Magic Mouse Unusable during Wireless Time Machine Backup

Hello,
I have had the 500gb model Time Capsule for some time which I am using for Time Machine backups. Since its release I have had a Magic Mouse and every time a Time Machine backup is initiated it interfere's with my Magic Mouse and renders it unusable until the backup completes. I have been holding out for a update/fix but none have worked, I would even settle for the ability to configure Time Machine only to backup over night. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
- LzK

Take a look at this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12814835&#12814835

Similar Messages

  • I can't access my wireless time machine backup.

    When I try to access my backup files wirelessly it says enter your name and password for the server "Base Station ddb9a1".  I do not know my name and password.  I had did a clean install to upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion.  I used the migration assistant, but I can't access my wireless time machine backup. Please someone help.

    Hello,
    I would like an answer to this question as well. As this is a time capsule and not a Airport extreme question I think here is a better start.
    I'm planning on getting a Time Capsule but have been backing up to a 500GB USB drive connected directly to my MacBook. It's probably only a month or 2 worth of back ups and not that big of a deal but if i get a Time Capsule and want to access the old back ups it would be nice to know if that is possible and if so how it can be done. I was thinking it might be possible to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner and move the back up file to the Time Capsule drive and erase the external that I have now, and have Time Machine use that file like it has been doing from the wired drive.
    I will look around the posts and see if I can find anything. In the mean time if someone finds something it would be nice if you could put the link in this discussion.
    Cheers,
    Shadowrider

  • Two Discs shown for wireless time machine backup., "Data" and "Extreme"

    I have a new 1TB iMAC 24" connected to Time Capsule via ethernet and wireless, one MacBook connected to Time Capsule via ethernet, and another MacBook that uses wireless. The iMAC and the ethernet-connected MacBook backup just fine using Time Machine. When I try a wireless Time Machine backup from the wireless MacBook, the backup fails and I get the "unable to ... image ..." message (don't remember the exact wording). When I try to "Change Disc" in Time Capsule preferences, I see two discs, one labeled "Data" and the other labeled "Extreme." Which one should I choose?

    Try a new post in the 10.5 Time Machine forum.
    DALE

  • How to setting up new (June 2011) TC  to do wireless time machine backup but not connected to network?

    Hello.  Just got new (refurbished June 2011, 2TB) Time Capsule.  My building has a shared wifi network, and I'm assuming it's hard to join the network with Time Capsule and still be satisfied with security/privacy/performance. (Of course, if I'm assuming wrong, please let me know!)
    My understanding is that I can use Time Capsule wirelessly to do Time Machine backups by switching out of my wireless network to - I assume - a new Time Capsule generated network(?). It's an extra step, but that beats connecting cables to the computer everytime I need to do backup. Basically it's like an external wireless hard drive that I have to join everytime the backup is updated, right?  (Again, if there is a better way to go about doing this, please let me know.)
    So how do I go about doing this? The setup manual isn't helpful (not at all).
    Here's more detail if necessary. I have 10.8 Macbook Air (which I plan to upgrade to 10.9 soon) and my spouse is running 10.9 Macbook Pro. I am also assuming I don't have to partition Time Capsule, and when the Time Machine backs up, it'll figure who's who.
    Thanks in advance.

    Hello.  Just got new (refurbished June 2011, 2TB) Time Capsule.  My building has a shared wifi network, and I'm assuming it's hard to join the network with Time Capsule and still be satisfied with security/privacy/performance. (Of course, if I'm assuming wrong, please let me know!)
    Security is ok.. but performance is abominable.
    The TC unfortunately has some design limitations that Apple imposed that makes it rather poor for anything but ethernet.
    There is a couple of ways around the problem of sequential internet or backups.
    1. Get a wireless bridge that is suited to your in-building system.. and plug that into the TC so it can take normal router settings .. This will give you double NAT but I doubt your in building system will be handing out public IP anyway. An airport extreme can do this. Although it is pricey for the same results as a $35 standard wireless bridge. All devices in your place will then get both internet and backup direct to the TC.
    One flaw here could be the download limits.. if you have two connections do you get double the downloads.. ??
    ie how many IP are allocated to you?? And is it divided between all of them or the more IP clients the more download bandwidth?
    2. Use a USB wireless stick in the Mac.. these can be tiny little things now.. just buy Mac compatible ones.. use that for internet and use the internal (faster) wireless for local connections. there are some manual setup tricks needed here but nothing hard.

  • Wireless Time Machine Backup via AEBS Failing

    I just bought a Airport Extreme Base Station (5th Generation) so that I can use an external hard drive (Western Digital My Passport SE) to wirelessly backup my Mac Book Pro. I've been using the external hard drive as my time machine via USB cable and it works fine. However if I connect the external hard drive to the AEBS, the TM software says that the "disk is unavailable", even though I can selected the external drive as a TM disk in the TM preferences and the Mac Book Pro can read and write from the external hard drive wirelessly using the airport. The only function not working is the TM wirelessly.
    Has Apple blocked this functionality? I called Apple Care and they said it is unsupported and that they will only help if I buy the time capsule.
    This is what I have tried from of posted that have failed with the same error "disk is unavaiable":
    Updated firmware on AEBS and external drive
    Reformatted the external drive using the Mac Book Pro disk utility to MAC OS (Journaled)
    Erased old backups and started the TM wirelessly from scratch
    Started TM through USB, canceled then tried wirelessly
    Tried this terminal command: sudo defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
    Turned off the wireless signal and connect AEBS via Ethernet cable to the Mac Book and started the TM
    Used another external hard drive (Seagate 500 gig)
    I'm stuck! Any ideas?

    I'm afraid that you are not going to like this answer, but it will explain the difficulties that you...and almost all other users who try this....will experience sooner or later.
    Apple does not support Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port of the AirPort Extreme
    Reference this Apple Support Document:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
    All you can really do if you want to continue to try to backup using Time Machine to a disk at the USB port of the AirPort Extreme is connect the drive directly to your Mac and run Disk Utility to "repair disk" and/or "repair disk permissions".
    This will likely get you going again....until the backup becomes corrupted again....which might be a few days, a few weeks, or even a few months. Eventually, Disk Utility will not be able to repair the disk.
    You might want to consider a secondary backup plan if you elect to contine to try the backups through the AirPort Extreme.

  • What Files are Saved during a Time Machine Backup??

    Hi,
    When I carry out a time machine backup, what files are saved?
    I have just plugged in my external hard drive to carry out a back up and its 56GB!, my last TM backup was only 2 weeks ago and I haven't downloaded that much data!
    Many Thanks
    Chris

    Sorry, that wasn't typed very well!!
    The TM backup is 56GB
    ;o)

  • Macbook Pro 17 Mid-2009 Freeze during Wifi Time Machine backup

    I have a 17" Macbook Pro 17" Mid 2009 model, running ML 10.8.2, 8GB memory. I am backing up the system to an Airport Extreme shared disk with Time machine over Wifi using the 5GHZ band. My system has all-of-a-sudden started locking up completely during backup. No mouse movement, and everything frozen -- even the clock. The only way I am able to back up is directly connecting via ethernet to the AE, or by attaching a USB disk.
    The system has been working for over a year to the AE TM, and at first I thought it was OSX 10.8.3, so I wiped out and reinstalled from scratch and the system still locks up on 10.8.0. So far, it's only over wifi. I also tried during my troubleshooting, using Carbon Copy Cloner to a Sparsebundle image over Wifi with the same results.
    I can access and copy files from the AFP hosted disks on the AE with no problem. So it seems to be something in Rsync and the Wifi drivers that aren't jiving.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks in advance

    I see nobody is reacting to your problem.
    I have (almost) the same problem, but with 10.7.5.
    Not only Time Machine freezes up (over WiFi and USB-connected), but also my Music downloads (everything else works fine) to my iPhone 5 (with  iTunes 11.1) and also Spotlight (indexing for minutes and then freezes).
    All these 3 actions (which usually take longer than anything else) freeze up after 3 to 15 minutes. Never the same, always different durations. Very annoying.
    On the other hand: ever since I disabled Spotlight, my MacBook Pro A1286 is as fast as when I bought it in 2009.
    This all happened suddenly, out of the blue. No added software, hardware. No changes in prefs.
    I had my hardware checked. I have done a memtest. All the tricks in the book. To no avail.
    Aopple techs tell me to wait till Maverick......some solution ;-)

  • Wireless Time Machine Backup

    I was told that I cannot backup wirelessly with Time Machine to my Western Dig HD. Has anyone been able to do this. Time Machine will backup wirelessly to Time Capsule - so why not another Ex. HD?

    Averysgrammy wrote:
    I was told that I cannot backup wirelessly with Time Machine to my Western Dig HD. Has anyone been able to do this. Time Machine will backup wirelessly to Time Capsule - so why not another Ex. HD?
    only the following wireless options are supported:
    - Time capsule
    - a drive directly attached to another mac running leopard
    - it also works with drives directly attached to Airport Extreme Base Station
    anything else is unsupported. there are hacks to enable backups to other NAS but they are just that - hacks. No guarantees and no support from apple.

  • Does Time Machine Backup irritate wireless Mighty Mouse?

    Hi there. I'm having a strange issue here. With an iMac that came with bluetooth mouse and keyboard, OS out of the box (no software updates installed because there's no internet connection), each time Time Machine is backuping files, the Mighty Mouse is acting weird. It actually feels like someone else is working with it. Even if I do not use it and leave it alone, the pointer goes wild on the screen. Trying to work during Time Machine backups is impossible, because I cannot use the Mouse properly.
    Does anyone of you have a similar, if not, the same issue? Any ideas?
    Thanks in advance,
    later, Stephan

    I am having a similar problem with my IMac and Time Machine. During wireless Time Machine backups, the wireless mighty mouse and wireless keyboard disconnect. If the mighty mouse remains connected, it moves very slowly and is virtually unusable.
    So far I've thought of two potential problems to troubleshoot:
    1. I experience this problem when I connect to the Time Machine through the "802.11n (802.11b/g compatible)" wireless connection (set in the AirPort Utility), but I don't experience the same problem when I connect to the Time Machine through a wired ethernet connection. So it appears the b/g compatible setting is causing interference. I haven't tested to see if the "802.11n only" wireless connections causes this problem or not.
    2. I also wonder if the IMac does not have enough RAM to complete the wireless backup. My IMac has 2gigs of RAM, and during backups it maxes out. I plan to upgrade to 4 gigs to see if the problem continues. (Stephan, how much RAM to you have installed?)
    peace,
    Marcus

  • Time Machine backup file differs in size from HD

    I just backed up my MacBook for the first time using time machine to a time capsule. I checked out the file size of the sparse bundle file and its approx. 70gb, however my HD has 86.5gb on it. Is this correct? I thought the backup file would be the exact same size as the HD.
    Also, there is a disk image mounted under the HD in the finder called "Backup of "name's" computer". Does that have to stay or can I eject it?
    Thanks in advance for the help.

    cgapper wrote:
    Thanks for the info on the disk image, it has since disapeared.
    16gb of size difference seems like a lot. Could it be that there are 16gb out of 86gb that isn't being used efficently on my HD? While it was doing its initial backup, I noticed toward the end when I checked on it in the morning, there was still approx 16gb left to transfer.
    I agree, 16gb is "a lot" just for fragmented files. When I performed my first full backup, the disk image virtually matched the size of my data on the Mac. So I don't have an explanation not knowing more about your setup.
    BTW - How did you check "the file size of the sparse bundle file". Are you connected via ethernet or wirelessly? When ever I call up Get Info wirelessly it never reports a size, just "Calculating size...".
    When I checked back a few mins later, the figures in the progress box had changed to 'xx' mb out of 6mb. Seems kinda wierd to me. Any more thoughts on that? b
    Yes, what you say at the end was the 2nd pass of Time Machine. This explains it...
    *Time Machine Appears to Make 2 Backups*
    It is normal for Time Machine to perform two passes with each backup. This is because some files/folders have likely changed while Time Machine was performing the first pass of the backup backup, particularly if the current backup took some time to complete or your computer was in use during the Time Machine backup. So it picks up those changes with a second pass. George Schreyer refers to this behavior in his article on Time Machine: “The copy process is pretty straight forward and can happen in two passes if changes happen DURING a backup.” [http://www.girr.org/mac_stuff/backups.html]
    Cheers!

  • Can two macs use same disk for Time Machine backup with Airport Extreme?

    Hi
    I use a Western Digital disk as a wireless Time Machine backup connected to the USB port on my Airport Extreme and it works great. My question is: can my girlfriend use that same disk for Time Machine backup from HER computer too? (I don't mind formatting the disk if needed.)
    If she can't, is it then possible to connect a USB hub and have two disks hooked up to the Airport Extreme?
    Thanks for helping. I am constantly in awe of all the help people like you give people like me. Thanks!!!
    Jakob

    I've gone through the manual setup and the assisted setup and can't seem to get my MacBook to use the Time Machine. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.
    Well, as the Jolly Giant points out....+this type of configuration is not supported by Apple+, so it's difficult, if not impossible, to provide a fix for something that Apple says that you cannot do. Reference these Apple Support documents regarding this topic:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html
    Your situation is not unlike other users who try this and find that one computer may backup...(usually for a limited time before corruption issues start to creep in)...but another computer cannot backup. Count me as one of those users who thought that because things seemed to work that I had somehow "beat the system".
    I started getting the corruption error messages after 4-5 weeks of successful backups, so I figured that it did not make sense to continue to try to get a second computer to backup (yes, I too could not setup a second Mac to backup).
    Sorry, I could not get a second machine to backup, so can't tell you how to accomplish that goal. If you want to continue to try backing up this way, you might want to also think about a second backup strategy...just in case backups become corrupted on the WD drive.
    Maybe if Apple says you cannot do this, they just may be right?
    Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

  • Time Machine backup on MBA 13" drop connection after a while

    Nov 2010 MBA 13", OS X 10.6.7 (latest)
    2008 Time Capsule, Firmware 7.5.2 (latest)
    Since a while ago, possibly 10.6.7 patch, my MBA has had problems maintaining a wireless connection both to my TC and to an Airport Express that I have, especially when left unattended for 10' or so. My Iphone 4 and a Vista PC on the same network never had a similar problem.
    Genius Bar folks ran hardware tests which showed nothing, then suggested a clean install and app migration (without network settings) which I did. For a day or so my MBA then starting to behave well.
    Since yesterday, when I reinstalled 10.6.7, my MBA doesn't drop the connection, but has another problem. It won't finish its wireless Time Machine backup (3.6GB). Sometimes it can't find the TC disk, others it can. Then it goes ok for a while, even sometimes 2/3 of the way and then drops the internet connection and the connection to TC, but the Airport binding to the TC still shows as active on the MBA menubar. If I turn the Airport interface off and back on again on the MBA, eventually after a while it might find the wireless network again.
    The only other internet-related app running in the background is Skype 5.1.0.914 (latest). Also, TC network channel is not shared with any other wireless close by.
    I strongly believe this is a problem with the latest OS X patch (10.6.7) and MBA/TC combination. Even while it backups ok, it seems that the backup speed is low, which points to some conflict.
    Do other people have the same or a similar issue?  Can Apple Support chime in, since Genius Bar suggestion didn't do much for me?
    Thanks in advance.

    Update:
    Stopping Skype allows backups to run faster and complete normally. In fact Time Machine has never been that fast for me..
    Seems the problem is gone, hopefully this might also help others.

  • AEBS Ethernet NAS Hard Drive + USB Time Machine Backup

    Hello,
    I currently have an Airport Extreme Base Station, which I utilize the USB port for Wireless Time Machine Backups. However, I would like to know if it is possible to connect a NAS drive to the AEBS via Ethernet and still use the USB port for wireless backups for multiple Mac laptops simultaneously. The backups must also include whatever is on the NAS drive. Is this functionality possible?
    Thanks!!

    infamousirshad, Welcome to the discussion area!
    ...I would like to know if it is possible to connect a NAS drive to the AEBS via Ethernet and still use the USB port for wireless backups for multiple Mac laptops simultaneously.
    Yes
    The backups must also include whatever is on the NAS drive. Is this functionality possible?
    No. Time Machine does not backup data FROM any network drive.

  • Check Time Machine Backup Contents

    I have been manually backing up my MacBook Pro contents via drag and drop to my NAS box and have now switched to wireless Time Machine backups after an initial wired backup.
    I would now like to remove my previous manual backups from the NAS so that I am not doubling up on the content that has been backed up.
    My question is:
    Is there a way to check the contents of the Time Machine backup on my NAS, so that I can ensure everything has been backed up and if my NAS fails then I won't lose everything?
    I am currently running:
    2012 MacBook Pro with fully updated Mavericks
    Buffalo Linkstation LS421DE with fully updated firmware (RAID1)
    Nothing has been specifically excluded from the backup by myself.
    I have entered Time Machine from the MacBook and it appears that there are previous copies of all the folders that I have checked so far.
    I am sure that you can appreciate how important data is.
    I will then be looking at an off site backup in the form of an external hard drive that will be kept at my workplace.
    Please let me know if you need any more details or if you have any recommendations regarding my set up.

    Sorry to say, but from what I've read here, countless numbers of times, is that Time Machine and a NAS NEVER play well together, no matter what a NAS supplier may say.
    The backups are not usually the problem - the problems seem to occur with restores. I'm hoping that those with some real-world experiences will jump in here - you may want to include the fact that you're using a NAS in your subject line.
    The best way to create wireless Time Machine backups (that will actually restore, if needed) is to purchase the newest Airport Extreme and hang drives to it. Only the newest one will work.
    It's fine to use a drag and drop method of backup to your NAS, but don't count on using Time Machine with it. It simply is not reliable or recommended, as I've read so many times.
    As I said, you may want to compose a new header for your message - you're sure to get responses from folks who have used a NAS with varying results. But PLEASE don't just take my word on it - reach out to those who have used a NAS and Time Machine. You may find that there's better software to use with your NAS: my information is strictly second-hand.
    Good luck,
    Clinton

  • Can i resume a Time Machine backup of an attached external drive (no system, just data) on a different laptop?

    I am trying to find out if I can use a Time Machine (specifically on a 2013 Time Capsule) backup of an external drive (only data, no system) attached to a laptop, and then connect that same external drive to another laptop and resume the backup? Or is the Time Machine backup of an attached external drive a laptop "dependant" backup?
    Additional info: The laptops in question are 15" MacBook Pro and a 17" MacBook Pro from 2011 running OSX 10.9 (Mavericks)

    You are welcome.
    I don't think there is a need to start a new discussion unless you want to.
    You should have more than one backup of each computer. Hard drives do fail. Time Machine can alternate drives or have a Time Machine and a clone.
    The concern arises because i was told that when a wireless Time Machine backup is interrupted the sparsebundle gets sort of "locked" or "damaged", and although the backups can be accessed, no further Time Machine backup is possible. One must that a brand new backup.
    Apple support article. Don't let the title bother you. Look at Additional Information, which explains what happens when a backup gets interrupted. I also am including a link for troubleshooting. C3 explains what you can try if the backup is interrupted.
    Time Machine First Backup Interrupted
    Time Machine Troubleshooting

Maybe you are looking for