Ok, between disk verification and rebooting my Mac, the backup has succeeded. Odd.
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 On Nov 12, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
