Q: Can't access time machine backups after rebuild
My Mac mini has been exceedingly slow for some time even though I had 400GB free of 1TB capacity so after backing up to time machine, I reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Elcapitan. When I tried to access the backups after the reload they are red and will not allow me to access them.
I went into the permissions for the external drive and added Read/write permissions to the last 4 backups. However after adding those permissions, I still can't access those backups to restore the data. What can I do to correct this issue?
In addition, with only 55GB used, the Mini is extremely slow. I'm getting the pinwheel for almost anything. Any ideas?
Help!!! Suggestions?
Mini details:
Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini6,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: MM61.0106.B0A
SMC Version (system): 2.8f1
Serial Number (system): C07L1111DWYM
Hardware UUID: 5FFB0249-3633-5387-9870-E283FFFC759D
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Posted on Mar 21, 2016 7:06 AM
