My newsletter will deliver my blog posts to your email as well as infrequent email only content. The files that were causing issues for our Mac were imap mailabox files from Thunderbird, so I just uninstalled Thunderbird and removed the mailbox files. I am not sure how to fix the issue if you can’t remove those files. Next, you can right-click on the target drive and choose Format option from the popup menu. Step 1: Make sure that the target drive is connected with your computer and then enter File Explorer. The format is: status coderoute nameaccount name.

It is an easy job to format the corrupted drive. Advanced Routing introduced a new logging convention in order to improve messaging.

restart time machine by repeating steps 2 and 6. Move 2: Format the corrupted drive to its normal state.

If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search.

watch the system log for errors that look likeMar 9 12:14:14 computer-name /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /path/to/file/file.name to (null) Title: Copy File Error message: An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file.

turn on time machine by opening the time machine prefs and selecting your disk drive.

turn off time machine by opening the time machine prefs and select ‘none’ for the backup disk.

connect your time machine disk drive to your Mac.

That still didn’t seem to work–same error message.įinally, I did some more googling and ran across this forum post (yes Jeff Atwood, forums are indeed the dark matter of the web), which gave me additional troubleshooting tips.īasically, if you are seeing this error on time machine: I tried doing that multiple times, and still saw the error message. I googled around for it and saw this KB article from Apple, which wasn’t too helpful, as the only troubleshooting suggestion was a reboot (hmmm, sounds a bit like Windows). An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume”. She saw this error message: “Unable to complete backup. However, a while ago the backups stopped working. As someone who cut his teeth with Amanda backups back in the day, Time Machine is a beautiful, intuitive backup solution.

My SO has a Mac, and she was using Time Machine to back it up.