Can't back up using time machine with airport and external drive

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Can't back up using time machine with airport and external drive

Hi, I am using WD My Book Studio in conjunction with a MAC airport Extreme. Time machine has told me that it needs to delete old backups and create a new one but I have received an error message saying a back can't be conducted because the my book studio volumes can't be deleted. I have gone into My Book Studio in finder and found the backup volume and tried to delete it manually. I get an error code as per the message below.

"The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)."

Has anyone any ideas?

Many thanks in advance

Vedeco

Imac

Posted on Apr 1, 2015 1:42 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 1, 2015 2:54 AM in response to Vedeco

What model extreme is this? Gen 1-5, apple specifically does not support TM backup to the USB drive.. even on AEgen6 it is not proving to be much better with people needing to constantly redo the backup.

To fix your drive.. plug it directly into the computer and reformat it with disk utility.. that will fix it. Until next time.

See http://pondini.org/TM/Airport.html

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Vedeco Author

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Apr 4, 2015 2:04 AM in response to LaPastenague

Thanks for this. I'll give it a go.

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