You're a star Russell. I launched the Airport Utility, selected the base Station in the window, then chose Base Station > Restart ... It's just completed a 1.2GB backup.
Much appreciated. Stephen On 26 Nov 2012, at 14:16, Russell Brown <drbrown1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try rebooting the airport and the external HDD. > > Sent from a device of sorts. > @drbrown1970 > > On 26 Nov 2012, at 14:14, "itsagr...@mac.com" <itsagr...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> TM has been backing up to the disk attached to our Airport Extreme quite >> happily since August. Today though, whilst it was backing up my iMac locked >> up and the cursor vanished and nothing would make it work at all so I had to >> restart and since then TM will not backup as it says that: >> >> Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "iMac's Airport extreme". >> The backup disk image "/Volumes/Past Times-1/Shiny iMac.sparsebundle" is >> already in use. >> >> I think it said (error -1) or something too. The Volume name is actually >> "Past Times" but OS X creates another called "Past Times-1" when I select >> "Back up now" from the TM menu. When TM gives up, this "ghost" volume >> disappears again. >> >> It clearly isn't in use, but it seems to have got 'stuck' as though it is. >> As it's not attached to my iMac directly I can't run Disk Utility, though >> obviously if required I could do that. >> >> Any ideas on what I should do to get us on the road again? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Stephen "The climate has shifted to a new state capable of delivering rare and unprecedented weather events,” explained meteorologist Jeff Masters in Feb 2012. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
