Time Machine on my computer is trying to backup onto a external hard drive, but the only thing I get is the famous beach ball of death which makes my computer extremely slow.
When I go to cosole.app I see with regular intervals following messages:
2012/04/27 10:13:43 com.apple.backupd[425] Error: (-36) Creating directory freds mac 39
2012/04/27 10:14:49 com.apple.backupd[425] Error: (-36) Creating directory freds mac 40
2012/04/27 10:15:54 com.apple.backupd[425] Error: (-36) Creating directory freds mac 41
2012/04/27 10:16:34 com.apple.service_helper[545] com.apple.backupd-auto: Already loaded
2012/04/27 10:16:34 com.apple.service_helper[545] com.apple.backupd-wake: Already loaded
2012/04/27 10:16:34 com.apple.service_helper[545] com.apple.backupd-attach: Already loaded
2012/04/27 10:16:34 com.apple.service_helper[545] com.apple.backupd-auto: Already loaded
2012/04/27 10:16:34 com.apple.service_helper[545] com.apple.backupd-wake: Already loaded
2012/04/27 10:16:34 com.apple.service_helper[545] com.apple.backupd-attach: Already loaded
Why does time machine have problems creating a directory if I was able earlier to make a full backup of my computer and what do those lines mean from the service helper?
I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a MacBook 1.1 (late 2006) (I know, it's a little bit old, but 1 day ago it was able to do TM backups)