I have an IMac with Catalina. I bought this 1 T external Hardrive from Amazon slightly less than a year ago. I’ve been seeing a message that the Time Machine can’t back up, and I was thinking I’d have to dump it and start fresh. Then this message came up: Mac OS can’t repair the Disk ‘elements’. You can still open or copy files on the disk but you can’t save changes to files on the disk. Back up disk and reformat it as soon as you can.
I’ve had two Mac people say it’s about to crash. I do have a warranty until next year. Is it save-able or not? Thanks
Hi,
Please refer to the following KB article: Why Initial macOS Time Machine Backup Fail?
Time Machine is one of the most important backup solution in macOS systems, which helps the user to take backup of their mac system to external hard drive, airport time capsule and connected server. However, sometime user experienced the time machine backup failure. Here are 4 methods to fix the time machine backup failure issue:
- Check the file system of external hard drive
- Check the free storage of external hard drive
- Uninstall App Cleaner & Uninstaller
- Check if other process or services are blocking time machine from running
Hope this will help!
