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Time Machine not working

Time Machine on my iMac (Mojave) has not backed up for several days. Restarting doesn't help. The external HD 'Time Machine Ext' is connected; its icon appears on the desktop.

Message says:

"Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "TIME MACHINE Ext"

Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."

I would attach the screen shots but there does not seem to be a way to do so.

Thanks for any help!

iMac 27", macOS 10.14

Posted on May 5, 2019 6:40 AM

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macjack

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Posted on May 5, 2019 6:44 AM

If you don't need your old backups, the easiest and fastest way to solve this would be to reformat your external hard drive and start over.

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