Timemachine

I have just noticed, that the time machine, which saves to a western digital smart book,
has only been backing up three shortcuts on my desktop, no other drives? any ideas?
thank you
JC

radzrealm wrote:
... has only been backing up three shortcuts on my desktop
are you sure ? see http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/A2.html
no other drives?
are these drives compatible ? see http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/2.html
JGG

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Time Machine still failed.
2. Deleted: com.apple.TimeMachine.plist, then went through all the steps above again. Time Machine still failed.
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Unable to backup over network after upgrading to 10.5.3.
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Configure Time Machine to back up Leopard machine over AirPort to another Leopard machine (with external drive and .Mac account configured in this case)
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Backups complete as usual.
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Regression:
Yes
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1538633
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1543033
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1547134
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1546079
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-r-------- 1 samj staff 16 Jun 6 04:33 .001b63abcdef
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