I restarted my system in recovery mode and selected the ' restore from Time Machine backup'. To restore the system, I followed the instructions on the Support page. I keep my backups on a LaCie 5big Thunderbolt 2 and never had any problems with it. However, I wanted to restore it to how it was before, using Time Machine. That worked without problems and my iMac works fine. I had to reinstall OS X El Capitan from scratch, based on education, I received Support from Apple.

I have a problem with my iMac restore from a Time Machine backup, and I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem already. Maybe the operating system is out of memory, try to process all the files, exit other applications & see if that changes anything, you may have to wait just if you want to avoid to abandon the process.īackup Restore Time Machine does not see RAID external drive P.S., each disk has its own 'basket', so doing drag items should not fill your Mac startup disk. Wait and see if anyone has a better idea. Time Machine removes old backups when it is full - so you shouldn't really need to intervene like this anyway. Who will lose all history backups but again in a clean condition seems to be better than trying to manually prune the Time Machine data. Personally, I think your safest option is to abandon the process, restart, erase and reformat the Time Machine drive. In fact, I think that the TM drive has limits to prevent normal users to change data on this disk. Time Machine stores data with many levels of access control permissions & Finder seems to have difficulties to remove to empty the trash. If you are manually dragging the items in the trash of in a Time Machine backup, it can choke. This is the approved way that should work. Time Machine has to delete the files from the user interface, normally 'browsing Time Machine backup', navigate to the desired folder, and select the option 'delete all backups of.» ».

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