Hi Ronni, Problem solved! It was my fault all along. When I first upgraded to Mountain Lion there was an option to keep the old information. I don't remember the exact wording but I clicked 'yes'. Once I removed that file it reduced the amount needed for backup and it is proceeding at the moment. Approximately 1.5 million items and 9 hours to go!
Thanks for all your assistance, you are, as always, extremely helpful and very much appreciated. Wish it was later in the day, I could use a glass of 'red' <grin>. Regards, Paul On 8 Oct, 2012, at 18:12 :36, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > So you continued backing up to the Lion "reuse backup" TM when you upgraded > to Mountain Lion? > If you chose "Reuse Backup" it would preserve the old backups and you would > have access to them. > However, it would still make a full system backup on the first run which > would take a lot of space on the backup drive. > > When you do a "Get Info" on the 'Erased' external drive how much available: > does it say? > Also look in Disk Utility to see what it indicates... how many files on the > drive, size etc. > > Might be worth erasing it again in Disk Utility and see if it helps. > It seems to me that the external still has something on it taking up space, > which isn't being deleted when you erase the drive? > When you connect the drive to your Mac nothing shows in the Mac's Trash does > it? > > What Partition Map Scheme do you have the external drive formatted, is it > GUID Partition Table? > > Cheers, > Ronni > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
