I never used a password on a drive before. Did you ever try doing
backups without a password? I used a WD MyBook 500GB to do backups for
years before it became to small to use (after 4 years). So you would
think WD would have a reasonably good chance of getting their newer
devices right. I just wonder if the password stuff is interfering with
the backups somehow.
CB
On 7/6/12 2:55 PM, Harry Hogue wrote:
I know that I have an external drive that I bought back at the beginning of
November. I successfully backed up to it once, as it was preformatted fo Mac,
OSX extended, journaled. I set a password on it, but ever since that single
back up, it has enver worked. I have tried reformatting it, and it seems to
work, but then almsot halfway into backing up it will say there was an error
backing up my files and that I need to repair the drive. It is a 500gb Western
Digital Mypassword. Has anyone else had this issue with this particular drive?
For a long time I thought it was VoiceOver, since everything would go dim
after I would enter the password and I would have to manually quit the drive,
etc. I'm just trying to figure out a way to get it repaired so it actually
works, but everything seems to be giving errors.
Harry
On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Not sure why you can't seem to backup to a local hard drive. Is it formatted as
MacOS Extended (Journaled) ? It should just be a set and forget kind of thing.
Just be sure you don't try to put anything else on the same drive since TM will
use all available space.
CB
On 7/1/12 12:49 PM, Christina wrote:
Hello listers,
My family was considering investing in a time capsule. I had purchased an USB
external hard drive for my mac but I cannot get time machine to continue
backups on it. I can reformat the hard drive then it MIGHT back up if I am
lucky. However, it will not back up again. Anyways, we are also looking at
time capsule because we have several computers.
My husband had read reviews and some people have a lot of trouble with the time
capsules and there were lots of complaints of the hard drives crashing and they
lost all of their data.
Can you please share your experiences with Time Capsule or a good alternative
to backing up our computers. I would much appreciate it.
You may e-mail me off list at blindmaclo...@gmail.com
Thanks,
Christina C
Who is freaking out because her mac is not back upped at the moment. :(
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