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Here's my situation. I have a Macbook Pro. A few years old. I updated my operating system when the updater popped up. Ever since, Time Machine hasn't been able to do a successful backup. I plug in my backup drive and spotlight starts indexing... forever. It'll say 2 hours for a while, then go up to 4, then 10 minutes later it'll say 5 seconds left, then a half hour later it'll be back up to 2 hours remaining. Time Machine never gets past the "Preparing Backup..." stage. Last night it started backing up, I left the room for a few hours and when I came back, it was still preparing backup. I know this was the same backup session because the last successful backup is still December 16.
What's going on?

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