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10.5.3 and new Time Machine error

time machine frozen since10.5.3

since downloading 10.5.3 i cannot access time machine past the first or second click. it totally freezes when trying. backup are still being done i just cant look at them. apple:confused: has no answers yet!!!!
 
just to add to the fray, I have been experiencing most of the problems described above as well, including the hourly backup issue and time machine freezing up when I click through past files. Seems this is not an isolated issue...
 
Problem seems to only affect me when machine is idle

I have noticed that about every other day I will see the error described above when I come home from work and wake my machine. I can always manually back up and hourly backups work without failure while I am working on my iMac. Could be coincidence but my problems always seem to coincide with sleep mode.
 
TimMACman said:
Could be coincidence but my problems always seem to coincide with sleep mode.
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The first time I got the error it was immediately after waking from sleep, however the second time it was after the computer had been in use the whole evening. I haven't gotten it since last posting in this thread.
 
I don't want to say it too loud, but after I took the advice of someone here -- unmounted my Time Machine drive, turned it off, then turned it back on and let my Mac find it and mount it again -- the error hasn't come back (probably will now...).
 
TimMACman said:
I have noticed that about every other day I will see the error described above when I come home from work and wake my machine. I can always manually back up and hourly backups work without failure while I am working on my iMac. Could be coincidence but my problems always seem to coincide with sleep mode.
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My Mac Pro is on 24x7, and it's having the problem, so I don't think it's due to sleep mode.

-Kevin
 
mreg376 said:
I don't want to say it too loud, but after I took the advice of someone here -- unmounted my Time Machine drive, turned it off, then turned it back on and let my Mac find it and mount it again -- the error hasn't come back (probably will now...).
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I think that was my advice. I did the same, however, sure enough, got the error again this morning. Subsequent backups are fine.

-Kevin
 
well at least some of you guys have been able to back up manually, nothing has worked for me, i restarted the whole system, disconnected and connected hard drive, restarted airport extreme, tried setting up time machine with hard drive connected directly via usb, ran a permissions and fix on the hard drive. nothing has worked i get the error message every time.
 
Another data point:

Mac Pro with 1 TB internal assigned to TM duties -- I see the same behavior once or twice a day. I can't relate it to 10.5.3 because I wasn't using TM until after I installed 10.5.3.

If I immediately ask for a backup after a failure, that one runs.

The event today was when the machine was wide awake.

MBP with external -- no problems seen.
 
Same story here - I downloaded the 10.5.3 update and the same evening I had my first Time Machine error. At the time this was on a Firewired Iomega external drive and I had this error sporadically over the next couple of days. I then changed the Time Machine backup drive to a USB Lacie external drive. And since then... I've had this same error.
With all the instances of this being mentioned across the web, it looks like an apple problem and I can only hope that 10.5.4 will fix it soon.
What astounds me is that this wasn't picked up during all those weeks of beta testing for 10.5.3???
 
i filed one also, apparently a bunch of people on the apple support forums are having the same issue and all filed bug reports. this issue should get some attention soon.
 
Just to add to the pile, me too.

Latest generation Mac Pro with 10 gigs backing up first 250 Gig drive to second internal 500 Gig drive using Time Machine. Roughly one or two such failures a day, manual backup fails also until reboot then everything is fine until next time.

There must be some other factor though, 10.5.3 was out for a while before this started, and now it's happening once or twice a day as I said. The solution better not involve formatting the TM drive, losing six months of backups is a bad thing.

For what it's worth, I am also having the "skittering mouse" problem that everyone is reporting since 10.5.3 :mad:
 
reinstall

after hours in phone with mac and trying everythingelse, i wound up reinstallin 10.5 and doing a new combo update. tm then worked fine and i restored from last backup. some third party software needed tweakin, but now all is aok
 
dmen said:
after hours in phone with mac and trying everythingelse, i wound up reinstallin 10.5 and doing a new combo update. tm then worked fine and i restored from last backup. some third party software needed tweakin, but now all is aok
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Thanks, but that's not really a satisfactory solution to an Apple-induced bug. Apple will have to do better.
 
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