Harry, Just to make sure that everything is set up properly on your external, try the following:
• Connect the external HD to your Mac. • Open Disk Utility. • Select your drive from the list on the left. Make sure that you select the drive itself, not the formatted partition. That is, select the one that reads 500 GB blah bla, not the one with the name you've given it. • Select the Partition tab. • Select one from the Partition layout pop-up. • Give it a name. • Make sure it's on MacOS Extended Journaled. • Click on the Options button. • Select the GUID Partition scheme. • Click OK then Partition. • As long as you're good with erasing everything on the disk, confirm everything that needs confirmed. • Let it do its thing then Quit Disk Utility. • Go back into Time Machine and set it as the location for Time Machine backups. If the HD is connected directly to your Mac, it should start the process fairly quickly. Depending on how much data is on your internal HD,, this could take quite a while. Everything should be automatic after the first one has been completed. If your external HD is connected to an Airport Extreme, then I suggest that you use an ethernet cable for the initial backup then wireless should be fine for all subsequent backups. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-07-06, at 12:55 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. :( >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
