Airport TC3TB is my backup, I also want to put files for storage. How?

I've opened AirPort Utility, opened TC, selected Disk. File sharing is enabled. I've tried it several ways but none work. From what I found in support I should select With Accounts from the drop down menu and create an account with Read/Write capability. Done, but it doesn't show up in Finder after it's finished rebooting.
How can I create a folder on TC to add files to while keeping it as a back up?

Are you really using Lion?
From what I found in support I should select With Accounts from the drop down menu and create an account with Read/Write capability. Done, but it doesn't show up in Finder after it's finished rebooting.
How can I create a folder on TC to add files to while keeping it as a back up?
I would definitely not use accounts. That makes life double hard, unless you have several people using the TC and you are concerned for security.
Are you using long names with spaces and apostrophe? That doesn't help.
I recommend you change the TC to short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Make sure you are connected to the TC directly by ethernet or by wireless.
In finder.. use Go/ Connect to server.
Type in AFP://TCname.local (where you replace TCname with the new short name of the TC you created) local is the domain used by default.. it is probably not necessary in Lion but is necessary in Mavericks.
If the computer finds the network resource then it will ask you for password.. please type in the password.
If you are sticking with accounts it is much harder.
You need to type the name as part of the address.
AFP://[email protected] and then if the resource is found you can type in the password.
Once you mount the drive it should be easy enough to create a directory on it and copy files to it.
Note the following though.
Store files on the TC.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24380694#24380694
This is asked several times a day.. obviously people are struggling with their latest SSD being too small.
The TC is not suitable for network file server.. but many people having no choice press it into service as such.
It cannot be partitioned. It was and is and ever shall be a backup device for Time Machine.
Major issues.
1. No backup.. no way Time Machine can backup a network drive. No place to backup to.. So all your files will be at risk. And you will need to buy a third party like CCC to do backup.
2. The TC cannot be partitioned and mixing TM backups and data is not great.
3. The drive is slow to spin up and quick to spin down.. there is no controls.
4. iPhoto in particular can easily corrupt its entire library with wireless networking causing a disconnection to one photo. Even if you do this;;; do not move your photo library... you have been warned!!
5. iTunes will constantly lose connection to the library. The disk is too slow to respond.. itunes on the computer will constantly spit out errors. Even in the midst of streaming the TC can spin down the disk due to caching.
6. Do not use any live files on the TC no matter what else you do.. if you edit files in whatever program the file must be on the local hard disk.
7. The only suitable location for most libraries is a computer. You can plug in an external hard disk.
Read pondini for some work arounds.
Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

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