Try rebooting the airport and the external HDD.

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@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.
>
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