Storing music on Time Capsule?
Because the hard drive on my PowerBook is fairly small (and I have a large music library), I've decided to store all my cds on Time Capsule. It seemed like a great way to have all my cds available when I was home. The problem I've found is that now, every time I start iTunes if I've been away from my Time Capsule, the default "storing" local will switch back to my internal hard drive. When I change it to Time Capsule... iTunes updates the entire library. This happens every time I use my computer when I get home. How can I avoid this step?
If this helps, in the Preferences window I have not checked the "Keep organized..." box, but I have checked the "Copy files...." box.
I'm grateful for any suggestions.
Thanks for the reply. I thought that might do the trick so I was slick today - I quit iTunes before I left the house and then didn't open it until I was back home and could see my Time Capsule in Finder. But when I opened iTunes.... it was the same thing.
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Is there a possibility to stream music stored on my time-capsules hard drive directly to my iPhone and then ask the iPhone the send the music (in real-time) via AirPlay to my AirPlay compatible speakers, without having ANY computer turned on? I know that the Sonos system managed this simple task, but Apple? Any news in iOS 4.3 or 5 maybe.
As Chris says... but if the media is on an external drive as above then you also need to make sure the external drive has the same drive letter on the system you are moving to or iTunes won't be able to find the files.
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Hello there. Wondering if there's any way I can retrieve songs that are stored in my time capsule that was backed up from my old previous computer?
Actually you always use ethernet..
MBA does not come with ethernet port.. but apple sells both a cheap usb to ethernet and a much more expensive and much faster thunderbolt to ethernet adapter. With ethernet to eliminite this silly situation of setting up wireless over wireless, so if you make any change you instantly drops you off the network. Like cartoons of people sawing off the branch they are sitting on.
But you can reset.. no reset will do anything at all to the material on the hard disk. You must deliberately erase it.
Read the info because you may only need to do a soft reset. That is hold the reset for 1sec (2-3sec is fine) as long as you don't hold it for a full reset.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728
Even a full factory reset will not harm your files in any way, (or any further!!)
I am "concerned" that you have no backup to vital files on your TC. That is not wise. TC are no more immune to failure than any other hard disk.. (actually latest ones use the cheapest green WD drives money can buy) and keeping files in only one location is a receipe for disaster. An external drive is much more accessible.. cheaper and tend to be more reliable. There are too many things to break in the TC.. it is designed as a backup target for TM. Not a file store. -
Can i get the time capsule to automatically back up my file from my Mac Book Air but have certain files which are only stored on the time capsule and not the computer? Then can i access these files only on the time capsule without connecting it?
igonneau wrote:
Can i get the time capsule to automatically back up my file from my Mac Book Air but have certain files which are only stored on the time capsule and not the computer?
You can, but how are you going to back up those other files? When (not if) your Time Capsule fails, you risk losing them. See #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for details.
Then can i access these files only on the time capsule without connecting it?
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I have 2 users on a MAC each with separate accounts (email, photo, ITunes) and I want to migrate my ITUnes Library over to a time capsule so that each usewr still has their own library bu don't want to duplicate songs. What is the best way to have both Itunes pointed to separate libraries both stored on the Time Capsule?
A bit of basics on iTunes. iTunes does 99% of what you see through a library.itl file in the iTunes folder. This file is a database and in it are references to the actual media files. These files can be anywhere in theory, but if you have iTunes set to default then they are nicely organized in media folders in the iTunes folder. You have probably moved them to some central shared location in the past, then built up two individual libraries around that central location.
iTunes is very fussy about a person dragging files to a different location, and that goes double if the other location is on a different drive. You can move files, but it is best to let iTunes do it so it can keep track. If this was just for one person I'd say go into preferences, select the other drive for media location, then close preferences. My understanding (never done this before) is iTunes will then ask you if you want to move your media. Say yes and iTunes will move it and keep track of it -- for your library. Now when you go to the other person's library, it opens and you see loads of ! because their library is still looking for the media on the same drive as the library is located on. I don't think it will work (but you could always try) to re-assign the media location to the external drive because the reference in the database is to look for such-and-such a file on the internal drive. iTunes did that for the first library as part of the move, but not for the second one. Note that typically when you want to move a single user's collection from drive to drive we advise moving the whole iTunes folder, library files and all, to another drive, but you don't have that structure.
So I'm not sure what to advise. If it were me and I was absolutely gung-ho on doing this I would re-assign the media with one library. Then edit the .xml version of the library file for the second library so it points to the new file locations and import this into a fresh iTunes library for the second user. This isn't the perfect solution because nominally the .xml version does not 1005 replicate all the characteristics of the original .itl file (which cannot be edited).
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If I got a new hard drive on my computer and plugged in the time capsule afterwards, would I be able to recover the information from my old hard drive that was stored on the time capsule prior to the replacement?
This may be of some help to you...
http://pondini.org/TM/14.html
From the FAQs Here...
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Accessing the music stored on my Time Capsule from other devices (iPad, MacBook)
I have cpoied my music onto my Time Capsule/Airport. I am trying to figure out how I can access that music from the other devices I have connected to the network including my MacBook Pro and iPad 2.
sparkylulu wrote:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819
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I want to store all my music remotely on Time capsule so i don't rely on my Mac hard drive or any external hard drive, is that possible, or is there even another way of doing so.
Thanks guys.Welcome to the Discussion Forums.
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