MacBook Pro logs out before Time Capsule has finished backing up

I can't seem to get the initial back-up done, my MacBook Pro logs out before Time Capsule has a chance to finish backing up, approximately 95GB to complete and it only gets to 12 or 15GB. Any ideas?

See # C 12 in Pondini's excellent support document.....Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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My Time Capsule has stopped backing up.
I have an Apple Time Capsule which backs up by wireless. For the last 3 days it has not backed up. I get this message:
"The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk."
I have gone into Mac Help and followed this down to stage 4:
under shared it lists my time capsule and my husband's iMac - both use the time machine but we have switched his off temporarily. Clicking on my Time capsule I get "Connected" and "Sharepoint" - I didn't have to enter connect or password
I don't understand stage 5: how and where do I select the disk or volume that contains Time Machine backups ? How do I know which it is? My disk utility lists 160.04 TOSHIBA MK... with sub-heading Macintosh HD. It also lists (with a "CD" icon) HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS22N
Under stage 6, how and where do I Locate your backup ? I try dragging my Time capsule from Finder to the Disk Utility side panel but it won't go. What is my computer's name?
Please someone help! I'm completely stumped.
Thanks,
Maggie
Mac Help says:
If you back up to a Time Capsule or network disk:
Open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, and slide the switch to Off.
Open Time Machine preferences
Open Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Open Disk Utility
Make sure the Time Capsule or network disk is turned on and available.
Open a Finder window, select your Time Capsule or network disk in the Shared section of the sidebar, and click Connect. If necessary, enter your user name and password.
On the Time Capsule or network disk, select the disk or volume that contains Time Machine backups. Depending on how your Time Capsule is set up, there may be one or more disks or volumes.
Locate your backup, and drag it to the Disk Utility sidebar.You can identify your backup by looking for your computer’s name in the backup’s filename.

Hello,
Thanks to the great Pondini...
http://pondini.org/TM/C3.html

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My Time Capsule has quit backing up - now spends all it's time "preparing". I've tried the Apple suggestion of a reset which does not help. All indicators seems to be OK. Running OS 10.5.8 on G4 Powerbook, Time capule is 1st gen I believe. Any ideas?

Hello,
Thanks for your message, I have attempted to repait the permissions as tou suggested. The first time this produced a long list of exceptions and took quite a while, however although it said "Permissions repair Complete" when I ran it again there were still about 20 exceptions, I have repeated the procedure and this is unchanged. The Time Capsule now does not spend hours "Preparing", but the backup attempt fails after a few minutes with the error message "The backup volume could not be mounted." Any further ideas would be appreciated. When I use Disk Utility I can't see the Time Capsule volume, if I could I'd be tempted to re-format it and start from scratch.

HT3275 My Time Capsule has been backing up without any problems and all of a sudden it stops reading on my computer. The external hard drive beeps three times and the motter wont run within. What happened?

My Time Capsule has been backing up without any problems and all of a sudden it stops reading on my computer. The external hard drive beeps three times and the motter wont run within. The light that usually blinks while in use is no longer blinking and is on constant. What happened?

abailey46 wrote:
My Time Capsule has been backing up without any problems and all of a sudden it stops reading on my computer. The external hard drive beeps three times and the motter wont run within. The light that usually blinks while in use is no longer blinking and is on constant. What happened?
Sorry we are unclear as to the external hard drive and its connection to the TC..
For instance the light that blinks.. is that the TC or external hard disk or what.
Did you try just rebooting / restart the whole network in correct order.. modem.. router / TC.. external drive.. clients with 2min gap between each.
Are you actually running Snow Leopard as the profile states?
How old is the TC?

I have an older macbook circa 09 and purchased a new macbook pro 2012. The older one has been backed up to an older time capsule. How do i move the files to my new macbook?

I have an older mackbook pro circa 2009, i thought it died on me it just went completely black. I later found out just a bad battery i purchased a new one in the interim. Now that i have discovered the problem i bought an older time capsule and backed up the older macbook i now want to transfer my personal files to my new macbook pro to maintain one personal mackbook. How can i move the files from my time capsule to my newer macbook pro?
thank you in advance for your help!!

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

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Hopefully this question is posted in the appropriate location.
When I start my MacBook Pro, I am asked to insert my password and login.
Upon entering my password, the computer will display the desktop, and applications will begin to open. About 10 seconds after, the computer will log me out, and ask me to sign in again. It does this at least 5 times. After restarting the computer, it will let me in.
I called Apple for support, but the associate said that she has never heard of a problem like this before.
Any troubleshooting ideas?

have you checked for statup items?
if you can login.
apple menu,
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click on the user account from the left hand list
click on the login items tab
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Just picked up a new 13 inch MabBook Pro. I would like to get my files from my backup which is on a time capsule (my old mac is completely dead). the airport utility would not recognize it at all. it is also my router, so i know the device is working. thanks.

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I cannot get my macbook pro to recognize my time capsule.

I bought a data cable and it shows up as a cd on my desktop and it won't let me add anything to it, and it doesn't show up in time machine. I read that an Ethernet cable would work, so I bought one and it does not work either. The port its plugged into on the time capsule turns green when I plug the other end into my computer, but that's all it does. It won't show up anywhere in my computer. The light on the front of the time capsule is green for about 3 seconds then it is solid orange for about 5 seconds then it starts blinking. I am getting very frustrated! Thank you for your help! (oh and I have tred unplugging the time capsule and plugging it in again and it doesn't help)

Getting the TC to work with a college wireless system is very difficult.
You need to setup the TC manually and make sure that it doesn't cause network issues with the local system.
To help you do that I need information..
What is the network setup where you are now?
I particularly need to know details of the IP address you get from the system.
I wrote a post a while back with the method.. look at the screenshots near the bottom of the page.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4817218?tstart=30
Since you are forced to plug ethernet cable into your computer anyway.. it is much easier, and faster and more reliable to just go and buy a neat 2.5" 1TB USB backup drive.. you might get them for $60-70 now.
Simply start a new backup.

Would someone please help me figure out why Time Machine has stopped backing up?

Hi, I am a Macbook Pro User running 10.6.8. I recently moved all of my photos, music and videos over to a 1TB Western Digital HD that I attach via usb. I believe that this is when the problem started. When I enter Time Machine, the last backup was on Feb. 17th, which I believe might have been the date that I moved everything.. Thankfully, I just happened to catch that my 2TB iomega HD that I had been using with Time Machine was no longer working, even though I have received no indication otherwise. I've poured over many queries on this site, as well as many others. I've tried deleting the TM plist file in my main file folder to no avail, reset TM and reselected the backup disc as well, but nothing seems to correct the problem. I have noticed, incidentally (or not), that my first backup date was one day short of a year before the last one. Maybe just a coincidence, maybe not, but worth noting, I thought.
I just tried a backup, and got this from Console:
Apr 18 14:50:07 Doyle-Hinsons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1399]: Starting standard backup
Apr 18 14:50:07 Doyle-Hinsons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1399]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Untitled 1/Backups.backupdb
Apr 18 14:50:08 Doyle-Hinsons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1399]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Apr 18 14:50:08 Doyle-Hinsons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1399]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: BB64A636-C7FA-3269-9643-D253B36CAEB5 eventDBUUID: 5C700854-D109-4ADA-970E-9DA378F0CBB5), {1, 1, 1, 0}
Apr 18 14:50:08 Doyle-Hinsons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1399]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
Apr 18 14:56:26 Doyle-Hinsons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1399]: Error: Flushing index to disk returned an error: 0
Apr 18 14:56:26 Doyle-Hinsons-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[1399]: Backup canceled.
I'm a bit of a novice at this, so explanations in laymen's terms would be greatly appreciated, and I express my deepest appreciation in advance to anyone willing to try and help.
Many thanks!

Thanks for your response, Linc. I have everything important to me i.e. pics, music, files, etc backed up elsewhere. Being that this is the backup drive I've used since the beginning, do I need to worry about losing other data that is on the drive, if I plan on backing up with a different one? In other words, is there irreplaceable data on the drive that a new backup won't be able to replace (data that's imperative to my computer's functions)? Thanks again!

HT3728 My Time Capsule has stopped backing up

I am getting this mesage The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/George’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use.

Welcome to the club..
The solution is rather easy..
Pull out the power cord from the TC.
Count to 10.
Plug the power cord back into the TC.
That generally fixes it.
For more help read C12 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

My Time Capsule has stopped backing up.

It hasn't backed up now for 44 days. I've tried everything - I have the latest firmware, I've tried resetting all of the settings but nothing seems to work. Can someone shed any light on this?
It is connected to my existing wireless network.

jasonbetts wrote:
It hasn't backed up now for 44 days.
This may not show you anything useful, but I'd try requesting that Time Machine back up ("Back Up Now" from the Time Machine menu), then open the Console utility and look in "system.log" for messages tagged with "backupd".

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