Time machine freezes when i open it 10.8.2

So everytime i open time machine to restore a file i can't cycle through my windows i can see the stars moving in the background but nothing is reponsive ??

I have the same problem.... what is your is adress?
mine changed to 169.254.xxx.xxx

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HT1178 I have set up Time Capsule to use with Time Machine. When I open Time Machine it 'cannot find' the Time Capsule and I have the Select the Disk each time. In the Next Backup tab it always says "When disk is connected" even though the disk is alrea

I have set up Time Capsule to use with Time Machine but when I open Time Machine it 'cannot find' the Time Capsule and I have to 'Select the Disk' each time. In the Next Backup tab it always says "When disk is connected" even though the disk is already connected.

Your pro doesn't matter.. I presume it is happily working.
Your imac setup has got messed up because you changed from a local (my book being USB type I presume) to network drive. Did you do a clean install of Lion?
Did you use the backup from the Pro on the imac? Otherwise I don't see how the Pro shows up in use previous disk. Where is Pondini when you need him??
You cannot download Time Machine as an App and replace the current version. It is built into the OS.. the only way to do it is a clean install. Unfortunately that might be the only way around the issue.
There is a number of issues that Pondini has covered in the setup issues of troubleshooting.
This is the most relevant I think. http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html
But look at the whole section B setup problems.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
If it was me, I would store all the info you need.. not using TM but using a straight copy of files.
Then clean install Lion. I doubt any of these issues would exist if you had not installed Lion over existing setup or used a different backup.
See if you can get Pondini to respond.. !!

Time Machine Freezes When Opened

Hi,
I have looked thru the threads in this section to see if anyone else was having the same issue before posting. If I overlooked the post please forgive me.
What happens is, I click on the time machine icon and it opens. Sometimes it works fine. I can go forward and backward in time or select cancel and I am back to my desktop. However sometimes when I click on the icon, the cascaded windows come up and the background moves, but that is all that happens. I cannot go backward in time and I cannot cancel out of it. The only way I can get out of it unless someone tells me different is to hold the power button down until the mini turns off.
It does not do this all the time. Is there some sort of update or fix that will take care of the problem?
I am using an intel Mac Mini with OS X 10.5.5
I just purchased this approx 2 weeks ago
Thanks in advance for your help

Well.. The first few backups did ok.. Now the external drive light is out and the TM says it is preparing the backup. It has been saying this for a while. When I click on open time machine preferences it will not open. Here is a copy of the current log.
Could there be a problem with this drive? As I mentioned it is a 200 gig that was taken from a PC and installed in an external case and formatted with GUID.
Oct 28 10:46:12 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini ntpd[13]: time reset +0.186859 s
Oct 28 10:57:28 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: USBF: 4972.187 AppleUSBEHCI[0x2bad800]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 2, EP: 1)
Oct 28 10:57:59 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: USBF: 5003.188 AppleUSBEHCI[0x2bad800]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 2, EP: 2)
Oct 28 10:59:34 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100136 ms
Oct 28 11:01:14 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 2 -> 4) timed out after 100140 ms
Oct 28 11:02:54 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 4 -> 3) timed out after 100140 ms
Oct 28 11:04:34 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100140 ms
Oct 28 11:06:14 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100140 ms
Oct 28 11:07:55 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini ntpd[13]: sendto(17.151.16.23) (fd=23): No route to host
Oct 28 11:09:01 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini ntpd[13]: sendto(17.151.16.23) (fd=23): No route to host
Oct 28 11:09:02 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 1 -> 0) timed out after 100138 ms
Oct 28 11:09:02 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: System Sleep
Oct 28 13:23:41 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: System Wake
Oct 28 13:24:01 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: AppleYukon2 - en0 link active, 100-Mbit, full duplex, symmetric flow control enabled port 0
Oct 28 13:24:02 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[318]: Starting standard backup
Oct 28 13:25:21 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 0 -> 1) timed out after 100601 ms
Oct 28 13:27:02 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 1 -> 4) timed out after 100146 ms
Oct 28 13:32:23 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 4 -> 3) timed out after 100136 ms
Oct 28 13:37:23 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100137 ms
Oct 28 13:38:47 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini ntpd[13]: time reset -0.203505 s
Oct 28 13:39:03 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100137 ms
Oct 28 13:42:15 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini ntpd[13]: sendto(17.151.16.23) (fd=26): Can't assign requested address
Oct 28 13:43:18 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini ntpd[13]: sendto(17.151.16.23) (fd=23): No route to host
Oct 28 13:43:49 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 1 -> 0) timed out after 100137 ms
Oct 28 13:43:49 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: System Sleep
Oct 28 15:24:35 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: System Wake
Oct 28 15:24:36 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: AppleYukon2 - en0 link active, 100-Mbit, full duplex, symmetric flow control enabled port 0
Oct 28 15:26:16 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 0 -> 1) timed out after 100561 ms
Oct 28 15:26:20 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari[132]: ATS AutoActivation: Query timed out. (elapsed 5.1 seconds. params: queryString = {comapple_ats_namepostscript == "Raavi" && kMDItemContentTypeTree != com.adobe.postscript-lwfn-font}, valueListAttrs = {<CFArray 0x203190a0 [0xa016c1a0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (\n 0 : <CFString 0xa0838a58 [0xa016c1a0]>{contents = "kMDItemContentType"}\n)}}, sortingAttrs = {<CFArray 0x1f4586d0 [0xa016c1a0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (\n 0 : <CFString 0xa0838988 [0xa016c1a0]>{contents = "kMDItemContentModificationDate"}\n)}}, scopeList = {<CFArray 0x20335860 [0xa016c1a0]>{type = immutable, count = 1, values = (\n 0 : <CFString 0xa0839bc8 [0xa016c1a0]>{contents = "kMDQueryScopeComputer"}\n)}}.)
Oct 28 15:27:56 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 1 -> 4) timed out after 100140 ms
Oct 28 15:34:36 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 4 -> 3) timed out after 100131 ms
Oct 28 15:39:36 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100131 ms
Oct 28 15:41:11 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini ntpd[13]: time reset -0.142369 s
Oct 28 15:44:27 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100132 ms
Oct 28 15:46:36 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: PM notification timeout (pid 369, System Preferenc)
Oct 28 15:47:06 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: PM notification timeout (pid 369, System Preferenc)
Oct 28 15:52:06 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 1 -> 4) timed out after 100135 ms
Oct 28 15:58:50 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 4 -> 3) timed out after 100131 ms
Oct 28 16:03:07 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100131 ms
Oct 28 16:05:07 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x59ea600, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100132 ms
Oct 28 16:05:37 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: PM notification timeout (pid 369, System Preferenc)
Oct 28 16:07:15 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: PM notification timeout (pid 369, System Preferenc)
Oct 28 16:07:45 michael-notarnicolas-mac-mini kernel[0]: PM notification timeout (pid 369, System Preferenc)

Time Machine freezes when loaded

Hi - I've been using time machine with my laCie 1 tb external firewire 800 drive for a while. No issues. Backups are made and I can restore. Then a few weeks ago my problem began. Now, I click on the Time Machine button in the dock and time machine loads up as normal. I am able to select a date and time machine will graphically flow back to that date but then it will freeze. No file can be selected, no other date can be selected, the restore button doesn't work nor does the "cancel" button. I can do nothing except "force quit" TM. I've done a check on the external drive and I can write to it. I've also run the disk repair utility and it reports all is fine. I have NO idea what is going on and can't get TM to work properly. Any suggestions???
Greg

Are you running anti-virus software? It is known to cause problems with both backups AND viewing the Time Machine "time travel" interface.
Are you using Spaces in Mac OS? Try switching to Space #1 and launching Time Machine.
Let us know if this was helpful.
Cheers!

Time Machine Freezing when moving files it's backing up?

Hi, once in a while time machine will freeze up and I can't do anything with my external drive or any of its partitions unless I disconnect and reconnect them. I couldn't figure out what it was until I realized I had moved a new movie file at the same time Time Machine was probably backing it up.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?

That will happen with most backup utilities. If they don't freeze they certainly will become very confused. You should never do something like that during backups.
Ideally the backup utility shouldn't freeze but I don't think most programmers anticipate such an action so the utility has no built-in mechanism for dealing with it gracefully. So I think you should file a bug report with Apple. You can do so at the Feedback Page.

After updating my MacBook Pro to yeosemite I want my old screen saver picture back. I did a full back up before the install. I found the "Settings" folder in Time machine but when I try to open it I get an error message saying "You can not open this

After updating my MacBook Pro to yeosemite I want my old desktop picture back. I did a full back up before the install. I found the "Settings" folder in Time machine but when I try to open it I get an error message saying "You can not open this folder. It is in TimeMachine".

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Lion + Macbook Pro 17 + Time Machine = Freeze

I recently upgraded to OS X Lion on my mid-2009 MBP 17" and I am also getting complete system lockups - the mouse moves, but no keyboard, no clicks, no window movements, and all menu bar items stop updating, including the system clock. Power cycle is the only solution. This is happening often while a Time Machine update is running on my external drive (after it's been running for several minutes). I believe it has also occured with video playback (as others have reported), but not often. I'm not sure if it is related to waking from hibernate/sleep; e.g., last night's big 60GB Time Machine backup ran ok (took several hours), but this morning, after waking the machine and working for a while, it kicked off again and froze at the 90MB mark (of 270MB) right after I clicked on the menu bar icon to view progress. I had an xterm window and Firefox open, plus a few utilties like Adium. No video playing anywhere.
Any others?
Other notes: 8GB ram; no "Automatic Graphics Switching" option on Preferences pane, probably b/c this is a 2009 MBP(?).

I see nobody is reacting to your problem.
I have (almost) the same problem, but with 10.7.5.
Not only Time Machine freezes up (over WiFi and USB-connected), but also my Music downloads (everything else works fine) to my iPhone 5 (with iTunes 11.1) and also Spotlight (indexing for minutes and then freezes).
All these 3 actions (which usually take longer than anything else) freeze up after 3 to 15 minutes. Never the same, always different durations. Very annoying.
On the other hand: ever since I disabled Spotlight, my MacBook Pro A1286 is as fast as when I bought it in 2009.
This all happened suddenly, out of the blue. No added software, hardware. No changes in prefs.
I had my hardware checked. I have done a memtest. All the tricks in the book. To no avail.
Aopple techs tell me to wait till Maverick......some solution ;-)

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Time Machine was working fine with external LaCie 500 USB drive. Since installing Mac updates on 11/5/07, when I open Time Machine--2 finder windows open and the whole computer freezes. Is this because Fire Vault was turned on during the software update??

It happens to  me  on my iMac as well using Lacie Porsche 500Gb. Can't use Time Machine. Every time I try  to launch TM it goes till a point where only the cursor is alive but nothing else. Sometime is half the way to the full screen in TM, sometime stars start  to glow...and then the cold universe freeze.
But the problem I have now I had it before  when I was using a 2nd partition on my iMac
Exactly same problem.
Freezing all the time  using TM. I was afraid to have one of those iMac with freezing problem
but it never freezes any other time.
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Time Capsule freezes when transferring files

My time capsule freezes when data is transferring from my Macbook Pro during its initial update. I tried to connect it through WiFi or ethernet cable. It just freezes like when 800 Mb - 5 Gb were transferred (I have left it overnight). What can I do?
How about doing it by USB cable?

This is from Time Machine Buddy widget
Starting standard backup
Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Data
Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Data/Samuel Ng’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35
Disk image /Volumes/Data/Samuel Ng’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 232.4 GB excluded items size: 10.4 GB for volume Macintosh HD
266.50 GB required (including padding), 2.73 TB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
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I am incredibly frustrasted and disappointed as a first-time Apple user (brand new iMac (Intel-based) with an external LaCie 500 GB external hard disk). The problem is Time Machine. It backs up on schedule, but when I enter Time Machine, I cannot navigate at all. The background screen (outer space) moves, the cursor moves, but I cannot click on anything. I have to "force quit". So I guess I have things backed up, but can't do anything with them.
I am NOT running antivirus software. I had Intego loaded on the computer, but removed it completely after reading on Apple blogs that this could interfere with Time Machine. I have reformatted the external hard disk. Still, Time Machine freezes. Apple has put out a couple of patches, I understand, but that was months ago and all of my software is up to date.
I have called Apple support TWICE and they act as if I am from the moon -- how dare I question that the Time Machine does not work properly?
Does anyone out there know how to fix this? I am ready to return this computer to the Apple store, which cheerfully sold me on the idea of an external hard disk as a back-up.

Hello Zurichmike (lovely country):
Welcome to Apple discussions.
There are several things you could try. Easy ones first:
Erase and reformat your external HD.
Run repair disk from your software install DVD (on your internal HD).
Go to Macintosh HD>library>preferences. Trash the TM preference file (com.apple.timemachine.plist) and restart. The TM preferences will need to be changed as they are now default values.
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I have been attempting to set up one of my external hard drives for use in Time Machine, but every time I click "Erase" when Time Machine asks me to, Time Machine freezes, and my Hard Drive gets corrupt. After force quitting Time Machine and mounting my drive again, it says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." I have had to go back to a PC on numerous occasions and format the disk as FAT32, and then come back and try it again. I have attempted to erase the disk through Disk Utility, but the same error occurs.
I am attempting to do this with a 100GB Store-It drive by Hitatchi. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can solve this issue.
Thanks,
Thomas

I had the same problem with a new 120GB WD external 2.5" HDD. It seems to perform the initial backup then gets frozen at the very end of the first actualization, CPU running at 100%. Doesn't mount any more, DU shows it but declares it as non-repairable because of different issues: index faulty, B-tree header faulty etc. The same on another Mac. Re-formatting leads to the same results.
What to do?
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Can't access Time Machine settings when AirPort (WiFi) is on.

Problem:
My iMac (2.66 MHz Inter Core Duo) with 10.5.8 needs an upgrade to Maverick...it is connected to my home network with AirPort
I have a NAS on my home network (Verbatim MediaShare 2TB) wired connected, which I have had working as a drive for TM-backups. It stopped working with TM about 1,5 year ago, did never figure out why, backups just failed.
Now I want to get it going again for a fresh backup prior to the OS upgrade.
The issue I am facing now is that I cant access the settings for the backup drive in TM settings as the AirPort is on.
I need AirPort on to be able to mount the drive of the NAS, but then I cant access TM-settings. If I switch of AirPort temporarly to access TM-settings the drive which I need to select is dismounted.
I am kind of stuck. Why is this happening?
BRG
/Johan

BDAqua wrote:
Got me really confused, sorry...
Can't access Time Machine settings when AirPort (WiFi) is on.
the NAS Volume for backup "COMPUTERSBACKUP$" can be mounetd as it should when AirPort is on.
Hi, label explains the problem pretty much...
That is: The dialog in TM where the disk for TM to put backuped data is not accessable when the iMac has connection to my home network. The button is there, but when i press it notheing happends. If i deactivate the network interface, the dialog opens.
I hope this claryfy my problem.
BRG
/Johan

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I have a a Mid 2007 iMac, 20" screen 4 Ghz memory, 250 HD that originally came that with 10.4.10 that I have upgraded to 10.6.3. The computer would freeze up on me occasionally on start up. but pmce rebooted it would run fine. However, the freezing became more frequent to the point that I ran a hardware test first, which it passed. I re-imaged the imaged the machine with the original 10.4.10. The computer did not freeze when I opened Itunes, however, when I put 10.6.3. the computer is freezing when I open Itunes.

I think you might be a bit confused. You can update from 10.6.3. to 10.6.8 without cost, and indeed running software update should have done that for you.
There is no issue with running iTunes on Snow Leopard (10.6.x). If you're having problems, the most likely explanation is that you have some 3rd party software that is causing the issue. In order to determine what that is the first thing you should do is remove everything from your login items and then restart the mac.
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Select everything in the Login Items list and hit the minus '-' button underneath the login items list. Do NOT check the 'Hide' button. That has no effect.
After clearing the login items list, restart your mac and test to see if the problem remains. If so, post back and we''ll do the next step.

Hi, ive been backing up my computer to an external hard drive (with time machine). When i buy a new macbook will that hard drive put all my info on to the new computer?

hi, ive been backing up my computer to an external hard drive (with time machine). When i buy a new macbook will that hard drive put all my info on to the new computer?

When you boot the new machine for the first time, you'll be prompted to import your data from a Time Machine backup.

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I restored my hard drive with time machine but when I log in I get "home folder protected by fire vault and needs to be repaired. But I can't get past the regular log

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