It’s tempting just to put the folder in the Trash. But this could be a quick way to acquire a more complex problem.
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An experimental tool to let you schedule background tasks of your own, which are managed by Grand Central Dispatch. First alpha release.
Irregular Time Machine backups are one of Sierra’s great mysteries. It now looks as if they might have been fixed in 10.12.4.
Schedule a periodic task as a Launch Agent. How close to the expected time does macOS actually run it?
When Time Machine seems to take a long time preparing the next backup, or gets stuck, here is how to diagnose and deal with it.
Why was my Mac still preparing a backup 20 minutes after it should have been completed? And what is a ‘deep event scan’?
Two major tools are available to help you deal with problems. Here’s how to use them to best effect.
Is Time Machine becoming erratic? A simple diagnostic process can establish what the problem is, and how to deal with it.
macOS Sierra doesn’t run periodic backups using a simple mechanism. Here’s the story in full detail.
Getting deeper into using Sierra’s new logs, and investigating why Time Machine backups become irregular.
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