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Q: Time Machine and Mavericks

Time Machine under Mavericks won't allow me to add or change my Time Machine drive. I click the Select Drive button, and nothing happens. Any ideas?

Posted on Nov 19, 2013 11:25 AM

by Casegrfx,Solvedanswer
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A:

From elsewhere in this forum:

 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5484035?start=75&tstart=0

 

This is the fix:

 

In Terminal...

 

     defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES

     defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES

     defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false

     killall SystemUIServer

 

(Credit and thanks to luke_aus)

 

 

Fixed my problem completely!

Posted on Nov 19, 2013 5:16 PM

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  • by Casegrfx,

    Casegrfx Casegrfx Nov 20, 2013 4:05 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 20, 2013 4:05 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Not to be argumentative, but can you explain why it fixed not only the button issues in the system preferences, but also fixed all the Apple programs (especially iPhoto) that could no longer export, because the pop-up windows were invisible? Nothing you suggested got us anywhere, and this worked.

     

    Also, you need to be less high-handed. I'm not very likely to accept your advice in the future, because it didn't work, and you've been kind of condescending about it.

  • by tuyetmaikhuu,

    tuyetmaikhuu tuyetmaikhuu Dec 9, 2013 10:34 PM in response to Casegrfx
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    Dec 9, 2013 10:34 PM in response to Casegrfx

    Hi. :)

    I have a problem I can't update my macbook 10.6.8 to Mavericks, because of Time Machine. It says ''This disk is used for Time Machine backups.”, but I'm not even using Time Machine and it's switch off.

     

     

     

     

    MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

  • by stevenfromvancouver,

    stevenfromvancouver stevenfromvancouver Jun 6, 2014 10:46 PM in response to Casegrfx
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    Jun 6, 2014 10:46 PM in response to Casegrfx

    I see that a question from months ago has gotten no response, but I do not know where to turn, so here goes...

     

    I have an early 2008 iMac. When I first switched to Mavericks (a mistake, I fear), backups on my Time Machine were slow, but they did eventually happen. Now, just a few days ago, they stall indefinitely. I get a message in Time Machine system preferences window that reads something like: "Backing up: 18.8 MB of 7.12 GB" But there the process just stops.

     

    I downloaded the TM Buddy (or whatever it's called) widget in order to get the relevant logs. Here is what I copied from it:

     

     

    Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)

    Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)

    Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)

    Starting manual backup

    Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Steven%20Savitt@Time%20Capsule%202._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data

    Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Data-1 using URL: afp://Steven%20Savitt@Time%20Capsule%202._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data

    Disk image /Volumes/Data-1/Steven Savitt’s iMac.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups

    Backing up to /dev/disk3s2: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb

    Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD

    Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|

    Finished scan

    Not using file event preflight for Macintosh HD

    Found 29937 files (6.47 GB) needing backup

    9.69 GB required (including padding), 1.6 TB available

     

     

    Can you tell me what this means and what, if anything, I can do to get backing up going again?

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