Hi, Chris, Interestingly, after reformatting, it no longer asks for a password, so that doesn't appear to be the issue. I'm not sure. I will try a repair again.
Harry On Jul 6, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I never used a password on a drive before. Did you ever try doing backups > without a password? I used a WD MyBook 500GB to do backups for years before > it became to small to use (after 4 years). So you would think WD would have a > reasonably good chance of getting their newer devices right. I just wonder if > the password stuff is interfering with the backups somehow. > > CB > > On 7/6/12 2:55 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: >> 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 [email protected] >>>> >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
