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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1885277" data-attributes="member: 396914">If the file has the name &quot;.inProcess&quot; it is not finished. When it is done, the name will be just the date/time stamp. You said you &quot;properly unplugged&quot; your drive. Did you unmount it first? Did you get any error message when you unplugged it? What happens when you enter Time Machine? Do you get the Finder-like screen with the history of backups along the right hand edge? Normally TM doesn't send a message to say it is complete. TM is designed for the drive to be continually attached so that TM can make a backup every hour. If you don't want to do that, you would have to turn TM off, then unmount the TM drive, then unplug it, to do it the right way.If you try to unmount a drive and it is in use, the system will throw up an error message to the effect that the drive is in use. But if you just unplug it, no such error, just a message that you should have unmounted it first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1885277, member: 396914"] If the file has the name ".inProcess" it is not finished. When it is done, the name will be just the date/time stamp. You said you "properly unplugged" your drive. Did you unmount it first? Did you get any error message when you unplugged it? What happens when you enter Time Machine? Do you get the Finder-like screen with the history of backups along the right hand edge? Normally TM doesn't send a message to say it is complete. TM is designed for the drive to be continually attached so that TM can make a backup every hour. If you don't want to do that, you would have to turn TM off, then unmount the TM drive, then unplug it, to do it the right way. If you try to unmount a drive and it is in use, the system will throw up an error message to the effect that the drive is in use. But if you just unplug it, no such error, just a message that you should have unmounted it first. [/QUOTE]

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