Ok, thanks again for this Carlo. I've ebay'd a 1TB external drive so I have the space to do the operations below. It will probably arrive with FAT formatting. I presume I will need to reformat the new drive to OS Journaled so it can accomodate the sparsebundle files (>4GB). Is this right?
The rest should be straight forward. I'll revert either way with success or otherwise. Regards Pete On 08/08/2012, at 9:04 AM, "wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au" <wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au> wrote: > The nice formatting of the previous was removed at the news group server so I > will repost just the bullet points of the previous email... > > > * Obtain an external drive with enough space to store the two sparse bundles > you wish to keep. > > * Turn off all Time Machine back up from al the computers in your house. > > * Move the two good sparse bundles to an external drive for safe keeping. > > * Erase the Time Capsule using Airport Utility ( knowledge base article link > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4522?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US ) > > * At this point try to backup the new install of your 9yo's computer to Time > Capsule. There should be nothing stopping it now. > > (post back if it does not work) > > * Copy back the other two sparse bundles to Time Capsule > > * Check that the existing computers are still associated with their newly > reinstate sparse bundle > > (if not post back) > > > C > > On 08/08/2012, at 8:57 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: > >> Hi Pete, >> >> Just to wrap up this thread I'll summarise where we left things. It seems >> the existing Time Capsule sparse bundle associated with you 9yo's MacBook >> refuses to budge. In the end Time Capsule is an independent computer with >> its own permissions and accounts. Apple attempts to keep these permissions >> synchronised but there can be slip-ups. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
