Does anyone have an easy walk through guide for how to delete a TM backup from MBL? Let me explain further - I have always found backing up Time Machine to be somewhat flaky with the MBL and stopped using it some time ago. I currently have it disabled through Dashboard.
However, I currently have a 90 gig TM backup in my Public Folder and no matter what I do I cannot get rid of it. If I select move to Trash then it starts the process to delete but nothing gets beyond there, even hours later. I know you have to go into Dashboard and enable SSH but that’s as far as I get. Obviously I don’t want to mess things up. I have seen a couple for answers but they appear somewhat vague.
If it means going into Terminal then please make the process “clear” if anyone knows the answer that is. I am using MBL with an iMac
Sadly that is the issue. For some reason I’m unable to delete the sparse bundle. I get the progress bar to start the process but it never actually does anything.
What Iv’e ended up doing is moving all my data onto another drive and re-setting the WD MBL back to factory condition. What I noticed when it restarted is the option to have a dedicated Time Machine share. The only drop down option before for mac backup was public and private. This new share even has it’s own trash can. Although I previously had the latest firmware I did not have this option, which I find strange. Perhaps this is why I had all the problems trying to delete the backup task. In any event I shan’t be using it again for Time Machine as it was just to much trouble.
