I tried looking at the website that linked to.I tried the backup again and it froze like before. I also tried verifying my external hard drive and it seemed fine.
I tried verifying the disk permissions and got some errors involving iTunes (I think), and I fixed them by clicking the "Repair Disk Permissions" button. I tried verifying my main hard drive using the Disk Utility and everything seemed fine.I deleted it and that didn't seem to help.
It stayed that way for a few minutes, then I got tired of waiting and stopped the backup. The status on the Time Machine menu at the top of my screen said "Preparing Backup", instead of counting up like it usually does. It came with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) but I upgraded to 10.8 (Mountain Lion).Ī few days ago, I tried to backup my files on an external hard drive, like I have successfully done many times before and after the OS upgrade.