Time Machine Disk Icon not Displaying Properly After Reconnect

I'm noticing a little oddity that has been happening since I upgraded to Mavericks.  If I disconnect my Time Machine (TM) volume, then, reconnect it later and perform a backup, the disk icon on my desktop isn't changing to the green TM icon, it's still displaying as the orange Firewire icon.  I can correct this by opening the TM preferences, clicking "select disk" and, then, reselecting my TM volume.  The icon will, then, change and it will remain correct as long as the volume is connected.  Normally, the icon should change automatically when the first backup is initiated.
Anyone else seen this and know why this might be happening?  I'm wondering if there might be something screwy with my TM preferences.  As a next step, I might try resetting TM (i.e. trashing the .plist file) and see if that fixes the behavior.
This isn't affecting TM functionality at all.  TM is still working perfectly.  This is, at best, an annoyance.

I suspect Apple took this funcionality out of Mavericks for some reason.  I'm running several Macs at our business, and they all are doing the same thing.

Similar Messages

  • External Time Machine Disk Will Not Unmount

    This past weekend I did clean installs of Lion on new SSD drives in my MacBook and MacPro.  The MacBook backs up to a Time Capsule with Time Machine and is working perfectly.  The MacPro backs up fine and says the backup is completed but it will not unmount the external Time Machine disk I use for the backup after completion.  This was not a problem using the same setup with Snow Leopard.  I looked at the Console which says Backup completed successfully.  Any idea what is going on with this?  Thanks in advance.

    RecalcitrantRon wrote:
    The MacPro backs up fine and says the backup is completed but it will not unmount the external Time Machine disk I use for the backup after completion.
    Wait a minute . . . I missed that before. 
    Is that disk connected directly to the Mac?  If so, no, Time Machine doesn't unmount directly-connected drives after a backup, only sparse bundles on network drives.

  • Time Machine disk is not unlocked automatically

    I have a FileVault2-encrypted Time Machine disk connected to my MBA through a Thunderbolt display in my office (the disk is a Buffalo Thunderbolt drive).
    When I leave the office, I eject the drive. put my MBA to sleep and disconnect it from the Thunderbolt display (the drive still connected to the display).
    When I return in the morning I reconnect the display, wake up the MBA and log in. But then I always have to manually unlock the external drive with Disk Utility. Otherwise it won't show up in the finder and Time Machine won't make any backups. That's annoying, because I often forget this procedure and TM silently fails to make backups.
    Is there a way to automatically unlock the drive when I login in the morning, just like it does when I reboot the computer?
    (the passcode for the encrypted drive is in my keychain)

    I have had trouble twice with TM, both occasions involving similar odd messages about available space. Once on OS 10.5 and once on Lion 7.1
    Try:
    http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Home.html

  • Unicode Characters not displaying properly after updating to 13.0.1+

    Previously, I had installed the Symbola font because certain symbols were not displaying properly in Firefox (notably on Twitter). Installing the font solved the problem for the most part (the four bit hex characters still didn't show up, but the six bit ones did).
    After updating to 13.0.1 the other day, the six bit hex codes do not show the correct symbol anymore with Symbola still installed. I even deleted Symbola from my fonts, redownloaded it (a newer version, no less), installed it, and opened Firefox, and it did not solve the issue. Like the 50 million other things that Firefox broke with the update to 13. -_-
    EDIT: This issue has since persisted with 14.0.1.

    Try to install the DejaVu font.
    *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts
    *http://dejavu-fonts.org/

  • My old backups on the Time Machine disk are not accessible.

    Hi everyone,
    I installed a fresh OS X Mountain Lion yesterday. I tried to use Migration Assistant (in the Utilities folder) for the first time, to migrate my old data from the Time Machine back-up disk.
    After almost 6 hours, my data was completely in place from the backup disk. In fact, the data was gotten from the latest version of backups as I expected. But now, when I go to Time Machine to browse my old backups, it seems that all backups are still there, detected by the Time Machine itself, but it is not possible to access any of them.
    In fact, selecting one of the past backups from the Time-Line on the right edge of the screen, has no effect. All the windows behind the current finder window in the Time Machine are also dimmed, seems that no backups are there. But the Time-Line on the right edge of the screen displays several items from the first backup on my disk to the latest which was for the day before yesterday.
    This is not what I expected from the Time Machine. I was so glad when the Migration Assistant read all my data from the backup disk and put them in place. But I did not expect to lose my old backups which are still there on the disk, but Time Machine behaviour is like the times where there are no backups.
    It is important to note that before migrating data using Migration Assistant, I was able to browse all my backups in the Time Machine. This was also one the great features of Time Machine, since I had a fresh OS installation, and all my data from the past were accessible in the Time Machine.
    I could also get my data one by one and restore them in-place using Time Machine but it was some how cumbersome.
    Now is there any one to let me know why this has happened? I Appreciate your time to write.
    Mani Hamedani

    Troubleshooting information:
    Time Machine Troubleshooting
    Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems 

  • TIme Machine - disk volume not showing in history

    I have time machine backing up my boot volume, and an external disk that holds my itunes library and iphoto data. The external drive has failed. I have a new drive to restore to, but when I look at the time machine history it no longer shows the old volume attached, it just shows the new one.
    Do I have to name the new disk, the same as the one that died? If so, is there a way to find that name (I don't remember what I called it).

    tbrinker,
    Well, it should be relatively easy to determine the name of the old volume, with a little bit of detective work. COnnect your Time Machine backup drive, and navigate it using the Finder. Inside the backup folder, you will find nested folders going back into the past. Find one that is named with a date that you know would have included the old iTunes/iPhoto volume, and open it.
    You will see at least two folder: One named for your startup volume, another for the iTunes/iPhoto volume. BINGO!
    Now, all you need to do is re-name the volume on your new external drive. For now, let's disconnect the Time Machine drive. Select the Desktop icon for the volume on your new external drive, and press <RETURN>. This should highlight the name for editing. Re-name it using the exact same name as the folder you found in your older backup (the name of your old iTunes/iPhoto volume), then press <RETURN> again to exit the "edit mode."
    With the now re-named volume still mounted, connect you Time Machine drive. When it is available, navigate in the Finder to the root of the new drive (not the Time Machine drive), then click the Time Machine icon in your Dock. You should now be able to go back in time to a point where the window you are seeing is populated with folders (namely, your iTunes and iPhoto libraries). When you find it, select everything, then click "Restore."
    Scott

  • Fonts not displaying properly after 10.0 update (Mac OS X)

    After I updated to Firefox 10.0, almost all websites now default to Times Roman, even after I have set Helvetica as my default font as well as have checked "allow pages to choose their own fonts".
    I tried trashing prefs, reinstalling the previous version of FF but to no avail.
    Never had this issue before and all fonts are displaying properly in Safari and Chrome.
    Any ideas?

    Ok repaired permissions and now ''some'' fonts display properly but some are still times roman. Even explicitly setting fonts in Firebug doesn't change them...

  • Time Machine external drive not displayed in Migration Assistant

    I have been suffering repeated lockups with my iMac, so I decided to bite the bullet and reformat the drive and restore from a Time Machine backup. I have been backing up to an external USB drive, not a Time Capsule. It seemed to be working fine and I have successfully restored the occasional file. However, having reinstalled Lion, the external drive was not offered as a possible source for restoration. Similarly, having chosen not to restore during reinstallation, I attempted to use the Migration Assistant: once again the external drive was not offered as a source. Luckily, I also had an up-to-date cloned drive that was offered and I managed a successful restore.
    Can anyone explain why the external drive was not available as a legitimate source? Must I always use a Time Capsule for a full recovery?

    It seems that
    in order for Mac OS X to realize that it's a Time Machine drive, there should be an invisible "flag file" (0 bytes in size) at the root of the drive, called com.apple.timemachine.supported - if this file is missing for some reason, Migration Assistant won't pick it up.
    not sure that it's true but worth trying.

  • Cinnamon taskbar app icon not displaying properly for Sublime Text

    Cinnamon is displaying Sublime Text's icon in the taskbar as a question mark. This is the only app it does it with and I'm having trouble finding out what's causing it to attempt to fix it. Different themes have no effect. Other programs installed from the AUR display just fine. The icon displays just fine in the main menu, but when I open it, the taskbar icon is just a '?'. Also I've tried this on Linux Mint 17.1 (also running Cinnamon 2.4) and the issue is not present there.
    The closest I have come to figuring out what is causing the problem is through the looking glass. Under the Windows tab and the Application column, my other apps that are displaying fine have .desktop values, but Sublime Text is showing up as "<untracked>". However I can't right click, double click, or otherwise edit this value.
    I have included two screenshots, the first shows that Sublime Text shows up fine in the main menu but not in the taskbar and the second shows Looking Glass.

    I think I got the solution,
    On the Desktop Entry tag of the .desktop file add the following
    StartupWMClass=subl3
    By running, as in one of the references,
    $ xprop WM_CLASS
    and then clicking on the Sublime Text application the following will show
    WM_CLASS(STRING) = "subl3", "Subl3"
    In my case it was subl3 so, replace with one of the results from command.
    Here is the reference:
    The .desktop file from libreoffice-writer as it in previous iterations it also had a similar problem
    Add WMCLASS to desktop file in linux http://support.mendeley.com/customer/po … e-in-linux
    Check which process it needs to track http://superuser.com/questions/142318/h … xorg-linux
    Hope this helps

  • Websites not displaying properly after reset - Strange horizontal bars across screen.

    Hi all,
    Recently AVG updated on my PC. I'm normally on the ball with things like this and always prevent the add ons self installing such as free search tools etc but this one slipped past me. The end result was that whenever I opened a new tab AVG had hijacked FF and I was presented with an AVG search page. Tried getting rid of it without success so reset FF.
    Since doing this some (not all) sites have display problems. The most affected seem to be Ebay and FB. What happens is after the page loads and I scroll down most of the page dissapears behind horizontal black and grey bars. It certainly wasnt like this prior to the reset so something has obviously gone afoot in settings but I could do with some help as to which settings need to be re tweaked. If it helps I can grab a screen shot of the problem and host it.
    In case its relevant I'm running Win 7 64bit ultimate.
    Many thanks, Chris

    You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
    *Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
    You need close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
    *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

  • Application Icons not displaying properly in Finder

    My mother just gave me her PowerBook G4 with newly installed Leopard and other programs including Microsoft 2004. I transferred all files from my ibook to the G4.
    For some reason in the Finder window, the application icons (e.g. Word, PDF, PPT, xls, etc.) are there when I first open a new finder window, and then one by one are replaced with some generic text-like icon. They seem to open okay despite this.
    any thoughts?

    I just noticed this is only happening in the finder window, and not on the desktop (the correct application icon shows up)

  • Why do Firefox page icons not display properly?

    hi there, I have a problem which is only happening in Firefox (26). Which is that page icons don't seem to display and show as a default icon. This makes it hard to use some sites which don't have associated text with the button.
    I have attached an icons which you can see the images across the top are all defaulted.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Screen Shot 2014-02-04 at 9.19.02 AM.png

    Sorry, image below.

  • Hard disk icon not on desktop after reinstall of 10.6.8

    how do I get Mac HD icon back on desktop?

    First thing to check:  FInder Preferences, General, "Show these items on desktop..."
    charlie

  • Time Machine disk not showing up in Migration Assistant

    I have backed up my Snow Leopard with Time Machine and I'm trying to import my stuff into Lion using Migration Assistant. However, my Time Machine disk is not showing up in Migration Assistant even though it's connected and shows in Finder. Any idea why?

    I couldn't migrate from Snow Leopard drive either -- Snow Leopard used PGP encyption, migration copied the files, but they seem inaccessible to Lion with "permission denied" errors.
    It sounds like you did migrate successfully. It's normal for the permissions to be wrong -- Migration Assistant creates a new account with the files from the old one.
    What I would do in your place is start over. First, decrypt the SL volume and uninstall PGP. You should do that anyway, because PGP is a turkey and not needed in Lion. Erase the Lion volume (assuming you have no data on it that isn't already on your SL volume), reinstall Lion, and then use Setup Assistant, not Migration Assistant, to do the migration.

  • Migration assistant does not see my time machine disk

    I had an issue with my hard disk on my imac in which I had to re-format and reinstall the OS. Since 10.7 is not available as a "rescue reinstall disk", I had to reinstall 10.6. When that finished, the install asked if I would like to transfer my stuff from Time Machine. I said "yes". Unfortunately, my time machine disk does not show up! Migration Assistant thinks my "macintosh HD" system disk is the only disk available as the time machine backup. So I skipped migration. I went ahead and did all of the OS upgrades to get back to 10.7.3. I re-connected all external disks (I have 4-the time machine disk included) and tried migration assistant again. The only disk migration assistant still thinks is available as the time machine backup is the macintosh HD system disk, not the one called "Time Machine Backup". Time machine backup is a western digital 2TB usb 2.0 disk.
    So....
    I decided this morning to re-do everything again (since I still could not get my data back). Guess what?!?! the same thing is happening! Migration Assistant thinks that the macintosh HD is the time machine disk and does not see any others - even though the disk is there and mounted!
    Please help! I would like my data back, but I am not able to pay Apple at the Apple store or a phone call to them for help!
    Thanks!
    Diana

    Diana Stephens wrote:
    Migration Assistant thinks my "macintosh HD" system disk is the only disk available as the time machine backup.
    Those are your backups.  Migration Assistant shows the name of the disk and system that were backed-up, not the disk they're on.  It will not show the disk you're running from.
    See the tan box in Using Migration Assistant on Lion.

Maybe you are looking for