How to I access a sparsebundle on my time capsule? There is no matching profile

Hi,
Sadly I had my iMac and MBP stolen. I've replaced the MBP and successfully restored from Time Capsule but there is no profile showing for the imac. There is however a sparsebundle for the imac but no idea how I can access it. Any help or advice would be great...!

See Q17 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
You can also migrate the info from the iMac backup to the new computer or a USB drive plugged into it.
See. http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
There is setup assistant and migration assistant and info for older and newer versions of Mac OS.
Sorry about you getting your stuff stolen.. it is report here a couple of times a week I guess. People trying to recover their files from stolen computers.

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hi, if anyone could help me? I am near critical in filling up the time capsule and time machine is not deleting older files within the sparsebundles.
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mchang.to wrote:
hi, if anyone could help me? I am near critical in filling up the time capsule and time machine is not deleting older files within the sparsebundles.
I have 4 macs backing up to a 1Tb time capsule via time machine. I have only 4.4 G left.
Theoretically, the time machines for each individual machines should have started deleting once I hit a critical mark. But, it has simply continued filling and I am worried it is going to crash.
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