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How do I see my Time Machine?
OK, I've had my ReadyNAS NV+ for years and basically used it as a file server. I consider myself to be completely naive on the inner workings of both my Mac and my NAS. Now that I've established m...
mdgm wrote: If you have CIFS enabled, I would go to the Finder, select the Go menu, connect to server and connect to "smb://ip.address.of.nas/c/.timemachine". You can then delete the sparsebundle there. It can take hours to delete, so be patient.
You could alternatively increase the limit in Frontview beyond the 500GB limit currently set.
I tried that, putting in the ip address of my NAS and using the username and password of the time machine and it says there was an error connecting. I think that I have CIFS enabled, at least it's "colored" in front view for all of my other shares and I do see the NAS name with CIFS after the name in finder, as well as AFP.
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