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Timemachine: Waiting to complete first back up

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


Posted on Jul 27, 2019 12:06 PM

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Posted on Jul 27, 2019 1:11 PM

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


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Jul 27, 2019 2:04 PM in response to mulberry58

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


Timemachine: Waiting to complete first back up

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