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Wednesday Open Thread | 98 comments (98 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Can any mac users advise me on how I might troubleshoot the time machine thingy?

I managed to back everything up a couple of days ago onto a seagate 1.5TB external HD. Then when it was doing the automatic back ups the next day I started getting roor messages. Then I realised the drive was broken - clicking loudly- and replaced it.

The new drive seems ok but it won't even do the initial back up even though the drive has been formatted. It keeps telling me it has failed. Has this happened to anyone else?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:35:47 PM EST

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Macs do not fail, they are failed by insufficient belief in their solutions. ;-))

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:39:54 PM EST
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My bet is on the hard drive rather than the mac.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:45:13 PM EST
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Exactly. I seem to have lost my belief in Safari, as it tends to crash by itself lately. Any idea what I can do to recover my belief?

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 02:48:23 PM EST
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Oh no! You've said too much (none / 0)

by ATinNM on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 03:54:47 PM EST
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"This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 04:04:14 PM EST
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Let's try this, then ... (none / 0)

by ATinNM on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 04:21:04 PM EST
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It works.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 04:36:13 PM EST
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Can you write other stuff onto the drive?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:49:05 PM EST
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I've just tried that and yes I can write other stuff on and call up the files.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:52:08 PM EST
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Big files?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 03:01:27 PM EST
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Just tried backing up again and it seemed to be working for an hour or so and then came up with the failed message again.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 02:42:20 PM EST
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Is there a sector by sector disk checker on Macs?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 02:57:16 PM EST
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Run disk utility on it and do a verify, but I'd guess the disk is bad.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 03:02:24 PM EST
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I've done that and it finds no problems with the disk. I'll finish backing up my working files tomorrow and then see if disk utility turns anything up for the mac itself.

The issue backing up coincided with firefox corrupting which froze the mac up for ages each time I tried to run it but that has been deleted and reinstalled. I don't know if that was just a coincidence.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 05:33:34 PM EST
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