Time Machine Drive

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Time Machine Drive

My sister gave me her M1 Macbook Air but asked me to back up her stuff. I created a time machine drive and today she got another macbook so I started to use the time machine drive to get her up and going. Everything was going well til the transfer stopped and asked me to restart. I did everything again but now the drive won't show up on either hers or mine. Tried different usb adapters, tried to see if it was the drive itself but it shows up on windows partition and even on seatools but it says that no data is on it. My question is if there's a chance that the drive got wiped for some reason during the transfer?

M1 Macbook Ventura

256Gb source to 1Tb external SSD.

Posted on Jan 22, 2024 4:42 PM

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Barney-15E

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Jan 22, 2024 5:52 PM in response to MrDotTaco

I have never seen it erase a drive. Time Machine would have formatted it APFS (Case Sensitive). How is it currently formatted?

When you ran the backup, did you see a massage stating it had completed the first full backup?

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MrDotTaco Author

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Jan 22, 2024 7:22 PM in response to Barney-15E

It's formatted in APFS (Case Sensitive). When I ran the backup, I let it finish and it prompted me to exit the app as it was all done. When I was restoring the information onto the new system. It said the drive had 50Gb of data and that the transfer would take 14 hours or so. So i let it run and came back about an hour later and the drive had turned off while on screen it said that drive had been lost, to reconnect again. Tried to but no luck.

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Barney-15E

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Jan 22, 2024 7:29 PM in response to MrDotTaco

Sorry, no idea why it appears empty.

I'm confused slightly about this as it really isn't a GUI app:

and it prompted me to exit the app

It should have only put up a notification that it had completed the first backup. There is not message to "exit the app."

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MrDotTaco Author

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Jan 22, 2024 7:45 PM in response to Barney-15E

Who knows then. I do feel as if I could've messed something up but next time I'll just backup to my local network and an external drive. Thanks for you help.

PS, still sorta new to the MacOs enviroment so I'm sure it was probably an error on my end.

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