Time Machine switches off Soundcard

Whenever I plug my external HD into my iMac, my sound card switches off. Although it still appears in System Profiler, it cannot detect any sound card in my System Preferences.
If I use Onyx, a third party app to perform system maintenance, it solves the problem. This requires a reboot however.
The problem is repeatable, and a flaw in Leopard. I sure have encountered a lot of bugs compared to Tiger...

".....its degrees celsius..."
"Is the CPU running too hot?"
Yes.... Re-seat the CPU, apply new thermal paste{tiny portion}.
Make sure that CPU FAN is spining!
Make sure that CPU heatsink is mounted properly and makes good contact with CPU surface.
Else go get a new CPU Cooler.

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Lost photos when upgraded to Iphoto 11 - Time machine is off.

I just upgraded my iphoto and have lost all my photos. When I upgraded it was pretty quick and asked me which iphoto I wanted to use. I clicked on the first one. It didn't open the first time but the second time it opened fine...NOW ALL MY PHOTOS ARE GONE! My time machine is off (apparently the computer comes like that and you have to turn it on) and I have no backup!
PLEASE HELP!!!

Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'

Time Machine is off.... and command entered sudo tmutil disable local in terminal... back ups still growing...

If anyone can help. I dont have much space... laptop is very new but has 36 gb in backups and growing! Time Machine is off... and I also entered command sudo tmutil disablelocal in terminal to disable mobile backups.
Thanks in advance.
Barry

Thank you. It's all back to normal (took around 7 hours on the late 2009 iMac). Time Machine's become better now compared to the last time I used it to migrate everything automatically (Snow Leopard days). With Maverick's Time Machine, it's almost like a cloning (except for the password) tool now. But it's always great to name the account and maybe the hardisk the same names so can just replace a newly installed OS.
God bless. Thanks again.

Time Machine switches backup disk or does it?

Ever since I switched to Mavericks, I've been having the same problem on a MacBook Pro and a Mac Mini. I select an external hard drive as my backup disk. It then appears with the Time Machine icon on the desktop. Then, maybe the next time I start up or several times later, the hard disk appears on the desktop with its regular icon. When I then go to Time Machine preferences and select the backup disk, that disk appears twice, once with a Time Machine icon as the selected drive (although it has its regular icon on the desktop) and the second time in the list of disks with its regular icon. If I select that disk for the backup, the icon on the desktop becomes the Time Machine one. This is happening repeatedly. Any suggestions?

gthawk: You stated "When I then go to Time Machine preferences and select the backup disk, that disk appears twice, once with a Time Machine icon as the selected drive (although it has its regular icon on the desktop) and the second time in the list of disks with its regular icon. If I select that disk for the backup, the icon on the desktop becomes the Time Machine one. "
This is normal (with Mavericks). I have the same thing. What I found is that if you turn off TM or eject TM or reboot the Mini it may turn orange (USB icon) again or when you power it up again. However, if left alone when it shows the TM icon and the Mini powers down completely and then you power back up with TM still connected it will reamain as the TM icon and not orange. Everything appears to still wotk correctly no matter what color it is. It appears Mavericks TM is more touchy than ML was.

Time Machine - Switch does not move!

Hello,
my Time Machine used to backup flawlessly onto my Time Capsule for several weeks. But a few days ago the switch in the preference pane went back to "Off". It tried to turn it on again but it did not work. I could do a backup manually, though.
Then I reset Time Machine (using the instructions from the troubleshooting post), erased my Time Capsule's HD; but the switch still won't move.
I would be glad if someone of you could help me!

Hi Barry and thank you for your help,
Yes of course, the lock is open. I deleted the plist, restarted and reselected the backup drive.
It backed up once, although the switch was at "Off".
However, it still does not backup continuously and the symbol in the menu bar is grey (also during a manual backup).
By the way: Before trying your suggestion, I used the Disk Utility to repair the backup sparse bundle, with no success. So I erased the Time Capsule's HD. Also no success.

Time Machine turned off... and my Mac keeps asking for the TM volume!!

I turned off Time Machine because I am away from home and not using the external HD, but I keep receiving an annoying message: "Time Machine could not complete the backup... bla bla bla volume not found".
The funny thing is that I have even clicked "NONE" in the volume window before setting Time Machine off... and still TM doesn't stop working.
The message appears almost once an hour...and I can't watch a movie or do a presentation without having to click return on the keyboard to get rid of the error window.
Any suggestions?
Don't tell me to switch TM off... it's off!!!!!!

ascanio wrote:
Never used any of these apps... and I am not very fond of reinstalling the OS, since I keep it in really good shape already (Mac user for over 22 years).
Pondini wrote:
The easiest way is to select a disk temporarily, then turn TM Off.
Just don't use one if the message says TM will reformat, as it will do that immediately.
have you given that a shot ?
As of your experience, do you know any other setting file related to TM other than this plist in the root Library? I will look in the user lib as well...
sorry, no. i use my TC for TM backups so i never had a reason to turn TM off permanently.
good luck !
JGG

Emptying trash isn't freeing up any space on MacBook Pro or external drive. Time Machine is OFF.

Yesterday, while using Final Cut Pro X, I noticed the program/my computer was starting to run slow--and then I was totally caught off guard by a warning that my startup disk was full. I checked Storage and Finder and both my MacBook Pro and external drive had less than 1gb of space each! I usually use Secure Empty Trash and have no problems...but for my drives to be full, it clearly hasn't been working for a few days, possibly weeks.
I'm using a MacBook Pro (early 2011) and a LaCie Thunderbolt external drive. I'm running Mavericks (10.9.2)
I am not using Time Machine. When I look at Storage under About This Mac, my Backups on my MBP and LaCie drive are both at zero KB.
I read through the forums and tried going into Terminal and entering sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash ...but all that did was free up about 10gb on my external drive (I'd emptied upwards of 90gb from my trash).
Right now I'm basically stuck with a slow laptop and very little storage space, which has slowed my work to a halt. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Finder shows wrong disk space (Time Machine turned off)

Hi,
I have a disk space issue with my Mid '11 MacBook Air. The actual free space in my Hard Drive is much more than the space what Finder reports.
After trying almost everything i knew (Turned off Time Machine, used Disk Utility/DaisyDisk/OmniDiskSweeper), I have no success so it is starting to be annoying.
Here is the result of the du -chxd 1 / command (as root):
bash-3.2# du -chxd 1 /
258M          /.DocumentRevisions-V100
18M          /.fseventsd
577M          /.Spotlight-V100
0B          /.Trashes
0B          /.vol
8.3G          /Applications
2.6M          /bin
0B          /cores
4.5K          /dev
1.0K          /home
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4.6G          /Library
8.0K          /lost+found
1.0K          /net
0B          /Network
185M          /opt
4.8G          /private
988K          /sbin
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53G          /Users
437M          /usr
4.0K          /Volumes
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The Finder says i have only 23 GB of free space:
If anyone have some idea what to check, please share it.
Thanks in advance
Peter

There may be a directory problem. Try Verifying your SSD, per #6 in Using Disk Utility.

Time Machine switch grayed out...

I have a Time Capsule and 2 macs. the MacBook Air works fine for backups, the mac mini won't let me turn on time machine. The switch is grayed out. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

SBRocket, I had this same problem. If you eliminate the apostrophe from your Time Machine's name, that might help. It didn't solve it for me, though. I needed to go into the Airport Utility and erase my Time Capsule's internal drive. After that, I restarted my computer and was able to successfully perform a Time Machine backup.

Time machine switch is disabled

The switch to turn on automatic backups in my Time Machine setting is disabled (e.g. grayed out). If I click on it nothing happens, but I can start backups manually by clicking on "Select Disk..." or by using the menu bar icon. Any idea why I can't turn on automatic backups?

Hi dapark
Another user reported this problem, and said it was fixed by repairing file permissions in Disk Utility.
Bob

Time Machine turns off Computer

On two occasions, when Time Machine shows its about half way complete in backing up, when I come back to check on its progress, my MBP will be completely shutdown. When I try to turn it back on, it takes a few times for it to actually turn on. So what's going on? Why would Time Machine be turning off my MBP? Oh, and it doesn't complete the backup.

javiergasca,
boot your MacBook Pro into Recovery mode by holding down a Command key and the R key as it starts up. Once the Mac OS X Utilities menu appears, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Does it get past the black screen now?

Automator or Applescript to turn Time Machine on/off

When Time Machine is copying, Final Cut Pro turns into a very enoying beach ball party
Is there a way to write an Automator / Applescript that turns Time Machine off when I start FCP. And turn it back on when I close the app?
As of now, I manually stop Time Machine when I Start FCP. But it's easy to forget to turn it back on...
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Time Machine Editor will allow you to set up and schedule backups to occur whenever you like.
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Keep old files only on Time Machine, delete off main computer

How can I delete my backed up files which are currently in the "Time Machine" off my computer? I don't need them on the computer, only in Time Machine.
To be clearer, Im worried if I delete them off the computer, Time Machine will also delete them..and I need to keep them.
If this is not possible then I will no longer use Time Machine, but instead manually back up my files.
Thanks in advance!!

mikebikeboy wrote:
How can I delete my backed up files which are currently in the "Time Machine" off my computer? I don't need them on the computer, only in Time Machine.
To be clearer, Im worried if I delete them off the computer, Time Machine will also delete them..and I need to keep them.
That's correct: if you delete a file from your HD, Time Machine will eventually delete it's copy. It is not intended for long-term, archival storage.
If you think about it, it's actually been doing that for as long as you've run TM: it only keeps it's hourly backups for 24 hours, then deletes them, except for the first of the day, which becomes a daily backup. Those are kept for a month, then deleted, except one per week, which is kept as long as there's room.
If this is not possible then I will no longer use Time Machine, but instead manually back up my files.
That's an option, of course, but you'll lose the advantages of TM.
You might separately archive those files, to CDs, DVDs, another partition on your TM drive, or a separate drive, or via MobileMe's Backup app to iDisk, or something like Mozy to their server.
You could use one of the "clone" apps, such as CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to archive them to another disk or partition automatically. They're mostly used for bootable clones (identical copies of your HD), but can also be used to backup selected folders, with an option to archive changed or deleted versions. CCC is donationware, SD has a free version, but I think to do the archives you need the paid version at about $30. There are others, as well.

How to I get Time Machine backups OFF my external hard drive?!?!?

I'm not asking how I restore a backup.
I plugged in my 250GB external to try out TM. Before TM did it's first backup I have 160GB free. After TM did its backup I have 1GB free. I no longer want to use TM and have told it to "Stop Backing Up" in Sys Prefs. The problem is that I still only have 1GB of space left. When I view the external in the finder I only see my 90GB of drag and drop backups, but it says the disk only has 1GB of free space. Are the Time Machine backups invisible? How do I reclaim my space back?
Thanks!

pvonk wrote:
Looking at info, I found the folder was owned by root. Even with my admin privileges, I couldn't delete. I then found that root wasn't activated on that machine, so I had to do more dancing around.
In cases like this, you should be able to delete it from the command line by using sudo: sudo rm -rf directory (be careful with this command)
After deleting the TM backup folder, the drive still indicated that the former lost space was still lost. I eventually reformatted.
How did you delete it? Could it be that the folder was still in the Trash of the external disk?

Ichat window in time machine switches to finder window

Try to open iChat window, version 4.0.8. in Time Machine. The TM window changes to a finder window. Is this normal for an application like TM? Trying to get back an open chat. not recorded. Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Time Machine is a backup file storage and retrieval system, hence the reason you end up in Finder (file system) when you select a prior date.
I think you'd have a better chance of retrieving a recent chat link directly from iChat, File, Recent Items as shown below.
I'm on iChat 5.0.3 (OS X Snow Leopard 10.6), so your screen might look different, but as I recall the same option exists in the Leopard version. (Full chat names are intentionally obscured for confidentiality, so only E's appear in this screen capture.)

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