Time Machine Graphical Interface Crashing Computer

Not sure when this started happening, but every time I go to the Time Machine graphical interface it freezes the computer.
It appears to be backing up properly, and I can access the files without problems in the Finder.
Has anyone had this same issue, and has anyone found the problem?
Thanks.

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Unlocking my Time Machine backup drive crashes computer.

Unlocking my external hard drive crashes my computer. It was encrypted by Time Machine (and I think that means it used FileVault because the unlock window has the FileVault icon).
There's a prompt to unlock the hard drive as soon as I plug it in but when I press the Unlock button my computer crashes.
I've tried different user accounts, safe mode, disk utility, recovery mode, different USB cables and different USB ports all with the same problem. As soon as I press enter on the password prompt the system crashes. If I type the wrong password it denies me so I know the password is correct.
The drive is in a SATA to USB dock but unfortunately I don't have another one to test with. Other drives work just fine in this dock.
The data recovery software I tried is useless because all the data is encrypted .
Any suggestions? Is my drive done and my data lost?
Thanks, Chris

Thanks for your help! Here it is:
Tue Sep 9 14:58:37 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8003cdc24e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8003f916ea, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x000000007b12c085, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000001, RCX: 0xffffff80b19daa00, RDX: 0xffffff800e7c4120
RSP: 0xffffff80b19daac0, RBP: 0xffffff80b19dab90, RSI: 0xffffff80042e41e0, RDI: 0xffffff800e7c4120
R8: 0x0000000000002000, R9: 0xffffff8014cc0ffe, R10: 0x0000000000000001, R11: 0x0000000000002000
R12: 0x0000000000000001, R13: 0xffffff8014987200, R14: 0x0000000000000000, R15: 0xffffff80136ad408
RFL: 0x0000000000010297, RIP: 0xffffff8003f916ea, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x0
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80b19da750 : 0xffffff8003c22f79
0xffffff80b19da7d0 : 0xffffff8003cdc24e
0xffffff80b19da9a0 : 0xffffff8003cf3746
0xffffff80b19da9c0 : 0xffffff8003f916ea
0xffffff80b19dab90 : 0xffffff8003f8ff7c
0xffffff80b19dabd0 : 0xffffff8003f81ab5
0xffffff80b19db040 : 0xffffff8003f811b2
0xffffff80b19db5d0 : 0xffffff8003f745e8
0xffffff80b19db6c0 : 0xffffff8003f74cf9
0xffffff80b19db780 : 0xffffff8003de35df
0xffffff80b19dbae0 : 0xffffff8003de415d
0xffffff80b19dbf10 : 0xffffff8003de3cf9
0xffffff80b19dbf50 : 0xffffff8004040a33
0xffffff80b19dbfb0 : 0xffffff8003cf3f46
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mount_hfs
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Access Time Machine backup through different computer

Hi, I have a 1TB Time capsule and I have my Macbook pro and my mother's macbook pro backing up to it. If one of our computers were to crash, could we go about getting a file from time machine through the other computer? I tried the right-clicking on time machine and selecting 'browse other time machine disk', but that only shows the backup for the computer im using, not anybody elses. any help?

Try mounting the "sparsebundle" file for the other computer before you invoke the "browse other ..." option. If that works, please let me know.

I upgraded my imac hard drive to a 2tb drive. how do i use time machine to get my computer back to normal?

i upgraded my imac hard drive to a 2tb drive. how do i use time machine to get my computer back to normal?

Thank you. I followed the faq#14 (using setup wizard from the osx install disk). Everything went just as planned until I woke up this morning and noticed there was no progress on the "transferring documents" meter. It stopped about 1/4 of the way. I can hear the computer working and the bar is somewhat animated like it is advancing but it's not.
Should I cancel and restart or should I wait it out? It already been about 13 hours since I started the process. Do you think it is my time machine or my iMac? Maybe the time machine file is corrupt or something.
Anyway, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Searching time machine backup on different computer

I have 3 computers backed up by time machine onto one hard drive. How do I search time machine for a backup of a computer I am not currently using? I did use the control key and was prompted for which disk to search,and clicked on that, but then it just switches me back and only shows the backups of the same computer I am using at the moment. I want to search a time machine backup of a computer that is no longer functional.

This was actually solved in the 10.7.1 or 10.7.2 update.

Time Machine stops due to computer going into Sleep/Hibernation Mode

Time Machine stops due to computer going into Sleep/Hibernation Mode then restarts to try to start the Back up process again and again vicious cycle. I have made sure all settings are turned off. I have done one or two backups since the initial first backup. My HDD is almost full and I want it backed up before I try to clone/mirror the drive to upgrade it to a 1TB HDD. Thank you in advance.

Set the Energy Saver (in System Preferences) to Never. Then reset the NVRAM, as follows:
Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the third time.
Release the keys.

How to backup from Time Machine of a different computer

I want to restore my emails from time machine from a different computer?

Look at the Pondini web site and it should be able to address all of your Time Machine questions.
http://pondini.org/OSX/Setup.html
Ciao.

How do I retrieve files from a backup hard drive (was backed up using Time Machine) on a different computer

how do I retrieve files from a backup hard drive (was backed up using Time Machine) on a different computer?

Please visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.

Can I use the harddisk that I used for Time Machine on my previous computer on my new computer without deleting the old back-ups?

Can I use the harddisk that I used for Time Machine on my previous computer on my new computer without deleting the old back-ups?

Yes. See:
http://pondini.org/TM/4.html
My only concern is that you may not have enough free space on the drive.

How do you get time machine to reset your computer to the specific date you would like?

How do you get time machine to reset your computer to the specific date you would like?

Hey carlleeh,
Thanks for the question. The following resource may guide you through that process:
OS X Mountain Lion: Recover your entire system
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11192
Thanks,
Matt M.

Time Machine makes the Host Computer unusable

I have been running Time Machine for some time now. Long enough that it started notifying me that it was deleting older backups. Shortly thereafter my computer (24" IMac) started to run very slow. So slow that it would take several seconds to type a 4 letter word and the mouse movement delay was several seconds. I went to the control panel and turned Time Machine off. That did not help. So I next disconnected the firewire disk that is hosting the Time Machine backup and my computer returned to normal.
So what do I do now? For obvious reasons I am reluctant to reconnect the Time Machine disk. Any suggestions on what might have happened and/or how I can safely reinstate Time Machine?

Obviously you are running out of space on the backup drive causing TM delays as it combs through data to determine what can be deleted to make up the space. That would suggest you need a new, larger hard drive for TM backups - might consider doubling the size at the least.
To continue with the new drive you want to clone your old backup to the new drive so you will need enclosures for both drives.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new backup drive.
Source means the old backup drive.
Be sure to prep the new drive as follows:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Be sure you only use Disk Utility or SuperDuper! to clone the TM backup correctly.

HT201250 Since time machine backed up my computer does that mean I can delete files so I can increase storage space on my hard drive?

Since time machine backed up my computer does that mean I can delete files so I can increase storage space on my hard drive?

NO!
Time Machine is not an Archival Backup. It will keep files for a while, but if it needs the space, it will delete files that no longer exist on the hard drive.
Get a couple external drives and move the files to both of them.

Time Machine slow, bogging down computer.

I am having problems with Time Machine backups taking forever and, at the same time, bogging down my computer to the point I cannot use it.
For example, a 70MB backup yesterday took almost 5 hours. a 500MB one today is on hour 5 and still going. I have it set to back up while I'm at work (it's my home computer) but when I get home and it's still going I cannot use my computer at all without cancelling the backup due to lag, spinning beachballs, and apps crashing.
The hard drive it's backing up to is a 1TB Iomega drive connected via USB with 500 gigs of free space currently. I've got a 2011 MacBook Pro running 10.8.5, 500gig hard drive with 70 gigs free. I have run backups with my normal apps running and with virtually all apps quit, including Finder and Dropbox, which doesn't seem to effect the time spent backing up. I do not have any virus scanners running. I've tried different USB cables in case it's a faulty cable. I have gone through Pondini's guide dozens of times, nothing's helped.
Do you guys have any more suggestions? I dream of the days long past where Time Machine would work in the background and I'd never notice it. Backing up is now an all-day ordeal with nothing else able to happen in the meantime. I'd like it to do it's hourly back-ups and get away from using TImeMachineEditor to only do daily back-ups, but I can't have my computer unusable every time it tries to back up.
Also, somewhat related; I tried to update my back-up drive to a 2TB Western Digital and to a 1.5TB partition on a 3TB Western Digital drive but was unable to get Time Machine to complete a back-up to either drive; it kept crashing and burning at various stages. I had followed Pondini's guide to the letter with formatting them yet never got anywhere. That's why I'm using my older, smaller drive; it's the only one I can successfully get to back up. Any thoughts on that?

Sherri39401- I am not running any sort of anti-virus.
Eric Root- I tried the reset of Time Machine. If anything it's worse; took 10 hours to do a 11 gig backup, then right after it was on hour 4 of a 28MB transfer and was only halfway through.
Etresoft- That is a nifty little program! Here's the report I ran this morning:
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
          1 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          8 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
          AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 2 days 21:8:55
Disk Information:
          Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
                    disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Dominick (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (109.47 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Iomega Iomega 1 TB
                    disk3s1 (disk3s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Shinako (disk3s2) /Volumes/Shinako: 999.86 GB (302.04 GB free)
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Western Digital My Book 1140 3 TB
                    disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 314.6 MB
                    SORUKA (disk2s2) /Volumes/SORUKA: 2 TB (422.46 GB free)
                    SORIKO (disk2s3) /Volumes/SORIKO: 999.98 GB (999.31 GB free)
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
          com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver          (1.0.2)
          com.LivestreamProcaster.driver.ProcasterAudioRedirector          (2.0.0)
          com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          (1.5.1)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
          [failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
          [failed] com.apple.accountsd.plist
          [failed] com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent.plist
          [failed] com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication.plist
          [failed] com.apple.pbs.plist
          [failed] com.apple.printtool.agent.plist
          [failed] com.apple.rcd.plist
          [failed] com.apple.tccd.plist
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
          [loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
          [loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS4.plist
          [loaded] com.daz3d.content_management_service.plist
          [loaded] com.ea.origin.ESHelper.plist
          [loaded] com.freemacsoft.appcleanerdaemon.plist
          [not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinblanker.plist
          [not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist
          [loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.backup-auto.plist
          [loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [loaded] com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager.plist
          [failed] com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist
          [not loaded] com.logmein.logmeingui.plist
          [not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist
          [not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist
          [loaded] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist
          [failed] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
          [loaded] com.facebook.videochat.Jessie.plist
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
          [loaded] com.iLike.Agent.plist
          [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
User Login Items:
          Quicksilver
          Last.fm
          WeatherBug Alert
          UnhideLibrary
          Dropbox
          Mail
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Adobe Version Cue CS4
          Flash Player
          Flip4Mac WMV
          Growl
          Java
          Perian
          WacomTablet
Internet Plug-ins:
          AdobePDFViewer.plugin
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
          AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin1017287.plugin
          DirectorShockwave.plugin
          DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
          Flash Player.plugin
          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
          iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          LogMeIn.plugin
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          LogMeInSafari64.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          Silverlight.plugin
          Unity Web Player.plugin
          WacomNetscape.plugin
          WacomTabletPlugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
          Move-Media-Player.plugin
          npadaptiveplugin.plugin
          Picasa.plugin
Bad Fonts:
          None
Top Processes by CPU:
              18%          firefox
               5%          plugin-container
               4%          WindowServer
               3%          hidd
               2%          Transmission
               1%          Last.fm
               1%          EtreCheck
               1%          mds
               0%          Mail
               0%          SystemUIServer
Top Processes by Memory:
          464 MB firefox
          295 MB mds
          74 MB    Quicksilver
          57 MB    Mail
          57 MB    plugin-container
          57 MB    Transmission
          41 MB    Skype
          41 MB    Finder
          41 MB    WindowServer
          33 MB    Dropbox
Virtual Memory Statistics
          4.60 GB Free RAM
          859 MB Active RAM
          1.20 GB Inactive RAM
          1.35 GB Wired RAM
          22.20 GB           Page-ins
          17.74 GB           Page-outs

System recovery from time machine after disk crash

Hi there,
recently I am a little unluky with my backup strategy. Here is my latest issue - I am glad if anyone has hints or advice.
On my macbook pro (mid 2009, originally SL) updated till the latest version of Mavericks I recently had a hard disc crash. I replaced the hard drive and wanted to restore my system (and data) from my time machine backup. This Backup is encrypted (in case this gives a hint for something).
What I did is I insert the Snow leopard disk, boot from it and first formated the new HD to the suggested standard for intel based MACs and then chose the option to restore from a time machine backup. I found the time capsule, connected with password, found the backed up files with date and tried to install.
First attemp failed.
Second attemp succed after 10h
Then with the mandatory reboot the system didn't start but stopped with:
panic(cpu 1 caller...
So I decided to install the SL system and try to restore from there in whatever way. Did that and 1 hour later the installation was successfully - Reboot - and then the computer asked for my Log in data (with my Log in Name - which I so far did not set on this installation or on this disk - very suprised. More suprised my password (which I use for 4 years now) did not work.
so back to option 1 try to restore from Time machine.
Ahead of that I reset the PRAM . Now I choose a backup version of an earlier date. This time the installation couldn't be finished but I got the log file.
I couldn't attach the file and didn't want to post it over severl pages...(is there a good way for that, only found adding pictures?)
Well - that's where I am stuck...
Any help is apreciated very much.

Thank you Eric for your fast answer.
this worked and now I have a running SL system. I guess I try to install maverics first and then use the emigration assistent to recover my data.
Still its a pitty that the time machine backup didn't do what it was supposed to. The workarround is very timeconsuming and leaves some concerns about my data and the future safety of time machine backups.
Regards
Thorsten

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mjebbia wrote:
My hardrive on my macbook pro crashed in December. I got a new one from apple, had everything saved on my time machine, and put all my documents on my the new hardrive (still saved in TM).
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