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Time Machine issue with Mountain Lion. Can you help?

I have an Iomega Mac Companion used as an external backup drive for my Imac running Mountain Lion. After launching Time Machine, I got an error message that said the backup couldn't' be completed because an error occurred while creating the backup folder. I rebooted and everything was fine for 24 hours. Since then, I get the same error message even after another reboot. In Time Machine preferences it says "oldest backup none" and "latest backup none."


Any suggestions?


GR

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 27, 2013 2:08 PM

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Feb 1, 2013 12:49 PM in response to BDAqua

Finally have it solved!! Sort of... I spoke with Mac support on two occasions and they were extremely helpful. Thought the issue was with the firewire 800 connection. Switched to a USB connection and everything worked great...for about 24 hours. Then had the same error messages. Chatted with Iomega tech support and they finally admitted that there are known issues with Mountain Lion, there is no work around and they have no intention of making it compatible with 10.8.


I'm returning the drive today. Thanks for your help and suggestions. Suggestions for a decent back up hard drive that will work with Mountain Lion?

Feb 3, 2013 11:56 AM in response to greinke

They use different drives over time, but likely Seagate drive now, they may have just not updated it fpr 10.8, or possibly some of the included free SW only goes to 10.7.


Though I never use TM at all, I have older of these drives connected to 10.4.11 through 10.8.3 Macs & they work fine, pprobably would work for TM if I wanted to use the most cantakerous Backup method I've ever seen! 😉

Feb 3, 2013 12:07 PM in response to BDAqua

I understand your position on Time Machine. Just finished a quick online chat with OWC about compatibility with Mountain Lion and they assured me it would work just fine. Now the question is, do I buy the Mercury Elite Pro, or get the Seagate Backup Plus? I can get a 3T Seagate for $170 vs. $260 for the Elite Pro. The Apple forums seem to suggest there are problems with Mountain Lion and the Seagate drives. Suggestions?

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