Comments on: Upgrade Stopped Time Machine Pt. 2 – FIXED!

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:24:38 +0000

Thank you! This saved the day!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:49:17 +0000

“So I then went into Finder, disconnected my WD Book HD (ejected it) and then went back to Time Machine and hit “BackUp Now.”

^^
Right there, there’s your answer. I had the same issue with my brand new WD MyBook, and this step fixes the problem. So for someone just starting off with this problem:

1) Start off with Time Machine disabled (no hard drive selected).
2) Open finder, click on the name of your base station under “Shared Drives” and then open the actual AirDisk drive you wish to use – this mounts it and makes it visible to the selection screen in Time Machine.
3) Open Time Machine preferences, and select the AirDisk drive as your backup drive (should now be visible).
4) Go back into Finder and hit the eject button next to your AirPort Extreme (under Shared Drives) – or otherwise unmount the AirDisk drive.
5) Hit back up now in Time Machine.

By: elstudio

elstudio — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:25:59 +0000

Well I did get it working — at least for backups from a MacBook to a Mini with an attached disk. It was a permissions issue. How-to on my blog, which Sean links to above.

Sounds like the Airport may have permissions issues, too, though I don't have an Airport, so can't test that.

By: s

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:45:41 +0000

I just tried this: http://el-studio.com/article/fix-for-time-machine...- it doesn't work right now but the guy seems on top of it. Albanypaul, a plist is a preference list, set when you go into preferences in various applications. Someone might have told you to delete a corrupted one.

By: Albanypaul

Albanypaul — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:47:00 +0000

I have kind of the same problem. Time Machine will backup to my LaCie drive BUT I can not see the drive in Finder or anyplace else for that matter. This is frustrating. I need to access that drive as I have other info stored on there that I want but can't get to. I purchased my 24" Imac in Dec 07 because it was supposed to be the easy computer to use. Somebody told me to do something called a plist? Any clues as to how to repair this? Thanks for any assistance you can offer in advance. Pau;

By: s

Sat, 31 May 2008 23:52:16 +0000

in 10.5.3, Time Machine tries to unmount then mount the disk on which it stores the backup. If the disk is already in use, it fails to unmount. Without displaying an error message! In this case, you cannot see existing backups in Time Machine, and any further backups fail (this does display an error). It's a stupid bug, and how Apple have released this garbage is beyond me.