Time machine blincks orange and goes back no further than 10 days

loosing work is always a stressful affair, time machine malfunction on top of it drives me up the wall

I assume you mean Time Capsule (Apple hardware that combines a wireless router and hard drive, often used as a destination for backups made by Apple's Time Machine software)?
If so, that means there's some sort of problem with the Time Capsule. Use Airport Utility to see what the Status is -- if it's not "Normal," there should be an indication of what's wrong.
It may be simply an indication that the TC is near full -- that could be why you only see 10 days of backups. That can be caused if there isn't enough room on the TC's internal HD to back up your Mac. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #1.

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Had hard drive repaired and wiped clean computer, now time machine icon is the yellow color not backing up and can't find it in system preferences. I am able to open and access files though. How do I get TM to back up on new system?

The colour of the icon doesn't matter. The best resource for time machine problems is ...
http://pondini.org/TM/
Pondini FAQ

Time Machine will not let me restore from backups after June, 2013. I can see the files on the external hard drive but Time Machine skips all of them and goes back to June, 2013. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

Time Machine will not let me restore from backups after June, 2013. I can see the files on the external hard drive but Time Machine skips all of them and goes back to June, 2013. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

rtilghman wrote:
telling me to buy a new router is NOT a solution.
And why not? Apple is selling these things like BigMacs. They can't make enough of them. You've been suffering since May because you refuse to get a decent router.
Can you imagine if a company that makes a refrigerator told me that I needed to upgrade my electrical system to rectify a problem with their device? What kind of response IS that?!?!
What if the problem with their device is that it requires a new-fangled "grounded" outlet and your circa 1890 house doesn't have grounded outlets. Would you refuse to purchase a $ 25 adapter on principle?

After upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?

after upgrade to mavericks: time machine keeps asking for my back up disk and won't open unless i plug in the disk. any solutions?
before the upgrade, i could open time machine without the need for having the back up disk plugged in.

Ok. I got it to work, sort of....
As I mentioned before I tried the "disk password" and the "Time capsule Password" options to see if I can start the back up again or start a new backup. Neither worked. So I tried the firmware down grade, but like you said that did not work. I then decided to try the "Account password" option and I have never used this option before becasue it states that if there is data on the drive it would not be acessable after creating an account. Since I wiped out the disk that was nno problem. When I created the new account and choose the drive it asked for the user name and password. I entered the info for the new account I just created(FYI this has nothing to do with your login username and password), bingo! It worked!
Now I have two partitions on the TC disk. The old one and now the new account. I am guessing this is to be used if I have multiple computers, which I don't.
I any case, I am going to wipe out everything again and try again to do a backup the way I had it before.

Time machine tells me last successful back up 19 August 2014. Have done restores and utility checks to no avail.

time machine tells me last successful back up 19 August 2014. Repeated attempts to correct have failed. any thoughts?
thanks, Diane

We need a bit more info.
You don't state that you are backing up to a Time Capsule but I am guessing that is the case.
1. I need to know, what TC??
A1xxx from the base please. They do go faulty as they age.
2. How is it connected into the network? Is it main router or bridged? Plugged into what router or modem?
3. How does the computer connect to it?
4. Is the computer running Lion as per your profile or is it Mavericks? This latest OS is problematic. Its network reliability is poor.
If you are running mavericks.. and using wireless then I recommend you plug the computer directly to the TC by ethernet.
You can turn off wireless and see if you can get TM to start.
Otherwise go through the Mavericks clean setup with the TC and see if that will get it going.
Airtport Utility can't find Airport Time Capsule on either of my 2009 Macs
The very simple version of this..
Mount the TC hard disk in Finder manually.
Type AFP://10.0.1.1 (or whatever IP is shown by the airport utility)
You will be asked for the disk password.. supply it and save it in the keychain.
Try TM.. if it still doesn't work, reset TM and try again.
A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Ensure that IPv6 is set to link-local only in both wireless and ethernet (if you use it).
No luck you will need to follow the clean setup instructions and start over from scratch.

Is there any way to back up my Macbook Pro without using the heap of crap that is Time Machine? It is telling me it will take 3 days to back up 100Gb. I am in my 60s and I am worried that I might not live that long

s there any way to back up my Macbook Pro without using the heap of crap that is Time Machine? It is telling me it will take 3 days to back up 100Gb. I am in my 60s and I am worried that I might not live that long

If you aren't going to live that long maybe you should give up with computers and start enjoying the few remaining hours.
Suggested Backup Software
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Data Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
You may obtain trials of the utilities via VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

Every time i try to send a text from my iphone 4 it cloes out and goes back to the home screen. why?

So i go to send a text and when i hit send it closes everything and goes back to the home scren. i have restarted it and reset it but nothing works.

Try restarting your iPhone by holding down the on/off and the home buttons at the same time until you see the Apple logo.

External hard drive used for Time machine is full and having a hard time backing up. what should I do?

External hard drive used for Time Machine is full and having a hrad time backing up. What is my best option moving forward? NAS?

For All things Time Machine see Pondini's Excellent Infirmation here...
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Start with FAQs and Troubleshooting.

Time Machine appears to be doing back-ups, but they do not appear on the external hard drive. The last one I can find is June 30. I did a utility scan of the hard drive disk and it is fine.

Time Machine appears to be doing back-ups, but they do not appear on the external hard drive. The last one I can find is June 30. I did a utility scan of the hard drive disk and it is fine. What do I do?

Click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar. The time of the last backup is shown in the drop down.

I recovered my back up via a wired connection. now Time Machine does not recognise older back ups wirelessly and wants to do a first back up

I recovered a back up from my time machine via a wired connection after getting the 'white screen of death'. Now Time Machine does not recognise any back ups on the time machine when connected wirelessly and wants to do a first back up of the whole machine. How do I get my mac to recognise these older back ups? It connects to the wifi network the time machine creates fine, with the same name and password.

I recommend the following.
1. Reset the TC to factory.
Universal Factory Reset.. any model TC or AE.
Unplug your TC/AE from power or turn off at the power point.
Hold in reset. and power the TC/AE back on.. all without releasing reset and keep holding in for about 10sec. (this is often difficult without a 2nd person or a 3rd arm).
Release it when the status light flashes rapidly. If it doesn’t flash rapidly you have missed it and try again.
Note..
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC/AE will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations of the router.
No files are deleted on the hard disk in a TC.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
2. Rename the TC to SMB standard.
That means short names.. 2-20 characters but less than 10 is excellent. eg TCGenx (use number for x that is actual generation of the TC)
No spaces.
Pure alphanumeric. No apostrophe.
3. Ensure IPv6 is set to link-local..
Do the same thing for ethernet if that is used.
4. Manually mount the TC disk in Finder.
Use Go in the top menu.. connect to server.
Type in
AFP://TCname.local (where TCname is your new short name for the TC and local is default domain .. it helps using the domain I found).
You will then find the computer either can or cannot find the network resource.. if it fails something else is wrong with the actual network and you will need to fix that.
It will request the password if it is found.. password is public by default unless you changed it.. type in the password and check to keep it in your keychain.
5. Delete current TM setup and redo it with the newly named TC.
See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
If your backups cannot be found, try B6 again, now that you actually know that the disk has been properly discovered.

Using Time Machine, is it possible to back up a computer AFTER a specific date. I only want to back up files from AFTER January 2015. Is this possible, and how can I do this?

Using Time Machine, is it possible to back up a computer AFTER a specific date. I only want to back up files from AFTER January 2015. Is this possible, and how can I do this?

emilypdunne wrote:
Using Time Machine, is it possible to back up a computer AFTER a specific date. I only want to back up files from AFTER January 2015. Is this possible, and how can I do this?
Is what you're saying that you only want backups in TM of the state of your Mac from January 2015 to the current date and nothing before then? I'd think the simplest solution would just be to delete in TM all the backups prior to 1/15 and then let TM do its thing. The ultimate source for all things Time Machine is here. On this page, note the comment that "Time Machine will never delete the backup copy of anything that was on the disk being backed-up at the time of any remaining backup" which I understand to mean that if you delete all the backups in the TM file prior to 1/15, any file that wasn't present on your Mac as of 1/15 will no longer be represented in the TM file. Note that the second link also has instructions for how to delete TM files.
If you were trying to accomplish something else, then as Emily Litella (Gilda Radner in SNL) used to say, "never mind."

The date and time is not working after setting it to current date and goes back to may,26 2011

the date and time is not working after setting it to current date and goes back to may,26 2011; 2 PM . I bought my ipod tocuh 4th gen on july 18th

On the iPod, make sure your Calendar is set to Gregorian (Settings > General > International > Calendar). Also make sure your date and time on your computer is correct as well as the Time Zones on both.

I recently deleted imovie 9 .and i don't have a cd and i have not made backup from time machine ..i want it back.plz help me..

i recently deleted imovie 9 .and i don't have a cd and i have not made backup from time machine ..i want it back.plz help me..

It depends how you installed it.
If you installed from your iLife 11 DVD, then you can insert the DVD and install it again.
If you purchased it from the Mac App Store, you can open the Mac App Store, go to the Purchases tab, and reinstall from there.

HT3275 I recently bought a new Time Capsule and the following message is shown:- "Time Machine could not complete the back up. The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data-1/Brian's iMac.sparsebundle" is already in use." Can anyone help?

I recently bought a new Time Capsule and the following message has started to show:-
"Time Machine could not complete the back up. The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data-1/Brian’s iMac.sparsebundle” is already in use."
Can anyone help?

Pondini is the resident Time Machine expert on the forums, and he has all the answers.
Check is excellent Time Machine - Troubleshooting support document
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
See # C17 in particular

My itunes button seems to not be working. Every time I open the app, it closes and goes back to my homescreen

My itunes button seems to not be working. Every time I open the app, it closes and goes back to my home screen.

See:
iOS: Troubleshooting applications purchased from the App Store
Go to Settings>iTunes and App Stores and sign out and sign back in.
Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
Restore to factory settings/new iPod

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