On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Christopher Wolf wrote: > Use the Finder to delete the Backups.backupsb directory. > Ok, that works but it took a looong time…
I wonder why it is so protected that command line deletion is extremely difficult. Thanks Jerry > > On Dec 6, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Jerry Levan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I used an attached disk for several weeks for a time machine backup >> destination. >> >> After I added a NAS I no longer had any use for the older Time Machine >> backup. >> >> The backup is heavily protected by ACLs and I don't seem to be able to find >> a magic command line that will recursively strip the ACL protections so I >> can delete the 'whole thing'. >> >> Google seemed to think that there is a function 'fsaclctl' that can remove >> ACLs from a device but it does not appear to exist in mac osx 10.7.2 client. >> >> Nuking the entire partition via disk utility seems a bit heavy handed… >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Jerry >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-admin mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
