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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, Mac OS X (10.7.2) Posted on Nov unable to complete backup. an error occurred while creating the backup folder. 26, 2011 8:24 AM I have this question too Close Q: Unable to complete backup. An error time machine backup failed not enough space occurred while creating the backup folder. All replies Helpful answers Previous Page 2 of 3 last Next by jimchik2, jimchik2 Mar 17, 2012 3:41 PM in time capsule backup failed 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 me exactly where to put in this command line?Thanks in advance. Helpful (0) Reply options time machine stuck in preparing backup 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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disk name contains a space you need a "\" before the space.This still seems to work for me. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by Thefink, Thefink Apr 21, 2012 8:42 AM in response to terryfrommississauga Level 1 (0 points) Apr 21, 2012 8:42 AM in response to terryfrommississauga Here is the Answer!http://pondini.org/TM/A4.htmlvery simple, basically you delete a preference file. will take you 3 minutes. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by Ron Voss, Ron Voss Apr 21, 2012 8:59 AM in response to Thefink Level 1 (60 points) Apr 21, 2012 8:59 AM in response to Thefink This may get you going again after a failure, but won't prevent the cause of a failure. The anti-spin down advice I was given has worked perfectly all this time in that regard. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by jimchik2, jimchik2 Apr 21, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Ron Voss Level 1 (54 points) iPad Apr 21, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Ron Voss Ron, Thefink, So it's been working fine, with no changes on my part. Except for a restart of the computer. When a backup failure does happen (only rarely/sporadically) this is the easy way back to normal operation. A kludge I know, but also, failures are not too frequent at all, knock on wood.Thanks again guys for your time on this one. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by sebababi, sebababi Jun 7, 2012 1:16 AM in response to jimchik2 Level 1 (
topic provides some troubleshooting tips for common Time Machine errors and problems. It does not cover most problems specific to Time Capsules or other wireless backups. See Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule, and/or Apple’s Time Capsule forum,
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in the wireless section. Nor does it include general information about can't connect to a current time machine backup disk Time Machine. For that, see Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. Section A. TOOLS and PROCEDURES time machine couldn't back up to YOU MAY NEED A1. Time Machine Buddy widget A2. Time Tracker and/or Backup Loupe A3. Tinker Tool A4. Full Reset of Time Machine https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3524877?start=15&tstart=0 A5. How to Repair or Verify Disk A6. Common Backup Messages A7. How to Navigate to a file A8. Changing the maximum size or case-sensitivity of a sparse bundle A9. Information needed to diagnose a problem A10. Deleting an "inProgress" package A11. Navigating to your backups via the Finder http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html Section B. SET - UP PROBLEMS B1. I can't select my drive for use with Time Machine B2. The Select Disk button doesn't work B3. No oldest or latest backup date shown B4. Wrong icon shown for TM drive/partition B5. Would you like to inherit (or re-use) the Backup . . .? B6. "Reconnecting" to your backups Section C. BACKUP FAILURES C1. Initial Backup Failed C2. Other Backup Fails C3. ". . . an error occurred while copying files . . . " or "Aborting backup because indexing a file failed" C4. "The backup disk is full" or ". . . almost full" or "This backup is too large . . ." C5. "You do not have appropriate . . . privileges to save file ".
Time Machine is incredibly easy to use—and it’s officially supported by Apple. (It’s also the best way to restore individual contacts and email messages in Contacts and Mail, respectively.) Lots of people use https://joeontech.net/why-i-dont-rely-on-time-machine.html Time Machine because it requires essentially no thought or preparation. You can plug in a properly formatted external drive, click one button, and get a full backup of your Mac, updated automatically every hour. I used to be a big http://demianturner.com/2015/01/time-machine-problems-in-yosemite/ Time Machine fan, because anything that makes backups easier greatly increases the likelihood that people will use it. But not so much anymore. In fact, I still use Time Machine, but not exclusively. I don’t depend on it anymore, time machine and I’d like to give just two recent examples to illustrate why. A couple of weeks ago, not long before my new book was published, Time Machine displayed the following helpful error message on my Mac: “Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to ‘Backup Drive’. Unable to compete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.” Huh. The Time Machine preference pane suggested that I try again later, and I did, with the same result. Since there was an time machine backup error creating a folder, I guessed that the disk might have some errors, so I ran Disk Utility. Sure enough, there were errors, but Disk Utility couldn’t fix them. Neither could DiskWarrior. Or TechTool Pro. So I was left with no choice but to reformat the disk and start over from scratch. I still don’t know what caused the problem, but neither Time Machine nor any disk utility I tried could fix it—and the hardware itself was, as far as I could tell, just fine. When my backups become suddenly inaccessible for unknown reasons and I’m offered no solution but starting over, that sort of diminishes my faith in the software. Then yesterday, Morgen’s laptop, which backs up to a completely different destination (a Time Capsule), displayed yet another error message: “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on ‘Zora’. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you. Click Start New Backup to create a new backup. This will remove your existing backup history. This could take several hours. Click Back Up Later to be reminded tomorrow. Time Machine won’t perform backups during this time.” Huh. So, different message, but the same end result. Time Machine was informing her that, effective right now, her Mac would stop backing up and if she wanted it to continue, her only choice was to start over from scratch. Golly. Now, for us, all of
cases it’s completely opaque. After much Googling I’ve finally discovered how to get my old photos from iPhoto back, they had been lost for over a month and I was just about to book a Genius Bar appointment in desperation. The ProblemThe problem is when I upgraded to Yosemite my machine became so slow and unusable I had to reinstall the OS from scratch (the subject of another blog post). At the time I was abroad on a work trip so I thought I’d put my critical docs on a USB stick in case a Time Machine restore fails. But even with the largest capacity USB stick I only had room for my critical docs, not my iPhoto library which was around 20gb at that point. “No problem” I thought, "I backup religiously, even my backups are synced to the web, so I will definitely be able to get everything back from Time Machine". No such luck. The problem seems to be if you reinstall the operating system, or even upgrade to a new major version, the Mac doesn’t recognise your backups as coming from the same disk, so they become inaccessible. When you connect to your Time Machine you can see your backup history in the Timeline on the right hand side but clicking on any dated bar doesn’t bring you back to that point in time, the save points appear to be inaccessible. The SolutionThe solution is a massive hack, and definitely something that you’d never stumble into even after spending ages with trial and error. Hit “enter Time Machine” Press the key combination shift-command-C Then (very important) select a red bar to go back in timeExplanation: dull red bars represent backups you cannot access, bright red bars you can Then from Macintosh HD navigate to desired folder you want to restore Backups will now be accessible and you can select the folder you want to restore. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Related Post navigation ← The Audiobooks Minefield: A Survival Guide OS X Blue