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I'd rather not have to reformat my hard drive, in case I ever want to downgrade back to Yosemite, however I am willing to if it solves the issue.Īlso, it seems like whenever I reboot my Mac, the hard drive loses its Time Machine icon, and reverts back to an orange drive. Here's what comes up in the console when searching for backupd:
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Spotlight is not indexing (As I heard sometimes Spotlight gets in the way of backupd), and the hard drive has gone to sleep in the time that I wrote this, rarely waking up for my Mac to briefly read something from it. It sometimes peaks up to to 500kb/s, and very rarely 1Mb/s). Looking into iStatMenus, I find that backupd tends to have a read speed between nothing, and 120Kb/s (If I'm lucky. I looked into activity monitor and backupd had only read ~140Mb, in 30mins. After ~30 mins, Time Machine was still preparing. It got stuck on Preparing Backup for hours, so I stopped it, deleted the InProgress file, rebooted and tried again. To fix this, click on the USB drive icon at the bottom right-hand corner of the vmware player frame.I recently updated to El Capitan, and told Time Machine to backup. *Note, if you go on to build a USB bootable os x installation drive, after you insert your USB key drive into the computer, it may not show up on your OS X desktop.
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Open VMWare Player -> New VM -> Typical -> Install OS Later -> Mac OS 10.11 -> Install to new El Cap Install folder you created.Create a new folder on the desktop and name El Cap Install Folder.
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Here is a guide to show how to build an OS X El Capitan virtual machine that runs on top of Windows 7 or Windows 10.