Time machine is turned off, still backing up hourly, running Mountain Lion.

I cannot get my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion to stop backing up every hour. It slows up speed and system resources and I want to set it to off or at most once a day. Can anyone solve this for me?

Did you install a hack, such as "Time Machine Editor," to change the behavior of Time Machine?

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I accidentally delete all my photo in the "all my files".
actually I delete every thing in ALL MY FILES.
How could I back up all the photo?
and other data, such as movies and so on?
Do I need to go to Apple store to back up?
(time machine is turn off)

If you don't have a back up then you'll need to use a file recovery app like File Salvage
To back up iPhoto you make a copy of the Library on another disk.
Regards
TD

HT201250 I want to use Time Machine to back up my pictures because my hard drive is full but I'm wondering if once I back up the pictures then delete them will time machine delete them off the back up too?

I want to use Time Machine to back up my pictures because my hard drive is full but I'm wondering if once I back up the pictures then delete them will time machine delete them off the back up too?

Evetually yes.
If your pictures have been in the same location (same folder, same subfolder, ...) for more than a week, then copies if them will remain in your TM backups until it fills up. They are then vulnerable to being deleted.
If they've been there for less than a week, TM could delete them as early as a month from now. If they've been there for only a few hours, chances are TM will delete them tomorrow.
This is why TM is not the best tool to use to archive data that you will be deleting from your main hard drive. Copy them to a dedicated external drive, or burn DVDs.

Time machine is turned off but my startup disk keeps filling up with backup files on a hidden volume.

My Time Machine is turned off but my system startup drive keeps filling up with backup files in a hidden volume. How can I stop this? When Time Machine was turned on, the destination was set to an external drive. I was completely confused about what was happening until I used Houdini to reveal the hidden volume. I have no idea how it got created or why it keeps filling up with no backup application running to my knowledge. Thanks.

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
Download this, or a similar tool if you prefer:
OmniDiskSweeper - Products - The Omni Group
Boot in safe mode. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
During startup, you will see "Safe Boot" on the login screen, which appears even if you normally log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Safe mode is slower than normal, and some things won’t work at all, possibly including wireless networking.
Does your boot volume continue to fill up? Use the above tool to explore the volume and find out where the space is going.

Cannot install Mavks. Get the message that HD is used for Time Machine B/U. Not true. Also Time Machine is turned off.

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That message appears when there's a "Backups.backupdb" folder in the root level of the OS X volume. This folder is used by Time Machine to store backups, being this the reason why the OS X Mavericks installer detects the OS X partition as used by Time Machine.
To delete it, open a Finder window, select the Go menu (on the menu bar) > Go to Folder, and type:
Then, delete "Backups.backupdb" and empty the Trash. Finally, open the OS X Mavericks installer in /Applications and follow the steps. Make sure you have got a backup of your files before upgrading and check that your apps are compatible > http://www.roaringapps.com

Time Machine doesn't appear in Launchpad since upgrading to Mountain Lion

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (I'm using 10.8.1), Time Machine doesn't appear as one of the apps when using Launchpad. I can't figure out where it "went" but how do I get it back into Launchpad?
It's still in the Applications folder and in my Dock but I'd like to know why it isn't in Launchpad any more?
Thanks.
Sheri

Open Terminal and copy:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db "DELETE from apps; \
DELETE from groups WHERE title<>''; DELETE from items WHERE rowid>2;" \
&& killall Dock
Go to Applications and drag the apps to Launchpad

Time Machine backup crashes my MBP since I've installed Mountain Lion

Hello,
I've got a MBP (1.5 years old) and do my back-ups on Time Capsule. Recently I upgraded to Mountain Lion and since then I've come accross some back-up issues:
1. I've got the error message containing the "sparsebundle already in use" wording
2. I followed the procedure of unticking (+ reboot) and ticking (+reboot) the "share files" box in the Airport Utility -> Disk section
3. When I want to launch the backup after that, it always takes about 2 minutes before my MBP crashes and restarts.
Has anyone an idea on what goes wrong or what I would have to modifiy in the settings?
Thanks in advance for any help.
caraval
PS: another MBP connected to the same TC but still running on Lion performs its backups without problem

Hi Clinton,
I tried it again (manual launch of backup) and it crashed again.
In the console there's one type of message coming up repeteadly:
9/19/12 8:50:04.508 PM PhotoStreamAgent[203]: [3] MSPublisher - 145909544 Encountered temporary network issues during upload. Will try again later...
Please let me know if you wish the whole bunch of logs (which is taking up a lot of place, don't know what would be the best way to attach it)
Besides, hereafter the error report which is being sent to APPLE. I appreciate your help on that matter.
Regards,
Andreas
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 178 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          2
Anonymous UUID:                    4D5AE0A6-68EB-416A-BC82-E7DA03BA0834
Wed Sep 19 21:04:00 2012
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8000cf3031): "hfs_UNswap_BTNode: invalid backward link (0x0001c35b == 0x0001c35b)\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.9.2/bsd/hfs/hfs_endian.c:297
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff807d463ad0 : 0xffffff8000a1d5f6
0xffffff807d463b40 : 0xffffff8000cf3031
0xffffff807d463b90 : 0xffffff8000ce7fb4
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0xffffff807d463f30 : 0xffffff8000afa2f9
0xffffff807d463f50 : 0xffffff8000de17da
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He everyone,
I've been using Time Machine for years to backup my iMac to an external USB harddrive (Samsung HD103Sl), and everything used to work just fine up until I installed Mountain Lion.
Now Finder nor Time Machine can see my external harddrive. If I go to DIsk Utility, the harddrive is listed there, and everything seem to be just fine. I tried to run a disk verification and a repair, but Disk Utility tell me everything is OK.
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You may have a look if that's the same in Disk Utility.
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** All logical volume under this groiup will be deleted!!
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We need a bit more info.
You don't state that you are backing up to a Time Capsule but I am guessing that is the case.
1. I need to know, what TC??
A1xxx from the base please. They do go faulty as they age.
2. How is it connected into the network? Is it main router or bridged? Plugged into what router or modem?
3. How does the computer connect to it?
4. Is the computer running Lion as per your profile or is it Mavericks? This latest OS is problematic. Its network reliability is poor.
If you are running mavericks.. and using wireless then I recommend you plug the computer directly to the TC by ethernet.
You can turn off wireless and see if you can get TM to start.
Otherwise go through the Mavericks clean setup with the TC and see if that will get it going.
Airtport Utility can't find Airport Time Capsule on either of my 2009 Macs
The very simple version of this..
Mount the TC hard disk in Finder manually.
Type AFP://10.0.1.1 (or whatever IP is shown by the airport utility)
You will be asked for the disk password.. supply it and save it in the keychain.
Try TM.. if it still doesn't work, reset TM and try again.
A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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No luck you will need to follow the clean setup instructions and start over from scratch.

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I recovered a back up from my time machine via a wired connection after getting the 'white screen of death'. Now Time Machine does not recognise any back ups on the time machine when connected wirelessly and wants to do a first back up of the whole machine. How do I get my mac to recognise these older back ups? It connects to the wifi network the time machine creates fine, with the same name and password.

I recommend the following.
1. Reset the TC to factory.
Universal Factory Reset.. any model TC or AE.
Unplug your TC/AE from power or turn off at the power point.
Hold in reset. and power the TC/AE back on.. all without releasing reset and keep holding in for about 10sec. (this is often difficult without a 2nd person or a 3rd arm).
Release it when the status light flashes rapidly. If it doesn’t flash rapidly you have missed it and try again.
Note..
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC/AE will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations of the router.
No files are deleted on the hard disk in a TC.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
2. Rename the TC to SMB standard.
That means short names.. 2-20 characters but less than 10 is excellent. eg TCGenx (use number for x that is actual generation of the TC)
No spaces.
Pure alphanumeric. No apostrophe.
3. Ensure IPv6 is set to link-local..
Do the same thing for ethernet if that is used.
4. Manually mount the TC disk in Finder.
Use Go in the top menu.. connect to server.
Type in
AFP://TCname.local (where TCname is your new short name for the TC and local is default domain .. it helps using the domain I found).
You will then find the computer either can or cannot find the network resource.. if it fails something else is wrong with the actual network and you will need to fix that.
It will request the password if it is found.. password is public by default unless you changed it.. type in the password and check to keep it in your keychain.
5. Delete current TM setup and redo it with the newly named TC.
See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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Time Machine doesn't see the back-up disk after I've logged off and then back on, even though the disk is available to the iMac 24/7. Turning the disk off and then on in the current session works, but this seems to defeat the purpose of an unattended back-up disk. I can't find a setting that ensures the back-up disk is recognized after log-in or restart. Is there a solution?

Is this Mountain Lion??
It seems to have made some changes that make the disk drop out.. it does this even if you are continually connected to the TC and we don't have a solution yet.
For your login issue, is the TC using a disk password.. or are you setting it to default? Could you try just turning on the guest account in the TC to read and write access and see if this helps. Tell us how it goes.
There is another fix.. but it involves using disconnect all users from v5 airport utility.. Apple removed the function in v6.
If you are on Lion or Mountain Lion even you can install the v5 utility.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.

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