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1. BACKBLAZE MAC STOP BACKING UP CHROME FILES UPDATE
2. BACKBLAZE MAC STOP BACKING UP CHROME FILES SOFTWARE

Please note that exFAT volumes have a history of issues with both Mac and Windows operating systems. Bring up the "Settings." dialog in your Control Panel and select the drive. Connect the external hard drive and make sure you can see the files on it.Ģ. How do I select my external hard drive again?ġ. See the above entry for "Do you Clone Hard Drives?" Why am I Getting a Warning about Duplicate bzvolume ids? Then select all the files and move them to trash.ĪLTERNATIVELY (not recommended) you can suppress this warning dialog by creating a file called "bzstop_clonewarn" in the ".bzvol" folder of both the Original hard drive and cloned hard drive. So on the Mac use the finder's "Go to folder." menu item and type in "/Volumes/ExternalDriveName/.bzvol" and click Go.

bzvol folder that has already been cloned.

BACKBLAZE MAC STOP BACKING UP CHROME FILES SOFTWARE

Edit your cloning software to exclude the.RECOMMENDED SOLUTION:two hard drives should never have the same bzvolumeid. This confuses Backblaze, because now the two different hard drives have the same id. If you clone a drive that is selected for backup by Backblaze, it will clone the ".bzvol" directory.

BACKBLAZE MAC STOP BACKING UP CHROME FILES UPDATE

If your drive was not connected to your computer at the time of the update to the latest version of Backblaze, then Backblaze could not create the hidden ".bzvol" directory, and therefore had to remove this hard drive from the backup. This is a bad situation because I dont simply have a SmartSync folder that I can ignore, but I selectively keep certain files offline and others online based on my needs. Ive tested this on a variety of about 5 different files. Why was my drive removed from the backup? Backblaze seems to THINK it backed up my SmartSync files, but when I try to restore them from Backblaze those files are corrupt. "/Volumes/Media/.bzvol" into the text input which appears after you press Command + Shift + G. If you have an external drive use the following text (ignore the quotes) "/Volumes//.bzvol".įor example, if you had an external drive named "Media" you would type The folder should be available for copying and modification Copy and paste the following text (ignore the quotes): "/.bzvol"Ĥ. Inside this hidden directory is a tiny file that identifies this hard drive for the rest of time. Backblaze creates a ".bzvol" directory at the top level of every drive it backs up.