Can I access time capsule file without using imac

can I access time capsule file without using imac

From a time machine backup? No. If you mean just a regular file stored on there? Not directly. There are a couple of apps out there where you can indirectly get to a file but it's a pain. If you have need of accessing a file both from the mac and the iPad then I suggest DropBox. You get 2GB free and it's a good way to share information between machines and devices.

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  • Can't access Time Capsule files

    Here is the situation:
    I've owned a TC for about a year now with no previous problems. Now I can't access the files even though the internet is still working fine and TC reports no problems. Until today, the TC icon would show up on my desk top and would link right to the files. Now, no icon, but when I go to finder the access icon is there. When I click on it, it asks me to verify my password to connect to the server, then goes to the next screen where it asks me to select the volumes to mount. There is only 1 choice here; however, if I choose it the computer freezes up on me with the spinning rainbow and the only way to stop is a hard shut down. When I first set up the TC, I don't remember having to go through this step, but now I don't seem to have any other options. I tried using Airport Utility to have the TC to restore to factory settings to no avail. Also, tried unplugging everything for a while a starting that way, but that didn't work either.
    Any Help would be greatly appreciated!

    More Info:
    After trying multiple things, I have more info to solve the problem. 2 other computers (one is another iBook and the other is a PC) in the house, access the hard drive as advertised with no problems. The only thing that has changed on my computer recently is the replacement of a 1G iPhone with an iPhone 3Gs. This phone did some weird things when syncing, specifically with our photo programs. It locked up Nikon transfer and iPhoto was working strangely. I felt the best way to alleviate those 2 problems was to shut down my computer, and restart. This is when I encountered the problem with accessing the TC. Things are also a little bit more complicated because I use the TC as the storage medium for both iTunes Library and iPhoto Library, both of which I can't access given the current problem.

  • Can I access time capsule files hd with Windows XP or 7?

    I bought the Time Capsue 3TB to make back up for  assist to videos in another  computers with operational system Windows, but with you not to have access the archives of the HD of the Capsule Team, what I can make to be able to assist the videos??
    Thanks.

    Ok, you need to ensure the TC is using SMB (windows share) names..
    All names in the TC are short, no spaces pure alphanumeric.
    Set the windows workgroup in file sharing page.
    Set the guest account to on, read and write.
    On the computer, load bonjour for windows.
    The full airport utility is useful.
    Open the TC in windows explorer..
    \\TCname or \\TCIPaddress
    If this fails.. ping the TC by name and IP address. If this fails change the windows security level and firewall to off.. make sure win7 or vista is set to home, not work or public.
    If the TC does not respond to pings it will not be able to accessed.

  • After upgrading to Lion I can't access time capsule pre lion.

    Last week I backedup to time capsule via cable.
    I then upgraded to Lion.
    After upgrading I backedup to TC again.
    Now my MBP 17  can't access time capsule pre lion. So I can't see any of my last 2 years of Snow Leopard data.

    yikes, I had to move all my years of iPhoto folders/pix from very old iMac to a new HP laptop with PC Vista Home Premium....now finally ready and hoping to do years worth of photo albums! so I go in to these files and of course they don't open...because they're on pc.
    - I am techno ignorant on all this, what can I do? Is there any way I can open these on PC or do I need to go back and reinstall on a very very very old AND slow slow slow mac? these photos were created in 199, 200, 2001 up through 2007 so through many versions of iPhoto and Mac OS. I am hoping I can retrieve them - and very worried I cannot! Would love advice and help.
    - and on a separate note, any good, inexpensive iPhoto and iTunew wizard/tech support professionals out there in the Menlo Park, CA area?

  • Can you access Time Capsule From any where, or do you have to be on the same network

    Can you access Time Capsule From any where, or do you have to be on the same network

    check out the post by Tesserax in this discussion.

  • Can you access time capsule from a mac over the internet

    Can you access time capsule from a mac over the internet?

    Yes. See this thread about how to access the disk attached to a Time Capsule.  Access to the Time Capsule itself can be done similarly.

  • Can I run time capsule on both my imac and pc laptops?

    Can I run time capsule on both my Imac and pc laptops?

    Depends on what you mean by "run".  Both the Mac and PC could connect using either wireless or Ethernet.
    The iMac could backup automatically using Time Machine over wireless or Ethernet. 
    Genie TimeLine Pro might be able to backup the PC automatically, but you would need to check on this with the Genie folks to confirm.

  • I can't access time capsule HD after start to use osx mavericks!

    hello,
    I used to keep some files on my time capsule HD, as an external HD, since osx leopard. But now i'm using osx MAVERICKS I still use time machine back ups in my time capsule, but now I can't access my other files on time capsule HD.
    Please Help me!

    Try manually mounting the TC.. Mavericks has this thing where it hates TC.
    In Finder.. Go, Connect to server.
    Type in the TC network name or IP.
    AFP://TCNetworkName or IP
    You need to understand network name is different to if you used illegal characters or spaces when you named the TC.
    So
    Raphael's Apple Time Capsule becomes
    Raphaels-Apple-Time-Capsule
    Once you have the correct name the OS will ask for the password. by default it is public.. type in YOUR password.. or public and save it to your keychain.
    The hard disk should then mount.
    I strongly recommend using fully legal names for TC and wireless..
    Short,, 2-20 characters
    No spaces.
    Pure alphanumeric.

  • Can i access time capsule with a regular pc?

    We use a mac laptop with airport and time capsule.  With a pc laptop can i access the files on the time capsule.  we use it as our wireless router?

    yes you can.
    Go to my computer and map network drive.
    Typle in the ip address of the Time capsule and put in the username as Administrator and your time capsule password.
    hope this helps

  • MacBook Air 11" can't access Time Capsule Disk

    Hi:
    I have two Minis, a MPB 13" and a MBA 11" connected to my Time Capsule. My MBP and the two Minis can access the Time Capsule disk with no problem. It's a different story for the MBA.
    From the MBA, I can see my Time Capsule in Finder (Bonjour) and I can click on it, however the disk never appears. Clicking "connect as" doesn't do anything either. From Finder if I go "connect to server" and I type the IP address of my Time Capsule it connects without problems, but it won't connect with its name.
    I am able to connect the disk on my other Macs from the MBA via Bonjour, just not the Time Capsule. As mentionned earlier, the Time Capsule disk is available from my other Macs and even from Windows.
    I rebooted a few times and confirmed that the username/password are properly saved in the keychain of my MBA.
    Any idea how to fix this?
    Thanks!

    Are your other Macs connected via Wifi or ethernet? It sounds like some sort of network configuration issue. If they are connected via Wifi then I'd make sure the MBA has the same settings for it's network. Alternately I'd get rid of the keychain entry on the MBA and re-enter it to make sure it's correct. As a last resort I'd restart the Time Capsule and see if it makes a difference. I'm connecting a MBA to a Time Capsule so it should work.

  • Can't see Time Capsule in finder using Yosemite OS

    I'm using Yosemite 10.10.1 on my MacBook Pro and I just purchased a 1TB time capsule to replace my Belkin wireless router and WD external hard drive. I have my wireless network configured and am able to connect to the internet/connect wireless printer, but I cannot access Time Capsule in Finder. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Welcome to Yosemite.
    Open up System Preferences, then open Sharing
    Check to see if the name of the Mac appears correctly....and there is not a (2), (3), (4) etc appearing as part of the name.
    Some users have reported that turning off the firewall on their Macs has helped with this issue.
    It may...or may not....help to make sure that the settings for IPv6 are set to Link Local Only on your Mac
    Open System Preferences.....
    Open Network > Click on WiFi > Click on Advanced > TCP/IP tab > Configure IPv6 set to Link Local Only > OK > Apply
    Network > Click on Ethernet> Click on Advanced > TCP/IP tab > Configure IPv6 set to Link Local Only > OK > Apply
    One of a number of articles that are appearing about the bug ridden Yosemite operating system:
    http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-yo u-can-do-to-fix-it/

  • Can I copy time capsule data and use new external HD

    Hi All-
    I've been scouring the net and cant seem to find an answer. Hopefully someone here can help.
    I have a Time Capsule that is nearly filled. It is giving me error messages each night it tries to backup saying that there is too much on my computer to backup.
    So, I went out and bought a 4TB Western Digital external drive. I want to copy all the data from the time capsule onto the new hard drive (so I dont loose any of my older backups) and then have the time capsule use that same WD drive as my new backup.
    I have seen there are ways to copy from time machine drives to new drives, but I was under the impression time machine uses a different kind of backup method than a time capsule. Is that true? Can someone point me to a place that explains how exactly I would copy the drive in the time capsule... (I understand I need to use Disk Util, but I cant get the TC drive to show up in that program)...
    Also, is there a way to instruct time capsule to stop using its own internal drive and use the drive connected to its USB for the backups? I think Apple's answer is no, but I dont know if thats really the case or not...
    Thanks much-
    Daber

    David Bertman wrote:
    The backup was via an ethernet cable from the mac to the TC. (I also have it set up to run via wifi. Would that affect things?) Would there be different symptoms if the backup had stalled midway through?
    Just trying to rule out a bad WIFI connection, and it will be much faster via Ethernet.
    I didnt repair the backups first (I'm not really sure how to do that --- is it through disk utils and repair permissions like a normal drive?) I get nervous messing around with the "Backups.backupdb" files so I generally leave them alone.
    Close. It's +*repair disk+*, not permissions. See #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for a brief explanation and instructions.
    If the backups on the TC were corrupted, that would have been copied to the external HD, potentially causing Time Machine to start a new set.
    But, I did enter time machine and saw that the old backups were there (and when I did your other suggestion of going to the browse option, it now shows two identically named backups -- one from the original TV and one from the new 4tb drive. But when I enter each they are separate backups -- the original one with the older backups and the new one with the single 1 day backup.
    That confirms it -- for whatever reason, Time Machine started a new set.
    You asked if there were two sparce bundles... I dont see any sparce bundles. I'm ONLY seeing the "backup.backups" folders when I mount the drives... Should I be seeing sparce bundles? Could that be an issue?
    The Backups.backupdb folder should be inside a sparse bundle named the same as your computer. All backups done over a network (via Ethernet or WIFI) are done that way; those done to a locally-connected drive have that folder at the top level of the drive.
    If you look at the external HD via the Finder, you'll see them; if you then double-click either, it will mount, and you can see the Backups.backupdb folder inside it. And you're right; be +*very careful+* not to move, change, or delete anything there.
    I'd suggest this: Turn Time Machine off, and use Airport Utility to disconnect the external from the TC (start Airport Utility, click +Manual Setup,+ then Disks in the toolbar, then +Disconnect all Users.+ Each user will then get a message).
    Then connect the external directly to your Mac. Repair the old sparse bundle, per #A5 (it will take a long time, but be much faster this way). If it has errors that Disk Utility can't fix, see the pink box in #A5.
    If there are no problems, or they're fixed, delete the new sparse bundle via the Finder. That may take a while. Then eject the disk, reconnect it to the Time Capsule, and do a "full reset" per #A4 in Troubleshooting. Then re-select the external as your TM volume, and start a backup. Open the external disk via the Finder; if Time Machine again creates a new sparse bundle, you're pretty much stuck with it making a separate set of backups.

  • Can you write an avi file without using imaq

    Just curious if anybody has tried to write an avi file without using imaq vi's? So far I have only found sketchy info on the file format and am looking for some help on the file structure etc. Any references or example avi files with explanations of format would be most helpfull. Thanks in advance -

    Absolutely.......
    An AVI video file is actually structured in the same way as most Windows media files or RIFF files as they are generically known, thus the description below is applicable to for example WAV files etc.
    Thus the file always begins with the four byte code RIFF and continues to use this generic four byte coding known as FOURCC, four-character code or FCC throughout.
    There are then specific requirements for each different media content and the sections that must be included to define a valid file structure of the desired meadia type.
    Each section or 'CHUNK' is defined by an FCC (RIFF being the first) with facility to include additional FCC's as required. The FCC is followed by a length descriptor and then the data (just for fun the odd CHUNK does not quite fit this very general overview). These chunks then align to even word boundries so padding zeros are often inserted at the end of a CHUNK to make it all nice and neat.
    It is a requirement that software that does not recognise an additional custom CHUNK should ignore it, this is very easy as all you have to do is use the length descriptor to 'jump' over the CHUNK concerned.
    The following is an example from the 'CLOCK.AVI' found on windows computers for a number of years...
    RIFFjB AVI LISTΠhdrlavih8
    Here you can see the RIFF followed by a four byte length descriptor (4 Gigabytes), followed by various sub CHUNKS in this example the sub CHUNK is an AVI (note that it is actually 'AVI ' to conform to the FCC).
    So the CHUNK structure looks a bit like this:-
    RIFF ('AVI '
    LIST ('hdrl'
    'avih'()
    LIST ('strl'
    'strh'()
    'strf'()
    'strd'()
    'strn'()
    LIST ('movi'
    {SubChunk | LIST ('rec '
    SubChunk1
    SubChunk2
    ['idx1']
    For more information on all this you need to read the RIFF specification documentation on the MSDN website or on the MSDN Technet materials. Most of the stuff you will immediately locate will refer to the AVI file format as that is where most of the recent effort has been focused.

  • Can I share the files on the time capsule for all of the macs on my network and can I access time capsule from my laptop while out of town?

    I have a iMac desktop and a macbook pro.  If I purchase a time capsule, can I use it as the central location for my files for both computers?  Can I access the files on the time capsule from my macbook pro when I am out of town?

    Yes, with some provisos.. it is designed as primarily a backup location for Time Machine.
    Look at Pondini who has a great deal of info in his KB of all things Time Machine .. as well as Time Capsule.
    Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
    Remote access is via BTMM and iCloud.. just look it up.
    But the TC must be the main router in the network for it to work.

  • Had to reformat my imac but now can't access time capsule to get my old fil

    I had to reformat my imac, running snow leopard. Got it reinstalled. I'm reading my time capsule volume but it has problems connecting to allow me to restore my old settings files, (photos, music etc)
    I'm not sure if I'm tackling this correctly. I'm using Migration Assistant, should I be going through Time Machine? I tried both but am having issues. My airport setting are fine. Any ideas anyone?

    Thanks for the feedback and the link to the help page.
    I had to reformat because my imac was not responding at all. It would open but super slow. In disc utilities I tried reparing disc multiple times, kept getting a message saying the disc was corrupted something about sibling error???, back up all your files, erase and restore.
    I've been running snow leopard and have had a time capsule for a while so I erased and spent the next two days trying to reinstall OSX unsuccessfully. Called the apple tech support, tried their idea of reinstalling snow leopard after an erase. It would not install.
    Took my computer into the genius bar and they were able to reinstall immediately. We tried a direct ethernet connect to my time capsule at the genius bar but it would not work. It didn't see any time machine volume. The time capsule was flahing yellow. When I hook it to my router it is solid green, gives me a "connecting message" but doesn't open.
    anyway so now I bring the imac back home and it won't connect to time machine. Will try from my disc to restore from time machine and will hook up with ethernet again, see if it works.
    I feel I'm missing a step when I connect direct with the ethernet but have a flashign yellow light on time capsule. Any ideas on that.
    thanks again

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