Time Machine Crazy

Since upgrading to 10.7.3 (combo upgrade) on my iMac Time Machine has been causing crashes or kernel panics if it happens to come on while I am using iMovie, iPhoto or Photoshop Elements. I then cannot restart even in Safe Mode and have to force a shut-off and pull the plug.
I have been trying to wipe out all traces of Time Machine and going back to SuperDuper and SmartBackUp which always served we well before.
I switched it to "off" in system preferences, removed it from the menu, reformatted the external hard drive and selected NOT to make it a time machine backup, and trashed the time machine preferences. But there has to be one more thing to do because in spite of all that time machine continues to try to start up - I get messages that it cannot find the backup drive, that the backup is delayed and then the beach ball comes back and everything crashes.
Can anyone advise what else I must do to completely wipe time machine out of the operating system?
Thanks.
iMac 24-inch early 2008
3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Lion 10.7.3

Again, I really appreciate all of this. However I may have done something already in brashness which I may live to regret. My son-in-law (a Microsoft employee - sorry) recommended I get "Find Any File" which allows me to find invisibles. I did a search for "timemachine" and came up with over 30 files which Spotlight had not brought up. In mad desperation I trashed all I could, except for several which would not allow me because they were "used by other programs" etc. I restarted all right but haven't had the chance to see if it is going to work or not. Haven't been at the computer long enough.
But here are the responses I received to each terminal entry. My problems all began with OS 10.7.2
Step 1
com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport (3.2)
Step 2
com.google.keystone.daemon
com.barebones.textwrangler
Step 3
com.google.keystone.root.agent
com.adobe.ARM.c0710a3bbc1f7b43a9487efa35b9142c1acc4fbd27f79fa7f26c3632
com.adobe.AAM.Scheduler-1.0
Step 4
/LaCie DVD Profile/LaCieProfile_Feb2004.dmg
/Library/Components:
/Library/Extensions:
/Library/Frameworks:
.FBCIndex
AEProfiling.framework
AERegistration.framework
Adobe AIR.framework
AudioMixEngine.framework
HPDeviceModel.framework
HPPml.framework
HPServicesInterface.framework
HPSmartPrint.framework
HPSmartX.framework
Headers
KodakCMS.framework
MacFUSE.framework
MacOSX_USMLib.framework
MicrotekEssential5.framework
MicrotekImgProcess5.framework
MicrotekScanWizard5Advance.framework
MicrotekScanWizard5PCP.framework
MicrotekScanWizard5Standard.framework
MicrotekUISupport5.framework
MicrotekUtilities5.framework
NyxAudioAnalysis.framework
PluginManager.framework
Resources
SEGlue.framework
StuffIt.framework
TSLicense.framework
USMFramework.framework
iLifeFaceRecognition.framework
iLifeKit.framework
iLifePageLayout.framework
iLifeSQLAccess.framework
iLifeSlideshow.framework
/Library/Input Methods:
/Library/InputManagers:
QuicKeysIM
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
DRM Plugin.bundle
DirectorShockwave.plugin
Disabled Plug-Ins
Flash Player.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
RealPlayer Plugin.plugin
Silverlight.plugin
VLC Plugin.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
huludesktop.webplugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
/Library/Keyboard Layouts:
/Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.google.keystone.agent.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons:
com.apple.remotepairtool.plist
com.barebones.textwrangler.plist
com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes:
BIAS Key.prefPane
Flash Player.prefPane
Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
Iomega Active Delivery.prefPane
MacFUSE.prefPane
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
com.barebones.textwrangler
/Library/QuickLook:
GBQLGenerator.qlgenerator
iWork.qlgenerator
/Library/QuickTime:
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
DivX 6 Decoder.component
DivX Decoder.component
Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
Save as AVI.component
/Library/ScriptingAdditions:
Adobe Unit Types
Adobe Unit Types.osax
/Library/Spotlight:
GBSpotlightImporter.mdimporter
LogicPro.mdimporter
Microsoft Entourage.mdimporter
Microsoft Office.mdimporter
PeakPlaylist.mdimporter
iMovie.mdimporter
iWork.mdimporter
/Library/StartupItems:
Aladdin
HP IO
HP Trap Monitor
Icon?
MxBtDaemon
RetroRun
/etc/mach_init.d:
/etc/mach_init_per_login_session.d:
/etc/mach_init_per_user.d:
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
SkypeABDialer.bundle
SkypeABSMS.bundle
Library/Fonts:
Brush Script
DorisDay.ttf
Riddle.ttf
YanoneKaffeesatz-Bold.ttf
YanoneKaffeesatz-Light.ttf
YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular.ttf
YanoneKaffeesatz-Thin.ttf
encodings.dir
fonts.dir
fonts.list
fonts.scale
Library/Frameworks:
EWSMac-GC.framework
Library/Indexes:
FindByContent
Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
Macromedia
Move-Media-Player.plugin
Library/Keyboard Layouts:
Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.adobe.ARM.c0710a3bbc1f7b43a9487efa35b9142c1acc4fbd27f79fa7f26c3632.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.ScheduledSync.PHXCardDAVSource.AD84ECA2-1687-4120-818A-E4C 45C58B985.plist
Library/PreferencePanes:
.91B0E6BCD58D831B7F5D0E1024
Opera Preferences
Perian.prefPane
Library/QuicKeys:
Abbreviations
Clips
Equation Functions
Global Variables.qkvariables
Instant Shortcut.qkshortcutd
PlugIns
Saved Searches
Shortcuts
Toolbars
Trigger Functions
Library/QuickTime:
AC3MovieImport.component
Perian.component
Library/ScriptingAdditions:
24U Appearance OSAX.osax
Character Palette.app
Character Palette.scpt
Keyboard Viewer.app
Keyboard Viewer.scpt
Library/Services:
WordService.service
Step 5
2012-02-19 15:15:15.299 osascript[880:707] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
osascript: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax" declares no loadable handlers.
2012-02-19 15:15:15.332 osascript[880:707] Error loading /Users/MYNAME/Library/ScriptingAdditions/24U Appearance OSAX.osax/Contents/MacOS/24U Appearance OSAX: dlopen(/Users/MYNAME/Library/ScriptingAdditions/24U Appearance OSAX.osax/Contents/MacOS/24U Appearance OSAX, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Users/MYNAME/Library/ScriptingAdditions/24U Appearance OSAX.osax/Contents/MacOS/24U Appearance OSAX: mach-o, but wrong architecture
osascript: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Users/MYNAME/Library/ScriptingAdditions/24U Appearance OSAX.osax" declares no loadable handlers.
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Thank you for your help!

ericomahony wrote:
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/crox3tbo.pcf.gz,
The problems seems to be with indexing a file....a font??
Yes, indeed. Start by just excluding it, per the blue box in #C3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If the backup then runs ok, you'll need to figure out what's wrong with that file.
If you get another error, see the rest of #C3.

Time Machine - MacBook Pro works, MacBook doesn't

Last night, in the middle of a Time Machine backup to our 500 GB Time Capsule, my wife's MacBook said the backup failed.
Today, I tried a manual backup by saying "Back up now" in the menu bar, and the thing hung at "Preparing". So I restarted the MacBook and tried again.
This time, the backup got past "Preparing", but got as far as "74MB of 74MB" before hanging. Using Get Info on the disk image on the Time Capsule showed that there were no longer any writes being made to the Time Capsule, but Activity Monitor showed that the MacBook was still acting as though it was sending packets to the Time Capsule.
Restarted the MacBook, tried again. This time, the fans spun up to maximum on the MacBook, and the backup still didn't complete.
I trashed the Time Machine preferences in Library/Preferences, restarted the MacBook again, and behold, the backup to the Time Capsule finally completed.
Now the MacBook has an entirely different problem - Time Machine takes upwards of 20 minutes to launch, if it will launch at all, and the MacBook's fans spin like crazy while trying to launch it. The Finder just says "Connecting to backup volume". I've checked Console to see if it has any helpful information, but it doesn't tell me anything.
I've also tried restarting the Time Capsule itself, and that did nothing.
My MacBook Pro works just fine with the Time Capsule, and Time Machine launches with barely a hiccup. My wife's MacBook simply does not want to play nice, though, and I'm out of ideas.

Getting the same issues on an iMac with a 1TB Time Capsule. All working OK for a month or so, then it hung at "Preparing" and I just get "connecting to backup volume" when trying to open Time Machine. Cannot get to backup or allow me to enter Time Machine at all.
Furthermore, I have an extended network with an Airport Express which has also gone down, although the Time Capsule is still working effectively as a wireless router itself.
Tried restarting both Time Capsule and iMac with no success.
Didn't try trashing preferences in Library/Preferences yet...
Any advice would be much appreciated.

File Sharing drops regularly, Time Machine Backups are delayed on OSX 10.7.3. Solution?

Hi there folks,
I'm having an issue with the new 10.7 server. We're running 10.7.3 Server on an Late 2006 XServe with 10GB RAM , connected to a Drobo Pro for Time Machine Backups of our 50+ users via our internal network.
Recently, Time Machine backups have been getting delayed, stating that they can't connect up to the backup drive (which is out Drobo Pro handling 16TB of space). The Drobo Pro hass not unmounted, and all the IP Addresses coming from and going to the Server handling the backups will still ping.
We've also be having trouble with Server resident drives and shared folders that people can mount using the ⌘+K shortcut or "Connect to Server" option in finder. People will choose the IP address, and finder will think for a few minutes then give an error stating that it cannot connect the the specified IP. The only way I can reestablish connection to the file sharing through a remote computer is to remote or physically login to the server, then go into System Preferences and turn "File Sharing" off, then on again. After that, the ⌘+K on a remote machine can find the drives again.
It's driving me crazy why this is ocurring. I don't know why, and people in the office are beginning to complain that they can't access certain files on the servers or are worried because their backups are not completeing.
It should also be known that a majority of the machines we have in the ofice are still running 10.6.8, with only a handful on 10.7, as we haven't had the time to make the major switchover yet.
I'm not the best when it comes to server software or Unix CLI managment (the office outsourced our Network Admin to the east coast), so I'm a bit stumped.
Does anyone have any suggestions to try? Is there a link between the number of Time Machine Users and the connection failures? Should I just tel the NetAdmin to create a script that will restart the File Sharing protocol on the server every couple of hours?
Hopefully someone will be able to help.
Thanks,
JYHASH

I started having connectivity issues to my 10.6.8 server from my 10.7 client immediately after updating the client to 10.7.3. FWIW. Takes forever to connect, when it does. After just milliconds before.

How can I use time machine to recover my iWeb09 files?

I read that iWeb stores one's website pages in the domain folder which can be located at ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb. Can I use time machine to recover my iWeb09 files? If so, how? -I tried. I entered my Time Machine back up, and went back in time and brought the domain file forward but it opened only my current site pages, not the ones I am trying to recover. And it says the Domain file was last modified in October 2007 which is crazy because I've been using iWeb a lot and have published many pages. It seems like the uncorrupted pages, which I am trying to recover, existed somewhere on my computer at one point in time and space, less than a week ago, becuse I just published my site to a new hosting service since Apple will soon stop web hosting. So why can I not find them using time machine?

I continued searching and read another person's advise to down load an app named "Find File," then search for .sites. She said spotlight doesn't always find all files. So I did and sure enough, when I searched for .sites I found another Domain package, which I have no idea how it was created but which, it ends up, was the one actually being used by iWeb. So I went to that package then did the time machine and went back to before my web pages became corrupted. I had to delete corrupt blog pages out of my website menu to get iWeb to upload the other page changes even to a local folder.
So I went to that newly found Domain, went back in time, then brought that forward and as you pointed out the domain package had the parts of the pages, the files and jpegs, but not the structure/layout of the pages. So, I guess I gave up on finding the old pages.
Those pages still exist on the Apple hosting server but iWeb doesn't not reverse publication. Cyberduck would bring back the files and bits and peices but again not the pages as a total entity. I'm preparing for the end of Apple website hosting (next month?) and am republishing my old site. I decided to use a new domain name. So my entire original site is still totally intact on the web under the original domain name, on my mobile me site, I guess it will be there till sometime in June?
My problems started when I tried to publish my website to the new server. It just would not publish the whole website in one session. So I decided to do it a few pages at a time. Some pages went up, but as I added more, for some unknown reason the, blog pages, (about 70 subpages), which had aleardy uploaded just fine to the new server, became corrupt and locked up iWeb. Of course once I deleted the corrupt pages I didn't want to continue publishing the site to the host until I found and reinserted uncorrupted pages, knowing publishing changes would delete the already published pages.
At first I thought it was the hosting server's fault, but when I discovered that it wouldn't publish even to a local fold I was able to locate the cause within iWeb, deleted those pages then tested by publishing to a local folder. iWeb worked locally, so I knew I had found the problem pages. Well this is way more than you wanted to know. Thanks for your advise but I'll just start the blogging pages over.

How can I use the Time Machine Backups from my Old Computer?

I have two months of Time Machine backups made using my old Macintosh computer which died and I no longer have. I have now purchased a new computer and am trying to use the Time Machine back ups from the original computer, but it will not recognise them. How can I get my new MacBook Pro to use the Time Machine Backups from my old Computer? I phoned the Apple help line and they said I cannot use them and would have to delete them. This sounds crazy if you can only use the Time Machine back up file with one computer and have to delete it when you buy a new Mac. Surely there must be some way to transfer ownership (not files) from an old to the new Mac?
Thanks
Richard

Thanks Kevin for the suggestion posted on MacOSXHints how to "Repair Time Machine after logic board changes".
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080128003716101
It seems as though I am not alone with my frustration with the way Time Machine uses the MAC address of a computer to tell one system from another. This means that if you have your Mac repaired with a new logic board, or replace your system with a new one, you can't resume backups where you left off. Reading through the readers who used the fix using Terminal, it appears that the fix does not always work. I contacted Apple again, but they were no help. Surely Apple should come out with a solution as more and more people use Time Machine/Time Capsule.
It is CRAZY that after a change computers or a switch in the computer logic board that you cannot resume your Time Machine back ups.

Time Machine Crazy

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