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Comment from: Tammy Endlish [Visitor]
Tammy EndlishThis worked! Thank you!
02/20/10 @ 19:03
Comment from: Brian [Visitor]
BrianThanks so much. I had the same problem and your solution fixed it.
02/23/10 @ 19:04
Comment from: Navè [Visitor]
NavèWorks perfectly, thanks
03/12/10 @ 17:54
Comment from: Ron MH [Visitor]
Ron MHThank you very much. It worked like a charm. Now if only Apple would fix this.
03/27/10 @ 22:15
Comment from: Danny [Visitor] Email
DannyYes, this did fix it... temporarily. Unfortunately it seems I have to do this almost ever other day! Have any permanent solutions?
05/08/10 @ 02:56
Comment from: Rob Kleven [Visitor]
Rob KlevenThanks for the help
05/28/10 @ 15:33
Comment from: Abhimat [Visitor]
AbhimatThanks! That helped a lot!
06/13/10 @ 04:32
Comment from: Jeppe Schoubye [Visitor]
Jeppe SchoubyeWorked perfectly!! Thanks a lot!!!
06/22/10 @ 11:32
Comment from: Martin Olsson [Visitor]
Martin OlssonWorked like a charm!
08/20/10 @ 12:08
Comment from: Rick [Visitor]
RickFantastic tip, thanks! As for your comment @Danny: I think the cause of the problem is the backup being prematurely stopped. My system backs up one an hour, and if while it is backing up, I close my laptop, it seems to make the next backup have this problem. I presume that the backup volume thinks it's still connected and so when the backup tries to get access, it tells it it is already in use.
08/27/10 @ 15:10
Comment from: christian Marolt [Visitor]
christian MaroltAnd what are you doing when you have an apple server?????
11/04/10 @ 13:57
Comment from: Thias [Member] Email
@Christian

You mean that you have an external USB drive attached to an Apple server?
11/04/10 @ 15:05
Comment from: Christian Marolt [Visitor]
Christian MaroltNo, when you are backing up to an Apple Server?!!

Thanks,
11/14/10 @ 11:08
Comment from: Thias [Member] Email
@Christian,

Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac OS X server on my home network to run a test... but if you want to contribute ;-) Just kidding ;-)
More seriously, you do have the exact same message when running Time Machine against a Mac OS X server?
11/14/10 @ 19:12
Comment from: charles [Visitor]
charlesThanks! This was a huge tip and worked perfectly. IN the future, I'll just make sure my time machine is not running when I close my laptop - so I can avoid having to do this all the time. Thanks again.
11/17/10 @ 02:40
Comment from: Darren [Visitor]
DarrenAwesome! It worked. Thanks!!
11/28/10 @ 04:23
Comment from: Bas, from Holland [Visitor]
Bas, from Hollandwauw, is was looking for a simple and good solution to fix the same problem.
on most of websites and forums i found complex methodes, but this is... simple and the best, it works like before :) thanx!
12/29/10 @ 21:27
Comment from: paul (A) [Visitor]
paul (A)worked perfectly! thanks!

p.s.: problem occured after breaking a back-up – but now it is back to normal (= time machine automatic back up)

paul
01/28/11 @ 22:10
Comment from: Brian [Visitor]
BrianThank you! That worked and saved a whole lot of further frustration.
02/14/11 @ 01:19
Comment from: Peter [Visitor]
Peterso i did everything and it seems like the problem has ceased, but when i enter time machine it seems as if i've lost all my previous back-ups. any ideas?
02/21/11 @ 20:01
Comment from: calvin [Visitor]
calvinthank you! saved me from backing up 800gb of data again
02/27/11 @ 23:26
Comment from: Diane Challenor [Visitor]
Diane ChallenorThank you for sharing.
03/22/11 @ 13:28
Comment from: Tom Dibble [Visitor]
Tom DibbleAnother route which doesn't require unplugging the disk from the Airport, is to select the Airport Extreme in Airport Utility, then go to the menu bar "Base Station" then "Restart".

The upside is that you don't need to walk over to the base station and unplug thing / wait for a few seconds / plug back in. The downside is that anyone connecting to the base station via wireless (or at all, if this is acting as your router) will lose access to the internet / network for a few seconds while it reboots. Assuming you have everything set up to remember that base station network everything will just reconnect a few seconds later, and unless there is a download or Hulu stream going on you probably won't even notice :)

04/26/11 @ 07:55
Comment from: Ed [Visitor]
EdThanks...it worked for me too!!!!
05/26/11 @ 21:35
Comment from: Nick [Visitor]
NickGreat, that worked for me! Thanks for sharing this useful info
06/15/11 @ 00:46
Comment from: Nate [Visitor]
NateWorked awesome... THANKS A MILLION!!!!!
07/11/11 @ 03:04
Comment from: Terry (visitor) [Visitor]
Terry  (visitor)Thanks times 1,000!!
07/14/11 @ 01:54
Comment from: Pussy [Visitor]
PussyThanks! Best solution to this problem!
07/17/11 @ 19:47
Comment from: michaeltaft [Visitor]
michaeltaftSaved my ass.
Thank you.
07/22/11 @ 18:40
Comment from: rga [Visitor]
rgaThanks for an excellent tip -- it truly saved me a huge amount of time today!
07/25/11 @ 19:20
Comment from: hagthor [Visitor]
hagthorthanks for the excellent tip! i think my recent update to "lion" is the culprit in having to do this in the first place. this had never happened with "snow leopard" but in the few days since i updated i've had to do this three times! i even had to force use of unsupported disks again (because i don't have apples 'time capsule', just an airport and a usb hard drive) if anyone is wondering how to do that, just use this command in terminal: [defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1] (not including the brackets) then time machine should recognize any disk plugged into the airport as acceptable for "time capsule" use.
anyway... thanks again! your tip really helped!
07/25/11 @ 22:15
Comment from: akjorge [Visitor]
akjorgeThank you!! I just updated to Lion last night and my time machine backups stopped immediately. I got the error message The backup disk image “XX” is already in use. This fixed it! Thank you for the great post. Just saved me hours and hours of my life.
08/03/11 @ 21:03
Comment from: kc [Visitor]
kcIt worked! Thank you so much!!
08/08/11 @ 02:43
Comment from: Josh [Visitor] Email
JoshGetting this all the time, once upgraded to Lion. I have to restart the Airport Extreme every single time and it's annoying. Can anyone confirm if OS X 10.7.1 update fixes this?
08/24/11 @ 02:04
Comment from: Gerard van Wesep [Visitor]
Gerard van WesepThanks. How hard could it be for Apple to fix this?
08/25/11 @ 05:20
Comment from: Veniamin [Visitor]
VeniaminAnother easy way is to mount the budle as a disk and delete *.inProgress file inside the Backups.backupdb/[computername]/ directory.
08/25/11 @ 21:33
Comment from: Ron [Visitor]
RonWorked like a charm. Thanks!
09/05/11 @ 19:25
Comment from: Phil [Visitor]
PhilJust wanted to leave another thank you. I was having this problem too.
09/06/11 @ 05:06
Comment from: HDR [Visitor]
HDRThanks it worked perfectly and I learnt of the cause too. Whenever you kill a backup, you always need to do disconnect and turn off your external drive.
09/14/11 @ 02:27
Comment from: Alex [Visitor]
AlexThank you so much!!!! On a previous occasion I had to delete and reinstall the sparsebundle, losing all previous time machine functionality. Now thanks to you everything is back to normal!!!!
10/07/11 @ 12:45
Comment from: Mikko [Visitor]
MikkoThank you so very much!
This still works. And is still needed, it seems.
10/21/11 @ 05:51
Comment from: Adrian T [Visitor]
Adrian TWORKS IN 2012 #YOUTHEMAN
01/22/12 @ 06:16
Comment from: jonathan [Visitor]
jonathanSaved my bacon with 5 computers on a 2TB time capsule.

thanks for taking the time!
02/29/12 @ 18:16
Comment from: David Young [Visitor]
David YoungThis worked perfectly! Airport Utility may have changed its interface for Lion, but disconnecting the drive, powering it off, and reconnecting it fixed the problem for me.
03/23/12 @ 02:57
Comment from: Ryan [Visitor]
RyanTotally works. Airport Utility is different on OS X Lion but same concept applies. Just need to turn Time Machine backups off temporarily, manually disconnect drive from Airport, plug back in, and turn Time Machine back on with selected drive.
04/11/12 @ 16:20
Comment from: richard [Visitor] Email
richardSame problem. Any idea how to fix it with the new airport utility program in Lion
05/12/12 @ 09:49
Comment from: Tim B [Visitor]
Tim BStill works (and is needed) in June 2012!
06/03/12 @ 01:17
Comment from: Jonathan S [Visitor]
Jonathan SUPDATE NOTE:
If you are using a newer version of Airport Utility there is no "disconnect all users" button.
Solution: Manually disconnect users (turn off access with each machine.) For us this just meant turning off wi-fi on each machine since we're on a time capsule.

Then just unplug the time capsule (or disc.) Wait a bit and plug back in.

Worked great! Thanks!!!
07/11/12 @ 19:19
Comment from: Sarah [Visitor]
SarahThank you so much! This worked great!
07/11/12 @ 21:51
Comment from: Adam [Visitor]
AdamBrilliant! Thank you.
07/24/12 @ 02:45
Comment from: Tom B [Visitor]
Tom BThe following simple method posted above, by "Tom Dibble," worked perfect for me:

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Posted by Tom Dibble -

Another route which doesn't require unplugging the disk from the Airport, is to select the Airport Extreme in Airport Utility, then go to the menu bar "Base Station" then "Restart".

The upside is that you don't need to walk over to the base station and unplug thing / wait for a few seconds / plug back in. The downside is that anyone connecting to the base station via wireless (or at all, if this is acting as your router) will lose access to the internet / network for a few seconds while it reboots. Assuming you have everything set up to remember that base station network everything will just reconnect a few seconds later, and unless there is a download or Hulu stream going on you probably won't even notice :)

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08/19/12 @ 18:55
Comment from: Hunter [Visitor]
HunterThis option no longer works in the new Airport version as apple removed the disconnect all users button; however, the concept still works. I unplugged my Airport Extreme and then my disk. Turned them back on (router first) and everything worked - thanks.
11/16/12 @ 22:21
Comment from: iftikhar Raziq. [Visitor]
iftikhar Raziq.thank u so very much.works in 2012.......youtheman
11/20/12 @ 05:18

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