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Helen Berman wrote: . . . lest I offend the mysterious gods of the iMAC The TM gods are a quirky lot, no doubt. We usually recommend sacrificing a virgin DVD. I deleted all dmg from my download folder and that did the trick. I hadn't thought of these as causing issues since none were mounted and I have had dmg files in there periodically without it causing any issues. Yup, most of the time they're not case-sensitive, so not an...

PoisonSerpent wrote: @Jolly Giant: There is no AddressBook folder in the backup. There's an Application Data folder, but no AddressBook folder is inside of it. another idea, and maybe a long shot, but with the option key pressed, click on the time machine symbol in the menu bar and choose browse other time machine disks . what are the options given ? 15"MBP SR C2D 2,4 GHz, 4 GB RAM / 17"PB G4 1,67 GHz 1 GB RAM...

Great! I plan to use "reuse backup" thanks again. I hope i don't have to bother you again...but I will if I am in trouble. imac+ext hard drive as time machine   Mac OS X (10.6.2)    

TM will not work on a network storage device unless it's a Time Capsule or connected via USB to an Airport Extreme Base Station. Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz; MBP Unibody; MBP C2D 2.33 Ghz; MBP 2.16 Ghz   Mac OS X (10.6.1)   iMac C2D 17"; MB 2.0 Ghz; 80GB iPod Video; iPod Touch; iPod Nano 2GB  

No username is not the same IMAC 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.5.5)    

the easiest would be to reformat the drive and start backups from scratch. do NOT try to delete the backups from finder. if you don't want to erase the whole drive, the only way to delete old backups is from TM interface. enter TM, scroll back in time to a backup you want to delete, click on the "gears" action button in finder's toolbar and select "delete backup". this will delete the whole backup for that time...

Again, look for any disk images or sparse bundles. You might have, for example, a disk image (name usually, but not necessarily, ending in ".dmg") from a download of something. Thanks very much for your help as this seems to have done the trick as I just finished a TM backup -- I didn't want to respond until it was over lest I offend the mysterious gods of the iMAC I deleted all dmg from my download folder and that did the...

No, I did a backup from the new logic board as soon as it was replaced. That is what prompted my discovery of my lack of access to the old one. I reiterate that the folks at the Apple Store ought to be thinking about this issue when doing things like the NVidia recall/replacement, and give customers some advance warning that they will need to think about this issue. A lot of hassle could have been avoided. MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz   Mac...

Hi, it finished backing up my entire iphoto library. If I now exclude my Iphoto Library in Time Machine then when I want to remove the exclusion to back it up will Time Machine have to back up my entire Iphoto Library all over again or should it just back up any changes made after the previous backup? I was thinking about a possible conflict between Aperture and Iphoto as well. Earlier today when Time Machine kept saying that it was going to...

Pondini wrote: That's exactly why I included Take any advice for or against particular makes or models with a grain of salt. You had trouble with a single old WD drive once -- was that representative? Why so testy? That's called "anecdotal" evidence, and should not be relied on either for or against. No, it isn't. There are so many drives available and so many new models that it is pointless to try to find good one or...