I am using Time Machine to restore a new MacBook Pro 16″. I am using an encrypted HDD that’s connected with USB 3 for the restoration. However, since about an hour the Mac is frozen at the step “Preparing to restore “Macintosh HD”…. Is this behavior normal? How long should a restoration take? Or should … Read more
Just upgraded my 2012(mid) non-retina 13” MacBook Pro with a crucial sad 1tb and having troubles restoring back up from Time machine. I’m sure it’s important to mention I installed a new data cable as well. The steps I used were: In the recovery mode, I erase the hard drive in the disk utilities section … Read more
So ive had this WD easy store 10tb external drive for 2 weeks now with a 2019 16″ MBP with 10.15.5 Catalina running. Its formatted Mac OS extended journaled(the xternal drive). Ive got 3 partitions on the eternal drive. Have been getting all these errors – see below – trouble copying files, can’t be ejected, … Read more
I made a time machine backup of everything that was in /Mac/Users/MYUSER/ and nothing else. I then erased my drive and reinstalled MacOS. When I tried to restore from my Time Machine Backup, it made a directory /Mac/2020-09-05-185317/ and did not place the files in the correct places, but instead put the file hierarchy inside … Read more
For some reason, InDesign and Time Machine don’t play well on my MacBook Pro. Whenever Time Machine starts backing up or prepares backups, I get frequent Beach Balls in InDesign. This might be due to a quite poor WiFi-connection, which I unfortunately cannot fix. My current workflow sees me disabling Time Machine when I use … Read more
I have a MacOS App Store app that I depend upon, almost on an hourly basis, that is no longer available in the app store (or anywhere else for that matter). I’ve been tried contacting the original developer on multiple occasions on multiple platforms for almost three years, to no avail. I have even offered … Read more
When using diskutil list in Recovery, I can see 20 disk images that are certainly localsnapshots from Time Machine. I need to remove these disks so I can use Bootcamp Assistant. I have disabled Time Machine and removed the associated drives in System Preferences. I have also used tmutil (in normal boot) to list and … Read more
There are few TM backups: regulars are at continuously connected HDD, and another at external HDD which was used once to create a snapshot (same iMac). Now there is need to compare between two backups which separated by two days. I tried to use tmutil compare without any luck. Seems like it doesn’t want to … Read more
My old Time Machine backup drive (external USB) is now almost full. I have purchased a larger drive and want to switch to it for Time Machine, migrating all my old backups to the new drive’s archive. I presume that I start by copying the Time Machine archive from the old backup drive to the … Read more
I want to attach an external USB drive as a Time Machine target. What is the way to do this? I had thought Disk Utility would be able to help .. This is Catalina on a 2020 Macbook pro . The external USB3 drive is connected via a USB <–> USB-C adapter to the Mac. … Read more
