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Time Machine has gone wild

Hey


I am talking of the restore interface of Time Machine, here.

( Backup seems to run smoothly. )


But when I try to restore my screen(s) go haywire.

This is partly ’cause of the fullscreen shoveling that starts in that moment.

Hard to tell what is willing to go where…

because the movements are not fluid, but slow and intermittant.


The thing is: it never finishes the way it's planned.


Let’s say I pick a finder window ( the way one did before ),

start Time Machine ( from the menu below the icon in the Menu Bar, to be exact )

I can see my directory ( the one I have chosen ) change into something else,

then the window becomes transparent… (hold on…)

- the "buttons" for way and back are already there ( but NOT in the right spot ).

- On the other monitor there is some movement, too,

… and then this (my!) window flies to the upper right corner of the main monitor.

As it is already all transparent, I can only see this because the shadow of the window remains.


And if this is not enough insanity,

then the Finder quits.


Once I managed to really get into the Time Machine interface

I then had 3 sizes of my window on screen.

Real size, double and full height of the monitor.

The real one being opaque, the other ones more or less transparent.

Weird, man.

By resizing the window, things would "stabilize" -

like

- all windows getting the same size,

- put up the way they normally do one behind the other.


I can not say if the interface is then handable.

It looked like more or less normal.
I immediately started looking for my file.

At one point the Finder would quit.


I call this a bitter pill.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Nov 17, 2015 9:41 AM

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Time Machine has gone wild

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