Airport Time capsule has been making its first back up for 3 days and still going

Been having problems with airport time capsule (its a 2TB model my iMac is 1TB), when first used it backed up OK then wouldn't back up after a few months operation. Spoke to support on Thursday 3 days ago, they got me to delete disc from airport utility and had me check all my connections were correct then started a new first backup again.
All seemed to be ok as it showed there were 840 gb to back up. so slowly this reduced friday night to 300 gb remaining. Then Saturday it showed 150 GB of 350 GB now today it is showing 485 Gb of 534 GB but as the target figure keeps increasing just checked now it shows 535 GB!
I have entered time machine to see what is there and all file seem to have copied across but haven't checked then individually. There is only one TM folder saying Today now, so it is still on the first back up.
The other strange thing the available space on the TC is now showing 864 GB free of 2TB how can this be if my imac has only 1TB!

If you still have issues.. and you well might.. i recommend you start over..
Unplug the TC from the network and plug it by ethernet into the computer..
Do factory reset of the TC.. and do a simple setup.. leave it in router mode.. ignore all the problems.
Make absolutely sure ipv6 is set to link-local only for ethernet.
Turn wireless right off.. and start the backup again.. It might even be worth erasing the TC and start over.. It can do 60GB/hr by ethernet.. so should do the disk in around 12-15 hours. although to be generous it can take a long time when it does loads of small files.
Still got issues then tell us exactly what TC model it is.

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I just moved to Massachusetts and the Comcast technician who installed my tv/phone/internet package did not install my time capsule properly, or so it seems. He said he would use a standard protocol for installing it but was not sure it would work. It didn't, and the orange light on the front of the time capsule has been flashing now for 48 hours. Also, through Airport Utility I learn it "has no IP address". I might mention the Bright House technician in Palm Coast (FL) and in the AT&T technician in Jacksonville had no trouble getting it to work
I hasten to add this may not be Comcast's fault. I dropped the time capsule from 3 feet onto the floor as I was taking it out of its box. I would be most grateful, assuming it survived the fall, if anyone could suggest how I might get it to work.
Regards.

Reset it to factory and start again.
Make sure it is plugged into the main ATT router by ethernet to its WAN port.. ie the one with the circle symbol. (always nearest the power socket).
Now use airport utility and try again.. the airport utility on iOS device is more reliable than Yosemite.
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.

HT3275 My Time Capsule has been backing up without any problems and all of a sudden it stops reading on my computer. The external hard drive beeps three times and the motter wont run within. What happened?

My Time Capsule has been backing up without any problems and all of a sudden it stops reading on my computer. The external hard drive beeps three times and the motter wont run within. The light that usually blinks while in use is no longer blinking and is on constant. What happened?

abailey46 wrote:
My Time Capsule has been backing up without any problems and all of a sudden it stops reading on my computer. The external hard drive beeps three times and the motter wont run within. The light that usually blinks while in use is no longer blinking and is on constant. What happened?
Sorry we are unclear as to the external hard drive and its connection to the TC..
For instance the light that blinks.. is that the TC or external hard disk or what.
Did you try just rebooting / restart the whole network in correct order.. modem.. router / TC.. external drive.. clients with 2min gap between each.
Are you actually running Snow Leopard as the profile states?
How old is the TC?

My time capsule has been "preparing" for days--what to do???

My time capsule has been "preparing" for days--what to do???

See # D1 in Pondini's excellent Time Machine - Troubleshooting guide.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html

I'm trying to move a video file on to my airport time capsule but it keeps asking me to click Authenticate - how and where do I do this?

I'm trying to move a video file on to my airport time capsule but it keeps asking me to click Authenticate - how and where do I do this?

Unmount the TC disk and manually mount it in Finder..
Use Go, Connect to Server.
Type in the network name or IP address thusly.
AFP://TCname.local (TCname is the actual network name of the TC.. this is not the same as its name unless you use correct SMB naming.. so simply fix the name or find its network name. local is domain).
or
AFP://10.0.1.1 (That is default IP, type in your TC ip which should only be used if static)
When you do the above it will request a password, type in your TC disk access password.
You should be able to copy files to the TC now.. but please remember the TC is not a great place to store files and Time Machine cannot back it up.

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Your iCoud account remains in iCloud even if your device is restored. (In fact, you can't delete an iCloud account from iCloud, you can only choose to stop using it.) If the device is restored, or it may no longer be signed into your iCloud account but your account will still exist in iCloud.

I have been working on a wedding slideshow for days and have over 3,000 pictures in albums on iPhoto. It suddenly will not open without upgrading to Aperture and I can't find any of my photos!!!!

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Try the following:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window.
2 - Run Option #4, Rebuild Database.

I just got an Airport time capsule 2TB. When I start back-up it backs up about 17kb and then stops but says Calculating time remaining.... Anyone got an idea of what's going on?

Just got an Airport Time capsule,
I set it up as a network extension and began back-up.
It estimated 4 hours so I left it run. After 10 hours I noticed it had stopped backing up but had not back up to the time capsule. So I tried again and it just got stuck on Calculating Time Remaining. I reset the capsule a few times and have set it up as instructed. The same has happened each time.
It backs up about 17kb of info and then freezes with Calculating time remaining below the progress bar.
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks

Network extension sounds onimous.. is this wireless extension.. it is super bad for large TM backups..
Always do the first backup direct by ethernet to the TC even if it has to be in full isolation.
Stalling at 17kb might be just the wireless having issues. Or it can be a corruption in a file.
Pondini is our source of all things Time Machine.. and trouble shooting it.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
A1.. install the widget so you have access to the TM logs.. what the heck it is doing.
A4. if you upgrade installed OS.. do a reset of TM and start over.
A5 verify the disk.
C9 watch out for network names that are over long and over complex.. especially with Mavericks. It is hopeless.
I do recommend using a USB connected drive.. to do a first backup it is often the easy way.
Much faster and more reliable than over network.

I would like to see if my time capsule has been successfully with, pictures, music, files from my mac

Hi Guys,
I stall my my time capsule and the wifi is working quite well.
My problem is that I am not sure if my files, pictures and musics has been sync and safe.
How could see it?
Thanks

http://pondini.org/TM/8.html
and http://pondini.org/TM/7.html
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

Time capsule has been disconnected when move files

I have a home network with a imac and a samsung ultrabook with windows7, and always when i try to move any bigger file from the time capsule to the ultrabook the network crashes, than i have to reconfigure the network adapter. What could i do to solve this problem?
P.S. with the imac everything works perfectly.

If it is intel wireless, try different version..latest might not be the best but worth a try.. download direct from intel.
I don't know how the major manufacturer of wireless chips has so much trouble but Intel cards seem to be the number 1 for these issues.

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trash problem resolved. Now time machine is acting up. it has been backing up since yesterday

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Copy the words "Starting standard backup" (without the quotes) on this page and paste into the String Matching text field. Note the timestamp of the last message shown. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Post the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context.

Can Time Capsule be used strictly as a wireless network for ATV and TiVo?

I apologize in advance for the lengthy narrative but I feel that it will only help in describing my challenge/problem.
I currently own and have been successfully using an iMac and Apple TV and syncing with my iTunes account. I want to transfer the ATV to my fiancee's house since I'm spending most of my time there. Until we move in officially I'll be keeping my Mac at home. She does not have WiFi and has an old laptop that I'm pretty sure doesn't even support a WiFi radio. We eventually plan on replacing her laptop with a new Mac Book but until that time comes all I want to do is set up a wireless network for the ATV and TiVo service that I also brought over.
So, I bought the Time Capsule with the future in mind. My question, can I set up TC to act as a wireless router for ATV and TiVo only but hardwire her laptop to keep connected to the Internet? Will I need to connect ATV to her iTunes service through her laptop? Or can I access my information using ATV if the WiFi is set up correctly?
I know that until I bring my Mac and we eventually replace her laptop, I bought a very expensive wireless router but there is a method to my madness....I think.
Any suggestions on the hookup process will be greatly appreciated.

atlas138, Welcome to the discussion area!
My question, can I set up TC to act as a wireless router for ATV and TiVo only but hardwire her laptop to keep connected to the Internet?
Certainly.
Will I need to connect ATV to her iTunes service through her laptop? Or can I access my information using ATV if the WiFi is set up correctly?
The network would have the same abilities as any other network. I don't know how the AppleTV connects to iTunes but it wouldn't be any different than if the AppleTV were connected to something else.

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The RC helicopter's directions say its available in the App store for Apple and here it is in the iTunes store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icess/id558793179?mt=8 (released on 6/19/2013)
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Hi, I have assigned a time capsule as backup. It does a 29GB BU everyday and then goes incremental every hour. Is it normal to BU 29GB when I have hardly changed files.

Hi,
I have assigned a time capsule and a USB harddisk as backup devices.
Usually I keep both the devices disconnected and doa backup every couple of days and usually alternate between the two.
I see that the TM does about 29GB of backup when every I connect either of my devices and then it goes hourly incremental after that.
I thought the TM backups were incremental after the 1st inital full backup.
What can I do to mitigate this.
Thanks
rjcq

rjcq wrote:
I am using Parallels for running Windows 8 mostly for using MS Access 2007, but my daily change of data is not more than 50 MB.
It's my understanding that if the virtual machine files you use are included in what Time Machine is instructed to backup, any change to the content of the VM file is considered to be a change to entire VM file. I use VMware Fusion rather than Parallels and with Fusion, the VM file is actually a folder with a special icon and inside is a collection of component files which actually make up the VM. While only some of them may be affected by using the VM, the entire VM is backed up by Time Machine. Moreover, if the backup is taking place while the VM is in use, TM is capturing the VM in a state of flux so the internal components may not agree (the VM is so big that there might be some minutes between the beginning and end of the backup so both ends don't agree with each other; the short version is the VM may be corrupted). I don't know if Parallels saves its VM's the same way but the time it takes to backup large files shouldn't change so the risk of corruption is still there. I'd suggest that in addition to TM, you should make periodic complete bootable backups on another drive. Apart from a safety net, that also gives you the VM backup.
In Time Machine options you can exclude the folder the VM's are kept in. Try that and see if the size of the backup goes down.

TS3992 I am unable to back up my ipod touch, I try and do it manually and it sits "Backing Up........." for a very long time, I have had it running all day and still going????? I am on the 5GB free plan, I have availabe 2.3GB

I am unable to back up my ipod touch, I try and do it manually and it sits on "Backing Up.........", it has been sitting on this all day. I am on the free 5GB plan, availabe storage is 2.3GB, any suggestions

Hello mig04,
While looking into the issue you are experiencing I came across some helpful information. In an article called iCloud: Troubleshooting creating backups found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3992 there are a number of steps to help get your issue resolved.
General troubleshooting
General information
iCloud Backup requires a Wi-Fi connection to the Internet.
Automatic backups occur when you've plugged in your iOS device, locked the screen, and have connected it to Wi-Fi.
You can manually start a backup by tapping Back Up Now in Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup (requires a Wi-Fi connection to the Internet).
iCloud Backup will provide helpful information and status messages related to backups at the bottom ofSettings > iCloud > Storage & Backup.
If automatic backups don't work as expected, test to see what happens when you start a manual backup by tapping Back Up Now at the bottom of the Storage & Backup screen.
Backups and restores both take time, especially if you have a lot of data or a slow connection. Depending on the size of your data and the speed of your network, you may need to give more time than you expected to a backup or restore.
Make sure you have at least 50 MB of free space available on your iOS device before you back up. If you have no space available on your device, iCloud Backup can fail in some cases. You can verify how much free space you have available on your iOS device in Settings > General > About.
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