Post by wierdostomps on Oct 14, 2010 15:31:46 GMT
As you know, I am a fan of Time Machine.
However, two days ago I got a message:
<Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder>
Not exactly helpful. It kept occurring all day. I guessed that it might be to do with space on my hard drive. But no, there was plenty left - and anyway, surely TM would simply delete my old backups when the disk is full.
So, having checked the BM forum, it was off to Google. All kinds of solutions were offered - but most seemed to involve deleting TM preferences and re-formatting the disk.
Before resorting to such drastic measures, one person suggested that there might be a network issue. Early that day I had been doing some file sharing with my wife's iMac, so I guessed this might be involved. Sure enough, her hard drive was still mounted. I worked out that TM was trying to back up her hard drive to my backup disk.
But the saga doesn't end there... oh no, this is Apple we're dealing with. I unmounted her drive - but on the next backup, still got the same error. Then MS Word crashed and gave me a strange error message about not being able to find the drive specified for my autosave backup.
Could the two issues be related? I re-started my machine - and lo and behold, TM backs up fine! Somehow the Finder/ OS/ MSWord seem to have retained a memory of a mounted remote hard drive, which TM continues to try to backup until a restart.
Thought I'd bore you all with the saga as this seems to be a pretty common problem. Hope it helps someone.
However, two days ago I got a message:
<Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder>
Not exactly helpful. It kept occurring all day. I guessed that it might be to do with space on my hard drive. But no, there was plenty left - and anyway, surely TM would simply delete my old backups when the disk is full.
So, having checked the BM forum, it was off to Google. All kinds of solutions were offered - but most seemed to involve deleting TM preferences and re-formatting the disk.
Before resorting to such drastic measures, one person suggested that there might be a network issue. Early that day I had been doing some file sharing with my wife's iMac, so I guessed this might be involved. Sure enough, her hard drive was still mounted. I worked out that TM was trying to back up her hard drive to my backup disk.
But the saga doesn't end there... oh no, this is Apple we're dealing with. I unmounted her drive - but on the next backup, still got the same error. Then MS Word crashed and gave me a strange error message about not being able to find the drive specified for my autosave backup.
Could the two issues be related? I re-started my machine - and lo and behold, TM backs up fine! Somehow the Finder/ OS/ MSWord seem to have retained a memory of a mounted remote hard drive, which TM continues to try to backup until a restart.
Thought I'd bore you all with the saga as this seems to be a pretty common problem. Hope it helps someone.