Time machine gone wonky since Snow leopard ... stalling, huge backups, etc
Ever since I upgraded to snow leopard, Time Machine has freaked out just about every time it tries to do a backup.
1) It will stall part way through the process regularly. The icon at the top will spin and spin like it's doing a backup, but nothing happens. I've seen it do that for a day and a half, all trying to back up the same 1.8 Mb of data. According to the rather useless little widget you're supposed to download, there is usually no error code, and it lists an error 256 and/or error -36.
While this is stalled, any application that I try to use the "save as," "open," "open recent," or any other command that brings up the dialog box to select a file/location gets the spinning beachball of death and also hangs. The only way to fix this is to turn off or unplug the backup drive, which stops Time Machine, and then turn the drive back on/reconnect it.
The stalling/hanging happens at random times, it seems -- sometimes during the first backup after turning the drive off and on, sometimes on the 4th or 5th but it's happening every day. Disk Utility shows no errors with either the internal drive on my computer or the back-up drive.
The disk still has more than 30 gigs of space, to it is not a "your hard drive is full" thing. Even if it was, Time Machine used to delete old backups to make room for new ones, as needed (at least it did in Leopard).
2) There are unbelievably and unnecessarily large backups almost every day. Even when all I've been doing is editing 1 Excel document, backups sometimes exceed 2.5 Gigs, and they usually stall out part way through (with progress stuck at some portion of the size listed).
I almost wonder if it's not trying to back up swap files or virtual memory space being taken up on the hard drive.
Anywho, that's my latest bugs/problems with snow leopard. I'm about to pull a Vista and downgrade back to 10.5, which was a perfectly fine operating system.
1) It will stall part way through the process regularly. The icon at the top will spin and spin like it's doing a backup, but nothing happens. I've seen it do that for a day and a half, all trying to back up the same 1.8 Mb of data. According to the rather useless little widget you're supposed to download, there is usually no error code, and it lists an error 256 and/or error -36.
While this is stalled, any application that I try to use the "save as," "open," "open recent," or any other command that brings up the dialog box to select a file/location gets the spinning beachball of death and also hangs. The only way to fix this is to turn off or unplug the backup drive, which stops Time Machine, and then turn the drive back on/reconnect it.
The stalling/hanging happens at random times, it seems -- sometimes during the first backup after turning the drive off and on, sometimes on the 4th or 5th but it's happening every day. Disk Utility shows no errors with either the internal drive on my computer or the back-up drive.
The disk still has more than 30 gigs of space, to it is not a "your hard drive is full" thing. Even if it was, Time Machine used to delete old backups to make room for new ones, as needed (at least it did in Leopard).
2) There are unbelievably and unnecessarily large backups almost every day. Even when all I've been doing is editing 1 Excel document, backups sometimes exceed 2.5 Gigs, and they usually stall out part way through (with progress stuck at some portion of the size listed).
I almost wonder if it's not trying to back up swap files or virtual memory space being taken up on the hard drive.
Anywho, that's my latest bugs/problems with snow leopard. I'm about to pull a Vista and downgrade back to 10.5, which was a perfectly fine operating system.
imac 2.4 gh intel core 2 duo, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
