Time machine partion help please!

I know this isnt the most accurate place to post this, but it ties in with time machine.
i have a 500gb external hard drive, partitioned in 2. one half is a bog standard hard drive for both windows and os x, the other is os x journaled for time machine.
How do i get the time machine partition to use the entire 500gb drive, without erasing the data on the partiton?
its fine to delete the data from the normal hard drive partition, as its been backed up to the new drive.

BennyboyOxtoby wrote:
yes luckily its on the top. so i can click on the 2nd partition, click the minus symbol, and then drag the time machine partition down to the bottom?
Great! Then it's easy. Just be careful.
why does it work this way? is there a technological reason for it? or is it just because the draggable sections only support being pulled down rather than up?
It's because a partition is nothing like a folder. Partitions occupy contiguous physical space on a disk; and the directory is first in each partition. Even an "empty" partition isn't quite empty -- there's a whole directory structure on it. Depending on the Format of the partition, it may be about 200 mb. If you've ever done a +*Verify Disk+* or +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions), you'll see references to all the various parts. That structure can be expanded as you add data, of course, but it can't be moved, so you can't expand a partition "upwards" on the disk.

Similar Messages

Accessing photos in iPhoto from Time Machine. Help Please!

I'm using the Time Machine Backup Hard drive from my iMac on my macbook pro to access my files whilst travelling. I'm having difficutly with accesing my iphotos. What do I do when I get this message: "The iPhoto Library is a Time Machine backup, and so cannot be used as the main library. Relaunch iPhoto with key held down to choose another library."
I have created two libraries but swapping between them still brings up this message.
Thanks for any assistance.

You can not open a Time Machine backup wusing iPhoto - you must launch TimeMachine, selet the library and restore it -- http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
LN

Time machine restore help

I've recently been having issues with my early 2008 black Macbook. I ran the apple HW diagnostics and determined it is a bad hard drive. I went out and bought a new 500GB SATA HD, and attempted to restore my system using a Time Machine backup. I booted into the Leopard Disc that came with my computer, formatted the drive, and ran the Time machine restore. Everything appeared to go fine (took about 2 hours, no error messages). However, after the machine rebooted and attempted to boot into OSX an error similar to this popped up. http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7792/pict0017lo8.jpg
Any thoughts as to why this is happening? I don't really want to start over with a clean install, that's why I have Time Machine!
Other information:
My computer originally had Leopard, and was upgraded to Snow Leopard.
I have boot camp setup on my mac for Win 7. (I know this isn't backed up or restored as part of a time machine backup, which I'm O.K. with.)
Thanks in advance for all your help.

Any number of possibilities. First, did you prep the drive properly:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, 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.
Any brand new drive should be setup per the above because they usually are configured for use on PCs rather than Macs.
Second, depends on how you went about the process of restoring your system. Select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine." Look for an article specifically about performing a full system restore. Also, see User Tips for Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.
What you saw was a kernel panic screen. Panics at startup may be indicative of a hardware problem. You might give this a try:
How to run hardware diagnostics for an Intel Mac
Boot from your original OS X Installer Disc One that came with your computer. After the chime press and hold down the "D" key until the diagnostic screen appears. Run the extended tests for a minimum of two or three hours. If any error messages appear note them down as you will need to report them to the service tech when you take the computer in for repair.
Some "common" error indicators:
SNS - sensor error
MEM - memory error
HDD - hard disk drive error
MOT - fan error
To assure the problem isn't with your backup you might consider installing OS X by itself. If all is OK, then you can complete the TM restore using Migration Assistant.

HT1338 lost word document. time machine no help. suggestions?

lost word document. time machine no help. suggestions?

Need more info. How do you think you lost a Word Document?
Try Easy Find, Search program, and search for *.doc*. That will turn up all Word Docs with both the .DOC and .DOCX extension on your complete hard drive.
If it is truly lost, Deleted, then you are basically SOL. Unless you do have a recent TM backup that has that file included.
As for recovering it from TM do a search for Pondini TM FAQs.

Time machine questions. Please help

So, I'm getting rid of my laptop and switching.    I've had my time machine external HD plugged into my airport extreme doing backups.   Well, I just plugged it into the laptop directly and hit backup
So is it really just as simple as plugging the HD into the next computer and hitting "restore"    Is there any extra steps?   Will it come back just like this one is set up?
I'm nervous that I accidently deleted an older backup in time machine through the finder to make space for the new back up.   I hope that doesnt mess anything up.    This backup is only like 90 mb.    IS that cause it took previous ones so its only adding the new data since the last backup an hour ago?
I want to not include my movies that are in iTunes,    They eat up about 60 gb of space and my new computer HD will be smaller.   Is tehre a way to do that? I currently have the movies themselves copied onto the external.    But cant seem to get them out of my iTunes library.    Couple of questions regarding that..
    1. Is this a good idea
     2. Is that the best way to do it
     3, will doing that mess with my backup at all?
     4. How do I get them out of my itunes library to shrink the overall backup?
If my backup IS larger than my new HD, can I pick and choose what I want to put into it or not? Or will it give me message saying the backup is too large?
I know this was a lot of questions. But if anyone could please help I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for reading.
----Confused and nervous

In order to do a TM restore, that means erasing the hard drive and restoring from a TM backup which will put everything back the way it was before, including the operating system. However, since you're getting another computer, don't go that route. I would only use that when restoring to the same computer.
You said you deleted backups via the Finder. Wrong move. You may have damaged your TM backup. Always better to delete from within TM.
If you're switching to a new computer and you don't need backups from different times, I would erase that external and create a new backup, or clone your hard drive using Super Duper or Carbon Copy cloner.
With the new computer, when you first log in, you will be asked if you want to migrate your data. This is the Setup Assistant. You should have your backup drive plugged in and imediately migrate your user account from the backup drive. You can also migrate applications (any apps installed by you), or just reinstall them after if you want a clean installation. You should have the option to unselect any data from your user folder that you don't want to migrate.

Time Machine Restore Fails PLEASE HELP!!!

Hello,
I originally installed Leopard as an Archive and Install. However, I was having performance issues and decided it would be best to make a backup with Time Machine and then bring everything back over with Migration Assistant. Now during the process of backup installation my computer snags up at the end on an iWork 08 file. However, I cant delete the file from my backup disc because of insufficent privlages (the exact error message is something to the effect of "the file cannot be deleted) Now, this wouldnt be a problem to restore everything 1 at a time through time machine prefrences>choose backup dic except for the fact when I try to bring my software back over that came bundled with the computer when I originally bought it. Specificaly im talking about Final Cut Pro HD: it ask for a product key that I dont have. Is there a way to regain admin privelages or a way to delete that particular file. Also, I have found my itunes music library but I cant find where my Movies,RIngtones, TV shows and Podcast are located in the FIle Hierarchy. If I need to manually bring my library over I dont want to lose purchased content. Where are these files located? If anyone can help me with these issues I would GREATLY appreciate it. I know it was dumb to do in the first place but I expected it to work and thus far its to no evail. I have a ton of programs installed that I have no idea where my install cd's are or product keys. PLEASE HELP!!!

Erik,
Thank you so much for all the detailed help. I figured out the solution. To delete any file permanently in Time Machine you have to do this. Open up Time Machine Window. Select a backup other than the most recent named "today" (or something like that). Then select the file. In the upper Time Machine Window there is a cog. Select the cog drop down menu and you get some options. Click Delete permanently from all backups. This is the ONLY way other than fudging with the root to permanently delete anything from a time machine backup. Otherwise, you get an error message about how back up items cant be edited (same if you try to drag it in the trash). Then, I had to do what you said and actually use Utility under the Leopard Install Disc instead of Restore from backup within leopard setup or Migration Assistant after setup. This actually erases the current Volume and fully restores the previous volume. Im not sure why that file was holding things up but this seems like the right fix. Now, my fingers are crossed but I think this will fix the problem. Again, thank you so much erik for the help.
*Note to anyone viewing this thread*
To restore from a time machine backup use Utility under the Leopard Install Disc and select a Time Machine Backup to restore. NOT Migration Assistant after Install and not the function after the install process where you choose the backup with your name,apps et. ( basically Migration assistant again but in leopard). You must use Utility from the Menu bar after the Leopard install disc restores.
To PERMANENTLY delete an item from ALL time machine backup-- Within the time Machine application Window select a back up other than the most previous one (why this is I do not know). Highlight the document and in the upper menu bar select the "cog" looking icon. The menu then drops down. Select *DELETE PERMANENTLY FROM ALL BACKUPS*. You cant do it through finder. You cant right click delete. You cant drag it in the trash.
I hope this thread helps anyone if they have a similar problem.
Once again thanks to Erik for all the detailed help!!!!
Message was edited by: John Milan
Message was edited by: John Milan

Time Machine-FileVault! Please help!

Hi,
I have tried looking extensively on the net and here, but can not seem to find an answer that I understand or that helps. I am not sure what else to do and need some advice.
To cut the story short, I decided to encrypt my macbook due to some confidential work files being on there. I run time machine as my back up. From what I could see, it backs up the entire drive. I have since seen on line that it only backs up when you log out, I find this a little strange.
Anyway, I had some issues which caused me to do a full wipe of the system and start again. I restored from the Time Machine and when it came to logging in, it would not allow me. I re installed Mac OSX and then tried to restore from back up, it seemed to copy across 23gb of something but whatever it was, it did not show anything on my system.
I have 10 years of photos, music and documents on there and would really love not to lose it all, I thought I was doing the right thing by backing up etc
I have a couple drives, the actual time machine I individually copied stuff onto recently before using time machine, I am thinking about paying to try and retrieve that stuff.
Can anyone help at all?
Thanks

To understand what's happened you need to learn how FileVault works:
Your home folder is stored in a sparsebundle disk image in /Users.
When you log in that sparsebundle is mounted as /Users/username
Because Time Machine excludes mounted volumes it ignores /Users/username
It cannot backup the sparsebundle while it's mounted which is why it only works when you're logged out.
Even though things are broken in terms of logging in, so long as you can find the sparsebundle file in /Users you can mount it and get to your stuff.
You're probably best off getting your machine to create a new admin user and use this working user account to locate and operate on the old account's sparsebundle. To do this you need to boot into single user mode and remove the /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file and then go through the original initial setup process which will create an additional admin account (and set itself up to autologin to the new account)
If this is not making sense to you then I'd recommend popping into an Apple Store for a Genius appointment if you can.
FileVault is probably best avoided unless absolutely necessary.

Time Machine error -6584 can't run the programme, using new time capsule. Help please!

Bought a new time capsule and it appears to be OK, my Macbook has backed up nicely. Tried to get my imac 27" intel to do the same. Can seee the capsule and can save to the capsule but Time Machine won't run. I just get the error message -6584 .... any ideas anyone?

The problem seems to be common. Time Machine won't start: i.e. "it"... or the "Stars Wars" thing...
The following process eliminated the "error -6584"
Brand new out of the box, 2TB Time Capsule 4th Gen, backed up my iMac 24/4GB/10.7.2 over ethernet with no problems or errors. Time Machine did several incementals over night while I slept. When I returned from work, ready to reimage the OS, I discovered TC hung on an hourly incremental. When I tried to re-establish connection, no dice (error -6584) .
Several attempts to open the volume failed. I could manage all the preferences and configure the Time Capsule. I just couldn't open the back up or start Time Machine (app).
I dropped the %HOSTNAME file from the archive folder in Finder into the Disk Utilities image window to verify and repair, but received "file in use".
Restarting ("reset") the TC oddly resulted in renaming the volume label to "Unamed". I open Airport Utilities and renamed the archive folder to "Data" as before...
Now able to mount (login into) the volume... But it shows "--" in available volume space and no "Oldest" or "Latest" backups are displayed... Not a good sign. Waiting for backup to start..... Looking for backup....
Odd, instead of failing now, it started an incremental. Done!
I am now able to open Time Machine (or that cool Star Wars thingy that takes you off somewhere) and review all the backups starting with the first one I created before I went to bed last night.
The question seems to be what created the problem. I suspect my iMac went to sleep (shut down HDD) in the middle of an incremental. That may have set the "in use" flag on the archive and OS X didn't know how to handle that when I woke the machine up.
I hope this helps, and corrects my problem permanently.

External Drive locked after time machine restore. Please help

I've restored my Mac OS x (10.6.8) from a time machine backup after reformatting the iMac's hard drive.
After restoring all my files the external drive that time machine uses is locked and I cannot seem to get it to unlock itself.
I've tried resetting the permissions on the "get info" panel without any success (Did a restart after every change- it just seems to go back to custom priviledges). I've also toggled the "Ignore Ownership" toggle on and off- again followed by a restart each time.
I have no idea as to what else I can do.
The external drive is connected by Firewire 800 and is a RAID 1 configuration using two 2Tb drives.
I don't want to lose my existing time machine files on that external disc- hense formatting it is out of the question..
Any ideas or suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks for the reply guys.
Unfortunately none of what you said was helpful ds store. **** of a lot of effort and risk to go through just to get the drive unlocked. It might work though.
baltwo, thanks for the link. Those computer lingo sentances scare me big time. I'm a photographer, not some IT junkie! Thanks for the link as that got me reading some other posts and I then came accross other variations of " a+rx" that work for some but not for others. Sounded a bid dubios to me, especially since I'll have absolutely no clue as to what to do if things do go pear shape.
Nevertheless, I found the best sullution: a small app called BatChmod. (http://www.lagentesoft.com/)
Yeah, just what I needed!

Can not installed mountain lion msg" macintosh hd is using for time machine back up" please help

I downloaded mountain lion but can not install, msg" macintosh HD is using for time machine back up , how can I change that...thanks

Somehow, a Backups.backupdb folder got created on your startup drive.
You won't find it via a Spotlight or Finder search, so open your internal HD via the Finder.
That folder is at the top level. Just delete it.

HT201250 What is Airport Utility and why do I need to access this in order to backup my iMac using Time Machine...PLEASE??

What is Airport Utility and why do I need to access Airport witeless devices in order to backup my iMac using Time Machine...HELP!!! PLEASE??

AirPort Utility is required to configure an Apple AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule.
Time Machine can use a Time Capsule or a locally connected volume. You only need to use AirPort Utility if you are using a Time Capsule.

Time Machine Error - Help!

Hello everyone. I am having a problem with backing up my time machine in Lion and get the following error message: "The backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk. The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
Here is the context and history. I recently installed Mavericks on my Mac Mini (late 2009), which was causing all sorts of problems and constant computer crashes. About a week later I used TM to restore to the previous OS version and backup (Lion) before the problems began, and the computer is now working normally as before, except for TM. Initially I thought it was a problem with the drive, so I tried a TM back-up on my second back-up disk but got the same above error message. Thinking it had something to do still with the disk or older back-ups there saved, I erased one of the disks (using disk utility), performed disk repair, tried another TM back-up but continue to get the same error message. Any suggestions of next steps to try? I am not great with code or computer speak, so would greatly appreciate easy instructions if possible.
One last thing to note, this problem only began after doing the TM restore mentioned above. TM was still working normally even with Mavericks, so intuitively I am guessing something went wrnong during the restore, but everything seems to be working fine except with TM. I have done disk repairs also on the Mac HD and no errors were found. Please help!
Cheers!

This is happening to me too.
It seems that the HD randomly becomes unavailable.

Time Machine / Email help?

Good morning,
I am hoping somebody is able to help as I am totally baffled by an issue I am having.
I purchased a new Macbook Pro today so decided before I formatted my old one, I would make a time machine image so I could transfer the data straight across to my new machine. I thought this would be simple but I have stumbled across an issue.
I plugged my external HDD into my new Macbook and opened time machine to transfer my files. It advised me it was not set up on the new machine, so I went ahead and set it up, this made a new image of my new Macbook onto my external device.
When I open time machine it will only open it for this mac and there is no way to choose the time machine backup from my old mac which is extremely frustrating.
Now, I know you can access files without using time machine by openening the HDD and browsing the files, or browse other time machine disks. I used this method to download all my files with no issues at all but what I really need is my mail folder from my old Macbook.
I located the library folder but within there is no 'mail' folder. I used terminal to unhide files but this seemed to have no effect on the external HDD.
If I plug the external HDD back in to the old mac it again tells me no time machine is set up on this product and wants to make a third image.
Please help as these emails are vital!
Regards
Nicola Rutherford

Today this happened again: lost all the emails on MobileMe account. This time I am sure there was no interference with checking mail from the office or any other computer other than iPod Touch.
Switched on email. Opening an email it got stuck and after a minute everything in the mobilme inbox disappeared.
I use the iPod Touch to check email so now and then. Up until now no surprises.
Start to feel very uncomfortable that this can happen at random. Fortunately I back up on GTech external harddrive, but nevertheless. Any clue?
(I have posted this message wrongfully under Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, it should have been Mac OS X v10.5.7 Leopard. Do not know how to move this to the right forum.)

Need to restore trashed time machine backup - help

Help..
I was recently burgled and my iMac and my backup drive ( on which I used TIme Machine) were taken. So I lost everything. (No, i didnt have the time or extra monel to create another backup for off-sire storage, a mistake i will never make again)
I have an older ext harddrive that I used to use for Time Machine backups, but since i decommissioned it from being a backup drive, I deleted (trashed) the TM backup folder on it, and have written new data on there.
So far the situation is sounding grim, I know.   Surely there must be a chance of recovering at lease something from the drive.
Will things like MacKeeper or Stelar phoenix Mac Data recovery (or others) work?
Please help. I have lost the majority of my life's work (some was on other drives thankfully).

MacKeeper is something to avoid.   Period.   There are data recovery services but they do tend to be expensive.   Type 'data recovery' in the search box above, you will certainly find some recommendations ... the link below is typical.
Accidentally erased external hard drive: Apple Support Communities

I need time machine restore help

Can someone please tell me what the screen should look like when I do a complete restore onto a new hard drive? The blue candy cane bar is spinning. There is no percent complete or hours until completion showing. It ran all night. 500G hard drive. I think it could possibly take 20 hours but I don't want to let it run if it is virtually locke

First I would like to say thank you for replying to my question. After 24 hours of the blue candy cane bar just spinning and spinning I decided to open the disk utility option that was being offered. I noticed that the same number of files and gigs were still on the hard drive. I figure it was NOT doing anything. So I opted for a restart and held command R again and tried it with a slightly older time machine file. This time it started right up and now I see the progress bar. It has 7 hours left to go. Hoping this will actually work. It will save me so many hours trying to drag files from my old hard drive. BUT I am going to mark that you answered my question just because you replied and I am certain that if I had not discovered this on my own you would have known the answer. So thanks for the help. (editing so that hopefully it will let me click the correct support acknowledgement)

Time machine partion help please!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for