Time Machine stopped working suddenly: "Time Machine could not create a local snapshot to backup from"

mulberry58 wrote:

Please check if your internal hard drive is nearly full. This can cause this error

Both hard disks have been about 75% full for very long, probably months. Time Machine worked well during that time. It just broke suddenly. But of course that could be the reason which slowly triggers the malfunction.

Actually, as I mentioned in my first post, TM gave me the error again with a single reformatted HD (it happened to be a Time Capsule HD). So I gave up and forgot about it for a few hours. When I came back after a recovering nap, I was happily surprised to notice that TM had automagically recovered and was running a new backup.

So, I brought back the other HD as was earlier and TM is back to life.

It seems to me (although of course I cannot verify it) that the almost full (75%) HD situation building up triggered this problem. If so, that could come back again any time. I am ready.

Tx to rkaufmann87 and to mulberry58 for your time and advices!

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Claude

rkaufmann87 wrote:

BTW, do you have any third party antivirus, cleaning or ANY other third party "maintenance" apps installed?

No such applications installed that I know.