How to get to your files when your Time Capsule dies :(

I am posting this here to help someone who cannot access a Time Machine backup because
the backup was "corrupted"
the <insert whatever obscure message that contains the word "sparsebundle" here> message appears
the Time Machine won't open up your backups
the Time Capsule dies
First of all, I absolutly am a fan of Time Machine and Time Capsule. And they work great ... until they don't - and that is when panic sets in. I haven't had a Time Capsule die on me (because I remembered to enter a "Remember to get a new Time Capsule" event for 18 months after I bought my first one) and I am meticulous about keeping backups. I am a software engineer and, well, before we had github.com ... we had to protect our hard drives.
If your Time Capsule has died - or you can get into the Time Capsule through the Time Machine interface - you can still access you files. You don't need to go out and buy some fancy software to get back your lost stuff. You can't attach a usb cable to mount your Time Capsule (atleast on my 2T ones) - but you can open it to get to the hard drive
Most likely - the hard drive in your Time Capsule is still good (the thing that dies seems to be the power source). The key is to
open your Time Capsule peel back the rubber bottom and you will see some worx or hex screws
take out the hard drive (mine was a Western DigitalCaviar Green -> thanks Apple for being green!)
mount your drive to your Mac (you will prob have to get a SATA to USB adaptor (I use a Voyager Q)
from the Finder (yeah, the FINDER!) navigate into "data>ShareRoot" (this is where mine was, you might have to poke around)
double click the "sparsebundle" for your backups
In there, like little ducks, are directories for every backup - like a normal directory structure. This completely blew my mind when I found this out. It wasn't some mysterious thing like I was making it out to be. Everything was there, in increments, as I had before.
If you are not careful - you might damage your Time Capsule ... but chances are it is already dead. I keep my 2T WD in a safe place with a safe case for posterity. However that hard drive is just like any other hard drive ... it is just not in a Time Capsule.
This is a last ditch effort to get back your files. I resorted to this when I couldn't access my Time Machine backups through the GUI.
I hope that this helps someone and now, for something not so completely different: http://timecapsuledead.org

I just wanted to point out ... that when you "double click on the sparse bundle" - you are actually opeing up the "DiskImageMounter" and another "hard drive" will appear on you Desktop or in your FInder.
It is this "second" Time Machine that you will find your files in date tagged directory!

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> Thanks
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