time machine problems

A strange problem - ot two. Upgraded to Monterey on Imac 27" and Macbook pro 15" and now I can't select new discs for backup. Normally I can just move the mouse over the time machine panel to select or deselect a backup disk (screen dump enclosed).. Since it happens to two different Macs its a...

Hey! I want to enter an old time machine backup I have, but since I switched to another hard drive (because the hard drive I was using run out of space and I didn't want it to delete old backups on it), it seems I no longer have access to the old one. is there any way to reconnect the old hard...

Hey so i've been doing time machine backups for a while but when i connected my drive for a backup a couple weeks ago it just said "not enough space on the backup drive" which was weird as the size it was quating was basically a full disk backup again which i assumed time machine never does...

My Time Machine backup stopped doing automatic backups. If I start a manual backup, it works fine, and it schedules the next backup. But when the time comes, nothing happens. It does not even try to do a backup. I am using Yosemite (10.10.5) on a late 2013 iMac. I have tried deselecting and...

I have a new MacBook Pro running OS X High Sierra 10.13.6. I've hooked up a Time Machine external 5 TB hard drive. It's been backing up the Macintosh HD (why do they call it a HD when it's a SSD?) but does not back up a LaCie 5 TB external hard drive. I can tell that by the Time Machine message...

Hi all, I've been checking why my time machine has gone bananas with large backups that happen too often, but can't find an answer I have my time machine on a network drive (WD My Book), so it back ups every night when I get home. Those are normally between 1.15 and 1.8Gb, which I find pretty...

MacAir, High Sierra. Brand new WD 3TB drive. No password protection on WDdrive. USB connection (not WIFI). The WD is formatted correctly. When I use Time Machine to back up (112GB), the Time Machine will run for about 2GB then STOP, with no error message. Ideas?

For some reason, since recently (perhaps even today, after installing the MacOS 10.13.3 Supplemental Update), I can't launch "Time Machine.app" to enter the Time Machine file restore interface. When I double-click the app, nothing happens. It doesn't appear in Activity Monitor, etc. What...

Hello. I am trying to delete a Time Machine Backup file from the Trash App. The file was originally in an external My passport for Mac drive. Every time I click on the empty trash option, I get an error message regarding the file being in use. Does anyone know how I can resolve this and be able...

I have used a USB drive connected to my iMac for several years to store my time machine backup. My wife is switching from an old windows computer to a new MacBook Air, and I plan to backup her new MacBook to the same drive. I have connected the drive to our Airport Extreme, and partitioned...

Hello, Ever since I have upgraded to High Sierra, I have never been able to successfully backup my MBP via Time Machine. It gets stuck on 'preparing backup' for around 30-40 minutes and stops automatically. Not sure what happened.

Hey all, I've been to the Genius Bar twice about this along with posting on the Apple discussion forums and haven't had any luck so far. Hopefully someone here might know something I can try. I'm upgrading my hard drive. I have the new hard drive in a separate enclosure and the Time Machine...

Backing up my iMac data using Time Machine connected to an External Hard Disk by Firewire 800 worked fine when my Mac OS was Sierra 10.12.3. On 9 April I updated to Sierra 10.12.4. Time Machine stopped its automatic backups. It froze at “Preparing for backup…” And when I entered Time Machine...