Hi Phil
Time Machine Editor might've edited the time machine preference files. Which OS
are you on? With 10.7 and above there's a command line utility that provides
more control over time machine, it may just be a case of associating your hard
drive with a current backup instead of backing up over again.
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On 15 Feb 2014, at 09:36, Phil Tomlinson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It's happened again (see posts from 2009 to 29/10/2013).
> Time Machine, which seems to have been working just fine for me for months,
> has now decided to do a big backup of 263.05 GB, and is now operating so
> slowly (just 1.94GB overnight) that it will probably take a week to complete
> it.
> Once again, I received a message saying that there was a conflict between
> Time Machine and "Time Machine Editor" (I don't actually have this App) so I
> then turned off "automatic backups" and started the present session of epic
> slowness...
> Should I set Energy saver to Computer Sleep "Never"? Do I have to leave the
> iMac on all the time? Will my now elderly machine survive this latest backup?
> Any advice or opinions gratefully received as always!
>
> Phil T
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