Time Capsule and Time Machine (Sparse Disk Image Bundle)

I just changed the HD that I use to backup TM for Time Capsule. I do not know why it is taking so long (more than 45 min) to calculate size... I took a look at TC and I found "Backups.backupdb" with no item (in TC) and a disk image called "Mac Pro’s Mac Pro.sparsebundle" right beside another dm called Mario.sparsebundle (my MacMini). Did it change from before, it used to be a folder called Backups.backupdb and inside her, folders with your computer's name? Is there something wrong? Should I stop TM?
Mario Lordeiro

You may have successfully increased the sparsebundle's potential capacity while failing to resize the contained partition. That seems to be what happened when I tried this myself. A resized sparsebundle containing the same files would not occupy much more space on disk than it did before.
*Provided you have a backup*, you could try the following:
Remount the image, then run Disk Utility and select the .sparsebundle (non-indented icon) in the left pane. Click on the Partition tab, and then see if you can pull down the lower right corner of the disk image partition to increase its size. If you can, then drag it to the bottom and click Apply.
Again don't try this without a backup. It may not be worth doing in any event - it's easy enough just to make a new, bigger sparsebundle and copy your stuff over.

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    Hi, and welcome to the forums.
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    In this case the apple support people reveal a truly poor understanding.
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    What is the difference between time capsule and time machine?

    See Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.

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    That would have happened automatically if you had transferred your data from the backup of the old machine in Setup Assistant.
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    Remount the image, then run Disk Utility and select the .sparsebundle (non-indented icon) in the left pane. Click on the Partition tab, and then see if you can pull down the lower right corner of the disk image partition to increase its size. If you can, then drag it to the bottom and click Apply.
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    See A5 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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    Pondini has a number of methods listed here.
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    alunthom wrote:
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  • Time Capsule and Time Machine through Ethernete

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    |
    +--- (DSL) --- INTERNET
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    Tesserax,
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  • 2TB Time Capsule and Time Machine on Snow Leopard 10.6.1 slooooooow

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  • Time capsule and time machine keep disconnecting

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    ebiest wrote:
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