Can I use part of the Time Capsule as external harddrive?

And how do I do that?
Thanks!

You might consider this since you will need another drive anyway......
Place the extra files on the external hard drive and connect it to your Mac using USB or Firewire.
Then Time Machine will backup both the Mac and the external hard drive.....so you have backups of everything.

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