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cant install osx 10.8 - error “the disk is used for time machine” - its my main HD
Im trying to upgrade to 10.8 from 10.7.5 on my "13-inch macbook, aluminum late 2008", when i run the install i click agree on the T&C, and then i get to select the HD i want to install it on (but ...
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If OS X is slow, will a Time Machine backup, clean installation and restore make any difference?
I've heard people suggest that when your Mac is slow, you should:
perform a Time Machine backup
do a clean installation of the OS
then restore the time machine backup after installation.
I'm ...
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OS X: Delete single folder of Time Machine Backup via Terminal
I know there is tmutil delete to delete single timemachine snapshots from a backup of another machine — but now I need to delete only one of the folders inside the backup.
On my old (and now dead) ...
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OS X Mountain Lion unstable after Time Machine restore
I recently sent my Apple MacBook Pro (Retina 15" mid-2012 with OS X 10.8.3) in to Apple to repair the screen, and they wiped the hard drive. I connected my external Time Machine drive and booted into ...
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Time Machine permission errors
I back up fairly regularly with Time Machine. Recently, my hard drive crashed and now I wish to put my old contents onto /temp. I am unable to do it in the laptop, as when I open the 'documents' ...
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When re-installing OS X and importing using Time Machine, which imports should I avoid?
My computer has been having several problems related to hanging and poor graphics performance. I want to re-install OS X to get a completely clean system. I want to keep my files, so I'm going to use ...
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Is Time Machine enough to completely restore my system on a new primary hard drive?
I have made a Time Machine backup of my Mac Book Pro onto an external hard drive. I do not have a copy of the OS (Mountain Lion).
Is my Time Machine backup all I require if I want to reinstall my ...
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How do I prevent Time Machine's persistent dialog “xserve.local unavailable”?
Running Mac Os X 10.7.5, all of a sudden I'm getting hourly connection errors caused by Time Machine when I'm away from our work network, saying it can't connect to the backup server – duh! The alerts ...
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Time Machine says it must create a new backup erasing my backup history?
Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on “MyBackupDrive”. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.
What does this mean and why did it happen?
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NAS for use with mac os x and multiple time machine
I'm researching purchasing a NAS drive but I have some questions about whether it will fulfil my requirements.
I have a very Apple-centric household with an iMac, air, iPad and a couple of iPhones! ...
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Setup new Mac from encrypted timemachine
I was setting up my new Mac from encrypted timemachine, to my surprise, Lion start importing the files from timemachine without asking for the encrypted key. I couldn't find any documentation about ...
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Alternatives to Time Machine
I have been having trouble with time machine now for a long time. I originally thought it was my network storage device, so I got a new one and the problems persist. See my question here: Time ...
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Time Machine seems to ignore external drive
I have an external disk formatted HFS+ case sensitive. When time machine runs it seems to ignore the entire filesystem on that drive. The volume name shows up if I dig in to Backs.backupsdb but it's ...
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Time Machine connection error with Ubuntu Server
I've set up a home server with Ubuntu in software RAID 1 to save my Mac files with Time Machine. The backup partition in the server shows up in the Time Machine menu, but at the time of conecting it ...
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Backing up Mac OSX to Windows/Samba share
This should not be this hard ... is there an easy way to back up a mac to a windows share?
so far, I've tried the suggestions here, but am getting error:
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Can Time Capsule make multiple disk images?
A simple question. Does the Time Capsule allow you to make multiple disk images for the same computer? I am thinking about getting a Time Capsule. It is not that I care much about backup it is just ...
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Mac - Convert from Case-Sensitive to Case-Insensitive File System
So I just got my first Mac. After getting everything set up just the way I wanted it I decided to install Steam. When I opened Steam it said something about not supporting case-sensitive file ...
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Restore complete Mac OS X from bootable software and external HDD
I searched a lot for backup software for my Mac (Snow Leopard), but they all backup the data of the Mac, but not the operating system.
Does there exist any software that has a recovery CD that I boot ...
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Can I use a USB attached Hard Drive on Win7 for TimeMachine backup?
I have a Western Digital external USB hard drive. I would like to use this as my Time Machine backup HDD for my new MacBook. After a bit of research I've found that I can't simply share the HDD via my ...
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Share an external hard drive between Mac OSX and Windows 7
I have an external hard drive that was connected to a Mac and formated and written to by Time Machine.
Is it usable on a Windows System? Could I reformat it as NTFS and leave it connected to a ...
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How to check for missing system files in Lion, and recover them?
I've recently been having some troubles with iTunes (in particular, when I tried to update my iPhone 4 to iOS 5, it error'd out and bricked my phone instead), and I suspect these problems may be due ...
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How do I use Time Machine to restore my Mac to its previous state?
OSX Lion
I accidentally installed a bad driver, and it's causing problems. I want to use Time Machine to have my entire system go back to its previous state.
So I went into "Recovery HD" option (ALT ...
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Make Time Machine select another backup drive automatically
I have two external harddrives that I use with Time Machine, alternating between them.
When I do a backup on one of them, unplug it and then plug in the other one, Time Machine will not use it ...
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Google Chrome extremely slow after Time Machine restore / Parallels installation
I have two iMacs and just installed OS X Lion (clean install) on one of them (let's call it iMac A). I did a Time Machine backup and restored that backup to my other iMac (B) to avoid installing ...
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Error during Time Machine backups on OS X Lion
After I turn on my machine, the first couple of Time Machine backups seem to go OK, but after about an hour I get this error:
Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup ...
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Can I use the same disk to backup multiple Macs with Time Machine?
So I've been using an external hard drive to backup one of my Macs using Time Machine. Now I have another Mac that I feel the need to backup, but I don't want to buy a new hard drive, so I was ...
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how to move existing time machine backup to smb
I have a 2 TB external usb hard drive. I have partitioned it as 1TB with NTFS and 1Tb with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I have Time machine backups in my mac partition.
I am planning to make the ...
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Backup with Time Machine on WD My Book live fails
Directly after buying this baby I had no problems using the built-in Time Machine compatibility. Then the problems began. Back then I wasn’t able to associate an application directly with the failing ...
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How to make TimeMachine back up contents of any path or mounted volume
I keep different types of data in different encrypted sparsebundle images (say, one for each client) which automatically mount upon login but can't be opened by anybody other than myself. So, after ...
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Two Macs, One Time Machine Each, One Main External Hard Drive, No Data on Macs
I'm wanting to have one Mac at work and one Mac at home, each with their own time machine connected to it. No data is to be stored on the Macs themselves, rather, all data is stored on a regular ...
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Should I use RAID or is there a better way to keep my data safe?
Right now, I have a 2 TB Samsung drive sitting in a USB enclosure attached to the back of my iMac. All are relatively new (about half a year in terms of the HDD and case) but I'm always afraid of the ...
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Time Machine Synchronize just my Home Folder to external hard drive in MacOS Leopard
Just bought an external 500GB hard drive. I want to store, backup and synchronize just my home folder in Mac OS Leopard.
I dont want all the system preferences to be backed up. I don't want other ...
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When using Time Machine, does it follow Symbolic Links in mac?
I have a mac with a 250gb hd.
My iTunes library is in an external hard disk, 500gb. I have Symbolic Links in my home music folder pointing to the files and the xml library (I dont let iTunes organize ...
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Mac Time Machine + Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
I wonder if I can use Azure Blob Storage to store Mac Time Machine files. Is it really possible to mount a blob storage as a drive for Mac Time Machine?
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Deleted the .AppleDouble files inside my Time Machine backups - are they still OK?
My Ubuntu server is set up to emulate a TimeCapsule (after a very long weekend following the instructions here, here and here). My macbook pro has been backing up happily to it for a month or so now, ...
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How can I test if a wireless-N router improves LAN throughput?
On my network we have a Windows Home Server and my wife's Macbook Pro. Her office is in the opposite corner of the house from the WHS (which is wired to the router). We've been using the wireless ...
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Mac - Back up only a particular folder using time machine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I tell Apple's Time Machine to backup a single folder?
I am a developer on Mac. But I never used Time Machine feature.
How can I back up only one folder using ...
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I want to access the documents from my Mac that I backed up using Time Machine on my PC. How do I do this?
I can't take my iMac desktop with me to Colorado so I decided to take an old PC laptop I had. I backed up all of my Mac files using Time Machine onto an external hard drive. How do I access these ...
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How to restore data from external hard drive before “Erase” command of Time Machine (OS X)
I gave my external hard drive to a friend using MacBook. She plugged in and accidentally used my ext. hard drive for Time Machine.
This is what happened, according to her (I don't use Mac so I dont ...
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setting up time machine for specific folder of disk not entire disk
hmm ! hello All.
I just wanted to whether is it possible to take back-up of specific folder rather than entire disk ?
Let me explain more deeply.
Suppose I have folder named OfficeImportants in ...
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Restore (find) mystery files from time machine backup
I'm helping someone using time machine. The user deleted some files off there hdd because they where backed up on the time machine. Well now the user wants to restore the files. Here comes the kicker. ...
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Run time machine on a low priority
I noticed that every time TimeMachine runs, my mac becomes less responsive. Is it possible to run the time machine process on a lower priority?
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How to fix Time Machine's “This backup is too large for the backup disk”?
Why I am always seeing this window on my system?
I have changed the disk with a new one, bigger and after a while the message shows again.
As far as I know, TM deletes old backups to store the new ...
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Restoring from Time Machine - Permissions Error
I am moving some old folders from my Mac PowerBook Pro to a UNIX network drive. In doing so I was getting a few "all files could not be copied" errors which I ignored, thinking it was aliases which ...
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Mac Time Machine drive is “too small” or “permanately damaged”?
I have a 80gb HD in my Mac Mini... but only about 30gb of it is in use. I thought an old 60gb HD would be MORE than enough space. (Since I don't need to keep many duplicate copies of old files. ...
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Time Machine Single File Restore after System Reinstall
Is it possible to restore a single file (e.g. my Aperture library) from a Time Machine backup when I reinstall the OS?
I want a fresh install and not restore the whole system from backup.
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Reduce Time Machine backup sizes
The average size of 'empty' back-up is 100-200Mb on my machine. By 'empty' I mean that sometimes you log-in into a computer after few hours and see time machine working with a message like 'copying ...
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How to use Time Machine with File Vault
I have a Mac with one user using File Vault. I am enabling Time Machine. How do I make sure the File Vaulted directory gets backed up?
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Snapshots are disappearing from Time Machine. Why?
I have TimeMachine enabled for my external HDD. I'm triggering backups manually 2 times per week.
I have noticed, that some snapshots, that i made, are gone.
I noticed this behaviour several weeks ...
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Time Machine for non-hard-drives
Is there a good method or application for backing up USB keys with Time Machine? Often I take my work from one computer to another on a USB key and thus that is where the most recent version of it ...
