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.
