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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Slocum" data-source="post: 1628497" data-attributes="member: 214122">Thanks cwa107. I'm sure you are right about the prioritisation. Perhaps if I'm more patient, things will settle down. As regards the sparse bundle - I was being too clever right clicking on it and unpacking it. Apparently (so I just read) you double click the sparse bundle file and it opens it up to look like the familiar backup file. The sparse bundle is something that happens with network drives, which I don't normally use, so I had not seen it before. There's a great explanation here: <a href="http://pondini.org/TM/Works3.html" target="_blank">How Time Machine Works its Magic How Network Backups are Stored in Sparse Bundles</a>Totally agree about the &quot;it just works&quot; philosophy, Macs are for people who want to get stuff done, but backups are so precious I like the idea that I can get at the files through finder. (And truth to tell I hate not knowing how things work!). I'll have to accept that with wireless networked drives &quot;it just works - slowly&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Slocum, post: 1628497, member: 214122"] Thanks cwa107. I'm sure you are right about the prioritisation. Perhaps if I'm more patient, things will settle down. As regards the sparse bundle - I was being too clever right clicking on it and unpacking it. Apparently (so I just read) you double click the sparse bundle file and it opens it up to look like the familiar backup file. The sparse bundle is something that happens with network drives, which I don't normally use, so I had not seen it before. There's a great explanation here: [url=http://pondini.org/TM/Works3.html]How Time Machine Works its Magic How Network Backups are Stored in Sparse Bundles[/url] Totally agree about the "it just works" philosophy, Macs are for people who want to get stuff done, but backups are so precious I like the idea that I can get at the files through finder. (And truth to tell I hate not knowing how things work!). I'll have to accept that with wireless networked drives "it just works - slowly". [/QUOTE]

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