Time machine really hosed me when I installed Leopard. It asks if you want to use a disk as backup and then proceeds without asking you which disks you want backed up! I canceled it, and hosed it completely. Every time Time Machine launched, it was unable to do a backup and my system eventually froze.
Quicksilver (the new one that is supposed to work in Leopard) also kept freezing and would not force quit. So I have dumped it. Their Web site is down too :-(. So I removed QS, but TM was still hanging.
Solution:
1) Turn off Time machine
2) Delete the backup directory it makes. Reboot and empty the trash holding the Opt key down
3) Go in to the TM setup, and specify which disks should NOT be backed up
4) Change the backup disk. But then quickly turn off time machine. You have just 20 seconds to do this
5) Change the disk back to the one you want to use.
The backup will now work. By the way, you can use an internal disk for backup, even though that is not mentioned by Apple. Its the cheapest way to go and faster too. But get a whole disk for this.
Quicksilver (the new one that is supposed to work in Leopard) also kept freezing and would not force quit. So I have dumped it. Their Web site is down too :-(. So I removed QS, but TM was still hanging.
Solution:
1) Turn off Time machine
2) Delete the backup directory it makes. Reboot and empty the trash holding the Opt key down
3) Go in to the TM setup, and specify which disks should NOT be backed up
4) Change the backup disk. But then quickly turn off time machine. You have just 20 seconds to do this
5) Change the disk back to the one you want to use.
The backup will now work. By the way, you can use an internal disk for backup, even though that is not mentioned by Apple. Its the cheapest way to go and faster too. But get a whole disk for this.