Time machine goes on calculating time remaining in macbook mavericks

time machine stops at some point while backingup my macbook;it goes on calculating the time remaining for hours;i tried all possible things like renaming,erasing ,repairing permission  the external HD
please help

jaxx323 wrote:
The time capsule drive is full, but I just assumed that Time Machine would erase the oldest backups and continue.
Ordinarily it will. Do you have other data on the drive? If so, it appears that other data has completely filled the drive, so much so that Time Machine can't even start the hidden log it keeps there.
Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:* -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: No space left on device
Usually when that happens, the backup crashes.
First, cancel the backup. If it won't cancel after a few moments, see #D6 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html].
Then connect via an Ethernet cable if at all possible. Time Machine needs to do some intensive work, and it will be slow even via Ethernet, but 2-3 times slower via WIFI.
If there's other stuff on the drive, you could copy some of it elsewhere temporary and delete it. You only need to free up 50 MB or so.
But your best bet is to delete your oldest backup(s), then "compact" the sparse bundle they're in, to make some space. See #12 of [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html].
Since it's been several weeks, you may want to delete roughly one old backup for each of those weeks, then "compact" the sparse bundle. If you only delete one, then Time Machine will have to delete more, but it will delete one, dismount the sparse bundle, compact it, then remount it to see if there's enough room. That gets repeated over and over until there's enough space.
Once this is sorted out, if there is other stuff on your TC's internal HD, see #Q3 in [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

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    1/30/13 7:36:34.779 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
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    1/30/13 7:39:39.420 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:40:40.628 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:41:41.317 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
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    1/30/13 7:43:42.982 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
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    1/30/13 7:45:21.508 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:46:22.938 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:47:24.914 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:48:25.931 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:49:26.589 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:50:27.743 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:51:27.952 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:52:28.736 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:53:29.707 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:54:30.516 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:55:31.297 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:56:33.290 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:57:35.031 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:58:36.765 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 7:59:37.721 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
    1/30/13 8:00:38.577 PM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
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