Time machine background is blank.

[yetanotherdave]

It's very simple, the background has vanished from time machine. I'm pretty sure I haven't touched the program, but I'm also not sure when this happened, it could have been pre snow leopard.
Any idea?

 

[Richard1028]

Maybe one of the stars just went supernova?

 

[sputacus]

I had the same thing happened to me - don't know when it occurred as I don't enter the TM that much. The only fix I've found is to get the "MacPilot" application (there is a free evaluation period), go to the "General" menu tab, scroll down to and select "Time Machine," and then check "Animate space background." It fixed it on my machine.

I asked about this issue on another Mac forum and didn't get a response. I googled it, but still couldn't find a cause or a solution short of getting MacPilot.

PS - the problem is at least 2 years old, thus pre-dating snow leopard.

 

[yetanotherdave]

I had the same thing happened to me - don't know when it occurred as I don't enter the TM that much. The only fix I've found is to get the "MacPilot" application (there is a free evaluation period), go to the "General" menu tab, scroll down to and select "Time Machine," and then check "Animate space background." It fixed it on my machine.

I asked about this issue on another Mac forum and didn't get a response. I googled it, but still couldn't find a cause or a solution short of getting MacPilot.

PS - the problem is at least 2 years old, thus pre-dating snow leopard.

Thanks, that worked. Goes back to blank if I go back to not animated, oh well.

 

[sputacus]

Thanks, that worked. Goes back to blank if I go back to not animated, oh well.

Glad it worked for you!!!

I ended up buying MacPilot yesterday because of this experience. Who knows - it may come in handy later if another setting goes AWOL for no apparent reason...