New User Needs Help with ReadyNAS, TimeMachine and iPhoto

In the future, you might try splitting up multiple issues into different posts. More likely to get responses that way. ;)

jmk8811 wrote:

... I've also relocated my iPhoto library (18.19 GB) to the NAS and have redirected the program to look there for it. This has, from an iPhoto perspective, gone okay ... I'm able to start iPhoto and all of my pictures and events show up a-ok. BUT no other programs that reference iPhoto (such as the list of options when I go to change my desktop background, which had been an iPhoto image, or when I try to insert media into a document, etc.) seem to find the library. In those cases, iPhoto shows as a named option in the sidebar, but never populates. Any thoughts?

Well, how exactly did you do the redirection? In my past, I did this by mounting the volume with the media and then deleting the base folder for, say, iTunes Music and then (using Terminal) creating a Unix-style symlink to the volume folder path where I moved iTunes Music (even if not using that name). Never experienced any woes from this approach, unless the network volume the symlink referenced wasn't mounted, naturally.

jmk8811 wrote:
The NAS shows up twice in my Finder sidebar

This is likely due to CIFS and AFP both being enabled. Note that the only way to access the "C" drive on the NAS is to log in as admin via CIFS. I've frankly taken to using CIFS instead anyway, since AFP started having performance problems at some point in the past (probably back on my NV+, now on Pro) and I've just stuck with CIFS now. I do use DAV for some shares and of course Time Machine must use AFP... so, YMMV.

jmk8811 wrote:
So ... I'd like to start from scratch with this whole Time Machine experiment. But, since I can't mount the Time Machine history and I can't open the ReadyNAS volume, how do I get rid of the files that are on the drive from last time? How do I reclaim all of that storage space?

The Time Machine data, if you were to enable Root SSH and log in, is kept at /c/.timemachine. Remember my note earlier about logging in as admin via CIFS? Do that and drill into the "c" share to mount it. Now flip into Terminal app and cd into /Volumes/c/.timemachine. There you will find one or more *.sparsebundle directories. These sparsebundles are named for the machines backed up and represent the Time Machine volume. If you want to zap it, just delete them. There is no undo.

jmk8811 wrote:
And does anybody have an idea as to what I was doing wrong to begin with, and how to make this all work???

Well, you mentioned you're on a Duo v1 and 4.1.10. I don't know if you mentioned what Mac OS X release you're on. If it's the latest (decent presumption) then that may be the issue. I seem to recall threads complaining of issues with 10.8.2 and 4.1.10 with TM. Might be worth a search or three to vet that. I don't use 4.1.10 myself (on a Pro 6 now, so 4.2.22) so I don't have firsthand knowledge.