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The I attempted to set up a WD MyBookLive NAS drive as a wireless backup drive (without success, even with professional help and trawling the internet and Apple forums, so I gave up on that), and when I deleted the WD settings etc as a backup drive, I now find the Lacie also does not work, despite going back to standard TimeMachine backup settings.
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