Questions tagged [time-machine]
Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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tmutil status shows time remaining but Time Machine preference pane says "Calculating time remaining"
all. I'm running macOS 11.4. I using a new Time Machine backup destination and want to know how long it's going to take to finish. The Time Machine preference pane continually says Calculating time ...
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How to download a generic Time Machine backup to restore bricked MBP [closed]
I dont have a Time Machine backup, Internet Recovery doesn't work because I get "The recovery server could not be contacted" even if I sync the time. I dont have a second Mac to make a ...
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Recovery of disk space lost because of backup snapshot created by Techtool Pro eDrive on MacOS [closed]
Recently I was cleaning up an older Mac 10.13 and on the drive and found I bought TechTool Pro a couple of years ago, installed it and I forgot about it. I didn't know I have it nor I did remember ...
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Can somebody explain encryption on a Time Machine drive?
Something is suddenly not clear about Time Machine external drives. And I'm also unclear on how one can tell whether an external drive is encrypted.
My current active Time Machine drive (for my 2017 ...
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How do I partition an external drive on macOS 13.2.1? [duplicate]
I have an external drive and I am running macOS 13.2.1. I'd like to partition the external drive into two partitions and use one of those for a Time Machine backup. In Disk Utility, it has the +|- ...
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how to restore disappeared saved web passwords after changing local user login password
The web passwords saved for a local user "UL" have disappeared after changing that local user's password and I need to recover them.
Here is my specific setup:
I'm working on a MacBook Air ...
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Mounting a sparsebundle not working
I'm trying to mount a 3.5TB sparsebundle created by Time Machine. I've copied it into an external hard drive and double-clicked it.
After double-clicking it I see these messages on the Console app:
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Time Machine detected that your backups can not be reliably restored
I have a Synology with a 4TB hard drive and I'm getting this message. While I understand that I probably won't be able to continue using this for backup unless I erase it, I do wonder if I can access ...
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External APFS SSD partition stops mounting after a while mount even after erasing/reformatting
I have been trying to use an APFS partitioned Samsung T7 shield 2 TB for a couple of weeks now but keep running into the same issue. After a few days of use, one of my partitions will no longer mount.
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How to safely delete old Time Machine backups from external disk [duplicate]
I can browse through Backups.backupdb on the disk, and find ancient folders I would like to delete to save space on that disk.
I am wary of simply deleting those in case the oldest ones have lots of ...
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How to make time machine back up immediately
I just plugged an external hard drive into a MacBook.
On that MacBook I opened Time Machine.app, turned off "Back Up Automatically", chose the external hard drive as a disk to back up to, ...
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"browse time machine backups" shows no backups when using a NAS, unless I manually start a backup first
I back up using Time Machine to a Synology NAS, using its built-in support for this. In general, it works great.
However — almost obviously — when I'm not connected to the NAS, I don't see any backups ...
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Huge Backups.backupdb folder on the same local drive
I recently noticed that my newly installed local disk is running out of space on High Sierra. After some investigation, I found a Backups.backupdb folder that was taking up a significant amount of ...
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How do I access the Library and Downloads folder from another Time Machine backup in Ventura?
On a new Mac, I connected the Time Machine disk from my old Mac and now want to copy specific files out of the ~/Library and ~/Downloads folders from a past Time Machine backup. I can navigate to my ...
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How do I thin an abandoned Time Machine backup?
I have a NAS with multiple computers' Time Machine backups. Most of these are abandoned, old computers that I don't have anymore. I want to keep the backups—or at least, the latest copies of files—and ...
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How do I keep a full Time Machine restoration from changing the filesystem type?
I'm stuck on upgrading from Mojave to Catalina. (Yes, I'm late to the party.)
My most recent Time Machine backups continue to be from my Mojave system on an HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Journaled) filesystem....
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Mac file sharing (smbd) wedged, how to debug?
I have a 2020 M1 Mac Mini running Ventura 13.2.1 as a file server, and an old 2015 Macbook Pro running Monterey 12.6.3 trying to connect to the shared drive. The connection gets wedged in some kind of ...
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External drive twice as big as internal hard drive but cannot backup due to insufficient space
For now more than 2 weeks, I cannot backup my internal hard drive with Time Machine. I have backed up to 2 external hard drive (external hard drive number 1 and 2) that worked fine so far, but the ...
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macOS: backupd creates hidden empty folder on desktop
I noticed a hidden empty folder on my desktop, .J5NASODWVY73, created and last opened 2012-03-16. I have full permissions and I can trash it, but after every restart / reboot, the folder reappears, ...
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I want to mount an external HD connected to one mac on my main mac va my network
I have a Mac Mini 2012 running Catalina 10.15.7 with a 4TB external HD plugged in via USB. I want to mount this external HD on my IMac 2020 running Big Sur 11.7.4 over my network so I can use it for ...
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The WireGuard tunnels are GONE right after MacOS Software Update! + RESTORE?
I used the "Software Update" to update MacOS to the latest 13.3 (22E252) version.
Unfortunately, the WireGuard app (installed through App Store) did not take it well, and all of my tunnel (...
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Time Machine backups of Multiple Macs to external drive with APFS: Should I use separate containers, or one container with different volumes?
On an external drive, I have 3 APFS containers each with 1 volume in them respectively. The 3 containers and their respective volumes are used for Time Machine backups from 3 different Macs. The APFS ...
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Can APFS containers be resized while retaining their contents? (Case-sensitive, encrypted)
Can APFS (Case-sensitive, encrypted) containers be resized while retaining their contents (e.g. not having to reformat them) in MacOS?
I have an external hard drive with 3 different Time Machine ...
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How to associate a new external disk with complete Time Machine history
I want to restore my external USB drive to a new drive from a Time Machine backup. I used sudo tmutil associatedisk as was suggested in this answer to a similar question. The actual restoring worked ...
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How to open Internet Recovery on Mac Pro 1.1?
someone donated a MacPro1,1 (so from 2006) and it came without hard drives and I inserted a hard drive and the question mark appears when I turn it on. How can I install an operating system on it? ...
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Time Machine fails in Power Nap
2020 13" Pro M1 connected to QNAP NAS. If I manually run Time Machine it works just fine. However, it doesn't work in Power Nap. I used TimeMachineEditor to schedule a backup at 2am but it never ...
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TimeMachine restore: Can select backup, but get "No macOS system backups were found"
The SSD on my 2015 MacBook Pro died, and I got it replaced with a used SSD from another MacBook containing Catalina. The machine boots now normally, ready to restore from backup.
I tried to restore ...
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How do I make a time machine backup drive a normal hard drive? [duplicate]
I have been trying to relocate my Logic Pro X's Apple Loops library to a different hard drive. I have everything figured out, except for the problem in which Logic will not accept the secondary hard ...
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What do the `tmutil startbackup` options really mean?
Once you configured your Time Machine setup, you can manually start a backup by running
tmutil startbackup
in Terminal. According to man page, those are the options:
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--auto Run the backup ...
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How do I access protected folders on my Time Machine backup?
I have a Time Machine backup from a different computer, but I don't have access to certain folders (it shows the little red roadsign that access is not permitted). I guess it has to do with ownership/...
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I want data from two older comps transferred/merged onto my new M2 Max under one user
I just used Migration Asst. to transfer from my older Macbook Pro (Late 2013) to my new 16" M2 Max. All good. Now I want to transfer (ADD) the data from a Time Machine backup of a Macbook Pro M1 ...
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Why can't I copy my Time Machine (Sierra) Backup to an External (Case-Sensitive) drive?
I'm currently using my old iMac while my newer Mac is off for repair, and have come across an issue I never have before.
When attempting to back up a copy of my newer Mac's 'APFS (Case Sensitive)' ...
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Can I recover data from a Macbook drive which I overwrote with Windows?
Last night, I decided to try creating a Windows 10 recovery disk and boot from it on my Mac. While I was successful in formatting an SD card with the Windows recovery disk and booting to it, I made an ...
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Time Machine Back Up of external hard drive
I have two partitions on my hard drive. One of them is used for the time machine back up. On the other one I've got files that I would like to back up with Time Machine too.
Unfortunately I can't ...
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What is the safest OS upgrade strategy for MacOS Catalina
I have a 2019 MBP that still has MacOS Catalina installed (10.15.7). Until recently, this has suited me fine. But now, one of my 3rd party apps (Adobe Lightroom) has discontinued updates & ...
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Time Machine Backups hidden files
The other day, I transferred my Time Machine Backups from one memory card to another, but an issue arose. The memory card with the original Time Machine files had all together nine items (folders and ...
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Fix permissions on used and unused Time Machine backups
I have an external hard drive with two Time Machine backups on it. One backup is being used for my current Mac and the other backup is from an older Mac that isn't used anymore.
I discovered that the ...
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Time Machine - cannot access all TM backups
I have a senior pal who came to me for help and I am stumped.
He just ran the latest incremental update to Ventura on a fairly new iMac (not Silicon) and he lost all the many mailboxes he had set up ...
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Time Machine data exists in Terminal but no longer in Finder or the TM app
I have tried searching for it but maybe I am not using the right words. tmutil does also not seem to have anything?
Time Machine started claiming that there was not enough space for the backup (I have ...
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Prevent non-administrator accounts from seeing time machine drive
I have added a standard, non administrator account to my Mac running Ventura 13.2
The new account can read files from an attached drive being used as a Time Machine and I would like to prevent this.
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How to Add ˜/.Trash to Time Machine Exclusions in Ventura?
This topic has been covered in other questions (e.g. this one here: On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup? ). However, due to the significant changes in the latest ...
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Is APFS more reliable than HFS+ for a network (sparse bundle) drive?
I do Time Machine backups from my laptop to an SMB network drive. No doubt this is inherently unreliable because mounting a disk image over a network connection can result in the disk needing repair ...
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How to access all Time Machine files for offsite backup
I would like to back up my Time Machine files off site using borg (basically copy them into cloud storage). Here is what my Time Machine drive looks like:
However, when I look at it via the terminal:
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TimeMachine - Unable to access backups from old MacBook due to UID change
OS Version: MacOS Ventura 13.2
I got a new MacBook and before I sold my previous MacBook, I created a backup through TM.
Now on the new MacBook I wanted to access the backup of my previous MacBook and ...
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Switching from MacBook Pro Intel to MacBook Pro M2-Max
I have a MacBook Pro Apple silicon M2-Max on order to replace my MacBook Pro Intel.
I have a few questions:
When I try to restore my system from the Time Machine backup, will my applications continue ...
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How to restore data from a deleted app that uses iCloud?
I deleted an app that stores data in iCloud. Then I wanted to restore the data by using Time Machine on my Mac with macOS 13.2. Unfortunately, when I started Time Machine in the iCloud folder, it does ...
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Specify timemachine backup folder blacklist for specific backup disks [duplicate]
I connected two backup disks in my time machine config, one is at the office and the other one is at home. On the office drive I don't want to backup all mac, so I excluded some folder like downloads ...
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Copy a Time Machine backup for ONE computer to a new external drive
The situation: I'm running Ventura (13.1) on an M1 Macbook Air (2020) and I have a 3 TB external HD, format Mac OS Extended (Journaled), that I use as a Time Machine backup volume for 5 different ...
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Can Time Machine be used to restore an encrypted APFS volume?
I created an encrypted APFS volume on my internal SSD on my MacBook. I also use Time Machine.
How can I use Time Machine to:
a) Restore a previous version of the whole encrypted APFS volume?
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What backup solution is thorough enough to include low level stuff like homebrew? Is Time Machine thorough enough?
I need to migrate to a newer MacBook soon, because my current one is falling apart. But I have a lot of lower level stuff installed / configured such as Homebrew formulae and casks.
I also have ...
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