Thanks Ronni and Neil,
I shut down the Mac and after it restarted Disk Utility was able to repair the
disk. So it is now backing up quite happily!!
On 09/02/2011, at 2:51 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Peter,
In the past, I have had drives get hung-up and refuse to unmount
(generally, I
Hi Peter,
Thanks for posting back that you were able to eventually “Repair the Backup
Time Machine Drive’.
Where you then able to delete the backup that you thought had a problem?
Or was it just an incomplete backup that perhaps was stopped by you before it
completed?
The Error message you
Hi Ronni,
I tried a couple of the things you suggested but kept getting a message that
the disk could not be unmounted and so the Repair Disk could not be done.
So I decided that erasing and reformatting the disk was the only option, but
again it was not possible as it could not unmount the
Hi Peter,
In the past, I have had drives get hung-up and refuse to unmount
(generally, I think, when OSX thought the drive was in use - but I
couldn't find out what was supposed to be using it).
In this case, I have found that shutting down the computer seems to put
everything to bed and the
I have an external hard drive for backups and I think there is a problem with a
backup of a USB drive. I tried to delete so I could do another backup but I get
an error message -50 which the Apple website translates as -50 paramErr Error
in user parameter list.
Time Machine also informs me
On 07/02/2011, at 6:48 PM, Peter Bull wrote:
I have an external hard drive for backups and I think there is a problem with
a backup of a USB drive. I tried to delete so I could do another backup but I
get an error message -50 which the Apple website translates as -50 paramErr
Error in
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