Ranulph, My TC appears on my desktop when it is actually backing up every hour, following which it un-mounts again.
However, I can always find it in the side bar of any finder window under "Shared", if it doesn't show - go to the Finder and open "Preferences" in the Finder menu - select 'Sidebar' and tick everything (or be more selective if you chose). Now in a Finder Window sidebar select your TC and open the icons there until you see the Backup files (ending in .sparesebundle). That's as far as I can take you - I am not going to attempt to delete one of my backups in case it works. Hope this helps. Paul Owen > From: Ranulph Glanville <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:34:59 +0100 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [sussex_mug] Re: time machine/capsule > > > Thank you, Jason. > > The back up of my old machine on TM is really rather large. That's why > I want to get rid of it. > > I am not sure what I should be doing with my TC. > > At the moment, I have an old set of backup data on TC. I have no > access to this. I am not backing up the new machine (that's the one > with the new mother board). I can't see what's on the TC: this machine > is not registered using TM on TC: I've been waiting to clear the old > stuff before I start with the nes. > > I don't know how to look at the TC disc, except as a TM item using the > TM application. I can't see the sparse disc images. All I see is the > recession to the origin of the universe, which is empty: the only > thing actually there is the top window from my desktop: there's no > backup on TC, of course. There is no disc image there, and there's > nothing to select. > > Let me ask a different question, in case none of this makes sense. Can > I even reformat the TC disc? I'm completely unsure if the software > that runs the disc as a TC disc is on the disc or the computer. > > Ranulph > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
