Hi Paul, Just a quick question. In System Preferences > Time Machine > Options - Do you have "Notify after old backups are deleted" selected?
If so: Unselect it, then Restart your Mac, then Connect the newly erased 1TB external drive, and see if you receive "This backup is too large for the backup disk". If you have completely erased and formatted the external disk correctly it may just be a incorrect message displaying. By unselecting the "Notify etc" and restarting etc it might be enough to get things going again. Cheers, Ronni On 08/10/2012, at 10:50 AM, Paul Willemse <p...@thelink.to> wrote: > Hi All, > > My Time Machine suddenly gave up. The message is: > > "This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 1.06 TB > but only 998.49 GB are available." > > The disk I am trying to backup has 453GB in use and 546GB free. > > I have erased the Time Machine disk (Mac OS Extended Journaled), run Verify > Permissions and Verify Disk (on all disks on my system), all to no avail. > > Mac Pro, 10GB memory, mid 2010, OS X 10.8.2. > > Regards, > > Paul -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
