I was wondering if anyone else has noticed that time machine is behaving oddly since the upgrade to El Capitan. I went to shut down both my Macs and the hard drive had to be force quit even though they were doing nothing.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Not a whimper of an issue with Time Machine and El Capitan here. Works as expected. No drive vendor software installed.
Time Machine is doing the backups without a problem, just the external hard drives needed to be force quit to shut down, which is a new issue that didn't exist before.
Yes - I have this too.
Time machine worked faultlessly with Yosemite.
Now with El Capitan:
- sometimes the external disk fails to mount, so it is not shown on the desktop
- sometimes it does mount, and is shown, but back-ups to Time Machine fail to occur at hourly intervals, and I must initiate manually
- sometimes it works fine
-almost always, when the Mac puts itself to sleep, on awakening I get the error message "disk not ejected properly". This also happens on shut-down, unless I manually dismount the disk by dragging it to "Trash" before shutting the computer down.
I am using a G-drive external disk, which, as I say, worked fine with Yosemite.
Same problems, on both my Macs. I did some detective work, and it appears the Spotlight Search on El Capitan will search in backups, which implies that it is the search which is jamming Time Machine. (Continues to use the disc, and needs to be force quit to eject.)
What ever the case Apple needs to fix this; thus I sent a bug report.
Hi,
I have the same problem with El Capitan.
Sometimes my Time Machine cannot be ejected properly due to Spotlight processes.
I have to quit the 'mds' process in the Activity Monitors in order to be able to eject the external disk.
(this occurs even if I put the TM disk in the confidential list of Spotlight)
I put the Time Machine disk in the "Private" area in Spotlight preferences.
System preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
This, or something else, seems to have cleared the problem.
There has also been an update to OSX, so I wonder if that cured it.
Well done BertingAP sending a bug report. Perhaps that's what did it.
I have the same problem. I thought it was my seagate back up drive. I bought a new per-formatted passport for mac 1TB and used it once with Time Machine. The next time I went to back up, my computer will not recognize drive. What can I do???
I would call Apple.
My Time Machine has not been backing up properly since El Capitan. When I look for it, it has disappeared from my desktop. I unplug it and of course the Mac tells me that I did not shut it down properly, but, once I do this, I'm able to backup. This has been happening about once a week.
Hi,
Since I upgraded to Sierra, the problem mentioned here, regarding the Time Machine unplug, disappeared !
Best regards.
Me too.
Time Machine Unstable on El Capitan.
