My newsletter will deliver my blog posts to your email as well as infrequent email only content. The files that were causing issues for our Mac were imap mailabox files from Thunderbird, so I just uninstalled Thunderbird and removed the mailbox files. I am not sure how to fix the issue if you can’t remove those files. My advice is that you change the logging verbosity to 'Normal' which is usually good enough to find build problems. From the OutOfMemoryException it seems that these log files are simply too large. Make sure File Explorer is open for this. These log files are copied to the drop location of the build once it completes. 2: Restart File Explorer (Windows Explorer) File Explorer can consume a lot of memory and CPU, so let's restart it. It's a simple fix that solves a lot of problems. Rebooting can give you a fresh start and free up memory.

restart time machine by repeating steps 2 and 6. The final two steps are for those running into these errors repeatedly.

watch the system log for errors that look likeMar 9 12:14:14 computer-name /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd: Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /path/to/file/file.name to (null).

turn on time machine by opening the time machine prefs and selecting your disk drive.

turn off time machine by opening the time machine prefs and select ‘none’ for the backup disk.

connect your time machine disk drive to your Mac.

That still didn’t seem to work–same error message.įinally, I did some more googling and ran across this forum post (yes Jeff Atwood, forums are indeed the dark matter of the web), which gave me additional troubleshooting tips.īasically, if you are seeing this error on time machine: I tried doing that multiple times, and still saw the error message. I googled around for it and saw this KB article from Apple, which wasn’t too helpful, as the only troubleshooting suggestion was a reboot (hmmm, sounds a bit like Windows). An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume”. She saw this error message: “Unable to complete backup. However, a while ago the backups stopped working. As someone who cut his teeth with Amanda backups back in the day, Time Machine is a beautiful, intuitive backup solution. My SO has a Mac, and she was using Time Machine to back it up.