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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1900451" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>OK, an update on TM. (MODs, if you want me to stop posting about the issue, let me know, I know this is really long now, but we've talked multiple subjects.) If you are new to the Time Machine problem start at post 148, then 149, 152, 153, 161, 167, 168, 173, 181, 183, 190, and 198. </p><p></p><p>Apple called me today, on schedule, to discuss the TM issue. Quickly got escalated to second level. Spent two hours on the phone with the support rep. He logged into my system to see what was going on. Last night I turned on TM automatic backups, pointed to an empty 1TB SSD and let it run. It failed, as usual, but I left it turned on so that I would have a complete set of logs for the call. By the time of the call, there were 16 snapshots created, all of them large because TM thought each was an attempt at the FIRST backup. In the meantime, the 1TB drive now had just 65GB space remaining, according to Finder, Get Info, Disk Utility and About This Mac/Storage. But Finder showed nothing. First Aid said the drive was fine, nothing appeared. After examining everything, he had me erase the target drive, delete a plist for Time Machine, restart Time Machine, set it up to point to the empty target drive and launch a backup. He stayed on line for a hour as it ran, watching it as it took up disk space, showed no files and eventually ended with nothing done, just as it had before. He asked a lot of questions. Apparently Apple has had a few calls on the issue, none resolved, but I was the first one to have a log entry to look at, the one I posted earlier. A bit of research on his part while we were watching the backup run and he came back and said that it was a "very rare" error. When I stopped laughing at that, he continued that apparently it's not been seen before, ever.</p><p></p><p>So, the problem is off the the engineers. We'll see. What puzzled him most was the fact that space was consumed on the target drive, but there were NO files showing in Finder, and that at the end, it stayed the same--no files, space gone. And that the only way to get the space back is to reformat. So, was genuinely stumped.</p><p></p><p>If the mods want to gather up the posts on this topic to put into another thread, that's fine. If they want me to stop, I will. Let me know. I'm updating so that anybody who has the same problem can come here and see whatever solution (or lack of) finally arrives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1900451, member: 396914"] OK, an update on TM. (MODs, if you want me to stop posting about the issue, let me know, I know this is really long now, but we've talked multiple subjects.) If you are new to the Time Machine problem start at post 148, then 149, 152, 153, 161, 167, 168, 173, 181, 183, 190, and 198. Apple called me today, on schedule, to discuss the TM issue. Quickly got escalated to second level. Spent two hours on the phone with the support rep. He logged into my system to see what was going on. Last night I turned on TM automatic backups, pointed to an empty 1TB SSD and let it run. It failed, as usual, but I left it turned on so that I would have a complete set of logs for the call. By the time of the call, there were 16 snapshots created, all of them large because TM thought each was an attempt at the FIRST backup. In the meantime, the 1TB drive now had just 65GB space remaining, according to Finder, Get Info, Disk Utility and About This Mac/Storage. But Finder showed nothing. First Aid said the drive was fine, nothing appeared. After examining everything, he had me erase the target drive, delete a plist for Time Machine, restart Time Machine, set it up to point to the empty target drive and launch a backup. He stayed on line for a hour as it ran, watching it as it took up disk space, showed no files and eventually ended with nothing done, just as it had before. He asked a lot of questions. Apparently Apple has had a few calls on the issue, none resolved, but I was the first one to have a log entry to look at, the one I posted earlier. A bit of research on his part while we were watching the backup run and he came back and said that it was a "very rare" error. When I stopped laughing at that, he continued that apparently it's not been seen before, ever. So, the problem is off the the engineers. We'll see. What puzzled him most was the fact that space was consumed on the target drive, but there were NO files showing in Finder, and that at the end, it stayed the same--no files, space gone. And that the only way to get the space back is to reformat. So, was genuinely stumped. If the mods want to gather up the posts on this topic to put into another thread, that's fine. If they want me to stop, I will. Let me know. I'm updating so that anybody who has the same problem can come here and see whatever solution (or lack of) finally arrives. [/QUOTE]
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