MacBook Pro & time machine

I was running a time machine back up and did a couple other things, now the machine is totally frozen, complete with the beach ball of death. Can I do a hard reboot and not lose my entire hard drive?
Thanks!

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I need to have all my data, photos, videos and applications "transferred" to my new laptop but won't have the old one anymore since it will be gone with the new owner.
I concur with DaddyPaycheck. Clone your entire volume on your old computer to an external firewire HDD, and you can then clone it to your new one. If you don't have an external firewire HDD, I believe you data deserve at least one. Many of us maintain multiple backups. I have SD clone on two separate external firewire HDDs, and one of those drives also accommodates my Time Machine backup.
Once you have your new machine, boot from the clone on your external firewire HDD, format the internal HDD, if necessary, and clone your entire volume on the external firewire HDD to the new computer. Alternatively, if it comes with an OS installed, you can move only the data and apps you need. Kappy's schedule in A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs works fine, or you can try using Transferring data with Setup Assistant/Migration Assistant, although some folk have had difficulties with that.
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This might be a poor question, so forgive me. I was using a 17" Macbook Pro from 2008 and just bought a new 15" macbook. I transferred everything from Time Machine on its start-up. It feels as if everything is a bit choppier so my question is: is everything pulled from the old 17" macbook pro optimized for 17" rather than 15"?
Thanks a bunch

SBuckle wrote:
This might be a poor question, so forgive me. I was using a 17" Macbook Pro from 2008 and just bought a new 15" macbook. I transferred everything from Time Machine on its start-up.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Do you mean you used +Setup Assistant+ when it first started up and asked if you want to transfer your stuff? If so, that's the best way.
It feels as if everything is a bit choppier so my question is: is everything pulled from the old 17" macbook pro optimized for 17" rather than 15"?
No. If you used +Setup Assistant,+ you're using the version of OSX that came on your new Mac.
How full is your disk? Does the new Mac have a faster processor than the old one? More memory?

Macbook Pro: Time Machine to Buffallo Link Station

I've recently switched to using a Macbook - and had already been using a Buffallo LS for back ups with my old PC.
I'd like to use the Time Machine Software with the Buffallo LS, however when I open the app it doesn't give me the LS as an option.
I can see the LS however in finder and access files (via wireless) from there.
Any tips for how to set this up would be a real help - eg. do I need to install NASNavigator on the Mac first?
(I know there were some posts about this some time back but at that point apparently it wasn't possible)

Thanks for the link to that - worked well - although didn't come across anywhere where I needed to input the information in section 5.
I continued with the set up and Time Machine started working - only thing is I've got about 80 gig to get onto the NAS so its going to take some time if I do it via wireless.
Also, for some reason I can now see my Linkstation twice on Finder (once as guest, where it sees only the shared directory, and once as my own login where it sees all directories on the LS through the normal wireless)
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I have been using time machine to back up my Macbook Pro 17 (First Gen), I have 2 external Western Digital Drives connected via USB in a RAID (Striped) Configuration. Everything has worked fine for months and the backups are quite snappy...
I just changed to a NEW Unibody Macbook Pro 17 and formatted the drives, set up the RAID configuration again from fresh in disk utility and reset Time Machine and said OK when it requested to use the drive for backups.
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I have a MacBook C2Duo (black 2008) customer who has upgraded to 10.5.7 with a new internal and external hard disk and a fresh install of the OS. After doing this, Time Machine constantly stalled at 12.55 GB when backing up to an external disk (USB2). After a lot of reading on the net, I think the problem marks the re-emergence of an old bug where the mdworker task used by Spotlight to index drives is crashing and starting to take up to 99% of the CPUs. At this point, TM simply does not have enough CPU time to work and crawls almost to a halt.
I messed around for a while with Activity Monitor watching the mdworker crash and it is very predictable. Time Machine buddy does not pick it up because of course TM is still working albeit at a snail's pace.
Since mdworker is very associated with Spotlight, I tried setting Spotlight to not index any folderssame problem.
Finally, I set the TM destination drive to be a Private drive in the Spotlight Preferences and it finished without an mdworker crash.
It might be a temporary workaround or it might be coincidence that TM worked this time, so YMMV and Apple should look at this too.

Wipe new Macbook Pro - Time Machine Backup Issue

Hi,
I recently purchased a 15" Macbook Pro, i'd previously been using a Mac Pro - through which everything was backed up through Time Machine onto a external HD.
When i started using the Macbook Pro i by-passed the initial Migration request as i had'nt yet got the 6 pin to 4 pin firewire cable for my external HD (have one now).
When i tried routing timeline on the MBP to the Time Machine backup on my external HD it ended up creating a separate user account on my MBP. This isn't what i wanted - i thought i could pick up where the Mac Pro left off but have'nt been able to figure out how. It's also slowed the MBP down alot, so i want to wipe it and start afresh - hopefully figuring out the Time Machine issue in the process.
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You can by doing this:
Install or Reinstall Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.
When the system restarts you will be in the Setup Assistant from which you can initiate a migration from a Time Machine backup. In this way you will not end up with multiple user accounts.

MacBook Pro + Time Machine Restore: Extremely disappointed!

I will keep this very brief, but I am extremely disappointed with Time Machine right now.
Don't get me wrong, it works great for when you just need a file or two that you accidentally deleted yesterday, but when you need to restore your whole system from it, FORGET IT. You might as well START OVER.
So long story short, an app called HamachiX was giving me some issues, so I deiced to reinstall it. When I did that, it created a duplicate entry of my MacBook on the network. So I needed to revert back to before I uninstalled it, somehow deactivate the computer, THEN uninstall it, and then reinstall it. - I had this same issue on a PC and that was the ONLY way to fix it. BTW - everyone STAY AWAY FROM HAMACHI, or in fact ANYTHING LogMeIn makes.....there Mac support is pathetic, and there support is even worse.
ANYWAYS, So I thought ok, its 5pm. an hour ago at 4pm, TimeMachine did its thing before I got myself into this mess, so I'll just boot from my Snow Leopard Disk, restore from my TimeMachine backup and now i'll be back to how it was just an hour ago becre I started any of this.
So I proceed to do the restore. 4 hours later, it finishes. Ridiculous. I boot up and the first thing I notice....lag. Everything is SLOW. And, then I start noticing problems. For example, my desktop icons have been randomly sorted all over the place and are not in the layout I had. I then open some finder windows to find that all of the custom "view" settings have been reset. Everything is in list view. I have to switch every window I open back to icon view, and even then they are sorted by name instead of date or something like that.
I thought, no big deal I can fool with that later. So then I start opening apps only to find that some aren't working. I'm getting "invalid license" messages, etc.
What has gone wrong????
At this point everything is so "messed" up that I don't know what to do. Restore to my backup - no wait, THATS WHAT GOT ME IN THIS MESS! Do a fresh install of OSX - I'd love to, but its going to take sooooo long to reinstall and CONFIGURE my apps. Even things like Firefox. Getting all my addons set the way I had them, getting my bookmarks the way I had them, etc.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!
Someone please offer some ideas or explanations about this situation.
Thanks,
Scott

Well, not solved, but I know I will never be using TimeMachine to do a full system restore.
I will only be using it to pull single files from within OSX.

New MacBook Pro Time Machine Data

Hi guys,
I just got a new MacBook Pro and I want to transfer stuff from my old MBP, but not all of it. I only want to transfer over my emails (Mac Mail), documents, photos and music. Nothing else. No applications or anything. Is there any specific way of doing that? Can't really find a way. Thanks for your help!

two options, hard drive or migration assistant
Migration Assistant
After your Mac is up and running, with at least one user account, you can use the similar Migration Assistant app to transfer those same categories, with the same restrictions. This is mainly used to move an account from one Mac (or it’s backups) to another Mac that’s already set up. (Accounts transferred this way may have problems, especially permissions problems with files already on other drives, including backups.)
If you have any user accounts on the new Mac with the same name as any you want from the old Mac, there's a conflict. See the pink box in the Using Migration Assistant page below.
Note that user accounts transferred via Migration Assistant may lose permission to see and restore from files on other volumes, including backups.
But if you're already got data you need to keep in any of those other accounts, see Transferring files from one User Account to another.
For details and instructions, see the appropriate page:
Using Migration Assistant on Mountain Lion or Lion
Using Migration Assistant on Snow Leopard or Leopard
Using Setup Assistant / Migration Assistant on Panther or Tiger
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872?viewlocale=en_US

I try to backup my Macbook with Time machine, it goes fine and at the end it says that it could not be completed because "/Volumes/Data-2/ MacBook.sparsebundle is already in use".. What is that?!

I try to backup my Macbook with Time machine, it goes fine and at the end it says that it could not be completed because "/Volumes/Data-2/ MacBook.sparsebundle is already in use".. What is that?!

See #C12 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting

After restoring backup new macbook with time machine Firefox will not start. says missing profile

after restoring backup on new macbook with time machine Firefox will n to start. It says it is missing profile although profile exists and profile manager will not start. Also reinstalling does not help. Direct after starting Firefox it says profile is missing and then quits Firefox. Please help edit

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

HT1338 I was backing up my MacBook with Time Machine on my new (correctly formatted) external hard drive. It was going fine when my 2 yo knocked the hard drive. Now TM said "failed" and the Mac refuses to recognize the external hard drive. Help please?

I was backing up my MacBook with Time Machine and using my new (correctly formatted) external hard drive. All was going well when my 2 yo knocked the disk leading to a "failure" by time machine (Latest Backup: Failed). Now the MacBook will not even recognize the hard drive. I have rebooted, tried all I can think of, but no acknowledgement of the drive. The drive itself makes noise and vibrates as if working, but nothing from the Mac. Please help or $100 down the drain... Thank you.

You may have already done these resets in the "tried all I can think of " portion of your post.....if not then here they are.....
PRAM
support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
SMC
support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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HT201250 i have plugged in a hard drive into my macbook, opened time machine, but my hard drive does not appear. why?

i have plugged in a hard drive into my macbook, opened time machine, but my hard drive does not appear. why?

Look in the Utility folder which is located inside the Applications folder.
You don't want to do anything with the disk on a PC if you want it to work on the Mac. They both use different formats.
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4 a quick star--Can I close my macbook while Time Machine is doing it's bz

Can I close my macbook while Time Machine is doing it's thing?
I've read some conflicting info on sleep and TM
It seems like I should be able to close it and walk away while it does its business.
I'm all confused ???

nerowolfe wrote:
Bobsax wrote:
Can I close my macbook while Time Machine is doing it's thing?
I've read some conflicting info on sleep and TM
It seems like I should be able to close it and walk away while it does its business.
I'm all confused ???
If closing your lid forces the machine to sleep, you will force TM to abort.
If closing the lid allows TM to continue, then it's OK.
TM does not work while the computer is sleeping.
Since TM usually takes a minute or less after the first backup unless you have created a large file, why close the lid?
My last backup took 1 minute 30 seconds. Hardly time to close the lid and open it again.
I'm doing a full backup so it's taking awhile.
Do people leave their external drive plugged in with TM on all the time??
For me , I'm sure once a week or so will be fine.

Crashed OS MacBook Lion Time Machine Question

I have an older back up of my MacBook in Time Machine on a external hardrive.
Is is possible to add to the backup in target mode? The computer will not boot right now, but I can get to the volumes via target. I can access the revovery HD when I hold down the option key starting up.
The MacBook has some sort of infixable sibling error, which is getting pregressivly worse. Additionally I've up graded to Lion since the Origional back up and partioned the drive, so it wouldn't really match the origional Time Machine back-up.

I really appreciate both your efforts but let me clarify a few things here before you continue posting incorrect information.
#1 - I have not done anything in the Finder that will hurt anything. Opening a folder in finder is like going to the terminal and running a "ls" command.
#2 - The reason for my original post is becaue this is def. a bug or undocumented feature. Time Machine backups should be backwards compatible.
There is no reason for me to open Time Machine and not be able to open an older backup done in Snow Leopard, UNLESS, it is an expected issue. If this is the expected behavior, the first time one connects the drive, the system should provide some type of warning.
Time Machine displays my older backup dates in Time Machine, but I can't select them to read, restore or anything. Then I went to the finder to open the connected USB drive to confirm if the files were there or not, as my hard drive space is still occupied.
You CAN manually copy files from a Time Machine backup drive. This causes NO ISSUES, unless you start messing with the files that Time Machine uses to organize the data being displayed on the app.
I am a systems engineer, web developer, and systems analyst. I work on multiple operating systems (Unix, Windows, Solaris, Linux all flavors, and Mac OS). I have been working with operating systems since the MS-DOS no-Windows era. There is a very slim chance that I will mess up any operating system, especially OS X.
So, let me re-phrase my question: Is OS X Lion Time Machine backwards compatible or can it not ready Snow Leopard Time Machine generated backup files?
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How to manage a MacBook Pro + Time Capsule + Apple TV combo?

Hi, everyone. I'm a new user to Mac techonology and I have a few doubts I'd like to clear before I acquire some new stuff and avoid a useless expense.
I just bought a 500 GB 15" MacBook Pro, and I've always used several external USB hard drives for backup (one HDD) and releasing space from my computer (two HDD). So you can imagine how much I have to juggle with since I'm an avid iTunes store customer for TV shows, movies and music, on a weekly basis. So, you can imagine also a 500GB internal HDD will fill up eventually with all the rest of the data I have.
I'm thinking about buying a 2TB Time Capsule to get rid of all the cables, countless copy/drags/syncs, and reduce the number of external HDD's. And I just got a new Apple TV as a birthday gift (don't have it yet with me) so I can enjoy all my media in the living room.
So, would Time Capsule be the best option? To backup my MacBook AND use it as a data storage external HDD for files that fill up the MacBook (movies and tv episodes)? Also, can both options be accessed remotely for sharing purposes and for Apple TV playing?
I hope I'm making myself clear enough. Does anyone have an accurate idea if what I'm trying to go for is possible? I'd hate to spend 500 bucks on a Time Capsule and not defeat my current "management" of data.
Please help.
Best regards,
Martin V.F.

martinvfraga wrote:
I'm a new user to Mac technology
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
So, would Time Capsule be the best option? To backup my MacBook AND use it as a data storage external HDD for files that fill up the MacBook (movies and tv episodes)?
You don't want to mix Time Machine backups and other types of files on the Time Capsule disk. By design Time Machine will eventually fill up the Time Capsule disk, making it hard to manage your other files. Instead, connect a USB disk drive to the Time Capsule and put those other files there. Size the Time Capsule disk strictly for Time Machine backups. Since Time Machine won't back up the files on that external Time Capsule drive, you'll have to arrange for that some other way.
Also, can both options be accessed remotely for sharing purposes and for Apple TV playing?
If you want to share the Time Machine backups, why?? If iTunes can find the files on the Time Capsule external drive, then the AppleTV should be able to access them.

Trouble with a new MacBook Pro - times 3 now..

Hi all,
Trouble Trouble Trouble - my frustrations with Apple:
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Been sent back to Apple and I got a new one.
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Apple?
I'm sure when I call Apple tomorrow I'll have to bring away my notebook to an Apple Service Provider cause they can't help me on the phone. If so, I will have to wait for another 20 days(experience in the past with my bro's MacBook for a new harddisk(!)).
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Giving me 9 beeps at start-up on a black screen in the morse code s.o.s. 3x short, 3x long, 3x short)
Sounds like bad RAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341?viewlocale=en_US
Or bad power.
Have you attempted to change the power supply or power source? If it isn't plugged into a surge protector, you may have issues with your house power that create problems for multiple computers.
Also, be sure you aren't damaging the power cable unintentially*:
http://www.macmaps.com/frayguide.html
This is a user to user board.
Call Apple directly at:
(31) 0900 7777 703
And let them know your repeated issues. They could give you a replacement machine, but also ask for a replacement power brick to at least test the theory the power brick may be damaged.
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