Time Machine backup failure on 60Gb iPhoto Library on second partition

I had 1 partition on my Macbook Pro (2010). I have several users on the mac and I use fast switching for them. All users use same iPhoto Library and iTunes Media - they are situation in a separate folder in my partition root. My Time Capsule was setup to backup everything and it actually did it well.
Sometime ago I started to find a solution to avoid file permission problem - when different users add files/photos, they have permission to delete/change for them only. This caused some unwanted behavior. I read a lot of forums and basically the most appropriate solution is to create a separate partition on the same HDD and remove checkbox on it to support "Owner".
So I did it - created new partition. Then I moved iTunes and iPhoto to new partition and then I started backup again. Unfortunately, it failed. It took me 2 days to understand that it actually fails on iPhoto Library - all other staff works ok. But as soon as I allow to backup iPhoto Library, it starts backing up and shows some progress, but when 1-2 Gb (or sometimes 100-500 MB) complete it shows that "Backup failed - ... this might be temporary problem..".
I did not manage to resolve this - so I removed partition and reverted everything back by copying iTunes library and iPhoto library to external drive and then back after removing second partition. When I enabled backing up, everything worked great again - no problem.
So here is the question - why backup failed on iPhoto library when it was on second partition? Are the any ideas?

Move/backup/move back/backup did not fix the problem. TM still didn't backup the missing directories.
I was finally able to convince TM to do the right thing by following the procedure described here:
http://www.nzmac.com/quick-tips/time-machine/how-do-i-reset-time-machine.html
This isn't a solution because I still don't know what caused TM to think that it backed up something that it didn't back up. But the article was suggested by a friend of mine in IT who also owns a few Macs. After following the procedure and running TM again I can see all of the previously missing files backed up on the ext drive. I also used BackupLoupe (http://www.soma-zone.com/BackupLoupe/) to browse the files that were actually copied by the last backup. I see that TM copied the directories that I knew were missing and two other directories that I did not know were missing.
At this point I think my TM backup is complete. But now I'm on the lookout for a better backup solution. Until I find it I'll need to periodically compare backup sizes to make sure that TM keeps doing its job.

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Time Machine backup missing bits of iPhoto library

I just noticed that the size of my iPhoto '09 library as seen in the Latest directory on the backup drive is a little smaller than the current size of my iPhoto library. The backup is up to date. I made sure by running Time Machine manually.
After some exploring I found whole directories within the iPhoto package structure that are just missing on the backup drive. For example, iPhoto Library / Modified / 2009 / Sep 26, 2009 is missing. I can't understand why. TM has run plenty of times since those photos were imported into iPhoto. I found other directories missing, too.
What's up with this? At this point I no longer trust Time Machine. If it's not backing up these directories what else is it not backing up?

Move/backup/move back/backup did not fix the problem. TM still didn't backup the missing directories.
I was finally able to convince TM to do the right thing by following the procedure described here:
http://www.nzmac.com/quick-tips/time-machine/how-do-i-reset-time-machine.html
This isn't a solution because I still don't know what caused TM to think that it backed up something that it didn't back up. But the article was suggested by a friend of mine in IT who also owns a few Macs. After following the procedure and running TM again I can see all of the previously missing files backed up on the ext drive. I also used BackupLoupe (http://www.soma-zone.com/BackupLoupe/) to browse the files that were actually copied by the last backup. I see that TM copied the directories that I knew were missing and two other directories that I did not know were missing.
At this point I think my TM backup is complete. But now I'm on the lookout for a better backup solution. Until I find it I'll need to periodically compare backup sizes to make sure that TM keeps doing its job.

Time Machine backup failure on case-sensitive disk?

Hello,
I just started getting a Time Machine backup failure error that says "A disk you are backing up is case-sensitive, but the backup disk is not."
None of my external disks have changed and I've not added any new ones.
The error seems to be stemming from the fact that I'm logged in as multiple users on my system, all with MobileMe accounts. When I "get info" on all mounted disks, the only ones that are reporting "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)" are the mounted iDisks from the other use accounts that I'm currently logged in as.
Does this mean I cannot use Time Machine while logged in as multiple users, all with the iDisks mounted? That would be a major annoyance to either have to log out/log in to each user as I need them or to disable iDisk syncing in my MobileMe prefs.
Regards,
Terry

That seems odd to me; my iDisk shows WebDAV as the format and doesn't interfere with backups, but I don't have any other users' iDisks, either.
Another possibility would be to reformat your TM drive as case-sensitive. That would, of course, erase all your backups so TM would start over from scratch, and some possible troubles when restoring (see the pink box in #5 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum, for details); but you'd no longer have the backup problem.

Can you restore a slideshow in iPhoto using Time Machine without restoring the entire iPhoto library?

Can you restore a slideshow in iPhoto using Time Machine without restoring the entire iPhoto library?

Afraid not.
Regards
TD

How do I repair a damaged time machine backup drive/remove pictures from library on locked/failing external drive

I have a WD 1TB external hard drive that I use as my time machine backup drive as well as to store a number of things including my iphoto library (due to its size of about 85 GB) as well as documents. I began using the WD 1TB external drive with my 2007 13" MacBook and when I purchased a brand new 13" MacBook Pro in 2013 I used the WD to transfer what I wanted to the new laptop. My new MacBook Pro is running OSX 10.8.4 (2.9 GHz Interl Core i7 with 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3) (not the retina display). The WD 1TB product # is WDBACX001... and it's only about one year old so I'm super bummed that it's failing and trying to take my life with it It has only ever been used with my two MacBooks, never with a PC.
The external WD was working fine until this week when I noticed that it wasn't appearing on my desktop. I rebooted, unplugged and replugged the WD drive in each USB portal, and still nothing. I ran Disk Utility to verify and repair the disk, which did force it to show up on the desktop again, though it made everything painfully slow. After running the repair function Disk Utility told me that the drive couldn't be repaired, and that I should backup whatever is on it and restore the WD drive. I managed to pull off most of the documents before it decided to freeze up my laptop (I had a couple of folders with a few documents each left), but I wasn't able to move the iphoto library over before the drive disappeared again. I got it back by running the repair option in disk utility, with the same message that the WD drive is failing and to back it up, and tried to move the iphoto library. It told me it would take 180+ days, and kept going up. I left it up anyway for about a day to see if it would change, and instead it gave an error message, and moved nothing. I can't open the library in iPhoto- it tells me it's on a locked disk. I checked the permissions and it's set to Read & write by me (the admin user) but then under that it says read only for "everyone." I can't get into the library to pull out my pictures, which I cannot afford to lose.
I would appreciate any help or advice on how to crack into my iphoto library on this failing drive to remove the pictures. I read a lot about DiskWarrior but I also read that it won't work on newer macs (anything after June of 2012 supposedly), so I'm wondering if that's true or not, and if not is that a good program to use?
I can't afford to take it to a professional right now, so any help or advice would be so greatly appreciated! Also if anyone then could suggest the best way to back up in two places (digitally and perhaps a better brand of external drive) it would be amazing.
If you need more info let me know!

If you're very lucky, you might be able to salvage the drive mechanism, and the data, by removing it from the enclosure and installing it in another one, or in a drive dock.

How can I resolve repeated Time Machine backup failures?

Time Machine stopped backing up from my wife's iMac 2 GHz Intel to a designated Iomega FireWire drive on August 6th. I have since erased, reformatted, and reselected the external drive. The profile for the external drive is as follows:
Manufacturer: Iomega
Model: 0x1
GUID: 0xD0B80E5B000BE6
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
HDD USB 2.0/1394A Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x12804
Product Revision Level:
Sub-units:
HDD USB 2.0/1394A SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 149.05 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
Iomega Time Backup HD:
Capacity: 148.73 GB
Available: 148.31 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s2
Mount Point: /Volumes/Iomega Time Backup HD
I have also performed Tech Tool Pro 4.6.2 Advanced Tests on all related hardware to repair any damaged volumes and files but the Time Machine backup stops after at 97.5 MB of approximately 60+ GB of data.
I have been unable to detect a cause for the failure in the Console logs but I note that the following entry has been repeated every few seconds in the system log since about August 23rd:
Aug 26 10:55:30 Dee-Coopers-iMac mds[37]: (Error) Import: importer:0x844400 Importer start failed for 501 (kr:268435459 (ipc/send) invalid destination port)
Aug 26 10:56:00: --- last message repeated 7 times ---

I had experienced the similar problem when I first upgraded to Leopard. The problem was caused by spotlight indexing my hard drive and at the same time Time Machine was trying to backup the spotlight index file. The solution was to temporary exclude most of the documents (I have a lot of pdf files) from spotlight and let it runs through the indexing process before starting Time Machine.
I don't know if my experience help you or not but it might be something worth looking into.
Good luck.

Time Machine Backup failured (Issue 1426)

Hello at all,
well i have got a big problem with my macbook.
I reinstalled it today (incl. formatting the HD). Now i tried to backup my data (I did all updates) 10.5.8 and it failured.
Its horrible. I need all my data.
I hope there´s somebody who can help me, because i have to learn for my Bachelor.
Here some more data:
Mac OS X, 10.5.8
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2
The time Machine:
WD Ext HDD 1021 Media
1 TB
Mac OS x Extended journaled
And i have to say it was the first time ever i had to reinstall the system since february 2008 i bought my MacBook.
Please help me...
Christin

mickleroy wrote:
We setup time machine backups in an office environment which is managed by a mac OS X Lion server.
I'm not familiar with the server product, but the actual backup process should be the same as on the client version.
On some occasions, a device requests an admin username and password whilst time machine is backing up.
Does it say Admin password, or could it be a password for the backup device?
Feb 1 10:01:16 pc-205 diskarbitrationd[15]: SystemUIServer [206]:24835 not responding.
Feb 1 10:01:33 pc-205 diskarbitrationd[15]: SystemUIServer [206]:24067 not responding.
Not related to Time Machine.
Feb 1 10:06:15 pc-205 sandboxd[513] ([61]): mds(61) deny file-write-data /dev/dtracehelperThat's not coming from Time Machine. Looks to be related to Spotlght (mds) trying to index something.
Feb 1 10:07:16 pc-205 mds[61]: (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:2 for volume
We see that occasionally. It seems to be spurious, or at least not a significant problem.
Feb 1 10:07:37 pc-205 com.apple.backupd[436]: Backup completed successfully.
Feb 1 10:07:39 pc-205 com.apple.backupd[436]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Feb 1 10:07:40 pc-205 com.apple.backupd[436]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Yes, that's the "bottom line."
Could this be fixed by running a full backup as admin so that time machine doesn't have to backup these inaccessible files (to normal users) anymore?
No. However a backup runs, it runs as the root user, so has access to everything.

Time Machine - backup System Drive and External Drive to 2 partitions? Help

Hi all, I'm a bit confused with Time Machine. Here's the situation:
I have my internal system drive (500GB) and an external FW drive (500GB). I have a backup drive (1TB). I would like to partition my backup drive and have Time Machine backup my system drive to partition 1, my external drive to partition 2. The Time Machine interface does not make it obvious how to do this. Is it possible? How?
Thanks!
js

js,
No, Time Machine will not do this. While it can back up both volumes, it will do so by creating two folders within the "Backups.backupdb" folder, each named for one of the volumes being backed up. In other words, it backs up both volumes to the single volume.
You'll need to carefully consider whether or not it makes sense to use it with both. Obviously, the backup drive (1 TB) will need to have just one partition to contain everything. Additionally, Time Machine really needs at least twice the amount of space required for the initial backup. Closer to 3X, if it can be managed. This is to insure that it will always have enough room to "do its thing" with subsequent backups. In order to evaluate this, you'll need to add the amount of data being stored on both source volumes, then estimate how much that data might change and/or grow over time. I would recommend strongly against using Time Machine to backup both volumes if you think the total might ever exceed 500 GBs (that is, the total used on the two source volumes). Even if you think it might come close, this would tend to recommend against using Time Machine.
If you really have the kind of data that fills up 2 500 GB drives, especially if one of those is your boot drive, you should seriously consider some hefty file management. This doesn't rule out Time Machine; quite the contrary. However, you'll need to separate your data into "live" data, and that which can be "archived." Your installation of OS X, all your applications, and your day-to-day "user files" would obviously be considered "live." To this total, you would add any files on which you might be working, in various "projects."
Anything and everything else is a strong candidate for "archival." These files would be best stored separately, where their need for constantly updated redundancy is eliminated. If they can be archived to DVDs, all the better (I would want to do this in addition to storing them on a relatively static and rarely used external drive).
If you adopt such a routine, you should realistically be able to whittle down your boot volume to no more than 100 GBs. Perhaps a little more if you are using Pro apps such as the CS suite, FCP, etc., along with their attendant template libraries.
Under such a scenario, Time Machine would work very well in backing up your boot volume and any external drive you would use for additional "live" project files. Everything else could be stored on an external drive that you would use only when you need access to the old archived data, and it could be made redundant by you, manually, as and when you see fit. Since this data would be and remain "static" in nature, it would not need regular and recurrent backup.
Scott
For example,

HT201250 Why won't Time Machine won't restore my iphoto library [says there is not enough room on my hard drive.] Any ideas?

I've got 20,000 plus photos on my HD [yes, I know, way tooo many]. I'm trying to clean up by storing them on an external HD, but for several months I've not been able to export iphoto [even geniuses can't figure out why]. So as a work around, I'm trying to export events and albums to external. However, I realized that I didn't export in the original format making the files too small. Now, I just want to restore my iphoto library to the date before I started this process and when I try to restore from Time Machine, it comes up with an error message that I don't have enough room on my HD. Any ideas out there? [The reason I want to restore is because I started to delete some of the iphoto files from my HD to clean it up and I want to get back to the original format for export].

In the simplest sense, archiving a file means making a copy that you never change and never discard. You already know how to do that.
iPhoto has built-in archival features, in the sense that it saves all versions of an image that you've modified. As long as you have adequate backups, you don't necessarily have any reason to archive an iPhoto library. If you want to delete images from the working library but still have access to them in case you change your mind, then you do need to archive those images. I don't have a specific suggestion as to how you should do that. You might post a question in the iPhoto forum.

Using Time Machine to back up an iphoto library located on an external hard drive.

I'd like to back up my primary iphoto library that currently exists on an external Simpletech hard-drive. I have a separate WD Passport external hard drive also attached to my iMAC. When I turn on Time Machine, it only seems to allow me to choose one of the two hard-drives to receive the back-up, and automatically excludes the Simpletech where my iphoto library is located from the back-up. Am I missing something?

This is normal. If you wish to back up your Hard Drive with the iPhoto library follow these steps:
Open the time maching preferences in system prferences,
Click options,
Choose the hard drive with your iPhoto library,
Click the - button to remove it frok the list. T
Time machine will now back up all the information on this disk as well as that on your hard drive in the computer to your Time Maching Hard Drive.
Hope this helps!!!

Time Machine Backup Failure

Well....
More and more frequently, I'm getting a backup failed message from Time Machine. I don't see anything particularly incriminating from the console log...but, generally, it's the same problem (below):
Jun 30 22:45:13 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[313]: Backup requested by user
Jun 30 22:45:13 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[313]: Starting standard backup
Jun 30 22:45:14 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[313]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Jun 30 22:45:14 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[313]: Failed to create progress log file at path:/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/Bob's Big Mac/2008-06-30-194423.inProgress/.Backup.236587514.320138.log.
Jun 30 22:45:14 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[313]: Error: (-50) Creating directory F0BA6CF7-9087-4EB4-A54B-E3561374FBA2
Jun 30 22:45:14 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[313]: Failed to make snapshot.
Jun 30 22:45:20 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[313]: Backup failed with error: 2
I'm wondering if 10.5.3 was the culprit, since I had no problems prior to it. Guess I'll see if 10.5.4 fixes this oddity... Until then, a restart generally gets the next backup going...
Thoughts? Solutions?
Bob

Nope...a third auto backup failed...
Jul 2 10:12:29 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[412]: Starting standard backup
Jul 2 10:12:29 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[412]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Jul 2 10:12:30 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[412]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 269.3 MB requested (including padding), 219.33 GB available
Jul 2 10:12:37 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[412]: Copied 495 files (7.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 2 10:12:38 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[412]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jul 2 10:12:38 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[412]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jul 2 10:12:38 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[412]: Backup completed successfully.
Jul 2 10:19:54 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: Backup requested by user
Jul 2 10:19:54 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: Starting standard backup
Jul 2 10:19:54 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Jul 2 10:19:55 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 260.7 MB requested (including padding), 219.32 GB available
Jul 2 10:20:01 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: Copied 441 files (9 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 2 10:20:01 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jul 2 10:20:01 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jul 2 10:20:01 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[427]: Backup completed successfully.
Jul 2 10:27:56 BigMacintosh-2 fseventsd[41]: callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) invalid destination port (268435459) for pid 431
Jul 2 10:29:03 BigMacintosh-2 [0x0-0x31031].org.mozilla.thunderbird[447]: Warning: unrecognized command line flag -psn0200753
Jul 2 10:40:48 BigMacintosh-2 fseventsd[41]: callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) invalid destination port (268435459) for pid 467
Jul 2 11:11:39 BigMacintosh-2 kernel[0]: SetCryptoKey R: len 32, idx 1
Jul 2 11:12:28 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: Starting standard backup
Jul 2 11:12:28 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Jul 2 11:12:31 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 309.8 MB requested (including padding), 219.32 GB available
Jul 2 11:12:49 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: Copied 804 files (40.9 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 2 11:12:49 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 260.7 MB requested (including padding), 219.28 GB available
Jul 2 11:12:57 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: Copied 460 files (0 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 2 11:12:59 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jul 2 11:12:59 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jul 2 11:12:59 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[505]: Backup completed successfully.
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 kernel[0]: disk1s3: I/O error.
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 kernel[0]:
Jul 2 11:36:38: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s3: dojnlio: strategy err 0x5
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/C9675DCF-6359-43B8-8696-866D96AD91E 1)(Error) IndexCI in storestream_flush:store_streamflush write err:22
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s3: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 57856 bytes to the journal!
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/C9675DCF-6359-43B8-8696-866D96AD91E 1)(Error) IndexCI in _ContentIndexSyncIndexBulk:Sync error live.0.
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/C9675DCF-6359-43B8-8696-866D96AD91E 1)(Error) IndexGeneral in notify_lowspace:low space for device 234881029 (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/C9675DCF-6359-43B8-8696-866D96AD91E 1)
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (Error) Volume: LOW DISK SPACE device:234881029
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in ci_ftruncate:ftruncate(57 /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4/live.0.indexPostings, 4194304) error:22
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in initPayload:ftruncate err: 22
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in ci_ftruncate:ftruncate(18 /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4/live.0.indexIds, 262144) error:22
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in openindexfile:ftruncate error: 22, size: 262144, live.0.indexIds
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:Could not open /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4/live.0.; needs recovery
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in copyFileOrFd:error (22) opening 0.indexGroups
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in recoverIndex:Unrecoverable error: could not recover groups file (0.)
Jul 2 11:36:38 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB943 4)(Error) IndexCI in CIMetaInfoCreate:Tried to create index when index already existed eMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/84D06902-55F2-49F0-BF13-736335BB9434
Jul 2 11:36:39 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (/Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/C9675DCF-6359-43B8-8696-866D96AD91E 1)(Error) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:Unclean shutdown of /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/C9675DCF-6359-43B8-8696-866D96AD91E 1/live.0.; needs recovery
Jul 2 11:36:39 BigMacintosh-2 mds[35]: (Error) Server: registerForDeadNameNotification failed ((os/kern) invalid argument)
Jul 2 11:36:39 BigMacintosh-2 kernel[0]: disk1s3: I/O error.
Jul 2 12:12:28 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[593]: Starting standard backup
Jul 2 12:12:28 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[593]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Big TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Jul 2 12:12:28 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[593]: Error: (-50) Creating directory 2008-07-02-121228.inProgress
Jul 2 12:12:28 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[593]: Failed to make snapshot container.
Jul 2 12:12:33 BigMacintosh-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[593]: Backup failed with error: 2

HT4927 Using Time Machine but can't find iphoto library anywhere for replacement

I'm having issues with a few wierd duplicate iphoto Events so I thought I would use my Time Machine for the 1st time and just restor the Library ONLY (not all of iphoto, just the library) to sometime last month and go from there. BUT....................
Nothing I have seems to match any useful info I can find on this forum. My iMac is OSX 10.8.2/iphoto 11 vs9.4.2 (everything is latest-updated)
I go into Time Machine, pick a date from early last month, and I see....."All My Files/ Desktop/Applications/Documents" then in Devices are
my external drives. Thats it. Where is the "iphoto library"? I feel like I'm missing something. When I look up the subject in this forum under Time Machine, it says to open Finder 1st (why I don't know), then open Time Machine (of course) but the sample picuture of Apples Website of Time Machine doesn't look like my Time Machine as I've just described.
Even in FINDER I see All My Files/Desktop/Applications/Documents: nothing that says "iphoto Library" (I can find "iPhoto" in Applications, but the application is fine, it's just the messed up 4 or 5 events I want to fix by going back to my library from last month, which was fine).
I assume that I need to:
1-close iphoto (done)
2-open Time machine and pick my date (done)
3- here is my problem (i think): I don't see a "iphoto library" to click on and then click on something that says "replace". I've never had to use time machine so I don't know what it will look like.
Please help,

By default the iPhoto library is in your pictures folder
you choose the one you want from a "finder looking display" and click restore (there is no "repalce")
althought the Mac is great and easy to use, every software program does have a learning curve and it is worth reading the instructions - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
LN

Time Machine did not restore my iPhoto library

Hi everyone,
I have been told that my hard drive has physical damage and all data are lost. I used TM to back up so I thought everything will be OK. I got new hard drive. When I was restoring my Macintosh HD from TM, I got restored pretty much everything. Problem was only that all folders and files were all of sudden locked, I had to unlock manually all files. I am still working on it. Not easy but I will get on with it.
However, my biggest problem is, that for some reason my iPhoto library did not get restored. I tried later to restore only iPhoto library. TM looked like it was working properly and TM was copying for about 2 hours all 25GB of pictures. However, once it was finished, my iPhoto library was still empty, no data. Where did TM copied all this pictures?
Can anyone please help me? I don't want to lose all my photos.

Hi Glen,
When I got computer back, home folder name was different that my original one. However, as I said, I manage to restore from TM almost everything, including all my video clips, but iPhoto library. When I try now to restore iPhoto library, I get message "Not sufficient privileges ..." and nothing happens. Computer name is same. Then I created new account with home folder name same as was before, tried to restore iPhoto library from TM and all of sudden, it was working and computer was copying all pictures. However, after he finished copying, iPhoto library stayed empty (iPhoto library icon changed and now looks like empty blank document), i tried in finder to find some image, just in case TM copied it somewhere else, but there was nothing.
Thats why I could not open iPhoto with option key because iPhoto library is just empty.
As you wrote, it looks like changing home folder name in the current account is not a good option.
I am thinking of deleting my account with wrong home name folder with option 'save home folder' just to keep all data that I have recovered already and leave an account with my original home folder name and try to copy pictures folder again, but now I am not sure that will work as it doesn't work now. ?

Time Machine backup of external iPhoto library shows recent photos only as outline, no image. Any suggestions?

The Time Machine backup of my external iPhoto library shows all pictures 'now' but previous backups show the most recent pictures only as box outlines, some with a curled corner. How can I see all pictures to make sure TM has them? And if I would need to restore photos from TM can I do this one picture at a time or only the whole library? If I upgrade to iPhoto 11, a more recent OS, or both, do the answers to any of these questions change?
Many thanks!

You can not use the iPhoto library while it is a TM backup - you must restore it to use it - and you must restore it all
:LN

IPhoto destroyed time machine backups

I updated iPhoto today and it refused to start up after (spinning wheel). I trashed the preferences and it still would not reboot. In fact the whole library disappeared. I went to time machine, and there was no iphoto library in any recent back up. I rebooted and then reinstalled the system to the last backup. I photo is now last photo 2009. Also time machine is last back up from 2009. All the other back ups disappeared. I KNOW that I chose the May 24 backup and there are docs from that date on my restore. What the heck happened to my pictures and recent backups?

Hi, no, they didn't drop anything from TM bacxkups, though I personanally consider it untrustworthy & useless when push comes to shove.
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imagine what he hasn't covered! And has done an amazing job I might add!

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