Time Machine Permissions Problem
I have just tried the following on a completely new system running Mountain Lion:
1. Installed a new Time Capsule.
2. Selected Time Machine and told it to complete a backup to that Time Capsule (using my user name, which has admin privlidges). The backup worked perfectly.
3. Selected one of my personal data files within Time Machine and attempted a restore.
4. It then said I cannot do that because I "don't have permission to access that file".
5. I checked the files (a) I have full read/write access to the file and (b) the permissions in the Time Machine version match the version in my file system.
So:
1. This is nuts and why is it so?
2. How do I fix this completely clean installation so that I can actually restore files with Time Machine?
Thanks :-)
David Cittadini wrote:
2. Selected Time Machine and told it to complete a backup to that Time Capsule (using my user name, which has admin privlidges).
Doesn't matter what user account you use to set it up, since Time Machine backups run as the "root" user (permission to everything) and backs up all user accounts, plus OSX, apps, etc.
3. Selected one of my personal data files within Time Machine and attempted a restore.
That's via the TM browser (the "Star Wars" display), right?
4. It then said I cannot do that because I "don't have permission to access that file".
Are you sure you were logged-on to the correct user account? If you have more than one, Time Machine enforces permissions -- so one user, even an Admin user, won't normally have access to another user's files.
If that's all correct, then yes, something is wrong somewhere. Try some other files, in other places -- see if it's limited to that one file. If you have more than one user account, try logging-on to one of them and restoring some of it's files.
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Time Machine permissions problem!! Help!
I have important data on my time machines backup and yesterday did a full reinstall of OSX after backing all my old stuff up on the time machine drive.
Now time machine wont let me restore my data due to access privileges!!
In the permissions it shows that I have read and write permissions but doesn't show the administrators account in there. When I try to put admin account in it it won't let me.
I haven't used a different user name nor have I changed the name of the HDD partition. Any idea how to recover my data?skeoghman wrote:
This is chronic - anyone from Apple out there?
No. These are user-to-user forums. Apple techs do not monitor them.
If you have suggestions or complaints, here's the place: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
If you have a problem, contact AppleCare, your Apple store or authorized retailer/servicer, or these forums.
Running OSX 10.5.7 all my time machine back-ups now say I don't have privileges. The only solutions offered elsewhere online seem to require an extraordinary amount of technical skill and knowledge, not to mention nerve.
Then you've been looking in the wrong places.
What are you trying to do when you get this error, and exactly what does it say?
Be advised that if you're trying to use the FInder to access your TM backups, that's likely the problem. TM uses special "deny everybody everything" privileges to keep us mere mortals from changing, moving, or deleting the backups, since that can hopelessly corrupt them.
The way to browse or restore from TM backups is via the +Enter Time Machine+ option (the "Star Wars" display).
You might want to review these:
Time Machine Tutorial
Time Machine 101
How to back up and restore your files
Time Machine Features
and perhaps browse the Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions User Tip at the top of this forum. -
Macbook Pro clean install: Time machine permissions problem
So I just upgraded to Mavericks from Lion this weekend. I backed up my old files onto my 2TB external HD. Because my laptop was really slow I decided to do a clean install and then bring over my music, movies, pics, necessary files, etc. as I needed them. However, I have run into a problem: using my computer on a clean install has made it impossible to access files, music, etc. from my old administrative account. I get this error when I try to open folders with the "do not enter" sign:
The folder “Desktop” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.
How can I gain access to my old files without having to partition my hard drive, reinstall the OS from my time machine backup, copying the files to the hard drive and not using time machine (just dragging and dropping directly onto the HD)? Or is that my only option at this point to recover those old files?
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This is an exception to the rule that you should never make any changes to backup data. I've tested this procedure in OS X 10.8 only. It should work with later versions, but I don't know whether it works in earlier versions. Use this procedureonly for files that were backed up from your home folder, or a folder on another volume created by you, and would normally be writable by you. Do not touch backups of system or application files.
In the Finder (not in the time-travel view), navigate to the backup volume, then to the folder named "Backups.backupdb", and then to the snapshot you want to restore from. The snapshots are folders labeled with the date when they were created. Inside each of those folders is a file hierarchy like the one on the volume that was backed up. Descend through the hierarchy until you come to a folder named "Users," and inside that, a folder with your user name. The procedure will be different if you're trying to restore files on another volume.
Select the folder and open the Info dialog (command-I). Click the padlock icon in the lower right corner of the window and authenticate. In the Sharing & Permissions section, give your account Read & Write access. You may have to close the dialog and repeat this step in order for the change to show up. Then click the gear icon and select Apply to Enclosed Items from the popup menu.
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Time Machine Permissions Changed Problem
Greetings-
I'm experiencing problems restoring to built-from-scratch Lion OS installation on a new disk. Before starting the process I ensured everything was backed-up everything using Time Machine, which was backing-up regularly, then did a fresh install on a new disk drive in my machine. I began restoring files (not users) from Time Machine, which began okay, but when I went to restore some folders that were under Pictures on the orginal disk, I got the failure error message that I've seen posted about not having permission to write those files back to my new disk. I've used the same username and also checked that my UID was as before (501).
I read a few posting, and tried to change the permissions on the Time Machine external backup disk to my current user, and after modifying that backup disk, I discovered that my Time Machine backups only go back in time to when I changed the disk permissions! So now even if I look down through the Time Machine volume directory structure, the orginal folders are missing. Time machine made at least one backup, but now I need advice and trying to recover those old directories and backups.
Any advice is appreciated. I've tried some recovery software, but loosing the old structure makes life fairly difficult and heartbreaking. Thanks!Two weeks after upgrading my system to Lion and transferring to a new hard drive -- I could find the files I wanted to restore from the day before on my external-drive Time Machine but couldn't restore because I didn't have "access to the GlobalNav.lbi."
I did not solve the problem, but while trying various things with Apple tech I stumbled onto the fact that I could access the Time Machine from my partition, on which I have 10.6.8.
Tech was at a loss because my 10.7 Recovery Drive is missing. I'm making a Lion install USB stick (from MacWorld article instructions) and will try to reinstall the system and Recovery Drive. I believe my Recovery Drive was damaged before moving my system to the new hard drive, perhaps by the hard drive that is being replaced by the manufacturer. -
Old Time Machine Backup Problems - Permissions
Today, I figured out how to access my iPhoto Library photos from my old Time Machine backups. I was SO happy! The backups were from 2011 and earlier (hardrive crashed in May 2012). I had not done a Time Machine backup since 2011, so I decided to do a new backup today. After the backup finished, I decided to look at my old photos again (in the old backups) and when I tried to click on any of the files in the old backups, I get the message: The folder “Pictures” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.
Of course, now I am crushed/frustrated because I do not understand why I cannot access the old backups anymore. *Note: the new backup is accessible.No problem.
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New Time Machine/Mavarick Problem
Trying to do initial back-up of new iMac to 1st Generation Time Capsule. The TC has worked perfectly in backing up my old iMac running Lion. Used Set-up Assistrant to migrte files from old to new iMac,and everything came over nicely. All apps had been up-dated prior to migration and Disk Utility was used to be sure all permissions were correct and verifications perfect on the source (old) hard drve. I erased the Time Capsule using Airport Utility (which had also been fully updated). I used Time Machine on the new iMac to connect to the Time Capsule and let the initial back-up commence. The source hard drive contained 427 GB. The back-up seemed to proceed normally until about 405 GB of the 427 GB had been copied to the TC. At this point, as the number of GB copied increased, the total number of GB listed to be on the source drive also began to increase (whereas before it had held steady at 427 GB for the preceding several hours). This continued for about 15 minutes, with both the # GB copied and the # of GB on the source drive increasing. When the number of GB copied reached about 425GB (and the total said to be on the source drive reading ~460GB), the time remaining said zero minutes, and, shortly after that, the machine crashed, with an error message saying that the back-up had failed.
I went through five separate attempts with results similar to those described above. On three of the attempts, I erased the TC with Quick Erase and, with two attempts, I did a more thorough erase (all zeroes added). I tried hooking the iMac to the TC via ethernet cable and wirelessly, with the same result.
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Has anybody else experienced a problem similar to mine? Any clues as to the cause?
<Personal Information Edited by Host>Thanks for your reply, Linc.
Here are two of the crash reports:
Tue Dec 10 23:06:56 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801d2dc19e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff801d47da2f, type 14=page
fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0xffffff842a8fb7fc, CR3: 0x000000001fe63000, CR4:
0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0xffffff83a296269e, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0xffffff805c80b920, RDX:
0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff83aa8fb7b0, RBP: 0xffffff83aa8fb8e0, RSI: 0x0000000000004000, RDI:
0xffffff83a2962600
R8: 0xffffff83aa8fb978, R9: 0xffffff83a29626a8, R10: 0x0000000000000002, R11:
0xffffffffffffffff
R12: 0xffffff83aa8fbca0, R13: 0xffffff83aa8fbbe8, R14: 0x0000000000000000, R15:
0xffffff805b736408
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff801d47da2f, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS:
0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0xffffff842a8fb7fc, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x0
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff83aa8fb440 : 0xffffff801d222f69
0xffffff83aa8fb4c0 : 0xffffff801d2dc19e
0xffffff83aa8fb690 : 0xffffff801d2f3606
0xffffff83aa8fb6b0 : 0xffffff801d47da2f
0xffffff83aa8fb8e0 : 0xffffff801d460aad
0xffffff83aa8fbac0 : 0xffffff801d475aac
0xffffff83aa8fbb30 : 0xffffff801d4c8a41
0xffffff83aa8fbd10 : 0xffffff801d4b688d
0xffffff83aa8fbd30 : 0xffffff801d452273
0xffffff83aa8fbd60 : 0xffffff801d43364e
0xffffff83aa8fbe00 : 0xffffff801d42ad1c
0xffffff83aa8fbeb0 : 0xffffff801d431cb4
0xffffff83aa8fbfb0 : 0xffffff801d2d6aa7
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
13A1900
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-
2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide: 0x000000001d000000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff801d200000
System model name: iMac14,2 (Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 56131929444897
last loaded kext at 31786297638648: com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 11.0 (addr
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Model: iMac14,2, BootROM IM142.0118.B00, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 3.5 GHz, 32
GB, SMC 2.15f2
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M, PCIe, 2048 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE,
0x45424A3831554738454655352D474E4C2D46
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE,
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Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE,
0x45424A3831554738454655352D474E4C2D46
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x111), Broadcom
BCM43xx 1.0 (6.30.223.154.45)
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.0f6 12982, 3 services, 23 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD ST3000DM001, 3 TB
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Keyboard Hub
USB Device: Apple Keyboard
USB Device: USB 2.0 Hub
Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 23.10
Thu Dec 12 14:47:25 2013
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff800c0dc19e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff800c050887, type 14=page
fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000010, CR3: 0x00000004d5da0044,
CR4: 0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0x05352189d74867f9, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0xffffff800c6cb940,
RDX: 0xffffff800c6cb940
RSP: 0xffffff839c5cbce0, RBP: 0xffffff839c5cbd10, RSI: 0xffffff804b352f90, RDI:
0xffffff8049d243c0
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0xffffff804e037060, R10: 0x00000000000003ff, R11:
0xffffffffffffffff
R12: 0xffffff804b352fb8, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff804b352f90, R15:
0xffffff8049d243c0
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff800c050887, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS:
0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000010, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x2
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff839c5cb970 : 0xffffff800c022f69
0xffffff839c5cb9f0 : 0xffffff800c0dc19e
0xffffff839c5cbbc0 : 0xffffff800c0f3606
0xffffff839c5cbbe0 : 0xffffff800c050887
0xffffff839c5cbd10 : 0xffffff800c05151a
0xffffff839c5cbdf0 : 0xffffff7f8c94ab56
0xffffff839c5cbe30 : 0xffffff7f8c94a912
0xffffff839c5cbe50 : 0xffffff7f8c94a174
0xffffff839c5cbed0 : 0xffffff7f8c949e0b
0xffffff839c5cbf20 : 0xffffff800c432795
0xffffff839c5cbf50 : 0xffffff800c43de23
0xffffff839c5cbfb0 : 0xffffff800c0f3e06
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.kec.pthread(1.0)[619F6A5D-FFA2-3B59-9993-
958FD7154B83]@0xffffff7f8c945000->0xffffff7f8c94ffff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: firefox
Mac OS version:
13A1900
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-
2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide: 0x000000000be00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800c000000
System model name: iMac14,2 (Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 103232099130639
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Cannot restore Mail from time Machine - permission problems
I am running Lion 10.7.2 and mail 5.1 (all software updates applied)
I know there is a fair bit referencing similar problems but I cannot find my solution.
I inadvertantly deleted a mail account and simply wish to restore the account from my time machine backups.
Time machine has been reliable in the past and my put my faith in it. However this problem now introduces a fair bit of mistrust which should never happen with a backup system.
I navigate to ~/library/Mail/V2 and then open time machine and select a known good backup (I hope).
I highlight the time machine account folder I want to restore and select "restore".
Time machine starts the restore normally but very quickly comes up with this mesage -
"The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access “.mboxCache.plist”.
(I am logged on as admin)
I have repaired permission on my HD to no avail.
I assume that the message refers to the time machine file but any attempt at changing permisions on the time machine backups fails as "not permitted" (I would not be surprised at this anyway as I dont know how the time machine file system works).
I then copied my complete mail folder to another disk and deleted the original and tried to restore the complete mail folder from the time machine backup.
A similar permissions error message occurs but on a different file.
I am getting nowhere and am rapidly losing faith in time machine - I totally rely on it.
Can anyone help please.I deleted the account using mail preferences, so following your advise:
I restored the pref file from the good known backup date.
I also used disk utility to repair the time machine backup volume which showed no problems.
First of all, restoring from time machine according to FAQ 15, the actual messages in the deleted account were indeed restored to the new mailbox that time machine created and could be viewed - that is fine and solves the problem of lost mail.
Almost solved - but what I was trying to do was :
I had two accounts which show under inbox and when you "get mail" the little whirling indicator shows activity which my wife (and I) liked. After I deleted the second (now unused account) there is no more indicator when "getting mail" and it is not obvious that anything is actually happening. Any mail received will show up under mail activity but if there is none we all just sit there with no feedback until it "beeps".
There was also the other issue of maybe wanting to get back all mail for the deleted account (which you solved).
I can of course recreate the account as a new one but I thought time machine would be able to restore the mail system back to where it was (as it should) - it seems it may not be able to which is not nice as in "what else will fail one day that I dont know about". To restore "as was" is why I tried to restore just the "missing" folder in ~/library/mail/v2 but keep running into these permission problems.
Time machine was the best backup system I have seen in over 30 years in computing but if it now "doesnt" under all circumstances it becomes useless and we will have to go back to manual or other backup systems. Surely Apple will fix it - a backup and restore system has to completely reliable or not at all.
I thank you for your help and, as I say, there is no real urgency as mail items can actually be recovered - it would be nice to be able to restore "as it was" however. -
Time Machine Permissions with Server Update 2.2
I rebuilt our Mac Mini server and did it using the latest version of Server (v. 2.2) just released. I noticed that when I activate the Time Machine service on OS X Server that my clients could not connect in (receiving OSStatus Error (5) on those machines). So, when looking at the permissions for the "Backups" share in File Sharing on the Server (using the Server app), I noticed that there were no permissions for anyone other than the Administrator.
I added a group of employees and then those machines are able to successfully use Time Machine and backup to the server's external Time Machine disk. The problem is that those backups do not appear with the little red "minus" sign next to them. So, someone could grab someone else's backup and copy it.
It seems this new version of Server Update may have changed the way permissions are provisioned for clients to be able to backup to.
Anyone else seeing this behavior or have any thoughts on this?
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BobSolved this permissions issue. Use the Mac's Disk Utility to format the backup drive - do not use the vendor's supplied disk management utility to format it. I am running a thunderbolt Drobo now and had the same issue using Drobo's software. Once you format the drive using the Mac's Disk Utility, you will see a group of "staff" with read/write permissions. Other network users will not have access to other time machine backups.
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Here's the deal:
I have accidentely deleted some files from my computer's iChats Folder. I had backed-up my computer prior on Time Machine. I went into Time Machine and found the folder and pressed restore yet it then gives me the error message, "The file XYZ cannot be moved because you don't have access to it." I realize that the problem is a permissions issue with the files. What I don't understand is why it says this if its been backed-up on the same computer all the time. In addition, I can move ANY ONE file from the folders at a time with no problems but when I try to move the whole folder, it doesn't work. PLEASE HELP.
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Time Machine Permissions Everyone is no access
Help. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. and have incredibly difficult permissions scenario to solve on my Time Machine.
I was adding files to my iTunes Llbrary on an external harddrive which shares the same drive as my Time Machine backups.
When my automatic backup began it interrupted my file transfer and gave me an error saying Time Machine drive was no longer recognized, don't have permissions. This was never a problem before and I don't know what or when this would have changed.
So I changed permissions on one of my Admin accoungs to to read/Write access and ensured the other Admin account was the same.
I also changed the sharing permissions to the other two accounts so the would have read only permission.
Nevertheless, now neither of my admin accounts allows me to write to the drive or change backup settings. Even in unlocking the permissions section, options are still greyed out.
Subsequently, I realized that I changed the permissions for "Everyone" to No access. I thought this everyone referred to other users remotely getting into my computer. Now that it is changed I think this is where the error is.
The most horrible part of this is, I just realized that My time Machines has not been backing up for almost an entire year. My last retore point occurs for Aug 2011. So I can't restore to yesterday prior to these changes.
Is there a hack or a code I can enter into terminal to undo these new permission settings in my Time Machine?
Pleae help! Anything!!Noondaywitch,
OK. Previous to this post I attempted the Repair through Disk Utility. An alert window popped up in the middle of the repair. I don't remember which. But I'm not going to attempt such again to prevent causing more trouble. Even still, the repari process seemed to complete giving me full repair status. However, my options for permission repair was greyed out, so I couldn't get any further at this level.
And unfortunately, I don't have another Mac available to me to try it out on.
Roam,
I pasted your code and sure enough received the following:
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk3
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups 2.0 TB disk3s2
So it seems were in luck. It is a GUID File system. But now what? Start over? Reboot? -
I've just had my mac repaired at the apple store and a new Hard drive put in. I have a Time Machine backup of all my stuff, which I want to reload, but when I tried to put it on it didnt seem to restore it. Also, when I go into the backups in normal finder, I am not able to access some of the files. This maybe because my user account of the backup was password-protected, but how do i access this and restore my files?
strawberryassassin wrote:
I've just had my mac repaired at the apple store and a new Hard drive put in. I have a Time Machine backup of all my stuff, which I want to reload, but when I tried to put it on it didnt seem to restore it.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
How did you do that? To restore your entire system, see #14 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If you did something else, that will start over and restore everything.
Also, when I go into the backups in normal finder, I am not able to access some of the files.
That's correct, and using the Finder on your backups is a no-no. They're in a special complex structure, and Time Machine puts special "deny everybody everything" permissions on them to keep us mere mortals from messing with and corrupting them. Copying from them is not recommended. Among other things, you'll likely have permissions problems with them. -
Time Machine backup problems with firewire 800 since Mavericks
Since I installed Mavericks about a week ago, I have had problems with TM not working with my LaCie external drive. At best, it would not back up when the mac was awakened from sleep mode and in use. When I would open time machine preferences, I would see the "preparing for back up" prompt that would last forever. Not only was it doing that, I have found that it would freeze my mac. I figured this out when I was not able to get my mac to respond from the login screen. It was basically frozen and couldn't log on. I noticed the back up drive light flickering but nothing would happen even with waiting a long time. I finally figured out that shutting off the TM EHD would unfreeze the mac and it would start functioning normal again. This was happening with my external HD daisy chained to another external drive that contains my iPhoto, iMovie and Itunes files. That drive was also connected to the mac using firewire 800. I tried many different configurations, switched the order the drives were daisy chained, tried different cables and even directly connected the TM drive with firewire 800 to the mac, but the problems still persisted. The strange thing is that when I connect the TM drive through USB, it works flawlesly and no hanging up of the computer. Thats what Ive been forced to do. I have my other EHD connected directly through firewire 800 and it works fine. I only have one firewire 800 port, and since it works fine with my other LaCie drive, it makes me think its not the port or macs hardware? I can only guess this is a Time Machine issue or something wrong with my TM drive? I have been in contact with LaCie and given them all these details but I have not heard back yet on what they feel the problem is. I thought I would post this to see if anyone else had some experience with this problem.
Forgot to mention I did that. Completely erased and reformatted HD and then reconnected to TM. Didn't help. I did have the mac hang up while installing Mavericks and had to eventually shut off the external drive. It did that to me the firs time I tried to install Mavericks and I lost all my data because it did a clean install after that. I had another back up on CCC so I just restored from there. This time the update to Mavericks transferred my data. I have had TM hang up my mac in the past on occasion, but I was always able to shut down the drive and then the mac would return to normal. Perhaps I should try to erase and reformat again?
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Time Machine migration problems
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I've just bought a new 15" MacBook Pro, to replace my 13" MacBook Pro as I needed a bigger screen.
However, I'm having a lot of difficulty transferring my files across from a Time Machine backup I have of my old computer (and now it's the only copy of my data that I have).
About halfway through the transfer (during the initial computer setup, on the migration page), it seems to freeze up, then when you put your fingers on the trackpad it restarts into the 'Welcome' video again. So it takes me throughall of the steps, and I try to create a username - which I shouldn't have to do - but it won't let me create my usual name because it already exists. I create a different account and login and it looks like a fresh Mac installation - but half of the 500GB drive is used up and in 'Users', my original username exists with about half of its files and an 'incomplete migration' file.
So I reinstalled Snow Leopard and tried again, and I had the exact same result. Now I've created another duplicate account, deleted the half-migrated user account, and I'm using the migration wizard from within OS X.
Failing that, any other ideas as to what it could be?
The drive my backup is on is an external 500GB drive, but I have no others big enough that I could copy the files to to try. It is possible the drive is falling asleep halfway through? I've done exactly the same procedure before though with another MacBook, and it all went through smoothly...It sounds like there's something corrupted on your backups.
From the Install disk, after selecting your language, select Utilities from the menubar, then +Disk Utility.+ Use it to do a +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions) on your TM drive. That may fix whatever's causing the Migration to hang.
Then us it to Erase your internal HD and try again.
If the migration fails again, about your only option will be to move the rest of your data from the backups manually -- use the normal "Star Wars" display to restore what Migration Assistant didn't. It sounds like you got at least part of your home folder, so try to restore one sub-folder at a time. One of them may well fail (when it hits whatever's corrupted), so try smaller and smaller pieces of it until you get all you can. -
Time machine - 2 problems I can't solve
Time Machine problems... I have them. And I have given up after spending hours googling, reading, trying and getting nowhere. I really hope there is some experts out there who have the time and energy to help me out. So, here goes. Crossing my fingers!
Problem 1:
After putting a new hard drive in my old Macbook Pro, I did the first Time Machine backup a few days ago. Everything was fine until today, when I opened the Star Wars Display. I only have _one_ backup of my old hard drive along with about ten of my new hard drive. I have been using Time Machine for backing up to an external drive for over a year, so - where are all my old backups?
When I access the sparsebundle on my backup drive through Disk Utility, I get to Backups.backupdb > MyDriveName > about ten backup folders. The oldest being the same as I can see in the Star Wars Display.
I have checked the box in the Time Machine preferences which prompts Time Machine to tell me if older backups are being deleted. I have not gotten such a notification. So where are my old backups? Are they gone? If so, why? What did I do wrong? Why did Time Machine not warn me?
Problem 2:
I have an old backup on the same drive as mentioned above. It is not in the form of a sparsebundle but as a folder named Backups.backupdb. It has three years worth of backups. I have not been able to access them since I formatted my old hard drive a year ago and gave it a new name in the process. Since then, the backups have been placed in the above mentioned sparsebundle.
I am able to open the backup in the Star Wars Display by choosing this backup as an alternative drive holding down the option key when clicking on the Time Machine logo in the menu bar. But all directories are just empty shortcut folders - exactly as if I just open the folders in the backup folders in the Backups.backupdb folder. I hope that makes sense.
Is there any explanation for this? How can I access the folders, since they are not working in the Star Wars Display? Are the files gone?
Also, after I open the sparsebundle (from problem 1), it appears in Finder as a drive. Thus, I can access the sparsebundle as a regular folder. What will happen, if I move the Backups.backupdb folder to the sparsebundle? Can I try or will that just screw everyting up?
Bonus info:
In regards to space, my backup drive has 2 TB capacity. The sparsebundle has a size of 435 GB and the Backups.backupdb folder has a size of 53 GB. But when I check the info on the drive, only 58 GB of space is left. How does that make sense in any way?
English is not my native language, so I apologize for the ramble - it is hard enough to describe technical problems without writing in a foreign language.
If anybody chooses to answer me, know that I am not familiar with Terminal, but I can follow precise instructions
Thank you!The backup drive is not directly connected, I backup via the network. As mentioned, I have two files/folders at the root of the hard drive: A sparsebundle and a Backups.backupdb folder. These are two different backups - the sparsebundle being the newest. I suspect that Backups.backupdb folder stems back to when I started to backup and I did connect the backup drive directly to the computer. Even though I later began to backup wirelessly, the backups continued to be saved in the folder. And then - as I tried to explain in the original post - I did a formatting of my Maca year ago, renaming and it and thus began a new backup which was being saved as a sparsebundle instead of as a Backups.backupdb folder.
I appreciate your response, however it is not solving any of my two problems - I do need my backups -
When I attempt to backup using Time Machine, I get an error stating that there is not enough space on my external drive...that I should exlude files from the backup. I've never run into this problem before. In the past, when space became limited on my external backup drive, Time Machine would simply delete the oldest files and then proceed with the backup.
I've searched the forums and can't find any similar cases. Is there any adjustments I need to make somewhere? Any suggesstions or help would be appreciated.
I have a MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.8.
Thanks.Thanks. I read Pondini article and tried various suggestions for my OS. No luck. Still getting message that Time Machine can't back up to my BackUp drive. 'Need to exclude files or select larger backup disc.'
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