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spooky3

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2. Thanks. Unfortunately, that's not the case for me.

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:16 PM

Sep 2012

There's plenty of space for incremental backups--have used one machine with one drive and the other machine with two drives for > a year (with automatic deletions after a certain period) and had no problems until last week, when BOTH Macs had problems with these drives, and with a new drive I had bought when I was hoping that the problem was drives going bad.

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Time Machine backup problems [View all] spooky3 Sep 2012 OP

I was having Time Machine issues, and it turned out that my backup drive Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2012 #1

Thanks. Unfortunately, that's not the case for me. spooky3 Sep 2012 #2

Not sure if this will help anyone, but apparently the problem lies with OS 10.7.5 (recently updated) spooky3 Sep 2012 #3

Stop using Time Machine. sir pball Oct 2012 #4

I'll second your endorsement of CC. I paid the $40 to put it on our new iMac Stinky The Clown Oct 2012 #5

Apple has finally issued an update to 10.7.5 to fix the Time Machine/Spotlight issue. spooky3 Oct 2012 #6

Are you comfortable with the commandline? sir pball Oct 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Oct 2012 #8

You aren't necessarily making multiple copies sir pball Oct 2012 #9