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Hi community!
I have a Time Capsule that I use for my laptop's backups. I'm trying to locate the folder Backups.backupdb but I can't find it on the /Volume, Spotlight also doesn't yield any results. Where can I find it?
Many thanks in advance!
Eduardo
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
The TC will have a file called sparsebundle.. with the same name as your computer. that is a virtual disk that Time Machine uses when it backs up to Network targets.. double click that file and keep going into the folders and you will eventually get to the backups.backupdb
You need to understand Time Machine works differently on local cf network targets.
Please read Pondini so you understand.
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Read the one about how TM does its magic.
And then glance through the FAQ.
The TC will have a file called sparsebundle.. with the same name as your computer. that is a virtual disk that Time Machine uses when it backs up to Network targets.. double click that file and keep going into the folders and you will eventually get to the backups.backupdb
You need to understand Time Machine works differently on local cf network targets.
Please read Pondini so you understand.
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Read the one about how TM does its magic.
And then glance through the FAQ.
Open the Time Capsule drive.....named "Data", unless you have changed the default name of the Time Capsule drive
Double-click on the sparsebundle file with the name of your Mac.....which contains all of the backups for the Mac
That will mount another drive icon on the desktop named Time Machine Backups
Open Time Machine Backups
Backups.backupdb will appear
Open the folder and drill down to the file(s) that you need
Backups.backupdb is nowhere to be found!
