Good morning !
I tried to do a back up of my mac for the first time (it's a 2017 Macbook air that works with Catalina - Version 10.15.4)
I used an external Disk, and when I tried it says "Time Machine could not create a local snapshot to back up from".
I'm not very familiar with computers, can someone help me ? Thanks a lot.
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15
check the disk is suitable and formatted as recommended in Apple format
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250
use Disk Utility app to format it https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/dskutl14079/mac
check the disk is suitable and formatted as recommended in Apple format
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250
use Disk Utility app to format it https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/dskutl14079/mac
So you definitely formatted it in the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.?
How much free space do you have on your boot drive?
I have done the same, followed the the formatting above, and I get:
Time Machine could not create a local snapshot to back up from.
Having the same issue. Old Toad seems to be right. I had 1.5GB on my mac hard drive, and this prevented it from being able to create the local snapshots for time machine. When I deleted some files I was able to start time machine again.
Thanks for the reply, however, my external disk is already "mac friendly", and it still doesn't work..
Time Machine could not create a local snapshot to back up from
