Can't delete Time Machine .inprogress folder

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jluros wrote:

Thank you for your reply. I ended up just fixing the Time Machine backup sparsebundle on the external drive from which I copied it over originally, and since this is a new ReadyNAS, I just started over with the sparsebundle that didn't have the ".inProgress" folder that was messing things up. Everything is working now.

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Glad you were able to do that -- eliminate the problem at the source. :-)

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Thank you again for trying. Are you sure that the permissions of a network share are local? I thought that the network share permissions were controlled by the host, not by the client?

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Ok, that's the tricky part...  at this point, we're not talking about permissions on a *share*.  You're only using the share to get to the sparsebundle.  Then, you're mounting the virtual disk "inside" the sparsebundle as a local disk.

As an example, here's how it looks on my system (this is from Terminal, with some highlighting, to get at the important bits):

//tom@NASbox._afpovertcp._tcp.local./tom%60s%20timemachine on /Volumes/tom's timemachine (afpfs, nobrowse)

/dev/disk6s2 on /Volumes/Time Machine Backups (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, nobrowse)

The first is the ReadyNAS share.  That's a network volume, so ReadyNAS and AFP network permissions apply. 

So, /Volumes/tom\'s\ timemachine/bacamac.sparsebundle is network.

The second is the virtual disk.  That's a local volume, so local permissions apply.

So, /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/Backups.backupdb/bacamac is local.

Hope that helps.

[Edited to try to avoid line wraps. :-/ ]