How do you access files on your time capsule from your mac?

how do you access files on your time capsule from your mac?

i had an old macbook pro that i had all the pictures on and i backed it up to my time capsule through time machine. i got a new macbook pro retina display recently and im wanting to see if i can get some of the pictures off of my time capsule now but i dont want all of them.

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  • I can access my time capsule from my mac mini at work but my macbook can only access it from my home network. how do i fix this?

    I have a Mac Mini and a MacBook, both were configured at home to access the time capsule. I have since moved the mini to work to use there and it has no issues looking up files on the time capsule which remains at home. The macbook whoever can only access the time capsule from within the home network. I can't seem to find what I may have done differently. Can anybody help?
    Not sure if your allowed to post two questions, but it's may be related. I find that accessing the files on the time capsule from the mac mini or the macbook is very slow. Accessing the same files from an older HP laptop is as fast as accessing its own hard drive. How can I speed up the accessing of these files from my apple products. One would think they would work fast and the 'windows' computers would take minutes to map the drive each time... 
    Thanks for any help.

    I have since moved the mini to work to use there and it has no issues looking up files on the time capsule which remains at home.
    This cannot happen by magic though.. you must have configured the mini to access the TC remotely.. which method are you using, BTMM and iCloud??
    The macbook whoever can only access the time capsule from within the home network. I can't seem to find what I may have done differently. Can anybody help?
    How is the Macbook configured to access the TC remotely?? If you are trying to use BTMM and iCloud, then it might be a case that with the mini running the connection cannot be done by more than one computer at a time.. this is generally the case although I do not know if that is specifically true of BTMM method. Try turning off the mini and leave it off.. (off not standby)... then reboot the TC when you are at home.. and then try and connect the laptop to the TC the next morning from work. See if it is then able to capture the connection.. if so start up the mini and I suspect it now will not be able to connect.. that will prove that the TC cannot cope with two remote connections.
    There also could be another factor in here. If you are accessing the laptop via the same router as the mini is on.. then actually you cannot have two users mount the same files on a TC.. from the same IP address.. as far as the TC is concerned both devices have identical IP, that is the public IP of the work location router.
    If you happen to not be using BTMM then the situation is even easier.. you cannot make two different devices connect to the same network resource using the same port. That is the failing of the NAT system.. one device uses the port then it cannot be used by a second device. You will need to do some fancy footwork and use a different port.
    Anyhow tell us exactly how you are doing remote access.. otherwise I am just guessing.
    Not sure if your allowed to post two questions, but it's may be related. I find that accessing the files on the time capsule from the mac mini or the macbook is very slow.
    Are you talking about files you are hosting on the TC?? Not Time Machine backups??
    Can you tell me exactly how you are accessing the TC.. please do a test..
    Copy a file to the TC and from the TC using the Laptop.. Use a single very large file, eg 1GB movie file.
    Give me a read and write speed.. you can use activity monitor to give me an aprox average speed as well as peak.
    Do the same test from the same computer with wireless turned off running ethernet.
    Then do the tests from the mini.. same ones.. copy large file to and from the TC by ethernet and by wireless.. when using ethernet make sure wireless is off.
    I strongly recommend you set IPv6 to link local only for your wireless and ethernet setup in the Mac.
    eg
    Now do the test from the HP laptop and give me the results from that.
    Is the issue wireless only.. ??
    Then you might need to spend a bit of time fixing the wireless in the Macs.. you can run wireless diagnostics in Mavericks.
    About Wireless Diagnostics

  • Access your TIme Capsule from a different network?

    Okay, I've been looking everywhere for a guide or how-to to do this, but my searches have been more or less fruitless, coming across outdated, incomplete or incompetent so-called "guides", so I thought I'd finally post a question myself, and see if anyone has actually been successful in doing this.
    What I want to do is be able to do is access all the files stored on my Time Capsule from anywhere (using accounts and/or passwords), provided I have an internet connection. I use my Time Capsule as an external hard drive, and it's great at home, but I have a lot of music, movies, photos etc that I don't have space for on my MacBook, so being able to connect to my Time Capsule from other locations would be awesome. I have seen many guides and how-to's, but no matter how closely I follow the steps, it never seems to work. If anyone has had any success using one of the guides, feel free to post the link below.
    I am running the latest firmware on the Time Capsule (7.5.2) - the serial number is 6F01208ZAQG if that helps, the latest version of Airport Utility (5.5.2), my Time Capsule is connected to the internet via a Thomson TG585 v7 router (via Ethernet cable), I am on a MacBook running OS X 10.6.5, which is connected wirelessly to the Time Capsule, and if it makes any difference I am in New Zealand.
    Any information would help, but if you're going to say "it doesn't work" or something not-so-helpful like that, could you please give a reason? I'm tired of you pessimists shooting everyone down.
    Thanks in advance,
    Ryan

    Welcome to the discussion area!
    It's been some time since I have used the "feature" to access files on the Time Capsule over the internet, so I can't remember all the details from 12-18 months ago. Some specifics I do remember:
    1) You must have a "static" IP address for your internet service from your ISP
    2) You must use a simple one port modem that will allow the Time Capsule to be the "main" router on the network
    3) You must use Mobile Me from Apple to set this up
    However, I notice that Apple no longer talks about this feature on the newer Time Capsule literature online, so that might be a hint that it is no longer being supported.
    When did have it working, even small file transfers took forever. The connection, if I was using wireless, was often lost before transfers could complete.
    I haven't tried the "how to" in the article below because I no longer travel for my job, but it might be worth a look for a different approach if Mobile Me is no longer providing this service.
    http://gigaom.com/apple/access-your-time-capsule-over-the-internet/
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  • Access files stored in Time Capsule via iCloud

    how to access files stored in Time Capsule via iCloud

    Yes, you can remotely access files in the TC..
    Did you read the apple instructions and do them??
    http://www.apple.com/au/support/icloud/back-to-my-mac/
    It does depend on the main router being upnp or NAT-PMP capable.. so the best is if the TC is the main router.. otherwise you may have to manually forward the ports.

  • 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.

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  • Can i access my data on time capsule from some other network

    can i access my data on time capsule from some other network that is my data at home from office over internet

    There is plenty of info out there if you google..
    Here is a summary I just put into another thread.
    Remote access has been added back into iCloud that was in MobileMe..
    Read the info on setting it up from cloud service.. BTMM.
    http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/back-to-my-mac/
    If you want to do it without the cloud service, you have one major issue.. the public IP for WAN..
    The internal IP of the TC.. which will default to 10.0.1.1 btw.. is irrelevant. It is the IP of the WAN which you use to access the TC over the internet. And here you have a problem.. the TC does not include dyndns service. So unless you have a static IP address from your ISP, this will cause you grief.
    (If it is offered by your ISP.. get a static IP.. that eliminates all the issues.. and is far superior. Even dyndns service has issues if your public IP rotates too often. It is generally an extra cost item and requires a business account but some ISP offer it cheap or even free.. I joined an ISP that offered static ip for free because it gives me the ability to remote access my network without all the hassles you will see below.)
    There are ways around it.. setting up your own domain for instance.
    http://dyn.com/support/airport-time-capsule-with-dynamic-dns/
    But it is easier to simply use a different router.. almost all of them have dyndns service available.. place the TC behind the router in bridge and forward port 548 TCP to it.
    This is a bit old but still relevant.
    http://gigaom.com/apple/access-your-time-capsule-over-the-internet/
    Note .. there is no ftp, http, ssh (there is actually but it isn't accessible), or any other service to allow connection other than AFP.. so you must use a Mac in remote location to access the TC.
    The setup for the two methods is slightly different in the TC.. in the first instance, you need to turn on WAN access via disk sharing page in the manual setup.
    In the second case you do not need this.
    Remember security and put strong passwords on the disk. There are still security questions about this.
    If security is important.. there is a third and better (IMO) method and that is vpn.. you will need to buy a vpn router as TC also missed out on that.. establish a vpn with the main router and that will allow you access to your network.. you will also then be able to use SMB remotely not just AFP.
    Also if this office is a large company they should be running a firewall, which would block your access to home. You should check your IT admin people for what is allowed.. generally the only acceptable method is vpn otherwise you can drag viruses and trojans right into the network without the firewall catching them.

  • I dragged and dropped files to my time capsule from my laptop but now I cannot find them anywhere on there... Please help

    I dragged and dropped files to my time capsule from my laptop but now I cannot find them anywhere on the time capsule... Please help I no longer have that laptop. All it is showing is time machine backups.

    Open Macintosh HD and look for your  Time Capsule icon under the SHARED heading on the left side of the window.
    Click on the Time Capsule icon and folder will appear to the right representing your drive
    Double click the folder to reveal the contents
    You should see a xxxxxx.sparsebundle file for each computer that is backing up and the files that you dropped onto the Time Capsule from the other computer. Leave these files alone.
    If you do not see the other files, unfortunately, they are not there.

  • How do you access files from an external harddrive connected to TC through USB from iPad or windows computer?

    How do you access external hard drive data that is connected to TimeCapsule through USB from iPad or knows based computer?

    Filebrowser for the iPad does this very well.
    FileBrowser - Access files on remote computers for iPhone, iPod ...
    Cannot help on Windows, but another PC guy might be able to answer. Some possible clues here:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1331

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    Hello!
    I keep my iTunes media files on a Time Capsule and access them on my MacBook Air, having changed the location of the media files in iTunes Preferences. This works fine.
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    The hard disk on my daughter's computer is having problems - it may be broken.  If so, it may take a while to get the computer working again.
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    I have read that it is possible to browse other user's backup files from Time Machine by holding the Option key when clicking on the Time Machine icon in the status bar.  This produces the menu choice "Browse other backup discs ...".  When I select that option, I am given a choice of backup files, including my own file and my daughter's file.  When I select my daughter's file, I go into Time Machine.
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    I'm also concerned that when I finally get her computer working again, which may involve erasing the disk and re-installing the OS, or perhaps even replacing the disk entirely, that the repaired computer won't be able to access her backup file because I might not be able to recreate here username/uid with the same credentials as originally setup.

    Hi,
    Thanks for the response.  Unfortunately, following the directions on that page does not help.
    As I interpret it, I should be following the steps in the green box.  I can get to the point where I am asked to select a backup file, and my daughter's backup file is one of the options.  When I select that file, I am taken to the Star Wars interface.
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    Bottom line - I don't know at this point whether this is going to work, but mounting the backup file seems to have produced some progress.
    Thanks,
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