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time machine backup

  1. Asu

    Time machine backing up itself?

    I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch 2017, 2 USB-C ports, MacOS 10.13.6, with about 90 GB content, 120 GB total HD. It gets its first backup onto a pristine, just reformatted, 500 GB external drive, via USB. The drive is connected via a USB to USB-C connector (in case this could be an issue). The...
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  2. J

    Time Machine slow at certain spots

    This is not about general speed of time machine backups, but whenever a backup seems to be taking forever and I look in "Time Machine Preferences...", it always seems to be "stuck" (actually just going very, very, very slowly) at a certain spot in the backup. Right now it says "Backing up 429.7...
  3. Skeptical.me

    2017 iMac External SSD Boot Drive & Time Machine

    Hi, I have a new 2017 iMac 27" 5K 3.5Ghz 1TB Fusion drive. I added a 500GB M.2 SSD in a USB-C to USB-C External Housing as the the boot drive. It's certainly made a difference in performance. However, the Fusion Drive has a Windows 10 partition (Boot Camp) and 750GB of free space. I am just...
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  4. S

    Time Machine won't work with external HD

    I have a new MacBook Pro running OS X High Sierra 10.13.6. I've hooked up a Time Machine external 5 TB hard drive. It's been backing up the Macintosh HD (why do they call it a HD when it's a SSD?) but does not back up a LaCie 5 TB external hard drive. I can tell that by the Time Machine message...
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