Time Machine freezes my iMac, have to do a hard reboot.
I found the thread topic : Time Machine - TROUBLESHOOTING posted by Pondini.
+E4. Time Machine Interface ("Star Wars") won't display properly, or crashes+ seemed to the point.
First I did: +De-select your TM drive via TM Preferences > Select Disk (Change Disk on Leopard): select the "none" entry, then re-select the correct one.+
Then I did: +Do a "complete reset" of TM, as in item #A4.+
Then I did: +Do a Repair Disk on your TM drive. See section #A5 above.+
Then I did: +Try or create another user (System Preferences > Accounts).+ and was able to get to the Star Wars screen for the first time! So I then followed the instruction: +If it works ok from that user, delete the file:+
+<home folder of the user where it doesn't work>/Library/Preferences/com.Apple.Finder.plist+
However, when I tried to open Time Machine, I once again got a frozen computer. I can access Time Machine through the other account, and it looks like all of the backups are there and complete, but I cannot seem to restore from them because the account from which I am accessing it is not the original account.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Imac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)