Maxtor 3200 v Apple Mac - a love not made in heaven!
I have a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 external HD which I was using as a Time Machine. The ex-HD is connected to the Mac directly via a USB cable. Recently, the Time Machine has stopped backing up files full stop.
I have tried the following steps, but "com.apple.TimeMachine.plist" does not exist in the library and the Mac does not even recognise the ex-HD on the system.
Open Macintosh Hard Drive > Library > Preferences
Locate the "com.apple.TimeMachine.plist" file and delete it
Restart your computer
Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock)
Click Time Machine
Setup Time Machine again by choosing your drive as the destination and click Use for Backups
Grateful for any other suggestions.
you are looking in the wrong library for the plist. you need the one at the top level of the drive, not in your home directory. but if the system does not see the drive the plist is not the problem - the drive is. do you see the drive in disk utility? if yes try repairing it with disk utility. repair disk, not permissions.
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