The ‘gary.tm’ directory was the most likely candidate to be the directory that Mac Time Machine created to store backups, so I checked to make sure:ĭrwxrwxrwx 7 gary gary 65536 Feb 6 19:43. Public TwonkyData anonftp dbd gary gary.tm lost+found mt-daapd twonky I then changed to the parent directory and checked what files/directories were in there: ssh Enter the following commands in the terminalįirst I checked what the current directory was: Open a terminal and SSH to your Seagate drive IP using the login details for your administrator user (e.g. Make sure you have a user set up on your Seagate drive with administrative privileges. The main reason I have shared these instructions is because most other suggestions I have read involved having to entirely reformat the external drive – which I didn’t want to do as I had around 1.5TB in other files and backups on the drive.ġ. In order to use these instructions you should be confident using SSH and the *nix command line.
This procedure WILL permanently delete the Mac Time Machine backup files from your external drive. Being able to access the drive via SSH meant that I was also able to delete all of the Time Machine related files, so I’ll now explain how I did this. So I was sitting here this afternoon wondering if the Seagate drive was accessible via SSH and to my surprise it was. All that did was, as you would probably expect, remove the link which meant I could no longer access the files from my Mac. I tried just removing the shared folder that Time Machine had created (it was something like ‘Seagate-430D1C-backup’).
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After around 8 hours it was still sitting there, possibly deleting, but I wasn’t sure and the external drive was still showing only 1.4TB free space.
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Initially I tried deleting the files by following some instructions I found in a forum that showed how to delete the Time Machine sparsebundle files. Mac Time Machine had used around 2.5TB of space on the external drive, so I wanted to permanently delete those files. Anyways, I decided to use Crashplan (external backup) instead. The drive actually had 1.4TB free so I’m not sure why it was failing. I recently had some issues with failed backups on a 4TB Seagate external hard drive – out of the blue I started getting an error that there wasn’t enough free space.
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