I have been at this for a stable 6 hours now, hoping like heck somebody right here will help me.
I’ve had a Time Capsule for practically 2 years, constantly backing up two completely different laptops in my dwelling utilizing Time Machine. A MacBook and a MacBook Professional.
Final night time, my MacBook Professional up and died. I used to be engaged on it when all the pieces froze up and shut down, and it will not boot now. All indicators are that the logic board went. No matter, **** occurs. Sucks, however not completely a loss due to my incremental backups, proper?
Mistaken.
Introduced my work laptop computer (one other Macbook Professional) dwelling this night to open up my Time Machine backups and retrieve any recordsdata that I wanted or wished to maintain going ahead. Or so I assumed.
After I hook up with the drive, I can see two .sparsebundle recordsdata, one from the Macbook, and one from the Macbook Professional. Prior to now, I have been in a position to mount these as disks and manually type by way of them with out having to resort to the sluggish Star Wars interface of Time Machine.
The .sparsebundle for the MacBook works precisely as marketed. The .sparsebundle for the Macbook Professional? By no means. Double-clicking it provides the error “No mountable file programs.” Disk Utility (pictured under) has it greyed out and refuses to run any Confirm or Restore procedures on it. I’ve tried the Googles, gone by way of numerous dialogue threads in Apple’s help website in addition to different fashionable Mac tech websites, resorted to Terminal hdiutil mount -readwrite
type hacking, all to no avail. So far as I can inform from the analysis I’ve performed, what could have occurred is that my MacBook Professional was in the midst of a Time Machine backup on the very second it went kaput, which appears to have locked the .sparsebundle into some sort of hyper-militant read-only state from whence not even gentle can escape.
The message within the window pictured under comes up instantly after I click on “Restore disk”, although the candybar progress stripe retains spinning and spinning indefinitely.
I’ve acquired no concepts left. Further sloppy-kisses could also be offered as incentive if anybody will help me by way of this. I am one step away from introducing the Time Capsule to the enterprise finish of the 12 lb. sledgehammer sitting in my toolshed at this level.