How do I connect an external hard drive to my full Time Capsule

I bought LaCie 3TB and I want to make sure I don't lose anything from my time capsule

It does not "just work" if the drive is not formatted correctly.
Most store bought drives are formatted for Windows NTFS or exFAT, not Mac OS Extended (Journaled), which must be used if Time Machine backups are going on to the LaCie drive, or the drive is going to be used to archive the contents on the Time Capsule.

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I am having an issue with connecting my external hard drive to my airport time capsule.

I just recently purchased the new AirPort Time Capsule. The network set-up easily. However, when I connected my external hard drive (via USB) to it, the external hard drive does not show up in my Finder and I am otherwise unable to access the external hard drive from any computer connected the the network. When I plug the external hard drive in directly to my iMac, the external hard drive is recognized right away and I am able to access all folders. Any tips?

Check to make sure that the drive is formatted in Mac OS Extended Journaled or FAT32.
If the drive is formatted correctly and recognized by the Time Capsule, it will appear when you open AirPort Utility and click on the Disks tab.
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click the Time Capsule icon, then click Edit
Click the Disks tab at the top of the next page
If the drive is formatted correctly and not recognized, you will likely need to use a powered USB hub with the drive....even if the drive has its own power supply, since the USB port on the Time Capsule tends to be underpowered.

How do I connect my external hard drive with all of my digital media to my Apple TV network and make it accessable 24/7?

How do I connect my external hard drive with all of my digital media to my Apple TV network and make it accessable 24/7? I have the latest Apple TV, ipads, iPhones as well as a solid HP Windows machine all on my home network. Is there a way that I can connect my hard drive to my receiver or Apple TV directly so that the digital media is available on my network 24/7 rather than have it connected to my computer and available through Home Share which never works anyway??

Sorry it's all done through iTunes.
The following article(s) may help you with home sharing.
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
Recommended Wi-Fi settings
Wifi Diagnostic Software (for Mac users)
You may also find some help on this page, where I’ve collected some of the more unusual solutions to network issues.

TS2634 How do I connect an external hard drive to ipad4

How do I connect an external hard drive to ipad4

You can google the Seagate GoFlex which is a hard drive that has a wireless transmitter you can use to stream content from your drive to your iPad. There's also the WiDrive which is another wireless hard drive
In a lot of cases you do need to research deep. The iPad does not have a traditional file manager like computers, so the functionality of external or extra drives is very limited, often limited to whatever the app associated with the drive allows.
it's not a case of just plugging it in and having hundreds of gigs at your disposal to read from and write to at will.

How to backup an external hard drive plugged into a time capsule using time machine

How to backup an external hard drive plugged into a time capsule using time machine.
I want to move my itunes library from the mac HD to an external plugged into the time capsule, but I want to be sure this drive will still be backed up by time machine. I currentlly see no way to do this.

There is no way. You can connect the drive to your Mac and remove it from the Time Machine exclusion list. Then it will be backed up, but that will stop when you reconnect it to the TC. While it's connected to the TC, you can copy it manually to another AirPort Disk by following the instructions here (with a slight modification):
Using AirPort Utility to make a copy of the Time Capsule disk

HT3500 how do you transfer data from an external hard drive to a mac time capsule

I am trying to use my Mac Time Capsule as a wireless external hard drive for my MacBook Pro, so how do I transfer the data from a toshiba external hard drive, to my Mac Time Capsule?

Drag and drop or copy and paste files just as you would do with any normal Finder operation.
The Time Capsule is located under the SHARED heading in the Finder.
Click on the Time Capsule icon and double click the folder that appears representing the drive....named Data....unless you have changed the name......to mount the drive on the desktop.
Drag/drop or copy/paste files to the icon on the desktop or to the open window there.

Can Time Machine back up an external hard drive plugged into a Time Capsule

I have iTunes and iPhoto libraries that have outgrown the hard drive on my laptop so I've moved them on to an external hard drive. Since I'd like to move around the house with the laptop, I've plugged the external hard drive in to the Time Capsule so that the files on the external hard drive will be accessible on the network. Now that my really important files live on an external hard drive, I want to back it up.
Time Machine is backing up my laptop's internal hard drive to the Time Capsule drive, but I can't seem to figure out how to make Time Machine also back up the external hard drive that's plugged in to the Time Capsule.
Is this possible?

I understand that [Chronosync|http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html] ($40 U.S.) can do that, but I've never used it.
If you do that, you'll want to back it up to a disk image on the TC's internal HD, or a separate HD. See #Q3 in [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum) for details.

External hard Drive recomendations to run time capsule backup

Because new OSX Moutain Lion is arriving next month i decided i want to buy an external Hard Drive to use with Time Capsule so i can backup all my data just in case something goes wrong with Moutain Lion Update.
So, my question is: Since i cant buy Apple`s Time Capsule because is too expensive for me and since my Internal Drive Stora is only 500 GB i wanted to know if there is some recomendation i should know about the Hard Drive im buying.
Does anyone knows if there is a Thunderbolt - USB3 Conector? Im using an iMac 2011 and i guess its better to run a USB 3 than a USB 2 to run Time Capsule.
Thanks a lot.

Reset TM and point it to the hard disk connected to the new TC.
TM will say it will start a new backup in 2min.. but in fact when it starts it will discover the old backup and continue backing up to it.
You just have to work on blind faith.. it will give no indication of success until it starts the backup.. right up to that point it will say it is doing a new backup.

Airport Extreme won't show the WD external hard drive I plugged into the USB port. How do I connect my external hard drive to my network?

I plugged in my WD external hard drive into my Airport Extreme via the USB port. The hard drive will not show up in the disk section in the airport utility... How do I hook an external hard drive up to the airport extreme? I have tried 2 different WD hard drives. I must be missing something!!!
Thanks!

To be recognized by the AirPort for sharing, the WD HDD has to be formatted in either HFS+ (ideal) or FAT32. The easiest way to format the HDD is to use the Disk Utility in OS X.

How do I connect an external hard drive to iPad 3?

Hi
I was was wondering if it is possible to connect an external Hard drive to iPad 3! I like to watch movies on my iPad3 and 64 GB cannot hold big files.
Thanks

There are some wireless external hard drives that can be used with the iPad.
The Kingston Wi-Drive, which costs $50 for the 16 Gigabyte, and then $30 more for every 16 gigs more. It works by you turning it on and then accessing the files on it from an app that you download on your iDevice. You can access music, movies, and other stuff. No connections or anything, it works like a WiFi connection, you connect to it from the setting on the iPad under wireless networks.
Then there is the Seagate GoFlex, which some would recommend over the Wi-Drive. But this one costs $199 and had 500 Gigabytes of storage. It works the sameway as the Kingston: no wires, runs over its wireless connection. You can actually fit up to 300 HD movies on it.
Another option:
Expand your iPad's storage capacity with HyperDrive
http://www.macworld.com/article/1153935/hyperdrive.html
On the road with a camera, an iPad, and a Hyperdrive
http://www.macworld.com/article/1160231/ipadhyperdrive.html
 Cheers, Tom

How do I connect an external hard drive to an airport?

Here what's going on. I have an old aiport, Iomega external hard drive and a Netgear N router. My goal is so connect the external hard drive to the airport via the USB port so I can access my photos through the network. I have a Mac Book pro with a full hard drive and a PC laptop. The Netgear N router is currently connected to my cable modem and the Airport is connected to the Netgear Router in bridge mode. However when I connect the External HD to the Airport it cannot be seen. I can see it when I connect it to my mac directly but I would prefer to share my pictures over the network and keep the External HD stationary instead of moving wherever my laptop goes. I also read that the Airport can slow down the internet speed because it is not an "N" so that is why I currently have it in bridge mode. Is there anyway to get this done? Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: lineaurd81

Can you clarify what model you mean by an old Airport? There's dozens of different AirPort base station models, and the only ones that work with a USB harddrive are the AirPort Extreme's with 802.11 n (flat, square-shaped with 4 ethernet ports). The AirPort Expresses and older dome-shaped base stations do not have that capability.
If you have an AirPort Extreme which meets the requirements of connecting a USB drive, you can verify whether it's connected by configuring it manually using the AirPort Utility and looking under the disks tab.
The following article tells you the various ways of connecting to the disk if it is recognized in the AirPort Utility and properly formatted:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1331

How do I connect an external hard drive to the airport extreme using the Window's based airport utility?

I'm having trouble connecting an external hard drive to my home network via a Widows based operating system and the Airport utility. Please help.

No, you can't. Only a printer. You can with the Extreme, though.

External Hard Drive into USB on Time Capsule?

Is it possible to directly connect an external hard drive to the USB port on
the Time Capsule---Apple Care folks just told me I could do that after it
turned out my Canon i9900 printer can not be used with the Time
Capsule---but I cannot see the hard drive in Time Capsule (but I can
if I hook it directly to my MacBook Pro. Any suggestions?
Sandy

The issue with printers really comes down to manufacturer support for drivers that allow all of the printer's features to be accessible from a USB port over the network. To date, I am not aware of any multifunction printer that you would be able to get beyond simple printing connected this way ... and, of course, even printers, like your Canon, that has printing as its prime role are not all supported either.
iFelix tries to keep track of which printers or hard drives are supported, but there is nothing (unfortunately) from Apple doing the same. Although this link is for the AirPort Extreme, it pretty much holds true for the TC as well.

How can I connect an External Hard Drive plugged in an Airport Extreme to my Samsung Smart TV?

Hi..
I have an Airport Extreme and an external hard drive in its USB... I could connect it to both my Windows and Mac computers, but I couldn't connect to my Samsung Smart TV... Does anybody know how to do that ?
Thanks,
Felipe

Did you have any luck with this? I have the same issue... my Samsung TV used to connect fine with USB drives connected to other routers, but since I upgraded to Airport Extreme, the TV no longer sees any external drives, although WiFi is working great via Airport Extreme.

How can I connect an external hard drive to my ipad

How can I add additional data storage to my ipad 2?

There are some wireless external hard drives that can be used with the iPad.
The Kingston Wi-Drive, which costs $50 for the 16 Gigabyte, and then $30 more for every 16 gigs more. It works by you turning it on and then accessing the files on it from an app that you download on your iDevice. You can access music, movies, and other stuff. No connections or anything, it works like a WiFi connection, you connect to it from the setting on the iPad under wireless networks.
Then there is the Seagate GoFlex, which some would recommend over the Wi-Drive. But this one costs $199 and had 500 Gigabytes of storage. It works the sameway as the Kingston: no wires, runs over its wireless connection. You can actually fit up to 300 HD movies on it.
Another option:
Expand your iPad's storage capacity with HyperDrive
http://www.macworld.com/article/1153935/hyperdrive.html
On the road with a camera, an iPad, and a Hyperdrive
http://www.macworld.com/article/1160231/ipadhyperdrive.html
 Cheers, Tom

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