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)
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)
Check to see if you have a file named Backups.backupdb on the disk.
If you do you are going to have delete it before the installer will allow you to install on the disk.
Before upgraded to El Capitan, you will want to have a backup to an external disk drive.
I read the knowledge base on deleting that. I checked and I don't have that : \
Yes, you do, or there would be no error.
Yes, I have time machine backup but I dont have that file.
That make no sense at all. If Time Machine is backing up that is the file that it uses for the backup. Also backup up to the same disk with system is a bad idea. You should always have your data and backup on different disk drives so that you don't lose everything when the disk drive fails.
That file is created by every Time Machine backup when the backup drive is set. Do you have a Time Machine backup folder somewhere on this computer? If so, then remove it. You aren't backing up to your startup volume.
Here it is on my Time Machine backup drive: Backups.backupdb
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.
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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Unable to install El Capitan