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Beware Monterey Time machine problems
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<blockquote data-quote="Bengaldad" data-source="post: 1896016" data-attributes="member: 397811"><p>I received my 16 in. M1 Max MacBook Pro on October 26, 2021. From the first day I have observed the following issues with Time Machine: TM backs up the entire MacHD then reports in the TM menu bar “Waiting for TM to finish”. In the Finder TM shows no files whatsoever. clicking on Apple>About This Mac>Storage shows > 300 Gb on the TM drive.</p><p></p><p>i have tried the following, but NONE of these steps corrected the issue: I erased and reformatted as APFS my TM disk. I replaced the USB 3 WD 4TB TM disk with a new USB 3 Seagate 5TB HD formatted as APFS. i booted my M1 Max in Safe Mode and selected Backup Now from the TM menu. I created a new Test User. I reinstalled Monterey. The described TM issues persisted throughout all of these changes. I have now disabled automatic TM backups since TM is not working properly.</p><p></p><p>I have spent more than 6 hours with Apple Support attempting to solve the problem without success. My active case has now been escalated to Apple Engineers and I am waiting to hear back from them. These TM issues are not unique to my M1 Max. They have been reported on two other Mac forums, and users on those forums have reported that erasing their MacHD and reinstalling Monterrey did not solve the TM issues.</p><p></p><p>I have a Late 2019 Mac Pro with the same version of Monterey installed, and TM is working perfectly on it so the issue with TM is specific to my M1 Max.</p><p></p><p>i will report back on any further help that I get from Apple Engineers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bengaldad, post: 1896016, member: 397811"] I received my 16 in. M1 Max MacBook Pro on October 26, 2021. From the first day I have observed the following issues with Time Machine: TM backs up the entire MacHD then reports in the TM menu bar “Waiting for TM to finish”. In the Finder TM shows no files whatsoever. clicking on Apple>About This Mac>Storage shows > 300 Gb on the TM drive. i have tried the following, but NONE of these steps corrected the issue: I erased and reformatted as APFS my TM disk. I replaced the USB 3 WD 4TB TM disk with a new USB 3 Seagate 5TB HD formatted as APFS. i booted my M1 Max in Safe Mode and selected Backup Now from the TM menu. I created a new Test User. I reinstalled Monterey. The described TM issues persisted throughout all of these changes. I have now disabled automatic TM backups since TM is not working properly. I have spent more than 6 hours with Apple Support attempting to solve the problem without success. My active case has now been escalated to Apple Engineers and I am waiting to hear back from them. These TM issues are not unique to my M1 Max. They have been reported on two other Mac forums, and users on those forums have reported that erasing their MacHD and reinstalling Monterrey did not solve the TM issues. I have a Late 2019 Mac Pro with the same version of Monterey installed, and TM is working perfectly on it so the issue with TM is specific to my M1 Max. i will report back on any further help that I get from Apple Engineers. [/QUOTE]
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