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Cannot get into my HD on Airport Time Capsule
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This is the disk image:
If you enable "show file extensions" in the Finder preferences, the file name would end in .dmg, which stands for disk image.
Ok... The odd thing is ALL the folders (about 50) are between January 24-21 and January 16-21... Also, ALL folder I clic to get in have the same folder name "sans titre" (which like I say earlier is the name I give my HD drive) BUT all "sans titre" folder are "greyed out" like light blue and I cannot get in...
The .inProgress file is what Time Machine was trying to backup at the time of the drive failing.
Let's approach this a bit differently.
Are you missing any files from your MacBook Air? If so, are you hoping to recover these files from the Time Machine backup? Or are you just curious to see what's on the Time Machine backup?
Let's approach this a bit differently.
Are you missing any files from your MacBook Air? If so, are you hoping to recover these files from the Time Machine backup? Or are you just curious to see what's on the Time Machine backup?
Oh yes, everything I am trying to recover I don't have anymore... Trust me, I wouldn't have you work like this otherwise...
Now, true I was curious to see what's in it for the past 12 years but mostly what I would want to recover are .pdf's files of plans I have for the past 5 years or so...
Those plans I really would like to get back! Hence all this trouble...
Search through every one of these folders for your missing files. Don't worry about the modified date, just look for your missing files. If you know the name of the files, you can use a search program like EasyFind (free) or Find Any File (free to try out) instead.
Search through every one of these folders for your missing files. Don't worry about the modified date, just look for your missing files. If you know the name of the files, you can use a search program like EasyFind (free) or Find Any File (free to try out) instead.
There are 45 folders and in each and everyone of them is a "sans titre" folder that is light blue (as in grey out) and none of them opens...
If you do a "Show Package Contents" on a "Sans titre" folder, does it open then? If not, then open up a Terminal window, type "ls -l " without the quotes, and drag one of the Sans titre folder into the Terminal window. Post the permissions that are displayed.
I forgot to tell you that yes I did try before you ask the Show Package Contents on Sans titre and it didn't show...
Is -I
No worries. Terminal commands are easy to misunderstand and to mistype. So, that command shows you that the Sans titre file contains your Time Machine backup of your Mac. The folders are there, but you can't open the Sans titre folder for some reason.
The next step is to figure out how to access those folders inside Sans titre. I'm going to retire for the evening and will have look at this tomorrow.
So what you're saying here is that the files are okay and so is the hard drive?
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you my friend, sweet dreams, take all the time you need, I'll be here...
There is no hurries at all
Again, Thank you!
I wouldn't say the hard drive is fine. We haven't conclusively determined that. I think your files are there but it may not be the ones you want. We're still trying to get access to them. So that is also undetermined. The good news is that the drive mounts and hasn't crashed on you yet. That shows that it's fairly stable so far.