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But before that, let’s take a look at how Time Machine works. The following parts will mainly introduce some useful ways to help Mac users fix the issue when Time Machine says preparing backup. They don’t know what happened and how to solve the problem efficiently. Many users found their Time Machine preparing backup all the time the backing up process seems to last forever. Though Time Machine works perfect most of the time for backing up, it still fails sometimes. Time Machine gives support to all common external storage devices, which you can connect over USB &Thunderbolt (for a wired connection) or a network (for a wireless connection).Īnyone running macOS, the desktop operating system developed by Apple Inc., can use Time Machine to backup systems and files. It was firstly introduced in Mac OS X Leopard to help users back their operating systems conveniently and safely. So TME very much was not the culprit.As most of you know, Time Machine is the built-in backup software in macOS designed by Apple. Despite that manual backup very much existing on the Time Capsule, the app stil insists my last one was 2 days ago.

Now, TME may need an update to so the backups get done on my schedule once again, but there's no good reason to believe it's impacting the reported date of the last backup, manually or otherwise.ĮDIT: I went ahead and uninstalled TME on my MBA rebooted and initiated a manual backup. I've run the backup manually a few times now, and even though it told me the backups were successful even though I can SEE those backups in the Time Capsule and furthermore I can see I actually HAVE backups in between my manual ones and the "last" reported backup the Time Machine UI still claims my last backup was 2 days ago. It shows the last backup was done 2 days ago. This is even more pronounced on my 2020 M1 MacBook Air.

The menubar Time Machine item for whatever reason failed to show that the earlier manual backup was successful. If I go into the Time Machine UI to browse my backups, BOTH of the manual backups I did are in fact there. So a short while later, I ran a manual backup again, and it now shows my last backup was that second backup. I ran a manual backup and despite it seemingly finish up just fine, once said and done, it still claimed my last backup was yesterday at 4a. Most likely culprit is incompatibility with TME, so ok, no problem. My 2019 iMac, which runs 24/7, showed the last backup was yesterday at 4 in the morning when that should have been this morning. So what I use is Apple's Time Capsule and I have an app called TimeMachineEditor to force backups to be done only once daily. Hey, there is something up with Time Machine on Monterey here also.