Resource Temporarily Unavailable

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Resource Temporarily Unavailable

I know this has been asked before. I have tried opening Airport Utility, but there are no updates available.

Basically, I have two sparsebundles on the drive, my Time Machine backup, and a bundle where I have stored a bunch of stuff I don't need my Laptop, but I still need access to occasionally. I can open the backup, but I can't open the other bundle, I keep getting the resource message. I am connected wirelessly, doing a hard connection is near impossible because of the location of the TM drive. When I use the Finder I can see the drive, I can do an Info on it and get all the information about it, but I can't open it. Any ideas?

Oh, BTW, I am running OS 10.11.1

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 15, 2015 3:12 PM

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Answer 1

Bob Timmons

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Nov 15, 2015 3:30 PM in response to Mike Lipay

The resource unavailable message occurs when there is an operation going on in the background, like Verify Disk, or the sparsebundle file is being re-indexed to consolidate hourly backups into daily backups or daily backups into weekly backups.

Wait an hour or two

Power off the Time Capsule, wait a few seconds then start it back up and wait for a green light on the Time Capsule.

Locate your Mac such that you have line-of-sight between the Mac and Time Capsule.

Restart your Mac.

See if the sparsebundle file can be accessed now.

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