Re: Time Machine - quick question

On 2008-07-08 14:01:34 +0100, Martin S Taylor 
<martin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> Chris Ridd wrote
>>>> But over the last couple of weeks TM keeps telling me it "has a
problem.
>>>> Backup failed" or some such (can't remember the exact words. Is this
the
>>>> problem you're having?
>>> 
>>> I get that too, and my Time Machine is not on a WD drive. I think TM
is
>>> a low-priority process and 'gives up' if the machine is busy doing
>>> something else. Now I write that, it sounds like utter nonsense.
>> 
>> The best thing to do when that happens is to look at the system.log for
>> backupd-type entries. The way the UI re****ts errors back is fairly
>> unhelpful.
> 
> A Mac-friend recommended the following extremely quick remedy, which has
> cured the problem on my machine:
> 
> Go to System Preferences... Time Machine panel, and click Change Disk...
 Now
> select the same disk you've always used, and close the window.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Martin

I'll give that a go. The problem has got worse since so here's hoping it
works.

Thanks.


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-James-