Graeme, It sounds like there is a major problem with your drive.
I would try reformatting the drive, then setting up Time Machine to use the drive again. If you keep getting errors like Disk Repair is advising you, it would be risky to rely on this as a back up disk! How long was the warranty? Regards, John __________________ John Winters Phone +61 8 9244 4564 Fax +61 8 9446 7709 blocked::john.wint...@kidsdentist.com.au From: Graeme Winters <g.wint...@iinet.net.au> Reply-To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA <wamug@wamug.org.au> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:38:45 +0800 To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA <wamug@wamug.org.au> Subject: Time Machine Trouble with Time Machine In December 2009 I purchased my IMac 27² 3.06Ghz/4GB/1TB/HD With this I purchased a WD My Book Mac Edition 1TB All was assembled and ran fine until last week when a message bar appeared telling me that Back up could not be completed I have tried to date Disk Repair and received the following messages Invalid node structure Invalid record count Missing thread record Bad parent directory Missing directory record Incorrect flag for directory The Volume could not be opened after 3 attempts Error Disk Utility cannot repair this disk Verify stopped My book corrupt Tried repair again I have disconnected the WD several times and started again doing a back up Each time when I go to Time Machine at the options window the message is Next Backup when disk connected At Select Disk no disk is shown This was the case again at 3.00pm today However when I switched the WD off and on again the back up appeared and acknowledged that the next backup would occur shortly Surely I should not have to manually activate the backup What have I missed? As an aside does Time Machine when working also back up my Windows work as well ie MYOB files Graeme Winters -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
