Mac Studio crashed overnight

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Mac Studio crashed overnight

I just bought a Mac Studio a couple months ago. I've generally been very happy with it, but have noticed a couple odd things lately.

First, the Seagate drive I use for Time Machine backups disconnects from time to time. This is the error I get:

I thought that was a Seagate issue originally. But today when I went to wake the machine up, it was off. I have 7.59 free TB. Plenty of memory, and everything is up to date:

I never shut down at night... is that something I should be doing? Apple did advise me that wasn't necessary with previous machines.

Also, I couldn't help but notice there were a lot of Time Machine backups yesterday. Way more than previously. Might this have something to do with it?

Mac Studio, macOS 14.1

Posted on Dec 5, 2023 10:27 AM

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WheelieNick

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Dec 5, 2023 1:08 PM in response to jawns

Do you have the Seagate disk connected with an USB C to USB A plug? I have that as well and sometimes, it will lose its connection and will give the "not ejected properly" error. You might want to look into an usb C external drive if you don't allready have that

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Dec 5, 2023 2:00 PM in response to WheelieNick

No, I bought a USBC cable for it, so there is no dongle involved.

I also went into the time machine settings and changed it to only backup once per day. It was set to hourly by default. With that said, not sure why it decided to only backup hourly yesterday.

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Dec 7, 2023 11:04 AM in response to jawns

Time machine manages it own space. When it needs more space, it will take care of creating more space, by consolidating, NOT DELETING older backups. ¿Were you going to rent out the excess?

Its stored files are double-locked, and any attempt to delete anything with Finder will result in a Trash Can full of un-deletable stuff, and a backup SET that has lost its integrity.

Don't touch it.

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WheelieNick

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Dec 5, 2023 2:25 PM in response to jawns

Yeah it should do it hourly everyday when that setting is set up. Very weird indeed

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jawns Author

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Dec 7, 2023 10:28 AM in response to WheelieNick

Do you know how I can delete specific time machine backups? All those hourly ones are wasting space and the old method doesnt seem to work anymore. I cant figure out how to remove specific backups...

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jawns Author

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Dec 11, 2023 8:07 AM in response to jawns

Never mind, its not possible anymore.

Apple, it would be nice to be made aware of updates like this.

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