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<blockquote data-quote="cawsf90" data-source="post: 1863919" data-attributes="member: 405871">Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am using Catalina. I updated to Catalina at the end of 2019. I had no problems with it until about a month ago. The last time I did a Time Machine back up it created another Macintosh HD and another Macintosh HD - Data, so disk utility showed two Macintosh HD's and two Macintosh HD - Data's. One Macintosh HD has the &quot;finder&quot; symbol on it, where the other Macintosh HD does not. One of the Macintosh HD - Data has a &quot;house&quot; symbol on it, and the other Macintosh HD - Data does not. I don't know which one is the original and which one is the duplicate.The original 2 sets were named as follows...Macintosh HDMacintosh HD - DataMacintosh HDMacintosh HD - DataI renamed it to look like the following...Macintosh HDMacintosh HD - DataMacintosh HD2Macintosh HD - Data2When I did this Time Machine worked. I renamed the ones that have a smaller file size. Ex. 11.43 GB instead of 199.79 GB. You will see in the picture that after the backup that it did it renamed one of the files Macintosh HD2 - Data. I did not name it that.I am using NordVPN, but other than that I don't really use 3rd party stuff.I am backing it up to a Seagate External Hard Drive. I tried a brand new EHD, but it just did the same thing. Can I delete the duplicate? And if so, which one is the duplicate, the ones with the &quot;finder&quot; and &quot;house&quot; symbol or the ones without? Thank you for your help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cawsf90, post: 1863919, member: 405871"] Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am using Catalina. I updated to Catalina at the end of 2019. I had no problems with it until about a month ago. The last time I did a Time Machine back up it created another Macintosh HD and another Macintosh HD - Data, so disk utility showed two Macintosh HD's and two Macintosh HD - Data's. One Macintosh HD has the "finder" symbol on it, where the other Macintosh HD does not. One of the Macintosh HD - Data has a "house" symbol on it, and the other Macintosh HD - Data does not. I don't know which one is the original and which one is the duplicate. The original 2 sets were named as follows... Macintosh HD Macintosh HD - Data Macintosh HD Macintosh HD - Data I renamed it to look like the following... Macintosh HD Macintosh HD - Data Macintosh HD2 Macintosh HD - Data2 When I did this Time Machine worked. I renamed the ones that have a smaller file size. Ex. 11.43 GB instead of 199.79 GB. You will see in the picture that after the backup that it did it renamed one of the files Macintosh HD2 - Data. I did not name it that. I am using NordVPN, but other than that I don't really use 3rd party stuff. I am backing it up to a Seagate External Hard Drive. I tried a brand new EHD, but it just did the same thing. Can I delete the duplicate? And if so, which one is the duplicate, the ones with the "finder" and "house" symbol or the ones without? Thank you for your help. [/QUOTE]

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