Apple TV loses Movie links on Time Capsule

I recent bough Apple TV and a Time Capsule. I have put all my films on the Time Capsule and link them in iTunes (files are on Time Capsule not on my Macbook). All works fine for a few days but them some files lose thier link in iTunes and therefore do not show on Apple TV, over a few days they all lose the link.
The only way I can relink them is to goto iTunes and for each movie file choose 'get info.' this then looks for the file on the Time Capsule and it works again.
Is there any quick fix for this, it very very frustrating as most of the films are Disney for my daughter and she can be very impatient!!!
Cheers
valleyboy74

I don't know if this will help but perhaps it's worth trying to set a static IP for each of your devices.

Similar Messages

Can I watch movies on Apple TV that are on my time capsule?

Can I watch movies on Apple TV that are on my time capsule?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Yes, so long as the movies on your time capsule are part of your iTunes library and iTunes is running on your computer.

Saving movies directly onto time capsule and synching with apple tv

hi all
i've just got hold of a 1tb time capsule. i have a heap of home movies that i want to move from tape to computer, and reckon there is over 100gb of footage. i don't have enough hard drive space for all of them
i had hoped to be able to transfer them via my laptop directly to time capsule. is this possible? And can stuff be saved on time capsule that is not then stored on the hard drive?
to complicate things, i'm hoping to be able to view them on apple tv, and hoped to be able to synch the apple tv with the time capsule
Am i making things very complicated?
Many thanks for any help

mathewprior wrote:
hi all
i've just got hold of a 1tb time capsule. i have a heap of home movies that i want to move from tape to computer, and reckon there is over 100gb of footage. i don't have enough hard drive space for all of them
i had hoped to be able to transfer them via my laptop directly to time capsule. is this possible?
Yes.
And can stuff be saved on time capsule that is not then stored on the hard drive?
Yes.
to complicate things, i'm hoping to be able to view them on apple tv, and hoped to be able to synch the apple tv with the time capsule
I don't know about Apple TV. I don't think you can sync a Time Capsule, but check either in the Time Capsule forum, hidden in the +Digital Life+ section, at: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253 and/or the MobileMe forums, also in +Digital Life,+ at: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=116
One additional consideration is backups. Most backup apps (including Time Machine) won't back up a Time Capsule (Apple's main intention for the Time Capsule is as a destination for backups, not a source). There is a feature in +Airport Utility+ where you can attach an external drive to one and "archive" the TC's disk to the external. So be sure you have a good backup plan.

How can I move (copy) my Time Capsule date to a new 2T hard drive and then wipe the TC and start as a new (clean) Time MACHINE backup?

How can I move (copy) my Time Capsule date to a new 2T hard drive and then wipe the TC and start as a new (clean) Time MACHINE backup?

Just use the archive utility on the disk page of the airport utility manual setup..
If you have lion and v6 airport utility.. it missed out. On lots of things.
Download and install the real.. UTILITY
5.6 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

I am thinking about getting a Time Capsule. Can I store a movie on a Time Capsule without the movie being on my MacBook Pro?

Hello, I am considering buying a Time Capsule to store movies and other files on so my hard drive isn't full of stuff all the time. Can I store movies on my Time Capsule even if they are no longer on my MacBook Pro?

To add to nijinski's comments,
1) I know i can plug in an aiport express and use it as an thing for speakers in another room, but if i copy my music to a time capsule then can do it? or does it have to be on my mac or laptop?
You could store your iTunes Library on the Time Capsule (TC), but understand that the TC was primarily designed to be a combination router and target destination for Time Machine (TM) backups. It can perform as a NAS or media server, but these are not its strong suite of features. For example, while a backup is being performed, streaming performance will be affected. Since, TM backs up (at least) once an hour, this could get to be problematic.
2) can i split my time capsule into 2 so i can back up my laptop and mac on it? Or do i need to go with a airport extreme and get an external harddrive?
If your goal is to partition the TC's internal hard drive, you would have to temporarily remove the drive to do so as the AirPort Utility (nor Disk Utility) allows for paritioning this drive when installed.
You CAN backup multiple computers (both Macs & PCs) to the TC, but would have to rely on different backup applications in order to do so. TM backups will NOT overwrite any existing data stored on the TC's hard drive. Another option is to connect one (or more) external USB hard drives to the TC's USB port. You can then dedicate the TC's internal drive for TM backups and use the external drives for other purposes ... like PC backups.
At present, the only issue with going the attached drive to an 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) is that Apple does not support this configuration for TM backups.

I have reached full memory capacity on my 500GB Time Capsule. I am considering purchasing a 2TB Time Capsule. Do I need to resave all existing data on the new hard drive or can I start afresh? Or can I link both time capsules to operate independantly?

Hi,
I have reached full memory capacity on my 500GB Time Capsule. I am considering purchasing a 2TB Time Capsule.
a) Do I need to resave all existing data on the new hard drive or can I start afresh?
b) Or can I link both time capsules to operate independantly?
Thanks,
Paul

You may not need to buy a new Time Capsule.
You can connect a USB drive to the Time Capsule, and use it in addition to the TC's internal HD. You may need a powered USB hub as well.
Exactly what is on your TC? If it's only Time Machine backups, you may not need to do anything -- Time Machine will delete the oldest backup(s) automatically when it needs room for new ones. But if you have more than about 250 GB on your internal HD, that 500 GB may not be large enough to keep backups long enough.
If you have other data on the TC's internal HD, besides your backups, you could back up to the external HD and use the internal for the other data, or vice-versa. But TM backups cannot "span" two drives, and you shouldn't mix backups and other data on the TC's internal HD.

I can't acces my Itunes movies from my Time Capsule

I am trying to access my Itunes movies from my time capsules after I did the backup. When I click on the movie I can see the movie icon, however when I doble click it I am getting this message: "protected video, it can only be play with itunes or quicktime". Please help. Thanks

you will have to restore the file(s) before you can use them. you cannot use them from within the backup.
How do I view or restore selected items?

When I playback a movie stored on Time Capsule to my Mac Book Pro the time Capsule eject 3 or 4 times during playback

When I playback a movie stored on Time Capsule to my Mac Book Pro the time Capsule eject 3 or 4 times during playback

ilw-00 wrote:
How can I do this? How can I find the sparesbundle? What is the best way to mount the time capsule internal disk?
Open a Finder window. If you see your Time Capsule in the "Shared" section of the sidebar, clicking on it should show the "Data" volume (or whatever you named it) in the main part of the window. Double-click on it to mount the "Data" volume.
If you don't see your Time Capsule in the Finder sidebar, you may not have enabled "disk sharing" in AirPort Utility. In AirPort Utility do a "manual setup of your Time Capsule, then select the Disks panel, then the "File Sharing" tab, then check "Enable file sharing", select a security method (I use "With a disk password"), fill in the remaining options as desired, then update the Time Capsule. Once it restarts, try again to see your Time Capsule in the Finder's sidebar.

Is it possible to store AppleTV movies on a Time Capsule?

I have a 500TB Time Capsule that has plenty of free disk space... I have an AppleTV that is running low. Is there an easy way to have the AppleTV stream / store purchased movies from the Time Capsule?

Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
If you are meaning can the TC HDD simply be used as an extension to the tv storage, then no this cannot be done.
What you can of course do is use the TC HDD to accommodate some or all of your itunes library, then it's a simple case of transferring purchases from the tv to itunes, thereby freeing up space on the tv. You can then stream this content when you want to watch it, providing itunes is running on your mac/pc.

Can i store my movies on the time capsule and access to watch on my new ipad?

can I store my movies on the time capsule and access wireless to watch on my new ipad?

TC is not a media player.. it has no smarts whatsoever.
If you have an app on the ipad to play files.. then the ipad can play files from anywhere.. even the TC.. but the TC contributes nothing. Do not move your itunes library to the TC.. that is asking for trouble.

Can I use apple TV on home network with time capsule or Airport Xtreme without being connected to the internet?

I'm wondering if I can use Apple TV to play movies and slide shows on my TV, play music over my sound system and print from my devices (Iphone 4S, iPad and MacBook pro 2011) by using an Airport Xtreme or Time Capsule (to back up the devices) if those devices are not connected to the internet. Can anyone advise pls? Reason for this is that I work on a moving ship and don't have an internet connection to speak of for much of the time (and if I do it's a wireless system that I need to pay by the minute and that is too slow to support the Apple TV), but would all the same like to create a wireless environment where my devices can interact with each other. I seem to get conficting info and a rep at the apple store in Honolulu told me that you cannot use Airport Xtreme or Time Capsule without an internet connection (it was busy, he may have misunderstood my question).
Looking forward to your input.

Don't try to home share it.. as that is dependent on using Apple ID.
Just airplay to the ATV.. iTunes: Using AirPlay
The movie should play exactly as your doing music.. but get rid of the whole home share if that is causing issues.. there is no mention of needing home share in the above..
If you still have issues you might need to do it other ways.. like export the movie from itunes.. and play it using vlc which should allow you to stream it to the apple TV using airplay.
That is a bit tricky and I have not used that setup but it should work.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23412/can-i-stream-any-video-played-wit h-vlc-player-to-apple-tv
If you have a hunt around you should find it fairly easy to do.. but straight airplay should work.. there is a very recent update to ATV which might help it with airplay.

ITunes, Apple TV, a NAS drive and Time Capsule - an idiot's guide

Hi,
I really need some help, and even though I know the information is already on the web, I just need someone to tell me what to do in my circumstance.
I have a new Macbook with 250GB hard drive which is now almost full! I have an Apple TV box which is also almost full. I have a 320GB Iomega NAS which is not almost full as I haven't really used it properly and I have just got a 1TB Time Capsule as I'm petrified of losing everything!
I have just over 175GB of music and films/tv programmes. I have also just finished making sure all the album artwork is correct (I know - very sad!).
Currently the entire library is on my Macbook. I backed it up to the NAS drive (although I did it via a USB connection rather than over my home network).
With only about 23GB of space left on my Macbook I decided the time was right to use the NAS properly. (I only really want to use the Time Capsule as a back up, although I guess there is probably a problem there as well if I move everything of importance (i.e. the music and films) to the NAS but lets leave that one for the time being.
Basically what I want to know is how to use itunes with the NAS so that the music and films etc are stored on the NAS but not the rest of the information (the itunes database and album art folders).
I tried it before and it kind of worked but the first time it update the library file and having just sorted out all the album artwork I don't want to have to do it again.
I should say that I am the only one in the house who uses itunes, my laptop, am the only one with an ipod and iphone, so there is no issue with someone sharing the library or anything like that.
So, question 1 - how do I set up itunes to work with the NAS.
Question 2 - in doing so, will I have to correct all the artwork again?
Question 3 - if all the music etc is on the NAS, how do I back it up to the Time Capsule?
A more complicated question is can I keep the music on my laptop and films/tv programmes on the NAS?
Will all of this make the Apple TV box stop working?
Finally, I have already found an apple script which automounts the NAS and then starts itunes as I have read that that can cause a problem.
Thanks for any/all your help.
Anthony

There isn't a solution, the Apple TV will only read your iTunes library if iTunes is running and will only play content through iTunes.

Itunes loses my content on time capsule

Hi I am running a macbook air and keep all my movies and tv shows on the time capsule with the music on the internal flash drive in the computer. Usually I access the tv and movies through my Apple tv and until recently this worked fine. Recently my apple tv started to not be able to find files on the time capsule if the computer had been disconnected from the network and then reconnected. When I open iTunes to look at the problem the files it cannot find are missing artwork and I have to manually go and 'get info' for each missing movie. This is getting really irritating and any help would be appreciated. The iTunes media folder location in located on the hard drive.
Thanks a lot

There is no iTunes server functionality on the Time Capsule. So, to do what you are proposing, you would need to relocate your entire iTunes library onto the Time Capsule and launch iTunes with the option key to find the new location. Then you would stream from the Time Capsule drive through iTunes over the network back to the Time Capsule and eventually on to the Apple TV.
People do this, but I wouldn't recommend it. You will be adding a lot of additional load on your network since everything you stream from the Apple TV will have to hop through multiple points on your network. Any issues with bandwidth, interference, range, etc will be magnified, and may bring the whole network to a crawl at times. Just attaching an external USB/Firewire drive to your computer to hold your iTunes data to you computer would be a much faster and more stabile solution

Apple TV loses movies after syncing from iTunes

I'd be grateful for any help I can get on this: I bought ATV a few weeks ago and have a movie on iTunes on my iMac that I want to sync to ATV. I click on the sync button, and the sync process starts.....and the sync process finishes.....perfect, you'd think. It appears on ATV under "My Movies" with not problems. And then I shut down iTunes on my computer, at which point the movie disappears from the "My Movies" section in ATV.
Looking more closely, it's clear on the bar in the sync window that the data hasn't copied across because the amount of data on the ATV relating to movies should have doubled, when it hasn't increased at all!
I've repeated this process 3 or 4 times - no luck. Movies bought from the iTunes store via the ATV sync to the computer perfectly.
My wireless network is via a time capsule set to N rather than B or G - does that affect anything?
Please can anyone help before my wife files for divorce? I'm beginning to think that the ATV might just prove to be one "little white box" too many for continued marital harmony!
Thanks.

OK I've done a LOAD more work on this and I think it's related to the port 3689 thing so many people are having problems with.
Photos and music sync fine. I don't have trouble finding ATV in the devices from iTunes. But still, every time I try to sync a movie from iTunes to ATV, it goes through the process with no substantive outcome. When I shut down the mac or just quit iTunes ATV has no movies.
One of the movies I'm trying to sync to ATV was one originally bought from the iTunes store via the ATV, so I am certain there are no movie compatibility issues.
I tried to do a custom sync also - which achieved nothing except to generate the port 3689 error. I can get rid of the 3689 error message by turning off the firewall - but that's not such a great achievement given that it still simply goes through this phantom sync process with no eventual outcome.
As I said, maddeningly, photos and music sync perfectly - the rainbow bar on the sync page almost instantly demonstrates new content on the ATV as soon as the process starts. It never does this when syncing a movie.
So. What now? At the moment I have an expensive white and grey brick and I am very very unhappy. I would take the whole lot back to the shop if it weren't for the "told you it was a waste of money" look I'll get from the wife!
For background, it's a wireless network running off a time capsule with one airport express as a bridge. No windows or pc rubbish in the house!
Does anyone from Apple read these posts? If so, what is being done to fix the problem - or are we all to be compensated appropriately for the time, effory and money spent?
Thanks.
Graeme.

Time capsule wifi connectivity issues -apple tv 2 constantly disconnects from time capsule

Having ongoing issues with Time capsule wifi connectivity throughout house.
Apple TV II and PS3 losing wifi connection on a regular basis causing movies/music/gaming to be interupted.
Anyone have same issues and found a solution?

I bought a Time Capsule this weekend and was having a similar problem whereby my MacBook Pro would disconnect regularly from the wi-fi signal. Previously my MacBook Pro held connection permanently to the previous router fine. It was a pain as I couldn't leave things like SugarSync / Dropbox running as they kept disconnecting. I seem to have fixed it though by using AirPort to manually set the 2.4Ghz channel to a hard-wired value (Manual Set-up->AirPort->Wireless->Radio Channel Selection->Edit ....) rather than letting it automatically select the channel. I used iStumbler to choose a channel that was not congested in my area. I'm hazarding a guess that maybe when the signal went weak for a second, it changed the channel when set to automatic and so knocked out any connections.
Well, it worked for me.

Apple TV loses Movie links on Time Capsule

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for