My Book Live won't work with TimeMachine on macOS Mojave?

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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I’ve been using a 2T My Book Live for my TimeMachine backups on mac for a few years now, with various hiccups whenever a new OS comes out, but now Mojave seems to have really broken it. It just won’t connect through TimeMachine.

I get the error message ’ The disk image “Gavin’s MacBook Pro.purgeable.sparsebundle” is in use.’

Is there an update coming? Or a way around this?

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First, you should contact Apple Support for Time Machine Configuration concerns in macOS Mojave.

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Im getting the same error, any update??

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no update. total pain in the arse.

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no, i shouldn’t. a product advertised as working with apple’s time machine should do so. it’s not apple’s responsibility to make their OS work with everyone’s peripherals, it’s the other way round.

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Gavin_H - 100% agree. I’m returning my new Passport. Should be easy with Time Machine but when it won’t erase, the instructions to get it ready for Time Machine and mind-bogglingly complex and time-consuming. Returning mine with a 1 star review. This no more Mac ready than a poodle!