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fixmacs
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Jul 22, 2018
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Delete Time Machine Sparsebundles

I have read numerous positngs regarding how to delete the Time Machine sparsebundles. Nothing works, including SSH. I enabled SSH on the NAS, rebooted, then used Mac Apple Terminal to SSH in to the s...
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    Jul 23, 2018

    That truncate command is what you'd run if the sparsebundle is already very small. Check the PM I sent you. If the files are huge the whole point of the truncation method is to gradually reduce the file size.

     

    If you want more space allocated for TM you'd simply go into the web admin interface of the NAS and increase the amount of space allocated to TM and apply your change.

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