Thanks John The issue with this drive is strange When I open Time Machine , the time and date of the last back up is shown but at the NEXT backup line the words shown are When the drive is connected If I switch the drive off at the unit and then on again and enter a password and the drive comes to life and starts backing up
I am missing the automatic feature of the TM Graeme On 23/02/2010, at 9:38 PM, John Winters wrote: > 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::[email protected] > > > > > > From: Graeme Winters <[email protected]> > Reply-To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:38:45 +0800 > To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA <[email protected]> > Subject: Time Machine > > > > Trouble with Time Machine > > In December 2009 I purchased my IMac 27” 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:[email protected]> > > > > > -- 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:[email protected]> -- 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:[email protected]>
