Locked into Time machine

Has anyone else been locked into Time machine? I've just had to reboot due to being locked into Time machine, which by the way seemed unreasonably empty.
I went into to look for a file from several months ago and could only find files for the last month or so, Time machine clearly registered that its database stretched back a couple of years but each entry was empty. When I tried to exit Time machine I couldn't. In the end I had to use the power button to force a restart.
Is it just me or is OSX getting more and more flakey with each release. 10.3 was solid but since then (the switch to Intel?) the OS has been tripping up more and more.

Hello, not sure how this might affect a TM drive, or not, but...
Here is what i needed to do for my drive "320GB HD", the last command is just for clean up
Open Terminal and type these commands carefully with the spaces & change 320GB HD to the name of your drive.
sudo chflags 0 "/volumes/320GB HD"
sudo chown root "/volumes/320GB HD"
sudo chmod 1775 "/volumes/320GB HD"
sudo -k
That said, these should be sufficient to do the job:
sudo chflags 0 "/Volumes/320GB HD"
sudo chmod a+rx "/Volumes/320GB HD"

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The crossdomain security policy stuff is annoying, but it's there to prevent this sort of scenario:
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This is facetious and contrived, but without crossdomain security policies, the internet would be a much more dangerous place. JavaScript has even more restrictive crossdomain policies. I don't think this is going away.

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Does this remove delete the old backup's ?
No, they are all just fine.

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Can you simply navigate to your Time Machine backup with the Finder? Treat it like an external hardrive and just look for your old Applications folder. /Applications/
Also, quite a few apps put config and support files in ~/Library/Application\ Support/
So you may be able to get the files from there as well.

Lion Install locks all Time Machine Bundles

I don't know if anyone else has run into this, but while my wife's new Macbook Air was importing documents and applications from her old sparsebundle on our Time Capsule, the Lion Installer kept EVERY other sparsebundle on the time capsule locked. 2 hours later, when the Macbook Air install completed, our other computers had access to their backups again. Although, having lost access, they all re-verified them (more time lost)

Robert Pena wrote:
My Time Machine back up to an external drive seemed to have failed. It won't mount on Lion long enough to fix the problem. Other times it just locks up.
Sounds like a problem with the drive itself, but might be corrupted data. See if you can Repair it, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
I'm tempted to just format it in Vista. Mount it in Lion, if it does at all, then format again for OS X. See if just a corrup files and not a failing hard drive.
If you do that, format it again with Disk Utility. Among other things, be sure it has the GUID partiion map scheme, not MBR (the Windoze setup), or even a version of GUID set by Windoze.

I have a time capsule that has worked flawlessly for several years. I recently upgraded my iMac OS to 10.8.4 and coincidently (or not) have started having some issues with backups. When I go into time machine, it struggles to find the time capsule disk

I have to unplug my time capsule and reboot it. Is there a diagnostic routine I can run or any error detection I can look for?

You are absolutely right.. when apple changed significant features in Lion and Mountain Lion .. they introduced a bunch of issues into networking which are bugs to this day..unacknowledged.. and without much that will fix them.. other than your reboot strategy.. which is like.. well that other OS.. where continual reboots are considered normal.
Old TC may also just suffer from age.. we continually tell people they have a lifespan.. 3years is the reliable span.. after that expect anything.. sudden death.. slow decline.. continual hassles and problems. If the backups are important to you.. then it is telling you in a very clear way.. replace me.. I am no longer happily providing services promised.
Now to specifics.. we don't know what the problem is.. if we knew we could give some work around.
The problem is odd in that it doesn't affect everyone.. if it starts .. people find it starts several months in to ownership.. it is never cured.. or even curable.. something like DNS or ARP table is being lost.. but it is not either of those things.
Is there a diagnostic routine I can run or any error detection I can look for?
Nothing much shows up anywhere. Including the TC log or local logs. It simply has lost the TC disk but not internet.
So.
Some things do help.
I don't know if you have pondini's resources.. TM is a complex piece of software.. it has multiple issues.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Look at A1 .. load the widget.
A5 .. verify the backup.
A4 .. reset TM.
All of those things can help.. look at some of the typical problems.. C12 and C17 being the most common since Lion.. and exacerbated in Mountain Lion.. not fixed.
Some suggestions.
1. Keep names short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. See C9 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
2. Do not use 7.6.3 firmware... go back to 7.6.1 or even better 7.5.2 on an old one.
Firmware downgrade is easy in new utility. Hold down the option key whilst selecting version.
3. I recommend a very short dhcp lease time.. 20min for example. In whatever device is the router .. that can help keep things up to date.. and use dhcp reservation again to see if the address info helps to keep things updated.
4. Do turn on ipv6 local link.. which you need to anyway with 6.3 utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4597
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6. Consider using CCC or another backup software.. if you want to continue to use network drive.
7. Although using 6.3 airport utility has some advantages.. it is also devoid of a lot of tools that are in v5.6 airport utility.. well worth loading into at least one computer on the network.. if you only have Mountain Lion now here is one method.
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.
Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg
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http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
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For screen shots see this post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

Folders locked in Time Machine after changing hard drive

2008 iMac running Lion 10.7.5
I have had a larger hard drive installed on my iMac and all the data migrated to the new drive.
Time Machine has done a complete new backup but I can't access any of the older backups on Time Machine from the old hard drive.
The error I get trying to open any folder in TM prior to today is (Movies is an example)
The folder “Movies” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.
My local Apple expert states that - "The backups get protected using the Hardware UUID of the hard drive. In your case, your old backups are protected using the UUID from the old hard drive. OS X is supposed to 'adopt' the old backup once it confirms that the data is the same as what is on the new drive. However, it doesn't always work."
I have since found a workaround on techsurvivors - by changing the permissions in Finder/Get Info on the Time Machine Drive ie
Open Time Machine drive in Finder
Do get info on any locked folder for specific backup date.
Unlock it but do not close the Get Info window.
Click on the black plus sign in the lower left corner of the Get Info window.
Click on the administrators or your account if it is bolded, then the Select blue button.
Click on the little arrows to select "Read and Write" for the account.
After doing this on one folder - Movies - for one backup ie June 11 2013 I was able to restore some movie files using Time Machine as normal.
I don't really want to have to repeat this for all the locked folders for every backup.
Is there an easier way to change the protection of the backups on the Time Machine drive? Or am I stuck with this workaround.
Thanks

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The "Family Pack" is not for sharing among friends. It is for family members in the same physical household. Read the license agreement.
You need the DVD. This might be a great opportunity to go buy one for yourself, and to get legitimate, and stop stealing software.

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Duane Craig wrote:
and it just seems logical to have it archived with the backups.
And that's where you make an incorrect assumtion on Time Machine. It does not "Archive" anything. It provides a backup of what is currently on your hard drive. If you delete something from your hard drive, it will remain in Time Machine for a while, but as soon as TM needs the space, it will delete those things from the backup.
If you want something archived, then do it separate from Time Machine, as you stated:
In the absence of any other advice, I'll just store that backup elsewhere. Thanks for responding.

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Does the TRASH folder go into Time Machine?

So i've been able to backup time machine the first few times, but after that it says "the backup is too large for the backup volume". I have one folder "excluded" where i add and delete very large files (sometimes up to GBs).
I'm wondering if i delete these huge files and they go to the TRASH and then I immediately empty the trash...Do they get included into my time machine backup? Could that be what maybe causing the large size error? If so, where is the trash folder so that i can exclude it? Thanks.

Above was good tip. This is contents for my Macbook's StdExclusions.plist, and .Trashes is in there.
<key>ContentsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>/Volumes</string>
<string>/Network</string>
<string>/automount</string>
<string>/.vol</string>
<string>/tmp</string>
<string>/cores</string>
<string>/private/tmp</string>
<string>/private/Network</string>
<string>/private/tftpboot</string>
<string>/private/var/automount</string>
<string>/private/var/log</string>
<string>/private/var/folders</string>
<string>/private/var/log/apache2</string>
<string>/private/var/log/cups</string>
<string>/private/var/log/fax</string>
<string>/private/var/log/ppp</string>
<string>/private/var/log/sa</string>
<string>/private/var/log/samba</string>
<string>/private/var/log/uucp</string>
<string>/private/var/run</string>
<string>/private/var/spool</string>
<string>/private/var/tmp</string>
<string>/private/var/vm</string>
<string>/private/var/db/dhcpclient</string>
<string>/private/var/db/fseventsd</string>
<string>/Library/Caches</string>
<string>/Library/Logs</string>
<string>/System/Library/Caches</string>
<string>/System/Library/Extensions/Caches</string>
</array>
<key>PathsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>/.Spotlight-V100</string>
<string>/.Trashes</string>
<string>/.fseventsd</string>
<string>/.hotfiles.btree</string>
<string>/Backups.backupdb</string>
<string>/Desktop DB</string>
<string>/Desktop DF</string>
<string>/Network/Servers</string>
<string>/Previous Systems</string>
<string>/Users/Shared/SC Info</string>
<string>/Users/Guest</string>
<string>/dev</string>
<string>/home</string>
<string>/net</string>
<string>/private/var/db/Spotlight</string>
<string>/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100</string>
</array>
<key>UserPathsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>Library/Application Support/MobileSync</string>
<string>Library/Application Support/SyncServices</string>
<string>Library/Caches</string>
<string>Library/Logs</string>
<string>Library/Mail/Envelope Index</string>
<string>Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds</string>
<string>Library/Mirrors</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Database</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Downloads</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Feeds</string>
<string>Library/Safari/Icons.db</string>
<string>Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk</string>
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I bought an external hard drive the other day and I'm using it to transfer files from my Windows PC to my MacBook. When I first plugged the external hard drive to my PC it worked fine and I put some files into it and then transferred it into my MacBook. The problem is when I plugged it into the MacBook the time machine program popped up and me not knowing that if I press yes and agree to back my files up the whole hard drive becomes a time machine. First, I thought it was just a file that had all my files from the MacBook. When I plugged it back into my PC the hard drive didn't even come up. How do I fix this problem? Does anyone know how to make the hard drive show up on Windows again?

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Disks Locked after Time Machine restore

All my disks appear locked in the finder after having to do a Time Machine restore. I can't write to them.
If I go to "Get Info" there's nothing indicating that it's locked.
I also tried changing "Permissions" to everyone Read & WRite, but it wouldn't let me and repairing permissions.
What's going on here? Some kind of permission problems I assume.

It keeps on asking for the password but won't let me type, or it just gives me a new line:
Last login: Thu Apr 10 11:47:39 on ttys000
new-host-2:~ erland$ ls -aldeO@ /Volumes/"Samples"
drwxrwxr-t 16 erland staff - 612 Oct 29 12:43 /Volumes/Samples
new-host-2:~ erland$ sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"Samples""
sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"Samples"
This is what happened with the second command:
Last login: Thu Apr 10 11:47:39 on ttys000
new-host-2:~ erland$ ls -aldeO@ /Volumes/"Samples"
drwxrwxr-t 16 erland staff - 612 Oct 29 12:43 /Volumes/Samples
new-host-2:~ erland$
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External Drive locked after time machine restore. Please help

I've restored my Mac OS x (10.6.8) from a time machine backup after reformatting the iMac's hard drive.
After restoring all my files the external drive that time machine uses is locked and I cannot seem to get it to unlock itself.
I've tried resetting the permissions on the "get info" panel without any success (Did a restart after every change- it just seems to go back to custom priviledges). I've also toggled the "Ignore Ownership" toggle on and off- again followed by a restart each time.
I have no idea as to what else I can do.
The external drive is connected by Firewire 800 and is a RAID 1 configuration using two 2Tb drives.
I don't want to lose my existing time machine files on that external disc- hense formatting it is out of the question..
Any ideas or suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks for the reply guys.
Unfortunately none of what you said was helpful ds store. **** of a lot of effort and risk to go through just to get the drive unlocked. It might work though.
baltwo, thanks for the link. Those computer lingo sentances scare me big time. I'm a photographer, not some IT junkie! Thanks for the link as that got me reading some other posts and I then came accross other variations of " a+rx" that work for some but not for others. Sounded a bid dubios to me, especially since I'll have absolutely no clue as to what to do if things do go pear shape.
Nevertheless, I found the best sullution: a small app called BatChmod. (http://www.lagentesoft.com/)
Yeah, just what I needed!

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Thanks,
Fred

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