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finding hidden files
I am attempting to find the source of "virus" warning. Somewhere within a timemachine back up is a file that the scan identifies as a virus, but there is not enough information to find the file and delete it
Can anyone help me with suggestions on searching for this
/data/.timemachine/xxxxxxxx/MacTower.sparsebundle/bands/271d8.
Thank you
Kevin
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You are trying to find it using what? SSH into the NAS and the Linux command line, or something else?
I was hoping I could locate a file name, then delete the file from the machine in the archive - I have no idea how to locate it.
somethingiswron wrote:I was hoping I could locate a file name, then delete the file from the machine in the archive - I have no idea how to locate it.
The Apple Time Machine does make use of a proprietary spare bundles, kind of partial disk images, or archives if you want. (-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS) )
Locating the hidden (.xxxx) file using the ssh root access is possible of course - it's just a file from the ReadyNAS (or any other Linux or whatever OS NAS).
Desperately want to file hidden files ... but that's not what you want I guess:
find /data/.timemachine/ -name ".*" -ls
The path you showed from the by far not perfect scanner is most likley a complete path, with xxxxxx being the username I guess, like this:
ls /data/.timemachine/xxxxxxxx/MacTower.sparsebundle/bands/271d8.
You can always cd to a hidden folder - the same way you would do on an OS X system btw:
cd /data/.timemachine/
The question is what you want to do with that "271d8." file - without breaking the logic and the integrity of your Time Machine backups. Believe me: Time Machine is snippy!
Further on, the question arises what value scanning these MacOS sparse bundle files have. And in the case the Time Machine backup is encrypted it's certainly obsolete.
No idea on how to create a relation between the Time Machine time browsing and the name of the sparse bundle file - only here you might be able to retrieve the file(s) in question - but there is no way to remove em (I've never tried...).
Your TimeMachine backup won't be happy if you are going to remove one of the a sparse bundle images - kind of a partial volume where the image is mounted by AFP or SMB from a Mac, probably even encrypted. Neither the NAS nor whatever anti virus can see into these images. False positive most likely.
I have a similar problem on an open archive of a Thunderbird archive on a PC - can't find the actual offending file - no way to know if its a false poisitve or not?!?!
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