I spoke too soon. Still wrestling with disk verification, which says it appears to be ok. However, Time Machine is still balking.
teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Paul. you put me on the right track, I think. My backup external > drive is listed twice in the backups table, so I chose the “other one”. How > odd. I don’t know what caused that to happen, but there you have it. It was > listed twice, with the same capacity and the same name. > > Thanks, > teresa > > "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham > > On Nov 12, 2013, at 1:38 AM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I had this happen to me a few months ago, before Mavericks came out. It >> appeared that my computer got renamed. Just once, I saw a dialog, saying >> that my computer name, mac mini, was already on the network. That message >> was in error, because all I did was reboot my mini, and when it came on and >> attempted to join the network, the rename happened. It's now called mac mini >> (2). Since that day, my time machine gave errors, and what solved it for me, >> was to re select my destination backup drive. >> >> Hth? >> Paul. >> On Nov 12, 2013, at 12:46 AM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Ok, I’m getting this message in my notification center repeatedly. I have >>> it set to notify me when old backups are deleted. It says the current >>> backup is supposed to be 168 gigs. That doesn’t quite sound right. I >>> upgraded to Mavericks the day it came out, but it’s taken this long for >>> this problem to crop up. What can I start doing to pin down the problem? >>> Disk repair? Exclude items from the backup? Ideas? :) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Teresa >>> >>> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too >>> dark to read."--Groucho Marx >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
