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Hi all
I have tried two different hard drives now (formatted each time) to Time Machine preferences and each time it fails to complete the first back-up. It just says 'waiting to complete first back up'.
Any solutions/suggestions greatly appreciated in advance.
Thanks
Shane
Be patient, a first TimeMachine backup can take a very, very long time
But maybe this links interest you:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204412
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202784
You can't use a NTFS-formatted disk
Be patient, a first TimeMachine backup can take a very, very long time
But maybe this links interest you:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204412
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202784
You can't use a NTFS-formatted disk
Thanks for your message and the links. Indeed, I have checked those sites and everything seems ok. But its the same problem now for many weeks. I reformatted the old Time Machine disk and even started again. And then the same problem, so I moved to a new HDD. Same problem. Its gets to about 50GB of the back-up and then gets stuck on 'waiting for the first back-up'. Again and again!!
Hope someone else had a similar problem and found a solution...im struggling :(
Thanks
As a test give these free trials a try...
Carbon Copy Cloner...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Give Tri-Backup a try, it can do everything & far more than TM can do...
https://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
I managed to find a solution. If anyone else has the same problem, do the following:
Got into system preferences, then spotlight: click on privacy and then add the Hardrive from the + sign. For some reason that seemed to work for me!!
Thanks, so what is it backing up now? Or did you then remove the Harddrive from that Pref Pane?
Timemachine: Waiting to complete first back up
