This was a flag that the WD utility program was the issue. When automatically updating for the Sierra 10.12.2 update, an App Store notification window appeared stating “WDDriveUtilityHelper prevented updates being installed”.Time Machine manages its own backups: If you need to create a new backup from Mac. After a few hours, I could not access My Book with Finder (no Backups.backupdb folder). Typically, messing with and/or manually delete old time Machine Backups corrupts the Time Machine database. Determined the issue was not with Time Machine as I turned backups off, rebooted the iMac, confirmed with Finder that I could read from My Book (Backups.backupdb folder was visible and accessible).
#WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME MACHINE BACKUP MAC 10.14 MAC#
The length of preparation time that Time Machine requires depends on the amount of information on your Mac, the size of the backup, and the speed of the connection between your Mac and the backup disk. On the Restore From Time Machine page, hit the Continue button. On the utilities screen, select the Restore From Time Machine Backup option. Either way you should eventually boot into Recovery Mode. Library/LaunchDaemons/ (this starts the WD Drive utility helper).įrom the System Preferences>Users & Groups>Login Items, remove WDDriveUtilityHelper (this runs the helper when a user logs in).Īfter performing these actions, My Book has successfully executed Time Machine backups for 2 days with no issues. message while it compares your current files and folders to those in the most recent backup. Don’t worry: you can boot into macOS recovery without a recovery partition using another keyboard shortcut: Option+Command+R. Additionally, I deleted the following that were not removed by the uninstall program: To disable Spotlight from indexing the Time Machine backup, Click the Dock icon on the Mac’s home screen or select 'System Preference' from the Apple menu. There is an uninstall icon in /Applications for this. To fix time machine when stuck on preparing backup in macOS 10.14, you need to confirm that Spotlight isn’t carrying out an indexing of the Time Machine backup volume at that point in time. Update: I have resolved the back-up issue by uninstalling the WD Utilities program and removing other items associated with this program.
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