Please Help, TM just keeps saying "preparing for hours on end
Can someone enlighten me, my TM just keeps preparing for hours on end. It backed up about 80% of the files then it gave error, so I restarted the backup process, it gets almost done with the back up then it goes back to preparing and repeats that cycle continuously. I rebooted TM, unchecked "put the hard disks to sleep when possible" and every other recommendation I've gotten and it simply just doesn't backup. I deleted some files trying to clean up my computer the other day and so maybe I moved a file that wasn't supposed to be moved??
I do music studio work and backups are CRUCIAL to my job. Thanks in advance
mcg8tor wrote:
Can someone enlighten me, my TM just keeps preparing for hours on end. It backed up about 80% of the files then it gave error
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
What error? You need to know why it failed. Click here to download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window.
Navigate to the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages for that run here, or see #C2 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum.
I deleted some files trying to clean up my computer the other day and so maybe I moved a file that wasn't supposed to be moved??
Files on your Mac, or on your Time Capsule? If your Time Capsule, were they inside the sparse bundle (containing your backups)?
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