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backups.backupdb

  1. J

    External Drive - Time Capsule - Time Machine Restoration

    Hi, Hopefully someone can help me out! I used an external passport device [4tb] to back up my data via time machine and have been periodically backing up since Jan 2023. When I was conducting some maintenance on my MBA 2017 [which has the adapter / 2tb NVME M2 drive installed], after I...
  2. sonnenhund

    Time Machine Drive Failure - Convert Backups.backupdb to backupbundle?

    I recently had the drive I was using over the Network for Time Machine fail. Now that I have a new drive, is there a way to create an initial backup with Time Machine over USB to the new drive, which backs up to `Backups.backupdb`, then convert that into a `backupbundle` file that Time Machine...
  3. francisnote

    "This disk is used for Time Machine backups"

    I can't update to Mojave, the software is correctly downloaded but then I get this screen: "This disk is used for Time Machine backups" is the translation. This is not true! I am using a Time Capsule, for years now. Some people say that deleting the file Backups.backupdb is the solution for...