Since the upgrade to El Capitan, when I try to launch Time Machine to restore a file, it show's the translucent background for about 1 second and then crashes. It is backing up successfully, and I'm able to navigate to the file by browsing the backup volume with the finder, but the visual/comparison UI is much easier for me to use. Is anyone else having this issue?
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
My Time Machine, although did back up an hour or so ago - and backing up now as I type this - has not gone to its usual blue colour and has been yellow since the upgrade.
I have even thought of taking El Capitan off and restoring my computer back to as it was at noon today (UK time) but I'm now concerned I might lose all.
I've already posted a comment elsewhere about my Mail problems - as others have since the upgrade!
I still have this problem ! It is NOT solved and no one gives a real solution up to now.
I still have this problem, too!
How on earth did I get an email from Apple Communities saying I had solved your problem!!
I think the El Capitan upgrade is the major problem here!!! đ
You're absolutely right !
I've had also this Problem:
Time Machine client crashes after one second and icon is still yellow.
MacPro 6,1 6-core
64 GB
512MB
I've had enough!!
Yosemite has been reinstalled onto my machine with My Passport working nicely again. đ
I did a reinstall of El Capitan and the green colour of the external Time Machine drive was back again.
Piling on, I have this exact problem. TM does work âonceâ after a reboot, thereafter it opens and crashes.
After 1 TM backup, the yellow color was back again. So it did not help.
Same problem here ... and apparenty no solution in sight.
Does anybody knows how to re-install Yosemite without a TM machine back up ?
MacPro late 2013
Found a solution :
- boot from recovery partition of Capitan
- select " restore from Time Machine backup"
- cross your fingers
- and ... the Time Machine shows up and present all available backups !
- wait a few hours ( 2H15 in my case ) and you're back to Yosemite , and everything is functional again.
This supposes of course that you have a backup made before installing Capitan, which I did.
That solved my problem, but not why Capitan is such a lousy OS ( my mails disappeared and my USB3 ICyBox was not recognized by the system, among a few other problems ... )
Bottom line : I do not intend to upgrade any time soon.
Thanks Moby. Not really a solution but good information for anyone who wants to revert back to Yosemite. I have substantial amounts of changed files since I upgraded to El Capitan, so restoring from a week-old backup is not really an option for me. I'm pretty sure it's something that will need to be fixed in an update to El Capitan.
I'm having this problem...TM launches for abt 1 sec, then crashes, but on all subsequent launches it's fine...and disc icon remains yellow. More a nuisanc than a problem, since TM backups appear to be taking plance normally. Would like to see a fix, though
iMac 27" 5k, 2015
my Passport for Mac
Well, after many issues with emails and Time Machine, I had some lengthy discussions with Apple Support and El Capitan is back on my machine.
My emails are working superbly, as I write this, and Time Machine worked perfectly after the new installation yesterday afternoon. However, the darn thing has gone yellow again but it is still backing up.
I'm sure a solution will be found soon but I have to give 110% credit to Apple Support for their help to me over the last few days. First class!! đ
Apparently El Cap has a bug where when two monitors are hooked up to the computer Time Machine crashes after a second at launch.
After unplugging the second monitor from the mac time machine work normally for me.
Also turning on "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission Control also works in my case, with the added annoyance of the additional menu using up space.
I read that sometimes turning it off works.
The problem started for me on Yosemite, so upgraded to el Capitan hoping it would take care of the Problem, then this morning to 10.11.1
Then i found the post with the info above.
I hope this helps, I know this has been thorny issue for me...
Now to figure out why it won't recognize my wireless network speaker anymore...
Time Machine crashes on launch
