Time machine only mounts the drive to Finder. The Program doesn't open. What is missing here?
Selecting <Time Machine> <enter time machine> on my Mac Air brings up a dialogue <connecting to backup disk>. The disk appears <mounted> on the desktop as a icon and shows as a connected drive in Finder. It doesnt open into the Time Machine interface that I expect and which used to work. Is there a simple fix here?
Sorry, you have lost me.
If you open AirPort Utility and click the Disks tab, what do you see there?
Next to Partitions, you should see "Data" which is the default name of the Time Capsule drive.....or.....if you have renamed "Data", you will see the name that you have assigned to the drive. In the example below, I have renamed "Data" to read "Backups".
Are you saying that you made previous backups at one time to the drive, then changed the name of the drive?
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Time Machine only shows the current copy of the file I am trying to restore. There is none of the time machine backup histories shown. I am running OSX 10.7.5. I see the backup files on my external Time Machine hard drive in the Backups.backupdb folder.
Time Machine does show the history of my Macintosh HD, but when I try to navigate to the folder I wish to restore the backup history disappears. I've been searching for answers and I have not found one that works for me.Time Machine only shows the current copy of the file I am trying to restore. There is none of the time machine backup histories shown. I am running OSX 10.7.5. I see the backup files on my external Time Machine hard drive in the Backups.backupdb folder.
Time Machine does show the history of my Macintosh HD, but when I try to navigate to the folder I wish to restore the backup history disappears. I've been searching for answers and I have not found one that works for me. -
I have time machine saving onto two usb drives.
The total size of the files being backed up is 4.6TB.
Each external USB drive is 6TB. So I have 12 TB of space for Time Machine.
Why is time machine only updating one USB drive? (One drive has been the same for two weeks.)
I have selected both drives in the Time Machine settings panel.
My understanding was that it would do a full backup, and then incremental backups of changed files, getting rid of old copies as needed, and alternate between the two drives.
But it looks like drive A has one complete backup, dated two weeks ago, and drive B is the only one getting action.
There is a red icon on drive one that says the drive needs 120GB more space to do a backup -- which is strange since the whole backup set is only 4.6TB in size, and the drive is 6TB in size...You could try a clone instead.
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After updating itunes, the program doesn't open anymore- audioconfigeration
hi!
after i updated my itunes some days ago, the program does not open anymore. there is just a message saying, that itunes cannot start, because it has discovered a problem with my audioconfigeration (i don't know if this is the right word for it, because the message is in german "Audiokonfiguration").
i'm so desperate. i tried to repair the program, but the problem is still there. i'm afraid to reinstall it, because of my songs (are they gone then?)...
regards,
green123(i don't know if this is the right word for it, because the message is in german "Audiokonfiguration").
that one is typically caused by a problem with your QuickTime. (iTunes uses QuickTime for audio and video playback.)
the following document may be of some assistance:
iTunes 7 for Windows: iTunes had detected an audio configuration problem
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Apple has determined that certain Seagate 1TB hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems may fail. These systems were sold between October 2009 and July 2011.
Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) will replace affected hard drives free of charge.
Will this replacement program restore my system to its current state after the new drive is installed? If not, will I have to have all my original disks to re-install all the programs on my current computer, or will Time Machine restore them as well?Most of them will tell you to backup your data.
Time Machine is nice, but unless you are interested in archival backup, Carbon Copy Cloner is a lot easier to recover from:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1992 -
This is super frustrating, and I'm afraid of losing my photos! Can someone please help me out! Also this is iPhoto '09 not '08.
Greetings,
Can you still go to the menus at the top and click on things or is the program unresponsive?
If the menus work then go to Window > Zoom.
If that doesn't help:
1.) Remove the following to the trash, restart the computer:
Your User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iphoto (there may be more than one, remove them all)
Your User > Library > Caches > com.apple.iphoto and / or just iphoto
Cheers. -
Time Machine only enters the latest backup
I am using TM with two disks. Say the latest backup is to disk 2. When I enter TM it goes disk 2 without asking. If disk 2 is not available, but disk 1 is clearly mounted on the desktop, it says "backup disk not available". That's not because it cannot find disk 1, but because it keeps looking for disk 2.
The only way to tell it to look in disk 1 is to do a backup. After that, it can enter disk 1 fine as it becomes the latest. If I connect disk 2 again, it still enter disk 1.
My question is if this is the expected behavior. (I wouldn't be surprising since there is no option what disk to access.)
Now, one of my disks is a network drive (Western Digital MyBook Live). WD say it is fully compliant with the TM specs and so far it worked fine, aside from the behavior I mentioned.
Thanks in advance.See Pondini's TM FAQs, for starters.
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After installing dw cc 2014 the program doesn't open?
how can I solve it?
Hi delciiobruno,
Please follow the below steps and see if your issue gets resolve.
1. Uninstall Dreamweaver CC 2014 and Do check the “Remove Preferences” check box at the time of uninstall
2. Launch “Creative Cloud” desktop application and click on gear icon on top right
3. Go to preferences -> Account -> sign out from creative cloud app and quit
4. Again launch Creative Cloud application and login using Adobe Id
5. Switch to "Apps" tab and locate and install “Dreamweaver CC 2014”
6. Launch Dreamweaver CC 2014
Revert back if your issue persists with information Jon has asked for. -
Time machine on one external drive, multiple MAC's
Dear all,
I have connected a external drive "LaCie" to my Imac. Time machine on this Imac works fine.
I am trying to get my Macbook's Time Machine to use the LaCie drive as well, but it just won't work. I know there are similar topics on this forum dealing with the same issue, but the solutions described just do not work. What is going wrong?
My Imac is called ImacHans. My personal account "Hans" is the same on the Imac as well as on the Macbook. Passwords are identical. On both machines I am administrator. My Macbook connects to the Imac wirelessly. From my MacBook I can see the ImacHans in the finder. I can browse it's contents. In the finder I can see the "eject button" behind the ImacHans, so I guess that means the ImacHans is mounted? Within the finder I can browse to the LaCie drive. I can add new folders and delete them. Which means I have read and write access rights.
In Time Machine's preferences (on the MacBook) I can select the LaCie. So far so good, but when I ask Time Machine to "back up now" it fails within seconds. The error message is "Time Machine Error, the backup volume could not be found".
What is going wrong?
Any help is much appreciated.
kind regards,
hans.This may do it from my original idea:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1329
Symptoms
If you back up to a Mac OS X 10.5 Server volume or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard computer using Personal File Sharing via Time Machine, and the password to access the network volume is changed, Time Machine will report "The backup volume could not be mounted" in Mac OS X 10.5.
Products Affected
Mail, Time Machine
Resolution
Mount the network based volume va the Finder's Connect to Server option. Go to Time Machine preferences in System Preferences, click "Change Disk" and reselect the mounted volume as the backup disk. -
Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB external hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's update. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My guess would be it has created an entirely new backup of your drive when you upgraded to Mavericks.
See Here: http://pondini.org/TM/1.html
And here: http://pondini.org/TM/9.html
Peruse the whole site. There is a lot of information there. -
How can I force Time Machine to make a complete backup of my Hard Drive. I just installed a new external drive for Backup since my previous one failed. Now when I back up, Time Machine only backs up my data folder and the Users folder.
When I start a backup. Time Machine says "Oldest Backup: None; Latest Backup: None", so it seems like it should do a complete backup, but it only does a partial.Hi I'd like to jump in here. Your app showed me this:
Time Machine:
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 749.3 GB Disk used: 453.81 GB
Destinations:
Plastic Wrapper [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 64
Oldest backup: 2013-07-24 23:25:11 +0000
Last backup: 2013-11-17 01:40:47 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 999.86 GB < (Disk used 453.81 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
/sbin excluded from backup!
/usr excluded from backup!
/System excluded from backup!
/bin excluded from backup!
/private excluded from backup!
/Library excluded from backup!
/Applications excluded from backup!
Aside from the size of my backup drive, which I will increase at some point, I'd really like to have time machine backing up all system folders, especially Applications. How to I reset this hidden exclusions?
Thanks,
Darcy -
I turned my macbook on and all the emails of inbox were gone. In time machine, only the inbox option does not shows option to get back old back ups... how I can get my inbox emails?
I figured it out. I couldn't see the old backups because the sparsebundle had not been properly unmounted in a previous session, so it kept giving an "already in use" error. The problem was solved by restarting the Time Capsule through the Airport Utility, mounting the sparsebundle by double-clicking it, and then going through the "Browse other backup disks" option in the Time Machine menu bar icon.
The following links were helpful in figuring this out:
http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html
http://pondini.org/TM/17.html -
Had hard drive renewed due to product recall (iMac) backed up complete system on time machine . Had the drive done got mac back tried to reinstall from time machine .The new drive tells me that the space has been taken up but can't find where the file have gone. Need to free up the space that the ghost file take up so I can drag drop from ex drive onto harddrive
Here's the scoop, new friend.....
When you boot into Time Machine you'll get the same OS X Utilities screen as you would if you booted into the Recovery HD. So, from there go into Disk Utilities to erase/format your internal drive. After that's done, back out to the OS X Utilities screen and select the restore option. Just follow the prompts to select the TM back up date you want to restore from and where to restore it to. Pretty straight forward. -
Due to NAS issues, when I started a new time machine backup it did not have the old backups available. My question is do I need to delete them or will time machine automatically reclaim the space? There is only one sparse bundle but when I enter time machine I don't see my historic backups. I use a synology DS212 for my time machine. Started a new backup which is 218gb but it says 618 gb is occupied therefore it looks like 2 or 3 backups are still on the disk. Before my NAS issues the last backup was in 2014. As you can see there is a second sparse bundle from 2012. Not sure what that is.
This is an old message now, but what happened to me similarly was:
I had a major computer crash and through complicated pathways ended up reinstalling (Mavericks) as a new user (long story).
At least I had good Time Machine backups on an NAS drive (Synology DS212j), or so I thought - when I started Time Machine up again, the old backup file was gone, replaced by a new one using my "new computer" name. The old file was gone both by directly mounting the NAS drive and by clicking "Enter Time Machine".
It's like I had {OldShareName}.sparsebundle and then it was replaced by {NewShareName}.sparsebundle, all of the old info vanished.
(I have spent a week finding old files elsewhere and have completed a satisfactory self-restore. It pays to "archive" [my own variation of] as well as "back-up".)
My belief is that if this were a wired-netword-drive, e.g. plugged right into my iMac with a USB cable, then the old file would have remained.
But this is an NAS drive, connected directly to my Airport wireless router, and I don't know the significance of the fact that it stores its Time Machine backups as "sparsebundle" files rather than simply as plain(er) files.
As usual when things get complicated with computers (not just Apple computers) there was never a warning message. Something like "YOU'RE ABOUT TO DELETE A TIME MACHINE BACK-UP FILE!!!" would have made my life a lot simpler.
BTW, I did try a "restore from Time Machine" option the first thing I had my "new computer" (old hardware, 2009 iMac) up and running, using Migration Assistant, and it ran for many hours and then failed in the wee hours - what that has to do with anything I'm not sure.
I'm not sure that I have a question about this other than "why do these things happen to me?", but it's a warning. Apart from that I've been very happy with the stability and reliability (but not the cost or set-up complexity) of NAS vs. directly-cabled external drives.
Charles -
I am trying to get space on an external hard drive which has some old time machine back up files that I do not need but can not eliminate, even by going into the time machine, clicking on the backup file to be eliminated and using the drop down menu with the gear box symbol to eliminate
I cannot find this 300GB "Backup" in the Finder, only in the Storage info when I check "About This Mac".
You are probably using Time Machine to backup your MacBook Pro, right? Then the additional 300 GB could be local Time Machine snapshots. Time Machine will write the hourly backups to the free space on your hard disk, if the backup drive is temporarily not connected. You do not see these local backups in the Finder, and MacOS will delete them, when you make a regular backup to Time Machine, or when you need the space for other data.
See Pondini's page for more explanation: What are Local Snapshots? http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
I have restarted my computer, but the information remains the same. How do I reclaim the use of the 300GB? Why is it showing up as "Backups" when it used to indicate "Photos"? Are my photos safe on the external drive?
You have tested the library on the external drive, and so your photos are save there.
The local TimeMachine snapshot probably now contains a backup of the moved library. Try, if connecting your Time Machine drive will reduce the size of your local Time Machine snapshots.
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