SOLUTION:
This is what worked for me, hope it works for you too!
Get a fresh start, reboot your MyBookLive, and whilst that’s rebooting restart your Mac.
Once rebooted…
- Open a Finder window, click "Go", then “Connect to Server”.
- Type in “afp://IP-address-of-MBL” eg " afp://192.168.0.8"
Your MyBookLive should now be connected, so head over to the TimeMachine folder and you’ll see your backup file in there. For example ‘Bob’s MacBook Pro’. Right click it and press “Get Info”. Now untick the box that says “Locked”. Close that window.
Now, right click your MyBookLive and press ‘Show Contents’. Inside you’ll find a TOKEN file, again, right click, get info, and untick the ‘locked’ box.
Open up a Terminal window. ( The quick way for this is CMD + Spacebar + type ‘Terminal’. )
Type " sudo su -" (without quotes)
Enter your password
Next, type (again without quotes) " chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/ {time machin location} / {backup name} .sparsebundle"
Things can get a bit tricky with this, you may need to enter some backslashes if you have apostraphes and spaces in your backup name. Here’s an example : “chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/TimeMachine/Daniel’s\ MacBook\ Pro.sparsebundle”
Next, type this : hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck /Volumes/ {time machin location} / {backup name}.sparsebundle
Again, another example : hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -noautofsck /Volumes/TimeMachine/Daniel’s\ MacBook\ Pro.sparsebundle
Hopefully something will now be happening, but be patient with it. To check to see if it’s doing something, you can open up a Console window (CMD + Space + Console). And located the ‘fsck_hfs.log’ file, and you’ll hopefully see it working.
Mine took about 25-30 minutes and looked something like this:
/dev/rdisk1s2: fsck_hfs run at Tue Apr 29 14:39:39 2014
/dev/rdisk1s2: ** /dev/rdisk1s2
/dev/rdisk1s2: Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-557.3.1~5).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Detected a case-sensitive volume.
The volume name is Time Machine Backups
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
** Checking extended attributes file.
** Checking multi-linked directories.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
** The volume Time Machine Backups appears to be OK.
And now Reboot
Okay, so that’s pretty much it!
If it’s still not working, Disk Utlity will now see your backup and you’l be able to click ‘Repair’.
You can also hold ‘Alt/Option’ and click the Time Machine icon in your top bar, and click ‘Verify Backups’
If like me, you encounter error code 6584 when clicking “Enter Time Machine”, then also do the following step:
Delete the com.apple.finder.plist file . You can locate this file in the folder called Library/Preferences/ . <<< Note this is not the top level Library, but the user Library eg ’ User/John/Library/Preferences/.
Reboot
