Time Machine Error Codes.

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Time Machine Error Codes.

Well, Leopard is an amazing application. It runs slightly choppy, but everything else it has offered

my *12" Powerbook* is beautiful. Now here's the problem. Time Machine has an ERROR CODE! I

thought Mac software doesn't contain cryptic error messages like "*error code -6580*"? At my

house, Time Machine is run over a network to a Seagate external drive. Please if someone is out

there who works for apple or can take apart a CD and put it back together, please explain to me

what this error message means. That, or could everyone band with me to get apple to place a page

on their website with all the error codes, and their meanings. If someone gave the error a code,

then they must know it exists right? Someone, please help me restore my utter faith in apple.

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.5.1), Mostly iPods

Posted on Nov 20, 2007 7:17 AM

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Nov 23, 2007 4:04 PM in response to Ilike's

I had the same trouble, I was connecting to a western digital my book, using a Mac Mini G4 as a server. I had partitioned it to 2 partitions, named for my macbook pro and my wife's macbook. I think the problem was the long file names I assigned. When I renamed the partitions with no spaces and no characters, at least THAT error has gone away...so far Time Machine, at least for portables isn't making me feel loved.

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MacBones

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Jan 27, 2008 7:45 PM in response to Ilike's

6580. similar probs. seems that leopard is a bit buggy. Apple needs to get working to deliver what they promise.I was using time machine to back up to an old g4. No suddenly I can't mount the volume. Thanks Apple for a buggy piece of software. Remember, we use Apple stuff because IT JUST WORKS.

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Jan 29, 2008 10:19 AM in response to MacBones

I'm getting error 11. No idea yet about where to look up what that means, but at least it expands the variety for us to think about.

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Squirryl

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Jan 30, 2008 11:02 AM in response to wyvern-eater

Hi there,
I had exactly the same problem and I fixex it. Look under which user you are connected to your network drive. Then open a terminal window on you file server. Make yourself root (type: sudo su). Check the properties of your Backup file (....sparesbundle).

I bet it's different from your network user. Change it with the "chown" and.... then it works.

This is f... UNIX and absolutely not Apple style. Hopefully they fix it with 10.5.2

Florian

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