Try rebooting the airport and the external HDD. Sent from a device of sorts. @drbrown1970
On 26 Nov 2012, at 14:14, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > TM has been backing up to the disk attached to our Airport Extreme quite > happily since August. Today though, whilst it was backing up my iMac locked > up and the cursor vanished and nothing would make it work at all so I had to > restart and since then TM will not backup as it says that: > > Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "iMac's Airport extreme". > The backup disk image "/Volumes/Past Times-1/Shiny iMac.sparsebundle" is > already in use. > > I think it said (error -1) or something too. The Volume name is actually > "Past Times" but OS X creates another called "Past Times-1" when I select > "Back up now" from the TM menu. When TM gives up, this "ghost" volume > disappears again. > > It clearly isn't in use, but it seems to have got 'stuck' as though it is. As > it's not attached to my iMac directly I can't run Disk Utility, though > obviously if required I could do that. > > Any ideas on what I should do to get us on the road again? > > Thanks in advance. > > Stephen > > > "The climate has shifted to a new state capable of delivering rare and > unprecedented weather events,” explained meteorologist Jeff Masters in Feb > 2012. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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.
