Time capsules are extremely slow and apple don't make them anymore. I'd go for a WD passport or other mobile USB drive.
Open applications > utilities > console > search for "backupd" and copy/paste all log output into an email to me, I'll take a look Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] www.macambulance.co.uk MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. On 7 Sep 2017, at 12:17, Catherine Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: Hello All - Latest update is that Dropbox have restored all my files for me. Which is good, because the nightmare scenario would have been losing everything or my having to restore a zillion files individually, which would just exacerbate my RSI. This brings me to a request about Time Machine, which I don’t use because I just get a message about it not having worked on current machines. Tried 2 Seagate Backup Plus drives from Amazon on MBP 2012, bought earlier this year. Got the message on both (even though Sam had magnificently checked remotely that everything was working as it should). Returned Seagates, got WD 1TB Elements, formatted it, ran Time Machine, got same message. Thought it might be the MBP itself, so I’ve passed that one onto my partner, and I have a refurbished 2016 MBP, bought from Apple. Ran Time Machine and got the same message. Anyway, while I was on the Apple website I saw that time machine capsules were a thing. They look good. Any advice? Best wishes Catherine Catherine Hunt [email protected] > On 7 Sep 2017, at 10:28, Catherine Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > I also use Backblaze. May see whether I can restore missing files that way. > > > Thank you! > > > > Best wishes > Catherine > > Catherine Hunt > [email protected] > > > >> On 7 Sep 2017, at 10:25, C Staples <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Not good and seemingly without any justification, if you pay for a certain >> amount of storage you expect to have management over that storage yourself. >> >> Dropbox is great for sharing files but I employ a secondary back-up for the >> whole drive. I know this has been talked about recently but I use Backblaze >> and this backs everything up, providing extra security of files. Not much >> use for your lost files but it would stop it happening again. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >>> On 7 Sep 2017, at 10:20, Catherine Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Smuggers, >>> >>> Dropbox disaster not isolated to me, it seems. >>>> >>>> https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Installation-and-desktop-app/Dropbox-randomly-deleted-thousands-of-files-for-no-apparent/td-p/17751 >>>> >>>> Dropbox randomly deleted thousands of files for no apparent reason >>>> (multiple times) >>>> "Since I have started using dropbox, I have had at least 4 instances where >>>> I have had catastrophic deleting of files ans folders for no apparent >>>> reason. It just happened to me again. I was working on my laptop and I >>>> noticed that the little dropbox icon on the bottom right of my windows 8 >>>> PC said that thousands of files were updated. I knew I didn't update them >>>> so I looked into it. I noticed hundreds of my folders were missing and >>>> files were deleted. >>>> >>>> I have no idea how or why this is happening. I was able to go in and >>>> recover them, but I dont know if I caught all of them as you have to >>>> manual search for each file and click recover. >>>> >>>> I run my entire business on dropbox and have 7 employees connected to it. >>>> I am 100% certain the employees did not delete these files. Even if they >>>> wanted to they could not have done it that fast. It seems to pick a random >>>> folder or two an delete random files. Not the entire folder, just random >>>> folders within folders and random files within those folders. >>>> >>>> Help! How can i stop this from happening. I think I may nee to find >>>> another cloud solution?? I do backup my files every week or so on a hard >>>> drive, but if I lost a full weeks or more worth of work, I would be sunk." >>>> >>> >>> >>> Best wishes >>> Catherine >>> >>> Catherine Hunt >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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