An Error Occured While Creating The Backup Directory
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can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. This discussion is locked terryfrommississauga Level 1 (0 points) Q: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder. iMac, an error occurred while creating the backup directory time machine Mac OS X (10.7.2) Posted on Nov 26, 2011 8:24 AM I have this question too
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last Next by jimchik2, jimchik2 Mar 17, 2012 3:41 PM in response to Ron Voss Level 1 (54 points) iPad Mar 17, 2012 3:41 PM in response to Ron Voss @Ron: I'd like to try this. Can you tell
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me exactly where to put in this command line?Thanks in advance. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by Ron Voss, Ron Voss Mar 19, 2012 10:54 PM in response to jimchik2 Level 1 (60 points) Mar 19, 2012 10:54 PM in response to jimchik2 Jim, sorry for the delay. In Terminal enter "crontab -e" to edit the "chronology" table and add the line* * * * * date > /Volumes/
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