Error Occurred While Creating The Backup Folder
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Mac Time Machine Error Unable To Complete Backup
rise to the top Time Machine error creating the backup folder on a spacious hard drive up vote 11 down vote favorite 1 I have upgraded recently to Mavericks, and am setting up Time Machine on this system for the first time (it wasn't set up with the earlier OS, Mountain Lion.) Time Machine successfully backs up once after I boot the laptop. However, every time it tries to back up apple time machine unable to complete backup again while the laptop is running (I don't normally perform a full shutdown and reboot very often!) it fails with the error message: "An error occurred while creating the backup folder." I would like to eject the drive and plug it in again to see if this helps, but clicking the Eject button in Finder shows this message: and I have not wanted to do a Force Eject. I have rebooted, and Time Machine successfully backed up once after that, only to fail again the next time it tried. I do sometimes close the laptop lid or put it to sleep with the disk still plugged in, and it is still there when it wakes. I searched the Console for Time Machine-related errors but could not see any. (The Console won't display system.log saying I don't have permissions, but running syslog -C in the Terminal and scanning the output doesn't show anything either.) How do I: Solve the issue, so it successfully create the backup folder Perhaps, see if it is Time Machine or another app that is preventing the disk eject? Details: An early 2011 Macbook Pro, which was running Mountain Lion for a week on a new internal hard drive, now Mavericks The drive is a
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us http://superuser.com/questions/14716/time-machine-unable-to-complete-backup-an-error-occurred-while-creating-the-ba Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and http://www.sctxcc.org/Macs/tabid/89/forumid/11/postid/1030/scope/posts/Default.aspx answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are error occurred voted up and rise to the top Time Machine: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup directory up vote 2 down vote favorite I recently started getting this error message in Time Machine: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup directory. My configuration: Unibody Macbook Pro 15" (circa September 2008) & Western Digital Passport 500GB (USB HDD), OS X 10.5.7 error occurred while (up-to-date). I couldn't get rid of this problem through unplugging/replugging my external HDD, and eventually rebooted the machine. The problem is gone for the time being but I'd like to find a better solution than "reboot and pray". osx mac time-machine share|improve this question asked Jul 28 '09 at 21:46 pix0r 3582512 I've had the same issue as well and a bit of tinkering like you've said seems to "fix" it for a while. I'd like to know the cause of too. +1 for your question. –Pauk Jul 28 '09 at 21:52 2 What shows up in Console? Specifically anything from backupd or is that the error from Console (/var/log/system.log in this case)? –Chealion Jul 28 '09 at 22:52 I'm sure there's more details in Console? –Arjan Aug 7 '09 at 16:57 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted What is in your Console log, if you filter for "Backupd". Can you post the last dozen or so lines, that will give us some more information to make an educated decision on. Please keep in mind, failure messages in Time Machine could simply be that a document was