Time Machine - Calculating Changes

Many have suffered from Time Machine getting stuck at 99% after a Time Capsule added to system. I was tortured by the same problem and finally fixed it by reasoning things out. Remember, Time Machine looks to back up everything. When you add a Time Capsule your old Time Machine files remain somewhere. In my case it was on another smaller internal SATA. When I added the TC, I forgot to exclude my old Time Machine drive. I went into TM preferences and excluded it and Voila! No more problems. Calculating 99% went away and the backup through ethernet Time Capsule proceeded quite quickly and without problem. I guess Time Machine does not like to back up it's own files on a non-selected drive.
I hope this helps others who are suffering. Worked like a charm.
Ted Stam

hc2008 wrote:
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/WD External
Disk image /Volumes/WD External/HCC.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
It +has found+ the sparse bundle. It's not looking for the previous backups on your other internal HD.
Backup content size: 157.8 GB excluded items size: 3.5 GB for volume Macintosh HD
That message is sent when +Calculating Changes+ finishes -- TM has estimated how large the backup will be. The +Copying xx of yy GB+ message should be shown on the TM Preferences panel and the menu when you press the TM icon in your Dock.
Try all the things in #D2 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
Be sure the disk is formatted properly -- either GUID or APM *Partition Map Scheme* and +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ Format.
Try all the things in #D2 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting User Tip, also at the top of this forum.
Also try connecting via Ethernet if possible, for the first full backup. That will be much faster, of course, and will rule out a bad WIFI connection.
As a last resort, per your earlier post, try erasing the TM disk.

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