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I get the following message dialog intermittenly:
There was a problem connecting to the server.
URLs with the type "file:" are not supported.
but there's no context so I don't know how to solve it.
Any suggestions?
Sincerely,
Jeremy
13' MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
Hey! I'm getting the exact same message!!! It's been popping up every minute now.....
Jeanah
I had this happen with one machine we updated today. It was having this issue during iDisk sync to mobile me.
A permissions repair from Disk Utility fixed the issue! (yes, it actually fixes things sometimes)
Sadly, a permissions repair didn't solve my problem. How did you come to suspect iDisk sync?
I've had a look in the logs and it appears to be Adobe Air related. Do you have Adobe Air installed?
J.
Looking again - that may be a red herring. I'll keep hunting about.
J.
I've found the root cause - it's the Apple backupd daemon (which provides the Time Machine functionailty).
I don't have a fix at the moment. Although you may try:
Let me know if either of those work.
J.
I just did a backup with TimeMachine and it is still giving me this error...
I've raised a formal bug with Apple.
Thanks Jonathan. Is there a viewable repository for the bug so we have some idea of the progress?
Jeremy,
I'm afraid not - as the bugs are held under NDA as part of the developer's agreement. If there's anything to share - that's material (and which doesn't break my NDA) - then I'll be sure to post it.
Jonathan.
Another user has suggested following the instructions here:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/A4.html
But I don't have access to my TM backup at the moment so I'm not able to try it.
Hope that helps.
Jonathan.
I had the same problem. We definitely traced it to Time Machine. The "Fix" was this: plugged in and designated different external HD as Backup volume. Then plugged in the original disc (after testing in in a different machine) and now the computer recognized it and error message stopped popping up. The Apple tech was as puzzled as I as to why this worked, but perhaps, forcing the machine to re-recognize it (or maybe even, gettting it recognized by a different machine first) somehow worked some magic.
@Jonathan: Thank you for this hint. It looks like it worked in my case.
Changing Time Machine HD's worked for me too. Thanks for reporting the "fix" for this annoying message.
I get the 'url of type "file" pop-up error on two Lion machines: mine, that uses Time Machine, but also on my son's which has never had TM configured at all, and has it explicitly turne "OFF".
Why do I keep getting "There was a problem connecting to the server"?
