So, there is an 400gb disk on my time capsule that I can not delete when acessing throght "SHARED".
There is a lock icon on the right bottom! I already tried to disk repair it, but it still not working.
What should I do?!
OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Is there other stuff on the disk you need.. if not simply use the airport utility and erase the disk.. a quick erase will take less than 2min..
If there is stuff you need on the disk you need to use terminal command to delete the file.. but I am unsure what you mean by 400gb disk .. is it a sparsebundle from Time Machine or a dmg file or what is it exactly.
Did you try the instructions from Pondini.
Q12 here. http://pondini.org/TM/12.html
It does not cover Mavericks.. which is strange and has some issues with permissions rather worse than previous OS.
You may find manually mounting the TC helps.. particularly just having the disk password set correctly.
A TM backup is easier to delete from the computer that created it.. Is that available??
Hi!
tks for your answer!
It is an .dmg file and I dont have the old computer that creates it... Neither i can add users or change permissions.
I do need the other dmg file on the TC.
Hmmm.. ok.
There are a few ways around it..
I am trying to find the terminal commands.. how comfortable are you doing it from terminal??
I have found Windows can often work where the Mac OS is tied up with permissions.. do you have a PC or bootcamp etc on a computer??
Or here is one post with a very unique answer.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5284123?answerId=22895031022#22895031022
I did work on the terminal commands here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5738667?answerId=24359868022#24359868022
This stuff no longer sticks in my head so I need to look it up each time.
Tks a lot!!!!!
As he said:
"timbloke wrote:
Actually I found a Mac only workaround- just create an empty folder with the same name and replace the one you want to delete.😁"
Unbeliveble!
Not able to delete a backup from old computer in my time capsule
