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Sep 22, 2016 9:04 AM in response to jurkuipersby arizonadonn,HI.
i Did that and my only choice was to install Lion which is very old. I called support and they DO NOT install Lion.
THey are having me download Sierra from regular boot mode. From the Apple Store
Don
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Sep 22, 2016 9:25 AM in response to arizonadonnby jurkuipers,Sorry, -
...it seems you're stuck.
Hope you're not in a loop now...
You don't have an old TM-copy (recent date) to restore your whole iMac to the (old) previous state anymore?
Your profile states you're Mac was on Lion, - correct?.
It seems to me that upgrading from Lion to Sierra could be the problem.
If you had El Capitan (10.11) I don't understand why you only have the option to install Lion (10.07).
Succes Don.
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Sep 22, 2016 9:38 AM in response to jurkuipersby arizonadonn,HI.
I was running El Capitan. Isn't that weird that only Lion would install?
so I downloaded Sierra again from the App Store. but there is no option to install it.
im on the phone with Apple again for help
ugh
don
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Sep 22, 2016 9:54 AM in response to jurkuipersby arizonadonn,HI.
apple support has connected me to senior support services. They are reaching out to engineering for help.
they think it might be a thinning issue, whatever that is...
Don
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Sep 22, 2016 1:14 PM in response to arizonadonnby arizonadonn,Hi.
They told me NOT to reinstall Sierra and to send them Capture Data to forward to engineering.
The Capture Data program isn't working.
They emailed engineering asking them how to proceed.
He said it might take a few days to get back to me.
Until then I have no backup.
Ugh!
Don
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Sep 22, 2016 1:44 PM in response to arizonadonnby jurkuipers,About "mkdir") from macrumors/guides: http://guides.macrumors.com/mkdir
Strange that you mac creates a tmp-file (temporary file) on your desktop.
It seems something is seriously wrong - why does your Mac automatically create a directory by putting a file on your desktop? Strange...
Did you restore permissions on your harddisk and also TM-disk? - restart in recovery-mode by restarting using Command+R and then choosing Disk-repair and run it on those disks for best result.
If everything fails you could copy all of your important files to an external disk and go for a clean install...
I see no other solution.
I mailed "pondini" via his website a few hours ago...
He hasn't responded yet...
On his website he states: "I do not answer specific questions or problems via e-mail; only in the ASC forums",
- but I asked him anyway...
http://pondini.org/TM/Contact.html
Hi “pondini”,
Hope all is well…
Now macOS Sierra has arrived some people have Time Machine-troubles.
see thread (example) https://discussions.apple.com/message/30688752?start=0&tstart=0
Hope to see you back in the Apple-forums.
You’re surely missed.
Compliments for all you have done in the past.
Sorry for my poor English.
Best regards,
Jur Kuipers, The Netherlands
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Sep 22, 2016 2:05 PM in response to jurkuipersby arizonadonn,Hi.
Update.
I was able to capture my data for engineering.
It's been uploaded to them.
They are telling me to NOT reinstall Sierra and wait to hear from them.
In the meantime no backups
Don
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Sep 22, 2016 5:40 PM in response to arizonadonnby arizonadonn,Hi.
It might be fixed.
I Turned indexing off for the drive.
Now it's backing up.
ill reindex the drive after backup is done.
Don
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Sep 23, 2016 3:42 AM in response to arizonadonnby Fischmuetze,Same here ...
Got always the same problems on 3 different machines with 2 totally different backup targets.
So I have NO more a backup for all this machines since I updated to Sierra.... ***
targets
a) Linux /Netatalk based TimeMachine Server (over AFP)
b) Apple AirPort Extreme (of course AFP)
in both cases I found tons of such messages in the console log
AFP_VFS afpfs_vnop_ioctl: afpfs_FindForkRef failed -1
and a huge load of backupd (99%) and logd (40%)
Backup hangs always with the state "Preparing Backup ..."
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Sep 23, 2016 3:59 AM in response to arizonadonnby homeport1,I am not sure it is a Sierra problem I tried to do a back up before upgrading and I use a my book live it was painfully slow this time and after two days I was only third of way through so I then excluded some of the files to try and quicken it up and it restarted process again, got half way through and then did same again, leaving it with that same issue preparing update message, I then had had enough and stopped it, found my small storage device and attached to computer and backed up to that, it took me 20 minutes to do a complete backup. I wasted four days of trying to get the thing to work before that. Very frustrating. Made installing Sierra seem a doddle lol.
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Sep 23, 2016 4:22 AM in response to homeport1by Fischmuetze,It's definitely a Sierra Prob as the timemachine backups runs on all of my machines very smooth until I started the upgrade to Sierra . Since this point I cant make backups ...
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Sep 23, 2016 4:28 AM in response to arizonadonnby Fischmuetze,@arizonadonn
No this did not help ....
Exclude my TM Drive from the spotlight indexing
But I got the same behavior as before.
AFP_VFS afpfs_vnop_ioctl: afpfs_FindForkRef failed -1
and a huge load of backupd (99%) and logd (40%)
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Sep 23, 2016 4:34 AM in response to jurkuipersby Roger Wilmut1,jurkuipers wrote:
I mailed "pondini" via his website a few hours ago...
Sadly, 'Pondini' (James Pond) died a couple of years back. The website has been left online because of its value as a resource, but obviously it's not going to get updated.
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Sep 23, 2016 4:40 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1by jurkuipers,Hi Roger,
Sad...
I did not know that ... obviously...
RIP James Pond.
