September 2, 20196 yr Hey, I while back I was having trouble with getting Time Machine to actually do a backup. It kept getting stuck in the "Preparing backup" stage and would never move on. In frustration I looks around online and people told me to locate the .inProgress file and remove it. I moved this to my Trash and it allowed Time Machine to fully complete a backup. But.... I seem to have made a problem for myself. I now have this file in my trash which refuses to actually delete. I stupidly renamed it to "test" and I can leave my Trash emptying for hours and hours but it never gets removed. I THINK it was a ".inProgress" file but I have no clue what the actually previous name was unfortunatley. If I try to "Get Info" on it it says it is in "Time Machine Backups > .Trashes". How do I find this and remove it. It only shows up in my Mac's Trash when the server is on and a backup has been started. It's really annoying and i've learnt not to be so hasty when things go wrong!! I hope someone here can help me solve this. Thanks, Neil
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