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| From | jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.sys.mac |
| Subject | Re: Another TM problem - what now? |
| Date | 2020-08-06 02:07 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rgfl46$91j$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <rgf1e1$vue$1@dont-email.me> <rgfch9$1t9$1@dont-email.me> |
On 05/08/2020 23:40, jbrennand wrote: > On 05/08/2020 20:31, jbrennand wrote: >> Doing a TM backup tonight (MBAir/10.15.6) to a external HD that I have >> used several times this year and got some strange behaviour. About >> 2/3 through it - for no apparent reason it all went pear shaped. The >> main issue was an error message about not being able to "load System >> Preferences". I couldn't do anything. Sys Prefs wouldn't force quit >> and "shut down" did nothing". I had to bomb out and restart. >> >> When all was back up, I looked in the TM disk and saw the backup was >> there as "in progress". I thought the best option was to delete that >> and start again. So tried that but the waste basket has been deleting >> for >1 hour. >> >> Is this normal ? Any suggestions? I would like to get to bed tonight >> :-) >> >> Cheers JohnB > Update. > > Erased the partition and tried again, at 17 mins left it crashed out > with the same "System prefs error". MBAir was dead in the water. > > Had to restart on the power button. > > Will try a different external HD tomorrow and also get CCC ready to go. > > JohnB Update 2 Tried another HD last thing last night and TM completed fine in ~2h. So looks as if it was a dodgy HD after all ! JohnB
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Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-05 20:31 +0100
Re: Another TM problem - what now? Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-08-05 19:54 +0000
Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-05 21:09 +0100
Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-05 23:40 +0100
Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-06 02:07 +0100
Re: Another TM problem - what now? David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-08-06 07:33 +0100
Re: Another TM problem - what now? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 10:03 +0000
Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-06 11:44 +0100
Re: Another TM problem - what now? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 11:54 +0000
Re: Another TM problem - what now? jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> - 2020-08-06 13:28 +0100
Re: Another TM problem - what now? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 10:02 +0000
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