My machine grinds to a near halt when time machine is backing up
My machine grinds to a near halt when time machine is backing up. Is there any way to prevent this?
How much data is it backing-up? Are you making frequent changes to big files? Are you using any 3rd-party apps that store their data in one big file (like a database)? Entourage is one that works that way.
If you're not sure what's getting backed-up, you might want to download the TimeTracker app, from www.charlessoft.com.
It shows most of the files saved by TM for each backup (excluding some hidden/system files, etc.). Take a look at it for one of the problem backups, to see what's going on.
If you see something you can't identify, post the name(s) here and we'll see if anybody is familiar with them.
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My mouse becomes impaired when time capsule starts backing up (every hour); anyone hav a remedy?
My mouse beccoommmmes impaired when time capsssule starts backing up (eevery hour). Is there a remedy for this?
UPDATE:
I think I've found a solution.... Though I'm a bit reluctant to post it already because I'd really like to see if it works over time... Anyway, here is the interesting post I found by Mr. Caliostro:
... sure, go into your Airport Utility application, inside Utilities inside Applications. Click on Manual Setup when your TC appears in the window. Click on the Wireless tab. You will find a pulldown menu there called Channel. Select your channel & Update your TC settings. I set mine to channel 1 to try it, & it made a tiny improvement. How close is your TC to your mac? Does the interference reduce if you ove further away? Perhaps swapping from 802.11g/n to 802.11n or vice-versa, may help? (depending if your setup can work on 11n-only). Perhaps switching from 2.5ghz to 5ghz or vice-versa may help? both 11n & 11g can work at 5ghz as well as 2.5ghz... Let me know how you go!
I set the 5GHz channel to 48 and the 2.4GHz to 1. Of course I changed these settings completely randomly since I don't know anything about these things but it actually seems to work pretty fine! No more sluggish mouse during Time Capsule back ups! -
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Magic Mouse extremely sluggish when Time Capsule starts
Why is my Magic Mouse becoming extremely sluggish when Time Capsule is backing up my data? This is really frustrating, I even stopped backing up my computer because the mouse is becoming almost impossible to use as soon as Time Capsule starts...
I've heard stories of interferences between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, can anyone confirm that and provide me with a way to solve the problem? Thanks in advance.UPDATE:
I think I've found a solution.... Though I'm a bit reluctant to post it already because I'd really like to see if it works over time... Anyway, here is the interesting post I found by Mr. Caliostro:
... sure, go into your Airport Utility application, inside Utilities inside Applications. Click on Manual Setup when your TC appears in the window. Click on the Wireless tab. You will find a pulldown menu there called Channel. Select your channel & Update your TC settings. I set mine to channel 1 to try it, & it made a tiny improvement. How close is your TC to your mac? Does the interference reduce if you ove further away? Perhaps swapping from 802.11g/n to 802.11n or vice-versa, may help? (depending if your setup can work on 11n-only). Perhaps switching from 2.5ghz to 5ghz or vice-versa may help? both 11n & 11g can work at 5ghz as well as 2.5ghz... Let me know how you go!
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Audition grinds to a halt when I zoom in on a complex multitrack session.
Howdy.
I'm putting Audition up against a pretty powerful computer:
- 4 GB RAM
- Quad core at 2.4 Ghz per core
- All SATA hard drives
- nVidia 8800 video card
That said, when I get into a complex multi-track session (more than about 10 tracks with effects) and start zooming in tight, the program grinds to a total halt. The CPU usage on all four cores spikes to 100%, but the audio rarely drops out.
For example, in a recent remix with 30 tracks (and minimal effects), I had zoomed in to just a single measure, and it was taking Audition about 5 to 7 seconds just to respond to clicks and keyboard strokes. Once I zoom out, the problem magically resolves.
And you know...I seem to remember this happening back in Audition 1.5 as well.
Is this just me? I can definitely reproduce it on two entirely different (and powerful) computers. Anyone else had this problem and/or know how to fix it?I use an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro with dual monitors and its certainly not a top of the range card nor as SteveG suggests should it be.
> Maybe it's just me, but could you please explain how a faster drive makes a difference to the performance when zoomed in? Because on the face of it, that makes no sense.
It could have something to do with the alignment of the planets rather than the faster hard drive but all I can do is give the facts, my observations and logical conclusions :-)
Zoom in for really close work with large track count recorded at 44.1k with a 7200 rpm drive and I would have an annoying lag of about 2ish seconds enough to really disrupt workflow.
Do nothing else but add a 10k rpm drive and make that my primary work drive - problem gone.
Think about the logic of it for a minute.
You are somewhere say in the middle of the song you zoom in (I'm thinking just now while I'm typing - which is novel in itself - that Steve you may be thinking that the lag is in the zoom - its not and that could be the confusion but I'll continue) and press play. AA has to load the tracks position the file pointers of all track at the beginning of the file then move each pointer to the position in the song for each track to your zoom point and then play the tracks.
Worse for 48k files and probably worse (can't tell cause I usually have heaps of edits) with heaps of slices as each is a virtual copy of the original track.
That's a lot of work and a lot of data to move around - I'm seriosly looking at the solid state drives with lower seek times.
BlairT you have some serious PC issues cause that machine should be coping without a problem. -
Time machine backups, always nearly 5GB when I use iPhoto
Time machine backups, always nearly 5GB when I use iPhoto
I back up my computer using Time Machine and it's turned on. I've realized, though, that during every backup, nearly 5GB is copied. Now I know that I don't download that much in a few weeks. I was wondering--is there a chance that Time Machine is copying something over and over...and over again. I notice that it does that when I use iPhoto, but the iPhoto Librtary size is 219 GBThis solved my question
Problem solved:
Close iPhoto. In the Finder window go to images and right click on the iPhoto Library file and press "Show Package Contents", then chose "Thumbnails" -> "Segments" and move these folowing 3 big files to the Trash:
[thumb64segment.data]
[thumb32segment.data] - Sometimes this one is not there. Do not worry about it.
[thumbJPGsegment.data]
Now restart iPhoto. You'll be given a message that it's rebuilding the thumbnail caches.
After this my Time Machine backup went normal again. -
CS6 Installer halts when installing Adobe Help
CS6 Creative Suite Design & Web Premium Trial downloads, extracts, but the installer halts when it hits "Currently Installing Adobe Help", and the install time keeps increasing indefinitely. I have tried over and over, re-downloading, using the direct download links, running the creative suite cleaner, the Adobe Support tool, restarting my computer, etc. etc. etc. It does this same thing when I have tried to install Dreamweaver CS6 on its own, but I was able to download & install Lightroom 4 with no problems whatsoever. What can I do at this point?
I too am having this problem, and killing InstallAdobeHelp.exe DOES seem to allow the installer to continue. Thank you for that tip, Dan!
For reference (Adobe or otherwise) here is some log and other useful information:
[ 3968] Mon Jul 16 23:43:03 2012 INFO
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Operation complete. Setting status: 0 =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
:: END TIMER :: [Payload Operation :{152B1DA7-A342-4EAA-BD28-25DD7B74AB3C}] took 2948.64 milliseconds (2.94864 seconds) DTR = 165.5 KBPS (0.161621 MBPS)
User specified overrideFile:
[ 3968] Mon Jul 16 23:43:05 2012 INFO
Successfully updated the csu inventory for {152B1DA7-A342-4EAA-BD28-25DD7B74AB3C} Suite Shared Configuration CS5.5 2.5.0.0 return values 0:0
Calling the custom action code for post-repair for payload {152B1DA7-A342-4EAA-BD28-25DD7B74AB3C} Suite Shared Configuration CS5.5 2.5.0.0
Calling the custom action code for pre-install for payload {D38116C8-C472-4BB0-AD6F-0C1DD1320D1D} AdobeHelp 4.0.0.0
::START TIMER:: [Payload Operation :{D38116C8-C472-4BB0-AD6F-0C1DD1320D1D}]
[ 7124] Mon Jul 16 23:43:05 2012 INFO
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Installer Operation: InstallThirdPartyPayloadOperation
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Installing third party payload
Third party application path:C:\Users\<USERNAME_REPLACED>\Desktop\CS6 Master Collection\Adobe CS6\payloads\AdobeHelp\InstallAdobeHelp.exe
CommandLine: appVersion=4.0.244 appId=chc pubId=4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1 installerArg1=-silent installerArg2=-eulaAccepted installerArg3=-programMenu installerArg4=AdobeHelp.air
[ 2068] Mon Jul 16 23:53:29 2012 INFO
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Visit http://www.adobe.com/go/loganalyzer/ for more information
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
-----I CANCEL INSTALL HERE AFTER LONG PERIOD OF TIME---------
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
START - Installer Session
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RIBS version: 6.0.98.0
Win OS version: 6.1.1.0 64 bit Type: 1
::START TIMER:: [Total Timer]
CHECK: Single instance running
CHECK : Credentials
Load Deployment File
CHECK : Another Native OS installer already running
Create Required Folders
Assuming uninstall mode
Lookup for master payload
Ready to initialize session to start with ...
::START TIMER:: [CreatePayloadSession]
[ 2068] Mon Jul 16 23:53:30 2012 INFO
Supported RIBS version range: [0.0.66.0,6.0.98.0]
----------------- CreatePayloadSession: machine is x64 ---------------
[ 2068] Mon Jul 16 23:53:38 2012 INFO
______ Verify Dependency Subscribers ______
BEGIN Operation order for all session payloads: mediaGroup (requires,satisfies)
etc....
A couple notes:
I am installing CS6 Master Collection trial.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I had CS4 & CS5 Master Collection installed (non-trial)
I tried removing both, with no luck.
I updated Download Manager and Adobe Air just previous to installing.
I have tried restarting, installing with and without internet access/activation (shouldn't really matter) - Attempted installation about 6 times.
Running InstallAdobeHelp from command line using the same call the installer does (InstallAdobeHelp.exe CommandLine: appVersion=4.0.244 appId=chc pubId=4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1 installerArg1=-silent installerArg2=-eulaAccepted installerArg3=-programMenu installerArg4=AdobeHelp.air) Gives the same result - an empty window appears and never goes away.
Canceling the installer doesn't kill InstallAdobeHelp.exe, it will keep running in the background until killed - even if the installer is forcefully stopped, and will even run 4 or 5 InstallAdobeHelp.exe processes at the same time, if you keep trying to install.
Big idea: I saw something in the log about already having AdobeHelp 1.0.0.0 installed (Probably from CS4/5?) I'm guessing this is causing the conflict:
-------------------- END - Updating Media Sources - END --------------------
Supported RIBS version range: [0.0.66.0,6.0.98.0]
----------------- CreatePayloadSession: machine is x64 ---------------
[ 9132] Tue Jul 17 23:59:43 2012 INFO
______ Verify Dependency Subscribers ______
[ 9132] Tue Jul 17 23:59:43 2012 WARN
DS013: Payload {3BF96AC2-0CA1-11DF-B07B-459956D89593} AdobeHelp 1.0.0.0 is already installed and the session payload {D38116C8-C472-4BB0-AD6F-0C1DD1320D1D} AdobeHelp 4.0.0.0 has no upgrade/conflict relationship with it. -
How can I force Time Machine to make a complete backup of my Hard Drive. I just installed a new external drive for Backup since my previous one failed. Now when I back up, Time Machine only backs up my data folder and the Users folder.
When I start a backup. Time Machine says "Oldest Backup: None; Latest Backup: None", so it seems like it should do a complete backup, but it only does a partial.Hi I'd like to jump in here. Your app showed me this:
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 749.3 GB Disk used: 453.81 GB
Destinations:
Plastic Wrapper [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 64
Oldest backup: 2013-07-24 23:25:11 +0000
Last backup: 2013-11-17 01:40:47 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 999.86 GB < (Disk used 453.81 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
/sbin excluded from backup!
/usr excluded from backup!
/System excluded from backup!
/bin excluded from backup!
/private excluded from backup!
/Library excluded from backup!
/Applications excluded from backup!
Aside from the size of my backup drive, which I will increase at some point, I'd really like to have time machine backing up all system folders, especially Applications. How to I reset this hidden exclusions?
Thanks,
Darcy -
When Time Machine is backing up files, I can't work on other apps
When Time Machine backs up files, I am not able to work on other apps such as Safari. I try to cancel the back up but nothing happens. Then the rainbow-colored wheel appears and I can’t do anything. I have turn off the computer and the external hard drive, restart both and log in. After this happens, I see that Time Machine is no longer backing up anything and I am able to continue work on Safari. What is happening? Should I quit Safari before Time Machine starts backing up files? Please help. Thanks.
to ssis6:
I guess this is something that happens once in a while because Time Machine is backing up files now and I am able to work on Apple Discussions and reply to your post. I just wonder if in addition to your explanation, there is any other explanation as to why what I described happens. Thanks for your help. -
When i run Time Machine to back up my computer on to an external hard drive, i have no way of knowing when the back up process has been completed. This is necessary to know because i don't leave my external hard drive connected to the computer. I routinely disconnect it after backing up the hard drive, and then i store the external hard drive in a different location from the computer. So, knowing when the back up process has been completed would be a very helpful thing to have the computer specify.
Just enable Time Machine's menu extra (System Preferences -> Time Machine -> Show Time Machine in menu bar.
This will add a little Time Machine icon to your menubar. When Time Machine is actively backing up your data, the icon will spin as a visual indicator. You can also click the menu icon to see the backup status, including how much data is left to back up. -
I get this error message when I try to back up my laptop:
' Time machine could not complete the backup. The backup disc image "/Volumes/Data/Lou Ann Buesing's Mac Book Pro. sparse bundle' is already in use. "
Anyone know how to fix it?Reboot the TC.. Sometimes you need to reboot the whole network.
This is what comes of Lion and then made worse in Mountain Lion of Apple not spending enough time to fix the bugs.
Read C12 in pondini.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
C17 can be related I think. -
Our iMac (intel, 11.2) freezes up when using Time Machine for Back Ups. We have 16GB of RAM and the BU drive is 1 TB on firewire.
See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.
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When using Time Machine, if I delete items from my computer, will they still be backed up to access later on my external hard drive?
In other words, when time machine backs up again, will it delete the files from the back up that I have deleted from my computer?No, I do not believe so. Time Machine would keep all those now-deleted files in previous backups, and as time goes by those backups might be deleted if you needed room, but it would still keep one backup from each day in last month, as well as one from each week forever, as long as you don't start running out of room, then just the oldest would be deleted to make room if needed.
I use a backup drive about double the size of my drive to be backed up, so I would guess it will never get to the point where deleted files being replaced by new ones being backed fill up that drive to the point where backups actually have to get deleted. -
How Can I Speed Up My MacBook When Time Machine is running on Time Capsule
My Macbook starts to run really slow and I consistenly get the color wheel when trying to do other tasks when Time Machine is running in the background. I am connected to Time Machine on a Time Capsule. Given this runs every hour its really annoying.
Plus to pondini..
If possible you can use ethernet.. that speeds things up greatly.
If you are close to the TC make sure it is connecting via the 5ghz wireless.. Check the actual wireless link speed. And transfer rates.. if rates are too slow.. then look at relocating the wireless or putting in some sort of wireless extender.
I guess the other question is what is slow.. the disk on the computer, internet, just overall feel of the computer.. perhaps give a specific.. what is slow. -
I haven't backed up my computer in over a year. When I tried to back it up today, Time Machine says 'an error occurred while creating the backup folder.' When I check the side of the partition where I manually saved old photos and documents (including all the pictures from the year I studied abroad/traveled a bunch), the folders are there, but NONE of the files are.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be, or how I could fix it? I really don't want to lose all those photosSo you were doing a time machine backup to another partition on the same hard drive? Just trying to gather some information so i can provide a helpful response.
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