Thanks Ronni and Carlo The back up drive is cable to Firewire. Your suggestion Ronni is working OK now. Cheers John
On 13/12/2010, at 8:39 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi John, > > If it’s a directly-connected USB or FireWire disk, eject and disconnect it. > If it has it’s own power supply, either turn it off or unplug it. > Wait a few moments, then Restart your Mac, then reconnect. > > Then try re-selecting your Time Machine drive in Time Machine Preferences > (select the "none" drive, then the correct one). > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 13/12/2010, at 8:07 PM, cm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> I have seen setups where the wireless signal to a Time Capsule is a bit weak >> and connection with the backup drive is lost. What exactly is your Time >> Machine setup. Do you have backups going directly to an external hard drive >> that you plug into your computer? If so perhaps the drive was not plugged in >> when the next backup was scheduled to take place. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> >> On 2010-12-13, at 17:11, John Daniels wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi folks >>> I had a message on my screen from Time Machine program telling me that I >>> have either changed the backup volume or someone is trying to redirect the >>> backup to another disc. I have stopped backups and unplugged the external >>> disc. >>> Has anyone come across this before? >>> Cheers >>> John >>> >> >> >> >> -- 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]>
