Time machine's not working... hung up on "Cleaning up old backups..." been running now for over 30 minutes... can't do any kind of backup. ??? Nor can I recover anything.
Time machine's not working... hung up on "Cleaning up old backups..." been running now for over 30 minutes... can't do any kind of backup. ??? Nor can I recover anything.
Hello and welcome to the forum! However, you provide virtually NO information to help us even suggest a solution to your problem. Before proceeding, please read the first post in Writing Quality Post, and post back to this thread w/ more details on your hardware & software. Dave
When you force quit Time Machine run Disk Utility and verify your backup drive. It's possible there are some directory structure issues mucking things up. If it finds errors let it attempt to repair them.
Hopefully the drive hardware itself isn't starting to fail. Disk Utility won't be any help if the drive hardware is failing.
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