I want to get rid of a Bonjour computer in the Finder Locations...

[Killerbob]

I noticed that in my Finder Sidebar, under Locations, I have listed my Mac, the Hard Disk, External disks, my Cloud Storage, Connected Servers AND Bonjour computers. And that is fine.

However, also showing up is an old Time Capsule, which this computer does not use, and that annoys me (I have severe OCD).

I cannot eject it, and if I deselect Bonjour computers in Settings, all the Bonjour computer disappear.

How do I get rid of one specific Bonjour computer in particular? My other Time Capsule does not show up in the finder, and that is actually the one this Mac uses...

 

[Brian33]

If that old Time Capsule is still on your network, you may have enabled "File Sharing" sometime in the past; I believe that would make it show up in Finder as a "Location". And if your newer TC doesn't have it enabled, that would explain why it doesn't show up.

Open Airport Utility (in /Applications/Utilities), Edit the old TC, go to the 'Disks' tab, and de-select 'Enable File Sharing'.

Hope that works!

 

[Killerbob]

That sorted it out - thx.

Funny thing is though; I have two Time Capsules, and they both had File Sharing enabled, but only one showed up in Finder.

 

[Killerbob]

So, after I turned off File Sharing and the Time Capsule no longer showed up in my Finder, Time Machine backup stopped working on my MacBooks. I enabled File Sharing again, and the backups work, but now the old Time Capsule shows up in my Finder again...

 

[Brian33]

Huh -- that's not at all what I expected. I thought the file sharing feature would be separate from the Time Machine destination capability. Seems like a bug, to me!

I'm using a TC as my WiFi access point but it currently doesn't have a drive inside it so I can't test and see if it behaves like yours...

 

[Killerbob]

As soon as I disabled the File Sharing, the TM Backups failed on my nMP and my MBP - saying the backup disk could not be found.

 

[chrfr]

Huh -- that's not at all what I expected. I thought the file sharing feature would be separate from the Time Machine destination capability. Seems like a bug, to me!

No, file sharing is how network Time Machine works. It's not a bug.