have done that, and use Migration Assistant to automatically migrate the data over minus the affected file/folder.
Its a pain in the rear, but it will at least let you salvage most of your data.
Let me know what happens riorec!
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Deleting old Backups from Time capsule ist very slow.
How could it be faster?
Where can i change the preferences?
Which Programm changes Preferences?
If its possible answers in German;-)
ThanksDeleting old Backups from Time capsule ist very slow.
Deleting Time Machine backups can be slow. Löschen von Time Machine-Backups können nur langsam voran.
How could it be faster?
Unfortunately, there isn't any settings that you can make to speed them up. Leider gibt es keine Einstellungen, die Sie vornehmen können, um sie zu beschleunigen. -
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I know people have talked about using “actions” button in the gear icon. However, I can’t find that.
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Unfortunately, I deleted via the finder and then emptied the trash. :-}
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I looked at the FAQs, but am still not clear on how to find the “action” button. I am using a laptop with no “right click” feature. The mouse is a one piece model.
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Can I remove a specific dated backup from time Capsule?
Sorry for the long story - but I have tried to provide as much detail as possible as to what is going on...
Sadly Lion has been a royal pain in the perverbial for me. It is slow (on a Macbook pro that is still within its warranty period so I don't believe that Hardware can be blamed - especially with upgraded ram and a 7200rpm drive) I recently got so frustrated with its clunkyness that I tried reinstalling on a new HDD and booting off that. Showed improvement (clean install vs upgraded and less apps etc slowing down the OS - however it is nowhere near what Snow Leopard was). But while I was at it I did something stupid. In hindsight very stupid - but balls to Apple for putting me in this situation and balls to Apple for letting me do it with no warning about the consequences...
I connected my old HDD via firewire and tried to access my files that are on it - I couldn't initially as my newly installed user did not have permission. Easy - Add the new user to permissions for folder concerned - apply to enclosed - done - Achieved what I wanted. Files accessed - test complete - sadly I will have to reinstall a clean lion and transfer my files over (restore from time capsule).
Two Major problems have surfaced. The first is directly related to the topic, the second I might try to repost in an appropriate section...
1) What I didn't think about is as soon as I modified the permissions Time Capsule treats all the files in that folder as being modified. So it has backed up an entire new version of every file in that folder - a few hundred GB. That has chomped out 10-20% of my Time Capsule. I have no need for these backups and want to delete - say - every back up made since last Sunday when I committed the dirty deed. Seems minor - but this is a major compromise to my current arrangement.
2) I have MAJOR permissions issues now. Firstly my Aperture library (which was in the folder with added user in the permissions) is fried. Can't be repaired/rebuild or anything. Lion wont do anything so useful as to tell me why - just get the colourwheel of death and the aperture library NEVER opens. Balls to Apple for allowing this to happen so easily. Second I tried to restore the entire pictures folder from Time Machine. It tells me I don't have permission??? WHAT. Double Balls. These are my freakin files - created by this user on this MBP on this install of Lion. I can't see how adding a user can suddenly prevent a long standing user from accessing their files from within their account. By the way the new install on the new HDD is no longer in play - all I am trying to do is continue to use my MBP the way I was before I did the test install.
My long running affinity for Mac is rapidly waning - I have wasted countless hours trying to regain access to ALL of my pictures - 14 years worth. 1000's of images. I cannot access them on my MBP, Can't restore them from Time Machine. This is the worst computing experience of my life.
I have tried booting from recovery, repairing permissions etc etc etc. Nothing mainstream solves this.
Does anyone have some wisdom to address my conundrum - I am seriously desperate here... I have genuinely decided that I will not waste the upcoming long weekend ******* around with this - I would rather forget my 14 years of stored memories and just get on with life... If unsolved by this Friday I will sell my Macbook Pro and iPad and initiate my own version of the post PC world - no computer at all - currently it is doing nothing but wasting my time.jameski wrote:
My only concern about resetting premissions (and ACL???) is that it will exacerbate my backup disk space wastage issue as it will result in full backup of my entire home folder (about 400GB).
Yup, if you changed the permissions on everything in your home folder, that will change them all back, so they'll all be backed-up again.
That will leave me with about 1.2TB of a 2TB TC used up with backups (currently should be about 500GB) - my plan was to have about 1.5TB of my TC available to use for files in the medium term until the need for more backup space pushed me to invest in another drive. TC's are just too expensive to waste like this.
Mixing backups and other data on the TC's internal HD will, eventually, cause conflicts. But see #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for some possible workarounds.
If I do a complete restore from TM (entire account)
You can't do that. You can't restore an entire home folder via the "Star Wars" display, because the home folder and default sub-folders (Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, etc.,) are protected. You'd have to restore the contents of the sub-folders, a rather tedious process.
You can do a "full system restore" (OSX, apps, all user accounts & home folders), via a different procedure (Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #14).
to the day before this shambles started - will time machine treat my restored account as a modification of all files and try to back up a fresh copy of everything on the basis that it has been modified - or is it smart enought to realise what I have done and carry on doing only incremental backups?
Anything you restore via the "Star Wars" display is considered as changed, so will be backed-up.
A full system restore (usually) results in only an incremental backup, but TM does a "deep scan" to compare everything on your system to the backups, to see what's different. That will find that everything in your home folder has changed, so back it all up anyway.
If yes I will likely put all my historical backups onto a cheap 500GB drive and put it in a drawer and start new backups on TC
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After you do that, in theory, you could run the user home folder permissions reset, delete all the backups made after the original permissions change, then force a "deep scan" so the only differences found would be files that really are new or changed; but that's tedious, error-prone, and "iffy."
Are backups via TC inherently substantially slower than say to firewire drive?
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There's a lot of variation depending on your hardware and setup, of course.
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However, it really shouldn't make a whole lot of difference for normal incremental backups, as they should be relatively small and quick in most cases, and shouldn't have much impact on performance. You might want to check the sizes of your backups -- if they seem too large considering what you've changed, see #D4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. If the sizes are reasonable, but the backups are still slow, or other performance seems to suffer, see #D2 there.
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Freezing/crash of iMac under Snow Leopard when backup with Time Machine
Hi!
The backup on my external hard drive with Time Machine cannot be completed.
After few ten Go out of 360Go the backup stops suddenly and the computer freezes/crashes.
I have got an iMac Intel Core 2 Duo with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 − 64 bit. The external hard drive is a LaCie 500Go.
Also, backups for another Apple computer can be done with this LaCie external drive. So, it is not the cause of the freezing/crash of the iMac.
I tried to solve this problem applying the following steps:
1- I started with the installation disk.
2- I repaired the internal iMac drive and the permissions with the Disk Utilities soft on the installation disk. All was OK.
3- The LaCie drive was erased, formatted again with one GUID partition (500Go) and the disk verified. All was OK.
4- I re-install the OS with the installation disk -> 10.6 Snow Leopard
5- Updates to 10.6.8, etc… security update 2012-004 and the 13th Java update to v1.6.
6- I deleted in the folder /Library/Preferences the file com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
7- I deleted the file com.apple.finder.plist in the administrator account Preferences folder.
8- The iMac was shutdowned as well as the external LaCie drive.
9- I restarted and changed the name of the external LaCie drive.
10- I choose the LaCie backup drive with Preferences System > Time Machine with right exclusions.
Unfortunately, the problem remained and the backup was again unsuccessful followed by another freezing/crash of the iMac.
So how to solve this problem?
Here is what I obtained from the system.log with the Console utility (crash/freezing at: 10:48):
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Tue 4 09:58:24 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Starting standard backup
Tue 4 09:58:24 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Backing up to: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb
Tue 4 09:58:24 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Backup content size: 343.5 GB excluded items size: 2.3 GB for volume iMac
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 409.52 GB requested (including padding), 465.02 GB available
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Tue 4 09:58:25 imac mds[40]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb
Tue 4 10:00:32 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10083f704, p = 0x10083f70c, pEnd = 0x10083f70d)
Tue 4 10:00:32 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10101b304, p = 0x10101b30c, pEnd = 0x10101b30d)
Tue 4 10:00:33 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x1007c6f94, p = 0x1007c6f9c, pEnd = 0x1007c6f9d)
Tue 4 10:07:49 imac /System/Library/CoreServices/CCacheServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CCacheServer[202]: No valid tickets, timing out
Tue 4 10:14:53 imac mdworker[242]: multibyte IDs are unsupported.
Tue 4 10:17:05 imac backupd[233]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Tue 4 10:17:05 imac mdworker[243]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Tue 4 10:22:00 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10377e518, p = 0x10377e556, pEnd = 0x10377e557)
Tue 4 10:22:01 imac com.apple.backupd[233]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x10393e518, p = 0x10393e556, pEnd = 0x10393e557)
Tue 4 10:30:38 imac mdworker[242]: Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Tue 4 10:30:38 imac mdworker[242]: JPEG datastream contains no image
Tue 4 10:30:39 imac mdworker[242]: Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Tue 4 10:30:39 imac mdworker[242]: JPEG datastream contains no image
Tue 4 10:32:10 imac mdworker32[452]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Tue 4 10:38:16 imac mdworker[243]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Tue 4 10:38:16 imac mdworker[243]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
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Waiting for a solution....
Bye
JacRbSee the problem and its solution:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21491140#21491140
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