Time Machine and Time Capsule are still not working. Replacing Time Machine Editor with TimeMachineScheduler was no help. I was trying to restrict Time Machine backups to once every 24 hours, instead of the default interval of one hour. What I've accomplished is to make it APPEAR to back up at random intervals several times a day, without actually doing so. The Time Machine icon shows up in the menu bar and starts to revolve; the Time Capsule icon appears on the Desktop; any other operating programs slow down until these indicators suggest the backup is over (the slowdown was why I wanted the backups less frequently in the first place). However, when I check the Time Capsule, no backup has been made. There has been none since Jan. 5, the day I first installed TimeMachineEditor. TimeMachineEditor was installed exactly according to instructions. I've since uninstalled it, following the program's instructions, and Installed Time Machine Scheduler instead. It made no difference. I uninstalled Time Machine Scheduler. Thinking that too many backups were better than no backups, I turned Time Machine on again — both the interval-modifying programs said to turn it off, as they had their ways of activating it when wanted. Time Machine started up at once, its icon turning in the menu bar and Time Capsule's icon appearing on the Desktop. But as before, no backup was actually made. Yesterday I returned the Time Capsule to its default settings and went through a new setup again. It appeared to accept the reset, and started "preparing to backup . . . " (see attachmnt). It went on "preparing" for six hours. No backup. Today I thought I'd try to delete all the old backups and start again. I shouldn't be able to do that, but hey, what the hell . . . It threw up a window with a little horizontal barber pole, announced that it was "Preparing to delete immediately . . . " and then began counting up the files it was going to delete. When it got to 153,255, it stopped counting, but didn't start deleting. The little horizontal barber pole has been turning now for eight hours, the number of files remains at 153,255. I have no idea what in hell's name is going on. One possibly relevant observation: Until this snafu, Time Macine was backing up not only the laptop's internal drive but an attached firewire drive holding a bunch of things for which the laptop had insufficient room. SINCE the snafu, all backups of the firewire drive have disappeared from the Time Capsule. Aaargh!
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