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Unable to install El Capitan

My OS is 10.6.8, I tried to install El Capitan but upon installing prompt is saying that, " the disk is used for time machine backups". What should I do to get it to install?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 27, 2016 8:12 PM

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Feb 27, 2016 8:40 PM in response to sle5392

I have Time Machine Backup on my MAC, yes but have never used it. There's no folders created from it, also its currently "OFF". The only reason I knew I even had it was from the KB article. I did what it said and looked up that backups.backupdb file in Finder and even made sure with spotlight. Nothing. Yes, I know I should really reconsider backing up files and everything on my MAC. But I don't really have anything on it that would be important to lose.

Feb 27, 2016 8:53 PM in response to sle5392

Sorry, but the error wouldn't if Time Machine did not attempt to start a backup folder on your startup volume somewhere. Might I suggest you download EasyFind 4.9.3 to search. Much better than Spotlight.


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