Time Machine Buddy and admin. rights

There was a fix I used in Snow Leopard to allow a non-admin. user to have
access to the log file. Now that I'm running Lion, I need to make that change
again.
Can't find the note I made, and don't see any tip on it here.
Senor Pondini? Por favor?
Thanks

My apologies to the universe. The relevant post is here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11607968#11607968
Harv

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Disparity between size of time machine backup and my Hard drive

The lap top is holding 53 gb on the disk, but time machine is only holding 44gb. Is that ok?
How can i be sure that the initial backup went ok. I had woken up this morning and got an error message that the backup could not be completed. However further backups today are progressing normally. there is a disparity between the disk sizes and i am not sure if i have a complete time machine back up or not.

I am sorry. Let me clarify. I have a new la cie hard drive. I hook it up for time machine to the ibook and after about 24 GB of the 53, i would get an error message saying that the backup could not be completed because of an error. (no other information) .
I installed time machine buddy and found out there was a file in the itunes acct that might be causing the problem and i had time machine ignore that file.
I then erased the Lacie drive to start again.
The next backup i made it to 44 gb but got the same error message. This time tm buddy did not identify anything. ( these are all night backups cause they take about 4 - 5 hrs on my machine) After getting the error message, Time Machine would still continue hourly backups and the Genius bar used that as evidence it was working.
I was wondering if the discussion community agrees with that. and if they dont ask if they had other suggestions.

Time Machine Buddy conflict

I've been having a recent problem with Time Machine buddy, and am interested in seeing if anyone else has had similar experience. Basically, Time Machine buddy is screwing up all my other widgets. I trashed it and replaced it to confirm this; adding it to the Dashboard renders all other widgets, including itself, completely non-functional except for moving them around. Manage Widgets also becomes non-functional. I have two questions as a result:
1. Anyone else have this and solve it? and,
2. Since I'm still trying to solve a Time Machine problem, any recommended alternatives to Time Machine Buddy?
TIA,
-gg

George Grella wrote:
1. Anyone else have this
yes.
and solve it?
yes. try this:
Sometimes the system logs can become corrupt and the widget is unable to read the contents (freezes).
You can simple delete the system.log and system.log.bz2 files. To do this run the “Terminal” application and at the prompted enter the following command.
sudo rm /var/log/system.log.0.bz2 /var/log/system.log
The system will prompt you for your password. Close the Terminal application and restart the computer. Once a Time Machine backup starts you should see activity in the Time Machine Buddy.
2. ... any recommended alternatives to Time Machine Buddy?
no.
JGG

I have chosen to fil migrate from old ibook to new MacBook Pro using Time Machine after establishing admin account. I now have two admin. accounts and wish to delete the later one and transfer files manually. I am worried I will loose both accounts. ??

I have chosen to fil migrate from old ibook to new MacBook Pro using Time Machine after establishing admin account. I now have two admin. accounts and wish to delete the later one and transfer files manually. I am worried I will loose both accounts. ??

Use the Office for Mac and ignore using Parallels for that. If you have PC only apps you have to run that are MS Windows only then consider Parallels. Just transfer your main PC, using Migration Assistant. If you don't know how then simply read over Pondini's article called Lion or Mountain Lion Setup Assistant tips and look for the section on migrating from a PC. Millions have done what you are about to, it's far from leading edge these days, if you go to an Apple Store to purchase they will offer this as a service, something you might be interested in.

Time Machine fails on backup. Have verified and reformatted external. Have also run etrecheck and Time Machine Buddy.

ETRECHECK:
Problem description:
time machine will not backup
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated March 7, 2015 7:10:23 AM EST
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.
Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.
Hardware Information: ℹ️
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    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,3
    1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
    8 GB RAM
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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Video Information: ℹ️
    AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB
        Color LCD 1600 x 1000
    Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software: ℹ️
    Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) - Time since boot: 8 days 7:40:9
Disk Information: ℹ️
    TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF disk0 : (750.16 GB)
        disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Seagate Backup Plus Drive (disk0s2) / : 749.30 GB (325.92 GB free) - 29 errors
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
    MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Information: ℹ️
    Seagate Backup+ Mac SL 1 TB
        disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        External Backup Time Machine (disk1s2) /Volumes/External Backup Time Machine : 999.86 GB (681.13 GB free)
    Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
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Time Machine: ℹ️
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TIME MACHINE BUDDY
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/External Backup Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Backup content size: 394.3 GB excluded items size: 14.0 GB for volume Seagate Backup Plus Drive
456.36 GB required (including padding), 930.57 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/WmvPluginPrefix.pch.pth to (null)
Copied 50.7 GB of 380.3 GB, 637488 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Dropbox/Airport Packages/-Presentation/PSD originals/A-2769 Guava and java.psd to (null)
Copied 136.5 GB of 380.3 GB, 652973 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/state/pub/227354896+3231309460012822759/queue.sqli te3 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73a83ed2b6f5f3f74e690a2ae7b99ef7515e76ae/ec3f6fda8662 e542ac7c67f2ebcfa860d3d2e7b6 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/59ac936d3c1e 548ac04dfc28cd80ee7e8375e71c to (null)
Copied 211.8 GB of 380.3 GB, 703468 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/878f9a9e9e99 35f370ab2a09d62665cafa4f723f to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/8ca38b8456a3 80c835e4535b71a6322258f782c5 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/9d43f27ba634 c956751fb66aadb06f955e74b3c8 to (null)
Copied 273.7 GB of 380.3 GB, 794840 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2014/01/10/20140110-100023/IMG_8819.JPG to (null)
Copied 345.8 GB of 380.3 GB, 880149 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/21/20150221-163320/IMG_0946.JPG to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/21/20150221-163652/IMG_0878.JPG to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/26/20150226-202057/IMG_0789.MOV to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Previews/2015/02/21/20150221-162736/aNrBUprVRiGN3Ul+Yph5Jw/IMG_1181.jpg to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Previews/2015/02/21/20150221-162736/DDfJ%BYeR1mC2WtxQXpLdw/IMG_1180.jpg to (null)
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In making an attempt to copy my files to a different external hard drive, I ran into several issues with document files that were "read-only" so the copying stops. (they were just a couple of pdfs and photos). I deleted all of those files. I then ran back up again after verifying the external I have designated for Time Machine. (Ive also completely erased, repaired and verified this drive several times over the past few weeks) Backup failed, again.
I feel like my next move is to start deleting the "files" that are causing the errors listed above in TM Buddy (they are mostly photos in iphoto)... but then I realized that some of those errors are associated with the backing up of my iphone.
Just now, I pasted a portion of my system log into Textedit, and the application just hanged... for 2 hours. I finally force quit it.

Hi! I did exactly as you said. I was able to backup with my home folder excluded, but was not able to do so after I removed the exclusion. It crapped out 5G before finishing.
Here's the TIME MACHINE BUDDY LOG:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/External Backup Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Backup content size: 394.3 GB excluded items size: 14.0 GB for volume Seagate Backup Plus Drive
456.36 GB required (including padding), 930.57 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/WmvPluginPrefix.pch.pth to (null)
Copied 50.7 GB of 380.3 GB, 637488 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Dropbox/Airport Packages/-Presentation/PSD originals/A-2769 Guava and java.psd to (null)
Copied 136.5 GB of 380.3 GB, 652973 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/state/pub/227354896+3231309460012822759/queue.sqli te3 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73a83ed2b6f5f3f74e690a2ae7b99ef7515e76ae/ec3f6fda8662 e542ac7c67f2ebcfa860d3d2e7b6 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/59ac936d3c1e 548ac04dfc28cd80ee7e8375e71c to (null)
Copied 211.8 GB of 380.3 GB, 703468 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/878f9a9e9e99 35f370ab2a09d62665cafa4f723f to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/8ca38b8456a3 80c835e4535b71a6322258f782c5 to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/73f862553779c33821fe63b50ba4008f4ae89038/9d43f27ba634 c956751fb66aadb06f955e74b3c8 to (null)
Copied 273.7 GB of 380.3 GB, 794840 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2014/01/10/20140110-100023/IMG_8819.JPG to (null)
Copied 345.8 GB of 380.3 GB, 880149 of 970893 items
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/21/20150221-163320/IMG_0946.JPG to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/21/20150221-163652/IMG_0878.JPG to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2015/02/26/20150226-202057/IMG_0789.MOV to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Previews/2015/02/21/20150221-162736/aNrBUprVRiGN3Ul+Yph5Jw/IMG_1181.jpg to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Users/sandi/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Previews/2015/02/21/20150221-162736/DDfJ%BYeR1mC2WtxQXpLdw/IMG_1180.jpg to (null)
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Time Machine and Time Machine Buddy Widget trouble

I've been having trouble with my Time Machine getting stuck on "indexing backup," so I've done as I've read in some other posts and installed the Time Machine Buddy Widget.
But the Buddy is acting strangely, too. The moment it was installed it was showing a backup log for November 24, 2011. Either it can see nine months into the future or there's something wrong.
I tried reinstalling it. I tried restarting the computer. Same thing. The log appears to show a successful backup, so it's definitely not reflecting what's been happening today, where there's been much spinning and no progress.

The one thing I hadn't done is verify the HD. I just did that and found it needed repairs--a problem with the "volume file count." So that's taken care of.
Yes, those failures were sent by backupd. I'll paste a sample of them below. Ours is a pretty simple network. Just the MacBook connecting wirelessly to TM. Doubt it matters, but the TM is in bridge mode, connected to a 2wire modem/router. Generally, it doesn't seem to matter whether I connect via the 2wire signal or the TM signal. Both have been known to fail.
Oh, and even with the repair to the HD, still the same odd date on the widget...
Earlier today I had another smooth backup. Could mean something's fixed, but this is also often how it goes; it'll work fine for a while and then a long streak of nothing but "indexing backup."
Feb 8 15:48:44 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Time Capsule
Feb 8 15:48:48 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Failed to attach to image: /Volumes/Time Capsule/Steve Smith's MacBook.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Feb 8 15:48:49 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/Steve Smith's MacBook.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
Feb 8 15:48:51 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Mount failed... waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Feb 8 15:49:11 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Failed to eject volume /Volumes/Time Capsule (FSVolumeRefNum: -110; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Feb 8 15:50:11 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Time Capsule
Feb 8 15:50:13 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Failed to attach to image: /Volumes/Time Capsule/Steve Smith's MacBook.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Feb 8 15:50:19 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Time Capsule/Steve Smith's MacBook.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
Feb 8 15:50:19 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Giving up after 3 retries.
Feb 8 15:50:24 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Backup failed with error: 21
Feb 8 15:50:43 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Failed to eject volume /Volumes/Time Capsule (FSVolumeRefNum: -110; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
Feb 8 16:47:21 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Starting standard backup
Feb 8 16:47:21 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Time Capsule
Feb 8 16:47:23 Steve-Smiths-MacBook com.apple.backupd[1287]: Failed to attach to image: /Volumes/Time Capsule/Steve Smith's MacBook.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35

How can I do to use (useful) Time Machine Buddy OUT of Dashboard ?

Hello dear friends,
How can I do to use (useful) Time Machine Buddy OUT of Dashboard ?
I know there must be a way to use it as an application.
I've noticed TinkerTool can do it, but how do you proceed ?
Does anybody have the solution ?
Thank you for responding
With my kind regards
Olivier Herrbach

Dear Dave Sawyer,
You're perfectly right, I posted the same question in two different topics.
I apologize for that, but I was thinking
that more people would respond if I used :
1) The "Time Machine" topic (it can also interest people to know there's a widget for T.M.) ;
— and there are other softwares that Pondini describes, like Backup Loupe) —
2) The "Using Snow Leopard" topic, because I was talking about ALL other widgets too.
In fact, I didn't know which one I had to choose for my question (?),
in the way that both topics were concerned.
I'll try in the future NOT to publish the SAME question in more than ONE place.
Thank you very much for your remark
With my kind regards
Olivier Herrbach

Time Machine hangs and prevents application and machine shut down

I've been having problems with my Time Machine over the last few weeks and seem completely unable to fix it.
When time machine starts to back up my machine, it hangs (the clock icon in the top right hand corner of the screen spins, but the backup disk is not being accessed and currently Time Machine shows no backup in the last five days). Once it has hung, various applications start to behave oddly and generally I am unable to shut them down, even via force quit.
Eventually when I try restarting the machine, it clears everything from the screen except the desktop background and then refuses to go any further.
Through tinkering I think the problem is the Time Machine disk, but I've run Disk Utility on it, and it says that the drive is ok. At one stage I deleted the Time Machine backup and started again, which was fine for a week, but now I've got the same problems again.
I do get these messages in console:
Apr 8 11:09:55 christopher-arthurs-computer-3 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fra mework/Support/lssave[167]: Wrote corrupt store file /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-0230.csstore_corrupt
Apr 8 11:10:04 christopher-arthurs-computer-3 configd[14]: AppleTalk startup failed, status = 92
Apr 8 11:10:13 christopher-arthurs-computer-3 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fra mework/Support/lssave[169]: Wrote corrupt store file /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-0230.csstore_corrupt
Apr 8 11:10:23 christopher-arthurs-computer-3 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fra mework/Support/lssave[171]: Wrote corrupt store file /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-0230.csstore_corrupt
Apr 8 11:12:31 christopher-arthurs-computer-3 [0x0-0xd00d].com.apple.finder[113]: Unexpected reply from backup server - ignored
Apr 8 11:12:31 christopher-arthurs-computer-3 [0x0-0xc00c].com.apple.systemuiserver[112]: Unexpected reply from backup server - ignored
Apr 8 11:12:31 christopher-arthurs-computer-3 [0x0-0x1c01c].com.apple.systempreferences[172]: Unexpected reply from backup server - ignored
Any ideas? I'm getting very frustrated by all of this.
Thanks

PaulArthurUK wrote:
Through tinkering I think the problem is the Time Machine disk, but I've run Disk Utility on it, and it says that the drive is ok. At one stage I deleted the Time Machine backup and started again, which was fine for a week, but now I've got the same problems again.
It's possible the drive is beginning to fail. They are mechanical beasts, after all, with moving parts and bearings, and don't last forever, and they do fail without a complete crash. You might try stopping TM, then using Disk Utility to +Erase Free Space+ on it, just to see if DU can write to the unused part successfully. Passing isn't necessarily a clean bill of health, but a failure would be a clear sign.
Any ideas? I'm getting very frustrated by all of this.
First, exclude your TM drive from any anti-virus scanning, and from Spotlight, at least temporarily (System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy).
None of the posted messages have anything to do with Time Machine backups, except the last few seem to indicate that you may have been trying to do something with the Finder on the TM disk. Normally, you can look, but do not touch any of TM's files. But you do seem to have a corrupt cache you might want to investigate.
Download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget from: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Navigate to one of the problem backups, then copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).
Or, if you'd rather use Console, filter for the backupd process to get the TM backup messages.

Time Machine backup and main drive corrupted. Help! (REWARD OFFERED)

Here's the deal:
I have a Macbook Pro and a Mac Mini both runnign Snow Leopard. I use the Mac Mini as a kind of media center / server, it has a few external drives connected to it. On of these drives (1GB) is dedicated to Time Machine, the Mac Mini (80 GB hard drive) backs up to it directly and the Macbook Pro (500 GB hard drive) does it over the network (Time Machine created a sparsebundle). This has worked well for years now. Occasionally I got the error that Time Machine needed to start a new backup because the old one was corrupt. That happened about 2-3 times a year (did the same thing when I backued up via USB). Now about 2 weeks ago, that error came up and I just let the Macbook Pro on overnight and connected the ethernet cable for faster transfer.
When I woke up, the Macbook Pro didn't respont at all, spinning beachball, no response at all beside mouse movement. I let it do it's thing for another 10 hours (while I was at work) and just held down the power button to power off and restart it. But all I got was the gray-on-gray flashing folder with the question mark in it, that's what you get when the Mac can't find bootable partitions. So I popped in the OSX Snow Leopard install disk, ran disk utility. It saw the hard drive, but no partition (i.e. Machintosh HD) on it. I checked the Time Machine backup and the sparsebundle was 300 GB (the Macbook Pro had 400 GB used, the remaining 100 GB were free). There is no way to restore from an unfinished Time Machine backup...
First thing I did was clone the internal (Macbook Pro) hard drive to a DMG disk image using DiskDrill (the only program I found that could recognize the drive at all, not even DiskWarrior could). I also bought the exact same hard drive model and partitioned it like the cloned the corrupted hard drive to the new one using ddrescue (a command line tool that doesn't quit upon i/o errors but proceeds and tries to recover as much as it can). It copied everything except 65 kilobytes, the corrupted drive seemed to be physically damaged in a bunch of sectors relatively at the beginning of the disk. Since I had now an exact copy on a fresh, healthy drive, I went crazy trying out Disk Warrior (didn't recognize the drive at all), data rescue, testdisc, p a Windows isk, etc. Only R-Studio (on windows) showed the EFI and Macintosh HD partitions on there, they started and ended on the same sectors on the corrupted drive and its clone. After some research, I figured that the partition table was corrupt so I reformated the clone disk using the OSX Snow Leopard install disk (1 HFS Journaled Partition with GUID Partition table). R-Studio showed the EFI and Macintosh HD on that reformated drive, again, same sectors as before. So I figured I could just copy just the bytes where the Macintosh HD starts from the corrupted drive to the clone (using ddrescue). That worked, after almost 24 hours, I had the clone drive with a "disk1" partition on it that even disk utility could see.
Now I was able to run Disk Warrior on it, but all it could do was recover a few Application folders (Resource-Folders and lproj-stuff), about 100 MB in total. It couldn't repair more of catalog file apparently. Luckily, Time Machine backed up quite a bit (300 GB out of 400 GB of data) and I was able to manually copy all the Dokuments, Desktop, user Library, Applications, Music, Download and Movies. Unfortunatley, only a little bit of the Pictures folder was copied. iPhoto library (80 to 100 GB) was nowhere to be found, backup must have failed right then. I can salvage the drives (time machine drive, original hard drive with a few broken sectors, DMG-image of that drive, 1-1 copy of that drive with partition table repaired) but that only gives me files with numeric names and today's date on teh JPEGs (instead of the date the picture was taken).
Is there any way I can recover that iPhoto library? It appears the catalog file got corrupted because the hard drive (only 8 months old...) failed on a few sectors. If I understand it correctly, the catalog file on HFS+ file systems is where the folder structure and file names are stored in a B-Tree. I can't imagine that some i/o error during backup can totally annihilate that file when it was working perfectly before. Here's a few things I want to try out but haven't figured out how so far:
- Time Machine had to start a new backup. There's plenty of free space on that drive so there's a good chance there's old data left on it. Is there a way to restore files (including file names) and fodlers from deleted time machine backups?
- Is there any way to re-build that catalog file from what is there left on the original hard drive? I can't imagine 65 kilobytes destroys it all.
- Are there other ways to recover my iPhoto Library? The raw JPEG (and AVI) files with correct file names or metadata would suffice.
Thanks in advance for any help, I'll actually reward the person with a working solution, 5 years of photo memories are somewhat important. It really ***** that a failure during a backup destroys that...

Final Update:
The catalog file on the original hard drive could not be fixed. Seems like Mac OSX tried to repair the catalog file while the sectors this file resides on failed. To make things worse the partition table was also broken beyond repair, even overwriting the sectors with a new correct partition table didn't help. DiskWarrior found less then 100 MB worth of stuff, mainly Applications folders.
I recovered pretty much everything from the incomplete Time Machine backup by right-clicking the sparsebundle and browsing through the folders with the long alphanumeric names, looking for the version of the folder with the most files in there. All I was missing was part of the ~/Pictures folder, i.e. photobooth pictures and the whole iPhoto Library. My best option was to recover these files using data recovery tools.
DiskDrill proved to be the absolute best, fast, responsive, efficient, and the only one able to mount the DMG-file with no valid file system on it. As there were many i/o errors and broken sectors on the original hard drive, I made a copy of it using a free command line tool called ddrescue (the standard dd tool just aborted when it encountered the i/o error). ddrescue copied the whole drive to a DMG image, I had 56 kilobytes with errors on the first pass, but it managed to shrink that down to just 4 kilobytes (wow!) after the second pass where it tries to re-read the broken secors. It took about 24 hours for a 512 GB 2.5" drive (5400 rpm) but well worth it. Be advised that ddrescue is really persistent and tries everything to recover those last errorneous bytes. At the very end of the process, the read/write head of the hard drive just goes wild trying to catch the data on the sectors with different momentum. This works but I assume this is pretty damaging for the original drive. I also copied it all to a new hard drive (again using ddrescue) and tried partition and catalog repair tools on that (DiskWarrion, testdiks, pdisk, etc.). Still no hint of a good result.
I made a deep scan on the clone hard drive with DiskDrill. At the end (after about 8 hours over USB) it found 13 partition (I assume that's the Macintosh HD, EFI and some DMG files lying around) and hundreds of thousands of pictures. I restored some JPG files just to check the quality, some were damaged, some were good with all the EXIF data intact. I just made it copy all JPG files into a folder. I know the pictures taken from my camera produce JPGs larger than 1 MB and smaller than 5 MB, so I sorted them by size and moved the smaller and larger files into seperate folders. I took the remaining folder (100 GB) and just dragged it into iPhoto. It imported them overnight. Auto-Split by events and I got my library back, alas with different file names, originals and edited versions side by side, lots of duplicates, some damaged, some not. But hey, all the pictures in chronological order. Okay there was also one large event with all the JPGs without valid EXIF data landed inside, iPhoto just takes the file creation date (i.e. the date where the recovered file was copied). As far as I can tell, these are all just data corpses, halfway overwritten copies, random pictures from the internet, desktop pictures, etc.
I started to work my way back through the events, deleting the duplicates and renaming the events. There's an app called "Duplicate Annihilator" which apparently can find duplicate pictures in iPhoto and mark them for you. The free version only does 500 pictures but if it works, I'll get the full version. It can mark th eduplicate photos by adding something to the picture comment in iPhoto so you can manually review it all. Good stuff!

Error message from Time Machine: "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume." Using Time Machine Buddy, I got the following log entries: "Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: data" ror occured while l

More from the Time Machine Buddy: "Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/Data" and "reason: kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSibDirs"
I am using a Mac G5 with Leopard. My LaCie data drive failed and I replaced it with a WD MyPassport drive, at which time the failed backups began. The recent file updates do appear in Time Machine, but it appears to back up everything since the last completed backup.

Hi Norm,
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
(Repair both Drives)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

I told Time Machine no and now it won't detect my external drive...

Whenever I would plug in my external drive it would pop up with a Time Machine dialog asking if I would like to set it up for backup. I usually hit the ask me later option. Well last time I just hit no. It was starting to annoy me. Well now, when I plug in that drive, it won't detect it or pop up on the desktop. It works on my laptop. How the heck do I get it back?! I have files I really need to transfer!
I would appreciate any info you can give. My i7 is my first Mac in 10 years and I am a bit lost.

As far as I know the drive should still appear as an icon on your Desktop even if you turned down Time Machine's request to use it as the TM backup drive. What's on the external drive right now? Is it just stuff that you dragged and dropped onto it for backup? But if you've used it as a Time Machine backup on your laptop then maybe that's part of the reason you're having difficulty getting it to show up.
P.S. If you want TM to ask you again if you want to use this external drive as a TM backup, go to Applications and open Time Machine and then go to Time Machine preferences and make the selection you desire.
Regards,
Steve M.
Message was edited by: Steve M.

Time Machine Buddy says: Stopping Backupd to eject destination disk!

I have a new external hard drive to replace one that failed for Time Machine BAck up. I formatted it and two nights ago, did a successful initial backup which consisted of about 600 or 700 GB (on a 2TB drive) .
Last night, I checked on Time Machine and saw it was "preparing to backup " for 1 1/2 hours. I knew that was not normal so opened up Disk Utility to verify disk. However, Disk Utility just hanged.
The color wheel just started spinning and everything on my screen was frozen, so I powered it down. After two attempts to power back up, the computer finally came back up, but now my new external hard drive is not recognized by either Time Machine nor Disk Utility. I tried powering down the drive, disconnected it from the computer, then restarted the computer twice, and the drive was then recognized
I was then able to do a successful backup last night.
However, this morning, on reviewing Time Machine Buddy, the last line after BAck up completed successfully is :” Stopping backupd to allow ejection of destination disk!”
How did this come about and what am I doing wrong, and how can I fix it?
I am also using Time Machine Editor and have only scheduled backups twice a day. Could this be the problem? Although I have used these two programs before with my other USB external hard drive (™ Editor and ™ Buddy ) without any problems.
I am posting a copy of Time Machine Buddy’s status.
I would appreciate any help , thank you!
P.S. It looks like my external hard drive is ejected? but Time Machine and Disk Utility still have it listed. I tried verify disk again this morning, but it just hanged like the other night.
October 11, 2013
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Back Up/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 944.7 MB requested (including padding), 1.56 TB available
Copied 25123 files (120.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 834.0 MB requested (including padding), 1.56 TB available
Copied 1131 files (1.8 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine Back Up/Backups.backupdb/marietta banogon’s iMac/2013-10-10-192025: 1.56 TB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine Back Up/Backups.backupdb/marietta banogon’s iMac/2013-10-10-191220: 1.56 TB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine Back Up/Backups.backupdb/marietta banogon’s iMac/2013-10-10-181222: 1.56 TB now available
Post-back up thinning complete: 3 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of destination disk!
Message was edited by: mariettafrum

THANK you, Klaus. Did you send me the link to pondini? Somehow I do not see it here, but got it in my email notification?
Did you say "late" Pondini? So sorry to hear that!
I have searched his website but did not see anything relevant to why my destination disk is getting ejected?
I wonder if I should just disable TM Editor? Same thing that happened originally, again happened this am with my computer freezing, having to power down, etc.
Anyway, thank you for your interest.

Can I turn Time Machine on and off

I will be doing video editing and do not want Time Machine to run when I am editing. Is there a way to manually start Time Machine backup when I am done editing.
Thanks
Kirk

Open Time Machine Preference and turn TM off. Go back to the TM Preferences when you are done to turn it on. To initiate a backup immediately, ctrl-click (or right-click) the TM icon (top menu bar or Dock) and click Back Up Now.
Excellent idea to turn it off when video editing. I do the same thing as well.

I restored a Macbook Pro from a Time Machine backup and now none of my passwords are working (and I know they are the correct passwords). What can I do?

I restored a Macbook Pro from a Time Machine backup and now none of my passwords are working (and I know they are the correct passwords). What can I do?

First, make sure caps lock is not on.
Another reason why the password might not be recognized is that the keyboard layout (input source) has been switched without your realizing it. You can select one of the available layouts by choosing from the flag menu in the upper right corner, if it's showing, or cycle through them by pressing the key combination command-space or command-option-space. See also this support article.
If the user account is associated with an Apple ID, and you know the Apple ID password, then maybe the Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password. In OS X 10.10 and later, this option also works with FileVault, but only if you enabled it when you activated FileVault. It's not retroactive. Otherwise, see below.
Note: If you've activated FileVault, this procedure doesn't apply. Follow instead these instructions.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities window appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar at the top of the screen—not from any of the items in the OS X Utilities window.
In the window that opens, type this:
resetp
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window opens. Close the Terminal window to get it out of the way.
Select the startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected. You won't be able to do this if FileVault is active.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Follow the prompts to reset the password. It's safest to choose a password that includes only the characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
You should now be able to log in with the new password, but the Keychain will be reset (empty.) If you've forgotten the Keychain password (which is ordinarily the same as the login password), there's no way to recover it.

Help Incomplete Time Machine Backup and I can't set ownership options

Two days ago my iMac HD stopped working and I decided it was time to upgrade my machine so I purchased a new iMac with Mavericks installed. I seem to only have a partial Time Machine Backup located on my NAS drive, so I read various threads about how to manually retrieve files from the .inprogress file. I was able to browse the package contents and when I navigated to Macintosh HD the folder was greyed out and when I attempt to open the folder it looks empty. When I select get info the Macintosh HD folder shows almost 80GB and over 160,000 files inside. I tried copying the folder onto the desktop which failed and also onto an external drive formatted the same way as the NAS - Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Case Sensitive). Everytime I try it says something along the lines of me not having the ownership rights to copy the file over.
I tried going to the NAS drive and the mounted sparsefile and couldn't figure out how to get the ignore ownership on this volume option. When I go to Disk Utility it says Owners Enabled Yes, I can't figure out how to turn that off to let me copy the file over. I tried some recommendations about creating an Alias to Macintosh HD and also setting up Automator actions Get Selected Finder Items > Get Folder Contents > Open Finder Items > Copy Finder Items (to desktop or external drive) both of these failed.
I also don't understand why I can't view the files inside the greyed out Macintosh HD as get info shows many files inside. The sharing and permissions already says everyone can read. Is there anyway I can recover some of the files? It would be so great!
Thanks for helping me.

I solved the problem and I hope this solution can help others with incomplete Time Machine Backups.
1. I made sure hidden files were shown by pasting the following line into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true ; killall Finder
2. On NAS drive I have a folder called Time Machine Backup and inside that folder it lists the different users with Time Machine Backups. I double clicked the user with the incomplete time machine backup to mount it.
3. Once mounted there should be a folder called backups.backupdb > machine name > dateandtime.inprogress. I right click that .inprogress file and selected show package contents. This lead to another folder randomly named with numbers and text. Inside that folder you should see a greyed out Macintosh HD folder. The date of the greyed out Macintosh HD folder might read something like January 24th, 1984. This appears to be the date that the Macintosh 128k was first introduced. I read on another thread that the creation date of the folder is incorrectly set after a crash resulting in the greyed out folder.
4. Due to the NAS having ownership issues I was not able to drag either the greyed out Macintosh HD or the folder above it to an external drive or the desktop of my new computer. Automator didn't work either. Here is what did work: I trashed the folder with the greyed out Macintosh HD inside from the NAS and dragged it from the trash onto my desktop. The move took a few hours to complete and the files were now all successfully on the new computer.
5. Once on the desktop the Macintosh HD folder was still greyed out. The solution was to select in the finder: View > Show Path Bar, then search for any file you remember inside your backup. For example I searched the word download and files inside the greyed out Macintosh HD folder showed up. Left clicking the file confirmed the path, that it was from the greyed out Macintosh HD folder. Now you can simply right click one of the folders in the Path Bar and open in new tab if you have Mavericks. I still couldn't directly open the Macintosh HD folder in a new tab, but I could open any of the subfolders inside in a new tab, including the users which lets you access all the backup files. I tested in Mountain Lion that you can also choose Open in Enclosing Folder by right clicking the file that you searched for or right clicking the folder in the bottom of the Path Bar.
6. Once I was done organizing backup files, I turned off hidden files by pasting this line into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean false ; killall Finder
This took me days to figure out how to make use of an .inprogress file and greyed out Macintosh HD folder.
Hope this helps!!!

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