Yosemite disaster: time machine deletes my data

Hi there,
my transition to Yosemite is nothing else but disastrous: The Upgrade left my iMac with unwanted logouts during work, no ability to restart or login, endless spinning beachballs, massive problems sending E-Mails and so on and so forth. So I decided to do a clean install, but this happen to be my next disaster.
I installed and then migrated my user account from the time machine backup I just did before. Everything was fine with my data and backup until the install. First I thought migration ran fine, and even turned-on time machine to back up my newly installed, clean an shiny mac. But then I stumbled upon images in Lightroom missing. So I searched and found more than 3,000 images deleted from my hd. Some folders missing completely, in some other folders only the RAW-files have been deleted but the .xmp data is still present. So I turned to my time machine backup, believing everything will be there. But it was´t! Before the clean install the external hd had about 50gb free for backups while using about 1,7gb for backups. Yosemite had started to clean up the backup and seemingly deleted some of my data from my backup! I don´t have any conclusion how else this could have happened?! In the meantime I discovered that also more than 7500 titles from my iTunes library are missing and probably there is more data being deleted. I´m ready to throw my iMac out the window. Things like these never happened before. Don´t fool me by saying it´s my foult. No I would never have deleted my pictures. I am a professional photographer and these are my products. Please help me find out how this happened to avoid any repeating …
T.

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03/09/2012 11:48:48.131 com.apple.usbmuxd[431]: _SendDetachNotification (thread 0x100dc2180): sending detach for device cc:08:e0:3c:19:ef@fe80::ce08:e0ff:fe3c:19ef._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _BrowseReplyReceivedCallback got bonjour removal.
03/09/2012 11:49:15.561 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 11:50:16.562 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 11:50:52.172 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Mac Companion/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2012-09-01-004618 containing 22.05 GB; 1.3 TB now available, 1.88 TB required
03/09/2012 11:50:52.172 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Removed 12 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
03/09/2012 11:50:57.965 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Mac Companion/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2012-09-02-004621 containing 2.4 MB; 1.3 TB now available, 1.88 TB required
03/09/2012 11:51:39.148 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Removed 35 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
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03/09/2012 11:51:51.535 com.apple.usbmuxd[431]: _SendAttachNotification (thread 0x100dc2180): sending attach for device cc:08:e0:3c:19:ef@fe80::ce08:e0ff:fe3c:19ef._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _GetAddrInfoReplyReceivedCallback matched.
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03/09/2012 11:53:59.470 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Backup canceled.
03/09/2012 11:54:02.534 sandboxd[1563]: ([549]) Mail(549) deny file-read-data /Users
03/09/2012 11:54:02.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1563) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
03/09/2012 11:54:02.541 sandboxd[1563]: ([549]) Mail(549) deny file-read-data /Users
03/09/2012 11:54:02.963 WindowServer[128]: Display 0x1849b840 captured by conn 0x1396b
03/09/2012 11:54:12.496 Mail[549]: CGSSetWindowLevel: Invalid window 0x0
03/09/2012 11:54:13.140 sandboxd[1563]: ([549]) Mail(549) deny file-read-xattr /Volumes/Mac Companion/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2012-09-03-103801/SSD
03/09/2012 11:54:14.654 Mail[549]: find_shared_window: WID 996
03/09/2012 11:54:14.654 Mail[549]: CGSMoveWindow: Invalid window 0x3e4
03/09/2012 11:54:14.918 WindowServer[128]: Display 0x1849b840 released by conn 0x1396b
03/09/2012 11:54:20.570 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 11:54:40.796 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Starting manual backup
03/09/2012 11:54:40.799 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Mac Companion/Backups.backupdb
03/09/2012 11:54:45.549 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Using file event preflight for SSD
03/09/2012 11:54:49.568 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Will copy (835.6 MB) from SSD
03/09/2012 11:54:49.583 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Using file event preflight for 2Tb HD
03/09/2012 11:55:21.572 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 11:56:15.773 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Will copy (102.4 MB) from 2Tb HD
03/09/2012 11:56:15.774 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Found 458580 files (1.57 TB) needing backup
03/09/2012 11:56:15.803 com.apple.backupd[1401]: 1.88 TB required (including padding), 1.3 TB available
03/09/2012 11:56:15.814 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Mac Companion/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2012-09-03-113431.inProgress/D5E33B8C-90FD -408E-939E-C8D559EBAC56 containing 8 KB; 1.3 TB now available, 1.88 TB required
03/09/2012 11:56:15.815 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Mac Companion/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2012-09-03-113431.inProgress/D93A9AE4-E50A -422A-BC05-A540DB00F417 containing 8 KB; 1.3 TB now available, 1.88 TB required
03/09/2012 11:56:15.815 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Removed 2 expired backups so far, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
03/09/2012 11:56:15.816 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Deleted 2 backups containing 16 KB total; 1.3 TB now available, 1.88 TB required
03/09/2012 11:56:15.816 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Backup date range was shortened: oldest backup is now Sep 3, 2012
03/09/2012 11:56:17.477 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.coremedia.videodecoder[1514]) Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds). Killing
03/09/2012 11:56:22.575 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 11:56:26.544 com.apple.backupd[1401]: Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
03/09/2012 11:56:27.481 com.apple.usbmuxd[431]: stopping.
03/09/2012 11:56:27.521 com.apple.usbmuxd[1586]: usbmuxd-268.5 on Apr 5 2012 at 15:33:48, running 64 bit
03/09/2012 11:57:17.937 System Preferences[1592]: Cannot setMachineString without first being authenticated
03/09/2012 11:57:17.980 System Preferences[1592]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
03/09/2012 11:57:17.983 System Preferences[1592]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
03/09/2012 11:57:17.985 System Preferences[1592]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
03/09/2012 11:57:17.987 System Preferences[1592]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
03/09/2012 11:57:23.576 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 11:57:39.677 System Preferences[1592]: Could not connect the action warnCullingPressed: to target of class TMOptionsSheetController
03/09/2012 11:57:39.677 System Preferences[1592]: Could not connect the action backUpOnBatteryPowerPressed: to target of class TMOptionsSheetController
03/09/2012 11:58:24.579 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 11:59:25.581 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 12:00:11.658 com.apple.usbmuxd[1586]: _SendAttachNotification (thread 0x100dc2180): sending attach for device cc:08:e0:3c:19:ef@fe80::ce08:e0ff:fe3c:19ef._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _GetAddrInfoReplyReceivedCallback matched.
03/09/2012 12:00:11.866 usbmuxd[1586]: _AMDeviceConnectByAddressAndPort (thread 0x102e81000): IPv4
03/09/2012 12:00:26.583 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 12:00:52.742 com.apple.usbmuxd[1586]: _SendDetachNotification (thread 0x100dc2180): sending detach for device cc:08:e0:3c:19:ef@fe80::ce08:e0ff:fe3c:19ef._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _BrowseReplyReceivedCallback got bonjour removal.
03/09/2012 12:01:27.584 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 12:02:28.587 NetBarrier[127]: [NB5ForbiddenAdsManager checkForUpdate] The file "/Library/StartupItems/NetBarrierKPI/NetBarrier Daemon X5.app/Contents/Resources/CommonPatterns.plist" is corrupted.
03/09/2012 12:02:53.089 com.apple.backupd[1626]: Starting manual backup
03/09/2012 12:02:53.114 com.apple.backupd[1626]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Storage 3/Backups.backupdb
03/09/2012 12:02:54.518 com.apple.backupd[1626]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "SSD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 54176992-49A5-3BCC-BA6F-0E62A70536F3 eventDBUUID: 33324136-426B-40D2-9B6A-55DE25B037E5)

Time Machine deleted old backups as disk filled up. Now I'm confused

Hi guys,
My backup disk was full, and hence Time Machine deleted my old backup. The most important data on my Mac (for me) is my iPhoto library. As I know it, Time Machine deletes backups for files which are used less frequently. In my iPhoto library, there are some photos which I haven't opened for years. So has Time Machine deleted them?
Thank you

As I know it, Time Machine deletes backups for files which are used less frequently. In my iPhoto library, there are some photos which I haven't opened for years. So has Time Machine deleted them?
Time Machine won't delete files that are still on your Mac, regardless of how long since you view them.
What it trashes are files that have been removed from your Mac. So, it's not an archive app. For instance, if you backed up with TM and then deleted the pics from iPhoto on your Mac (to save space or whatever) then eventually they will be deleted from TM.
Regards
TD

Time Machine deleted all the files on my external HD

I have started a new Time Machine backup on a larger external HD.
Time Machine deleted the folders and files stored in that HD before starting the backup procedure.
How can i recover the files i had on my HD?
Thank you!

This means that the drive was formatted incorrectly for use with TM and it had to reformat it. it warns you before doing so. your chances of recovering your data are not great as it may have been overwritten by TM backups. stop using the drive ASAP (turn TM off) and try data recovery software like Data Rescue II or Filesalvage.

HT201250 Does Time Machine delete files in back-ups that are deleted on my Mac?

Does Time Machine delete files in back-ups that are deleted on my Mac? IOW....if I need to restore a whole back-up, I don't want to restore previously deleted files.

Does Time Machine delete files in back-ups that are deleted on my Mac?
Not immediately. When space starts to get tight, Time Machine will start to delete the oldest file(s) to make more room, but this won't occur for some time.
if I need to restore a whole back-up, I don't want to restore previously deleted files.
You won't if you choose to restore from a backup that occurred after the date that you deleted the file.
If you absolutely do not want to keep the file in your Time Machine backups at all, you do have the option to go into Time Machine, find the file, and manually delete all versions of the file from past dates.

Time Machine deleted 4-5 backups...

Time Machine deleted 4-5 backups that were from a different computer to make room for the an update. How can I get back 1 or more of those backups?

Unfortunately, you can't, since they have been permanently deleted and the drive space has been overwritten with new data.

Time Machine deletes oldest backups?!

So I'm starting to use Time Machine, now that my tape drive went south. I decided to rotate drives and use Time Machine.
I'm reading threads about rotating drives and it seems straight forward. Swap drive, tell Time Machine to use the drive that you swapped in.
Two questions:
1. Does Time Machine know that the 2nd and subsequent backups are incremental?
2. Is there a way to set Time Machine to ask *BEFORE* it starts deleting files?
Time Machine is cool. No doubt. What's not cool is how we have to jump through hoops to get decent backups, with very little "best practice" guidance from Apple.
I want to swap drives and hot have to poke through System Preferences > Time Machine each time I do.
I don't want to worry about being told *AFTER* the fact that Time Machine "deleted files to make space" which is absurd.
System Preferences > Time Machine > Options > [x] Notify after old backups are deleted
It's unacceptable that Time Machine does not warn *BEFORE* deleting oldest backups. That's a decision only the user should make.
Don

don montalvo wrote:
If you swap drives, Time Machine SHOULD be intelligent enough to know where to begin (based on what's on the drive). But it's not.
Yes, it is. A new drive will, of course, get a new full backup. Thereafter, if you swap drives, Time Machine will back up the changes made since the last backup to that particular drive, independent of any others.
If you swap, say, once a week, the first backup after the swap will be relatively long, of course, as there's a lot to "catch up." Time Machine might even have to do a "deep traversal," comparing everything on your system to the backups, which takes a while, too, but it will catch up.
So the issue of data being deleted automatically (where users are only told AFTER data is deleted) is still unresolved.
And it will remain the way it is; Apple clearly changed it because the downside to having backups fail was much larger than the after-the-fact notification. There were many, many threads in the Leopard forums where folks didn't understand or didn't heed the messages, and ended up with outdated backups when their HDs failed or were hopelessly corrupted.
And the issue of swapping drives being quite tedious is STILL an issue.
Yes, and there's no indication that will be changed, either. Apple seems to want to keep things as simple as possible. There are some workarounds, none entirely successful. Here's one: http://www.gearz.de/howto/OSX5/changeTMvol-sh-X6
can't wait for Lion to be released so we can see if things got any better.
There's no indication of anything like the things you're looking for in any of the published documents or even the rumor sites. That's all I can say.
While Time Machine has some elements of a traditional "Archive" type backup app, it just basically isn't one. Never has been, never will be. The main audience is the novice to casual user, or even the power user, who either won't, or doesn't want to, manage backups.
If you really want an traditional archive type system, get one. You can't make Time Machine into one.
See Kappy's post on Basic Backup for links to a number of various types.

Help! Time Machine Deleted My Oldest Backup!

So, time machine deleted my oldest backup (because it ran out of room)
I know it's supposed to do this -- but I didn't want it to.
On my oldest backup, I had a folder with lots of pictures and documents. Does time machine delete files that can't be found anywhere else?
I don't know what to do! Those pictures meant a lot to me!

Time Machine isn't meant to be used as an archiving utility, as you've now noticed.
If a file isn't on your internal hard drive, eventually TM will delete the copy in its backups.
If you wanted an archiving utility, you needed to look elsewhere
You may be able to use a data recovery software to get the files back--I suggest you turn off TM until you get this sorted.
Take a look at Data Rescue II here:
http://www.prosofteng.com/
~Lyssa

HT3275 My Time Machine deletes ALL previous backups

Every so often, Time Machine deletes ALL previous backups and starts over from scratch. It has done this several times in the last year. I have not changed any hardware or the name of the computer. Why is this happening? Makes me very concerned that I now have NO backups while it chugs away rebuilding a 210 GB backup.
Just got an error message:
Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup. Time machine could not delete the backup disk image "/Volumes/Joe's iMac.purgeable"
HELP!
iMac 27: 8GB, 2.9 GHz Intel Core I5
OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
Backup volume is Western Digital MyBookLiveDuo with 2TB and 1.8TB available

Hi Joe,
Have you Repaired both drives first, then Repaired Permissions on both?
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Can't imagine something not being covered there.

Time Machine deleting recent backups

I looked at Console today, just for something to do, and noticed entries for Time Machine deletions. My TM partition on an external has 459 of 750 GB still available, so I don’t know why TM is deleting anything at all. It’s leaving the earliest backup from recent days, deleting subsequent backups from those days, but leaving backups from 2009. According to Console, these deletions began Nov.12. I now have one backup per day back to Oct. 21, then one per week back to 2009, with an entire block between Apr. 2010 to Jan. 2011 gone. I have no idea what I may have done on Nov. 12 to cause this. I had updated to Mavericks the day after it was released, so I don’t think it’s a Mavericks problem. I’m not too concerned with what’s gone - my main reason for using TM is to backup hourly while working so I won’t loose more than an hour’s work (TM is still retaining all backups for today) - but I would prefer to have the most recent backups rather than ones from four years ago.

Bill, you might want to glean some insights into the nature of time machine from the last few pages of this recent thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23824079#23824079
For vital data you "dont dare lose" consider bare formatted HD for data archives,
Time machine is in premise and idealized as an entry-level or 'newbie' backup method, it has some flaws, and is best considered as a SYSTEM BACKUP (OS files, settings, APPS and recent active data ON your computer)
Time machine is not best thought of as an important storage nexus for vital data, and in ANY regard, "2 copies of important data is 1, and one is none"
Consider a HD clone if you dont have much data, or importantly bare formatted HD(s) to store your important data.
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection

Time Machine deleted my old backups and crapped out midstream

I had just gotten my failing hard drive replaced, and restored from Time Machine backup. So far so good.
So a week later, I wanted to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but figured I should be responsible and run Time Machine backup again before doing the upgrade just in case something goes wrong.
The Mac has a 4TB drive, which has 2TB free. The backup drive is a 4TB external drive, which has (or had) Time Machine backups going back two years or so. It still had over a TB of space left. I clicked on Backup Now and let it run overnight. I noticed it said "Deleting old backup to make room" or something like that, which I thought was normal.
I woke up in the morning to find that Time Machine had crapped out in the middle, and said that it couldn't complete. I realized that it had deleted all my old backups. It didn't need to do that, since the only files that had changed would have been less than a GB, and it had over a TB of space to work with.
It must have thought that everything on the drive had changed since the last backup, and it wanted to backup the entire drive. As such it tried deleting all my old backups! But it failed, and stopped in the middle.
Now I have a drive that still says there is only 1.2 TB of space on the drive, but I can't see the files! Even with Tinkertool, I can't see anything beyond the one most recent backup.
Can these files be recovered? I am totally ticked that there isn't some kind of confirmation like "Are you sure you want to delete X?"
I actually need to have some of these older backups, as they include files that had been deleted before the latest backup that I may need to retrieve. Any hard drive experts out there? Any terminal commands that can make these files accessible, even if I have to retrieve them manually?

To clarify, this all happened under Snow Leopard as I had said. My profile lists Tiger, since I haven't cared to update my personal profile since using that OS, and in fact I still use Tiger among other versions. I manage a lot of users. And I never got to upgrade to Mountain Lion on this system, as explained in the post above. So I don't see the confusion.
I don't think the model of Mac makes a difference for this type of problem, but in case it does, the incident was on a 2010 Intel iMac with a 4TB hard drive and 8GB of RAM. I would have mentioned that if this was a problem with hardware specific to the model of Mac. But this is more of a universal issue.
But to stay on topic, I'm guessing my old backups are toast. But if anybody has any experience with recovering from Time Machine deleting their old backups, I would be happy to hear from them. In the meantime, I am going to try to do some old fashioned file recovery, and see what I can salvage.

Yosemite disaster: time machine deletes my data

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