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Time Machine taking a long time to prepare items
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<blockquote data-quote="ahhreeyell" data-source="post: 1500246" data-attributes="member: 296349"><p>Hello everyone.</p><p></p><p>I just plugged in my external hard drive today to do a Time Machine backup for the first time in months. It kept saying "preparing items" and it got stuck at a specific number (around 229,784 I think). I deleted the preferences file com.apple.TimeMachine.plist (as per the instructions on this page: <a href="http://pondini.org/TM/A4.html" target="_blank">Time Machine - Troubleshooting A4. Full Reset of Time Machine</a>).</p><p></p><p>Now it is no longer stuck at that number—however, it's still taking a really long time to scan my hard drive. I began scanning around 3:45 PM, and it is now eight hours later. It's not stuck, it's just taking forever. I downloaded Time Machine Buddy (<a href="http://www.bluedog.com.au/default/Time_Machine_Buddy.html" target="_blank">TIME MACHINE BUDDY</a>) to look at the log, and it says "Node requires deep traversal." I also keep getting "Error (256)." </p><p></p><p>Does anybody know what on earth is going on? Should I just wait this out? Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ahhreeyell, post: 1500246, member: 296349"] Hello everyone. I just plugged in my external hard drive today to do a Time Machine backup for the first time in months. It kept saying "preparing items" and it got stuck at a specific number (around 229,784 I think). I deleted the preferences file com.apple.TimeMachine.plist (as per the instructions on this page: [url=http://pondini.org/TM/A4.html]Time Machine - Troubleshooting A4. Full Reset of Time Machine[/url]). Now it is no longer stuck at that number—however, it's still taking a really long time to scan my hard drive. I began scanning around 3:45 PM, and it is now eight hours later. It's not stuck, it's just taking forever. I downloaded Time Machine Buddy ([url=http://www.bluedog.com.au/default/Time_Machine_Buddy.html]TIME MACHINE BUDDY[/url]) to look at the log, and it says "Node requires deep traversal." I also keep getting "Error (256)." Does anybody know what on earth is going on? Should I just wait this out? Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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