Time Machine backup always says 19:22

Even if Time Machine is backing up every hour (which it is), when I look in Time Machine for the backups, they are all at 19:22 (24 hour clock) even if the items backed up are different. They used to say the time at different hours like 14:22, 15:22, 16:22 etc. Does anyone have this problem?

scapesuiter wrote:
Thanks nerowolfe but I already thought of corrupted preference file and that isn't the problem since generating a new Time Machine preference file doesn't help.
Did you actually trash the original .plist and reboot?
Open TM preferences and turn it off. Then trash the plist and reboot.
Finally turn TM back up.
Also run DU on both your internal HD and the TM HD and repair them.

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This 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.
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Now restart iPhoto. You'll be given a message that it's rebuilding the thumbnail caches.
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Time Machine backups always fail

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I have been trying for a week to get time machine working with my time capsule and it just wont do the initial backup. It starts out fine but then after so many gigs have been tranferred (anywhere from 10 -20 of 70 total) it just fails. If I try to start it again it shows it going from 1kb to 10mb to 35mb at which point it always fails again. I have tried different suggestions from around the forum but none of them have worked. I have even tried to backup to a different external hard drive over usb and it still gives the same error.With the time capsule I have tried over wireless and ethernet with same results.
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I just did a clean install of Leopard and ran all the Software Update upgrades. I had backed up my MBP to a new Other World Computing Mercury On-the-Go drive. I've been using this drive for a week or so.
Anyway, the backup drive, named Mr. Backup, now has a padlock on it. When I try to open or eject the drive I get the message "The folder "Mr. Backup" could not be opened because you do not have sufficien t access privileges."
I've Googled up this message, saw what other people had successfully done to correct this, but those commands have not fixed my problem. I enter them, enter my password and am returned to my user prompt.
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You can't use sudo if your account has no password; and so the command didn't work.
Running all the time in an admin account is a bad idea. A passwordless admin account is an even worse idea. Running all the time in a passwordless admin account is a very, very bad idea from a security standpoint.
I recommend making a new admin account with a password. Then change your original account to standard. You can leave the password off your regular account if you want to; a passwordless standard account is not nearly as big a security risk as a passwordless admin account. Best security practice is to use a non-admin account all the time, and to only log in to the admin account for tasks that really need it.
Once that is done, log in to the admin account, and try the Terminal command again, entering your new admin password.

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My time machine backups start saying that a resaonable ammount will be backed up (< 1GB) but always end up with over 30GB being backed up (out of a total of 40GB as I have excluded alot of files while I try to sort this).
So far I have
Performed a full time machine reset
Deleted all time machine backups and started from scratch.
Tried time capsule, network and local drives.
So far nothing seems to resolve this.
This is the log from the latest backup:
Starting automatic backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://xxxxxxxxx;[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data using URL: afp://xxxxxxxxxxx;[email protected]/Data
Disk image /Volumes/Data/xxxxxx’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Forcing deep traversal on source: "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3D9A5E6E-65F9-30D7-AF78-FBE5EC76C82C eventDBUUID: 4CC1882C-2A2B-4F8E-94C1-3F691818A4FB)
Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
Finished scan
Found 132882 files (701.4 MB) needing backup
3.72 GB required (including padding), 1.35 TB available
Copied 16.65 GB of 16.65 GB, 385064 of 385064 items
Copied 586699 files (34.01 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Created new backup: 2013-09-29-141156
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Waiting for Spotlight to finish indexing /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Data/xxxxxxx’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
One thing that I have notived us that the two lines below occur in every backup which does not seem right and I was wondering if this was related.
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I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, they may not work as described.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
tmutil compare | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
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Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
Files that you’ve excluded from backup, or that are excluded automatically, are ignored.
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Hi, yesterday, after I had wrong delete some photo from my iphoto library, I have decided to restore entire iphoto library from Time machine backup.
I have select last backup and I select desktop destination folder for restored library. Then, i have delete original library and cut paste restore library from desktop.
I have backup all with time machine.
Now, when I open iphoto and close it without any changes, Time Machine backup always 450mb...
Is normal?? I have fixed permission and restore iphoto database.

Vailfox wrote:
Ok, I have tried TimeTracker with these results:
in iPhoto Library
-> Database folder = 171MB
If you're really making no changes at all, not even browsing, I wouldn't expect much to be backed-up.
I don't have a current version of iPhoto avaiable at the moment, so can't check. But with a fairly small iPhoto '09 library (just under 1 GB), it backs-up just under 1 MB after just opening and quitting. It's no doubt making some minor changes to lock and unlock things, perhaps keep track of when things were lasted opened, etc. A lot of it appears to be metadata.
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-> Thumbnails/Segments folder 181MB
The backup data regards only iPhoto.
Should I regenerate iPhoto Thumbnails?
Might be worth a try.
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Hey rgmhughes7,
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The old OS was Mac X 10.5.8. I think the new one is 10.7.2 Lion.

Have a read here How do I set up a new Mac from an old one, its backups, or a PC?
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Is there any way to create a time machine backup to an external hard drive with content already on it? I have a hard drive that i have used for pictures but when i try to run a backup it says i need to start from a blank drive. Can i get around it?

It would be much better if you had separate drives for the pictures and Time Machine backups.....but, if you want to use the same drive for both purposes, temporarily move the folder with the pictures to another location for safe storage.
Run the Time Machine backup on the hard drive and verify that everything is working correctly. Time Machine will format the disk for you in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as part of the backup process.
Then move the folder with the pictures back to the hard drive with the Time Machine backups.
When you have tested to make sure that everything is working again, then and only then should you delete the folder with pictures from the temporary storage area.
Again....it would be much better to keep Time Machine backups on a drive just for that purpose, and other data on another drive for that purpose. This is clearly one of those times when the fact that you can do something does not mean to imply that you should do it.

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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
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When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

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I have an external hard drive that I have used as Time Machine backup, but not for a while. Now when I plug it in, computer says this disc is not readable.
I want to keep the backups on it and not erase and start over.
Thank you in advance.
Gregor

It sounds like something went wrong with the drive. Did you drop it? How long has it been sitting around unused?

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What can I do to delete them and completely empty the Trash.
NOTE: the Trash is on my iMac, not the Time Machine backup drive.
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Greetings Dennis,
Time Machine handles file deletion of its backups or you can use the Time Machine window to tell Time Machine to delete specific files: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Follow the steps here: http://Pondini.org/TM/E6.html
Cheers.

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