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Unable to backup on external device. Does anyone know what this means?

MacBook Air

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 12:57 PM

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Posted on Aug 18, 2020 1:13 PM

The error message is stating that there is not enough free space on your internal harddisk to do a backup.

Free up space on your mac first.

This has some helpful tips how to do that:

The backup prosesss needs free space on the hdd to be able to backup.

Good luck!

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