Every time I try to start my Mac's time Machine receive above message and it seems no possible to reopen/start properly the application.
What is error OSS 2?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Is the drive attached to the computer or is it network attached storage?
If it is attached to the computer, go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Run Repair Disk And Repair Permissions. Test.
See B and C.
Thanks Eric for your promt answer/help.
The WD driver was attached to the Network, following the instructions given on '' Isolating Issues in Mac OS X'' could solve the problem.
The problem was located in the settings of the WD driver. The WD Installation instructions were not clear or I misunderstod them. Opening the dassboard of My Cloud and going to ''Shares'' > TimeMachineBackup > Public Access, I found that the last i.e Public Acces was set to OFF.
Changing this setting to ON solved the problem.
You are welcome. Glad you got it solved.
Just to say same issue after a systems upgrade (to 10.10.1 from whatever the previous version of 10.x was). De select and re select the cloud device in Time machine but in this case thankfully it found the existing backup and happily incremented, which with a 1TB backup I was happy about!
Cheers all
Finnie
WD Back up connection problems for Networked WD hard drive
“Connection failed”
“Can not find server”
“There was a problem connecting to the server “WD ShareSpace-Backup”.”
There may be two problems and associated solutions:
Change Read Only Access
The WD hard drive may automatically create a share for the Time Machine. This share appears in Finder as “WD_Backup”
If you open WD interface through a web browser and go to
Advanced Mode > Users>Folder Share permissions
You will see it as “back up” or similar.
As indicated by others click on the icon on the far left – a pencil and paper – and change the “NFS Access” from “Read Only” to “Full Access”
For Networked back up dives it may be necessary to “create” a disk for the WD back up.
The WD hard drive may automatically create a share for the Time Machine. This share appears in Finder as “WD_Backup”
The password is “backup”, although others have suggested it is sometimes “admin”
If when you open “Time Machine” and “Select Disk” time Machine says it “can not find…” or “can not connect to…” the server/disk it may be necessary to “create”, ”map”, or manually force your mac to connect to the “WD_Backup” folder share.
To do this
Open Finder
Select GO>Connect to Server
In the box at the top enter the IP address for your WD drive. You can find this in the top of your web browser or through your web browser interface with your WD Drive:
Advanced Mode >Network>LAN
The IP address will probably be in the format
“192.168.0.X” where “X” is a number particular to your network
In my case X used to be 2 but then changed to 3 – I don’t know why.
Click “Connect” and enter the Name and password
Name: “WD_Backup”
Password: “backup”
Click “registered user” and click “connect”
Click the “+” button to add the server to the list in the lower box.
Now open “Time Machine”
Click “Select Disk”
Your new “disk” / Folder share should appear in the list with the IP address below it thus:
WD_Backup
On “192.168.0.X”
As in the screen shot below.
Select this disk by clicking on the disk and then on “use disk”.
You should now be away………….
thanks, benslee, you made my day!!!
I've wondering what I could do with my WF MyBook World Edition II for months (years?) and now Time Machine is back on it :-)
thanks again for sharing your knowledge!!!
Thank you. I tried for days to get WD_Backup to work. I searched several sites...all had different answers and none of them worked for me. I am currently backing up now, thanks to you.
Time machine can't access the backup disk ''time machine backup'' on WD My Cloud, Time machine can't access the backup disk ''time machine backup'' on WD My Cloud?
