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jwbeard
Sep 29, 2011Follower
Work-around: Deleting Time Machine images
Forgive me if I've missed any posts, but when I was trying to figure out how to quickly delete a Time Machine archive image on the ReadyNAS a month ago (notably, before Lion or 4.1.8 came out) I didn'...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 02, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
When logged into NASNAME (CIFS) as "admin"
In the Finder, Go > Connect to server. To the right of the server address field, there will be a plus button and to the right of that there will be a button with an circular shape on it. Click on the button with a circular shape and select "NASNAME (CIFS)". Then at the end of the address displayed in the server address field add "/c/.timemachine"
e.g. for my NAS (called "MDGM-NAS") the address is
In the Finder, Go > Connect to server. To the right of the server address field, there will be a plus button and to the right of that there will be a button with an circular shape on it. Click on the button with a circular shape and select "NASNAME (CIFS)". Then at the end of the address displayed in the server address field add "/c/.timemachine"
e.g. for my NAS (called "MDGM-NAS") the address is
smb://MDGM-NAS%20(CIFS)._smb._tcp.local/c/.timemachine
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