Time Capsule

[pilgrim1936]

I have a Time Capsule bought in October 2008 which is not backing up properly. It is only backing up items on the desktop, not the documents folder. Is there some way I can fix this, please?

 

[bobtomay]

It is copying the documents folder unless you went into Time Machine Preferences - Options and have excluded that folder or a higher folder in the path from the backup. If so, you need to remove it from the exclusion list.

 

[pilgrim1936]

Time machine

Thanks for the suggestion, but I have not excluded the Documents folder in Options. Any further ideas, please?

 

[bobtomay]

What makes you think it is not being backed up?

If you are expecting the Time Machine window to browse like a Finder window - it won't.
Can only guess you are not waiting long enough for TM to retrieve the info and display it.
I've had it take 2+ minutes to display info.
Check the bottom right corner of the page/window - if you see the wheel spinning, it's still fetching the data.

 

[pilgrim1936]

I have given it more than enough time. No matter how long you wait, it just is not happening.

 

[BetaVirus]

A power down and re-start of the Time Machine. Had a similar situation and turned out to be a duplicate IP address. The restart fixed it.