Time Machine disables Bluetooth

I have to admit, that I haven’t used much of the build in features of MacOS X in the past, so I haven’t really hit any problems in running my setup.

So, today I thought that I give Time Machine a try. I mean, after all it sounds very impressing and I also want to travel, at least once, trough space with my Mac.

Connecting my LaCie Rugged Firewire drive was a no brainer, but as soon as I enabled Time Machine my connection to my Logitech TravelMouse Bluetooth enabled Mouse was lost! Surely, I must have hit a “disable bluetooth” button or alike somewhere, right? Or is the battery of my mouse dead? Bluetooth is still on?

Well, it turns out that on some machines, as soon as you turn on Time Machine you will loose connection to your bluetooth devices! It also turns out that I am not the only one with Time Machine problems. If you read trough this Apple Discussion topic you will see that there are some other “mean errors” involved with Time Machine.

So far for now, let’s hope that Apple will fix these issues in the upcoming 10.5.6 release (which apparently is ready to be released).

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Published:: Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 9:39 am

Author:: Razuna

Category:: Apple

Tags:: Apple, bluetooth devices, firewire drive, logitech, time machine

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Alan

November 24th, 2008
1:59 UTC

I have been using Time Machine ever since the release of Leopard – so about a year. I also use a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. I have never had a problem once. Perhaps test an Apple wirless device and see if that is an issue. Also, depending on your setup – if you are using a usb port to power / connect your wireless device and you are also plugging in a firewire drive, you may be losing power to your port. Or is a FIreWire issue.

Hardware I have used: MacPro, MacBook, WIreless Keyboard, WIreless Mouse, Internal HD time Machine, USB connected TIme Machine.

Nitai

November 24th, 2008
2:07 UTC

You know the funny thing is that on second adept it does work. But when you follow the link on Apples Discussion Forum you will quickly see that I am not the only one with that problem.

Other then that I think Time Machine has a lot for it.

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