Well, I have a PowerBook G4 from a few years back. I put leopard on it, an seemed to have no problems. that is, until I tried to do a time machine backup. For a while the backups worked fine. then on one day, they just stopped working. I let it sit for several hours, ad nothing happened. It wouldn't go beyond the "Preparing Backups" phase. So, I stopped backups and deleted the backups off of my backup drive.
This seemed to fix the problem for a while, until it stopped again. I did the same steps, only it took a lot longer to delete this time.
I am at a point now where the time machine backups will not finish. It will get almost done and stop. It actually quits the utility and says that it executed fine, except it is not a complete backup, as far as I can tell. It is not big enough for it to e complete. I tried to delete it, but the trash will not go above 3 items to delete, no matter how long I let it sit there. When I do a secure empty trash, it tallies up about a million items in the trash and starts deleting them. The only problem with this is that it will take about 24 hours to delete, and I don't have that time. So, I guess that I will have to do it over the course of several nights, just letting it sit there.
I really wish I had multiple cores. It would make this whole thing so much easier.
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