Changed to "Securing shared disk: with accounts" and lost previous data?

I installed a TC in July and have been doing Time Machine backups to it ever since. Today, I decided to add File Sharing accounts using the Airport Utility. I created two accounts. The next time Time Machine ran, it failed on login. I reconfigured it to use one of the two new accounts, and (not surprisingly, in retrospect) it began a complete, new backup.
The Finder tells me that 150GB of the TC disk is already in use. I hope that's the space used by my former backups... but how do I find them? Whenever I try and open the TC in the Finder, I'm prompted for one of the new account/passwords, neither of which allows me to view any of the former data.
Is it possible to access data that was written to the TC disk prior to my switching to account-controlled file sharing?

Actually, it turns out it was still there and accessible. I went back to Airport Utility and switched "Securing shared disk" back to using a disk password, as before, and there was the "full" disk . . . containing my original sparseimage file, as well as a new Users folder and a Shared folder. The latter contained the sparseimage file from the new backup.
I hope that I can replace the new sparseimage file (in /Shared) with the original one (in /), and switch back to using accounts to control access to the TC disk.

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Restore the old files by removing the accounts.. ie press and hold reset.. once you go back to a reset all files are available again anyway so the security is illusionary.
If you want to secure files encrypt them.
BTW the old airport utility would have warned you that what you were doing will stop access to your files.
Of course the latest toyland utility probably showed you nothing.
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I have a 1TB Disk which I was using on my Mac, then upon aquisition of an AirPort Extreme Base Station, plugged it into there. File sharing was fine when set to "AirPort Password" for Security settings, but when I changed to "Accounts" and set up accounts, the existing paritions were there... they just couldn't be accessed.
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Restore the old files by removing the accounts.. ie press and hold reset.. once you go back to a reset all files are available again anyway so the security is illusionary.
If you want to secure files encrypt them.
BTW the old airport utility would have warned you that what you were doing will stop access to your files.
Of course the latest toyland utility probably showed you nothing.
Never start accounts with files on the TC.. you should offload them.. create accounts then load them back.. to the illusion of security at least.

If I set up secure shared disks with accounts, can i still use the time machine backup feature.

I was setting up an account on the time capsule so I can have other people have their own private folder. My question is, Can I still back up my data on my time capsule by using time machine?

Sorry the account feature is irrelevant.. You do not want to use it.. you can migrate your data to your computer.. The account feature is not needed, required, useful or anything to do with restoring your files..
You use account access to stop everybody being able to see your files.. the problem is.. it is not itself secure.. so if i get hold of your TC I can delete your accounts with a soft reset and access all your files.. so it is useless.. don't bother using it.. ignore it.. !!
If you wish to have secure backups use the Time Machine Encrypt backup feature.

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Thomas Rossin wrote:
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Hi,
Something quite worrying just happened and I'm unsure whether I can trust the TC to continue using it or whether I should just replace it. The TC is almost 2 years old and until now has reliably served as my DHCP router and Shared Disk with account. From Finder I attempted to mount my private shared folder as normal but the login details were refused. "Connect As" was showing in Finder which shouldn't appear when the account details are stored in Keychain. But sure enough in Keychain the connection details had vanished too. In Airport Utility the Shared Disk Account was nowhere to be found either with only the usual Data folder for Time Machine still visible. I mounted the Data folder and found inside a Users folder containing my missing files - around 400GB of my life's treasure! Thank the lord I seem to be able to access my files and am presently copying everything over to an internal disk on the Mac pro. Oddly enough what was once a restricted access folder requiring username and password now seems to be totally unsecured.
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ibosie wrote:
containing my missing files - around 400GB of my life's treasure!
Are you saying that was the only copy you have?
If so, count yourself as extremely lucky. Do yourself a favor and begin doing regular backups immediately. At the very least, back up your important, irreplaceable stuff. But do yourself another favor and back up your entire system.
That may be a bit tricky, as many backup apps (including Time Machine) won't back up a network drive, such as a Time Capsule. See Kappy's post on Basic Backup, complete with links to the web sites of each product. One or more of those will likely work for that.
While you're at it, make another set of backups, of the important stuff at least, and get it off-site, so you're also protected against fire, flood, theft, and direct lightning strike on your power lines. A portable hard drive is good for that, as are CDs/DVDs. Any of them can be taken to your safe deposit box, workplace, relative's house, etc. And there are services that let you do backups over the internet; since you're a MobileMe subscriber, you can use Apple's Backup app to back up some things to your iDisk automatically.

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