Thank you
for problem 1 the suggeted cures did not work and when I put a blank cd into
the dive I end up with untitled cd 1 and 2 both with the radiation loge. CD1
ignores me but cd2 goes if I burn the disc.
Any other ideas?
Problem 2
It is interesting that you don't use timemachine.I have never been sure about
it and have never needed it.Although I did adde a disc for the facility but
have never used it for real.
All my data is backup independently.to DVD.
All lot of discs so I only backup really important data, imprtant defined as I
cannot repeat the data.
What do you use.
To anser your question both discs are 1!tb
the time machine is not used for anything else
I do use and need parallels.
I have copied the contents of the timemachine disc to the trash and emptied
the trash.
I have turned off timemachine and renamed rhe disc.
It now appears as a device.
It does seem a longwinded way of recovery a disc for use
regards Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: Toby Leighton
To: smug@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [sussex_mug] Time Machine backup
The second problem first because thats an easy one - radiation logo. That
represents some files waiting to be burned to a blank cd or dvd. Lion handles
these a bit differently now, but from memory you can just drag the "untitled
cd" folder off the finder window to the left and let go, it should disappear in
a puff of smoke and thats it gone. It should only contain aliases to files
waiting to be burned, not the actual files themselves. Alternatively you could
pop a blank cd or dvd in the drive and press the radiation button to burn the
disc, once its finished it shouldnt be in finder anymore.
Time Machine backups can be a bit more tricky and I havent actively used time
machine in a while now. Time machine kind of does its thing automatically,
which should include older items disappearing out of the back to make room for
newer backups at the front...
Some more information would be helpful.
Are you also using the hard drive to store other files on as well as the
backup?
Is your main internal hard drive greater than or equal to 1Tb?
do you run any of the "usual suspect" programs that can fill up time machine
really quickly? - Microsoft Entourage, Parallels/VMWare or other windows
virtualisation programs?
If so excuding their data files would be a good start...
On 29 January 2012 07:39, Brian Terry <brian_te...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Two problems
I have a terabyte disc that I use as backup.
It now tell me that I have only about 11.95 gb available and will not
complete a backup,it does not make room for any new backups
I cannot find a way to empty the disc.
next problem
in the rhs of the finder window under favorites(sic) the has appeared
an icon like a radiation logo untitled cd2 and then the radiation logo again
I cannot acces this b thing
Can anybody help
Regards
Brian
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