Time machine gone wild

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mikanet Author

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Time machine 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.

Don’t tell me about checking the disc and things.

Has been done.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 18, 2015 1:44 AM

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Answer 1

R C-R

Level 6

17,794 points

Nov 18, 2015 1:53 AM in response to mikanet

mikanet wrote:

Don’t tell me about checking the disc and things.

Has been done.

Since we have no way of knowing what "things" includes, what can we tell you? 😕

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Answer 2

Linc Davis

Level 10

209,739 points

Nov 18, 2015 8:57 AM in response to mikanet

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

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