I can no longer access my Time Capsule disk

After upgrading to SL, I can't connect to the disk in my Time Capsule. It shows up in the Shared part of the Finder sidebar as usual, but clicking on it generates a gray bar that says "Connection Failed." On the right-hand side of this bar is a "Connect As' button, and clicking this gives an error popup that says: "There was an error connecting to the server “Wonderland”. Check the server name or IP address, and then try again. If you are unable to resolve the problem contact your system administrator." I don't know how to change the server name or IP address, and when I enter the IP directly from "Connect to Server" I get the same error message. Trying to set up the disk in Time Machine also gives the same error.
The odd thing is that the disk is visible in Airport Utility, which even tells me how much space is being used. "Enable file sharing" is still checked.
Any ideas what I can do?

Sad to report that unplugging and re-plugging the hard drive did not help. I had high hopes!
Un-mounting and re-mounting the external hard drive didn't help either.
I've moved on to deleting the time machine preferences per another suggestion in another thread - still no luck.
I continue to get the Making Backup Disk Available warning in the Time Machine Preferences window as the little progress bar spins for 20+ minutes. The whole time, I can hear the external hard drive clicking and chirping like it's being accessed- then the Time Machine preference window reports the same past warning: *The backup disk image “/Volumes/300GB BACKUP/myname’s Mac mini_00254bb40536.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error 109)*
Off to cruise some more forums for a possible fix - suggestions continue to be welcome!
Jamie

Similar Messages

Airport TimeCapsule wireless works fine, but iMac can no longer find the time capsule disk for backups.

Hi,
I have a new Airport TimeCapsule that I set up about two weeks ago in combination with a new iMac running OS 10.9.4. It ran fine until 2 days ago, when the TC disk image disappeared from the iMac and Time Machine was not able to back up. I tried to find the TC in Airport Utility and it states the "Airport Time Capsule was previously part of your network. Check that it is still in range of your network and is plugged into a power outlet..." I've tried restarting the time capsule. I've tried restarting everything in order (modem>TC>iMac) and the iMac still cannot see the TC disk.
I've had two other issues that I will list in case they are all related somehow:
1) The time capsule took several attempts to set up when I first bought it. I had to reset the TC several times before I got all the way through the set up process successfully.
2) I tried hooking up my printer to the USB port on the airport time capsule and although my MacBook could see it and print to it just fine, my iMac was never able to see it.
The TC is hooked up to the iMac via ethernet cable. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? I'm about ready to send the time capsule back and just resurrect my old airport that worked flawlessly for years. This airport TC has been a huge disappointment so far.
Thanks

There are some real issues between Mavericks and TC .. (or just network bugginess!!)
There is a heap of things you can do but it is easier to just run through the whole lot in order. None is necessarily the cure and that is why doing all is important.
The list is in this thread.
Airport Utility shows "unexpected error - please try again" when connecting to Time Capsule
In your case using ethernet can be a problem.. let me say please make sure you have ipv6 set to link-local only in your ethernet setup. I usually only show it in wireless but for you it must be ethernet. The wireless connection seems to be utterly required now for connection.. and hidden away into the airport utility is a switch over from wireless to ethernet. When I made the manual setup instructions above this particular ability (or stupidity) of the Airport Utility was not apparent to me.
So here is typical Airport Utility (AU) v6.. but it is actually working over wireless only. (The v5 utility was wireless + ethernet).
I have an ethernet client on the network that is completely invisible.
Click on the Other WiFi Devices (wrongly named.. it should say other devices).
And you will see the option to choose ethernet.
Then the AU sees the ethernet client and none of the wireless clients.. brilliant stuff eh??
PS this is just a test setup.. never would I have any TC with such an illegal name.. But I hope it shows you what to do.
Fix the names.. most important.. keep them short.. less than 10 characters all the better.
No spaces and pure alphanumeric.

I can no longer access my Time Capsule Data

I have a 2TB TimeCapsule connected wirelessly to my home Network via an Airport Express.
I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro. I keep my documents on there, so I can access them from either device.
Today when I tried to access my documents frm the iMac, it wouldn't let me, and just kept closing down Finder. It works fine from my MacBook Pro still though?
The only change I made to my setup in the last 24 hours is I connected my iMac to the Airport Express via an Ethernet cable to allow faster streaming. I have tried going back to wireless connection as it was before, but it still doesn't allow me to access my files. Interestingly Time Machine Backup from my iMac is still working?
Any thoughts?
Many thanks

Sad to report that unplugging and re-plugging the hard drive did not help. I had high hopes!
Un-mounting and re-mounting the external hard drive didn't help either.
I've moved on to deleting the time machine preferences per another suggestion in another thread - still no luck.
I continue to get the Making Backup Disk Available warning in the Time Machine Preferences window as the little progress bar spins for 20+ minutes. The whole time, I can hear the external hard drive clicking and chirping like it's being accessed- then the Time Machine preference window reports the same past warning: *The backup disk image “/Volumes/300GB BACKUP/myname’s Mac mini_00254bb40536.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error 109)*
Off to cruise some more forums for a possible fix - suggestions continue to be welcome!
Jamie

After port forward, airport utility can no longer see my time capsule

I tried to forward public port 1025 to private port 80 on a raspberry pi using airport utility. But after I did that, the airport utility can no longer see my time capsule. Wifi still works correctly. Are there any conflicts about port 1025? How to fix that other than resetting the time capsule?
Thanks,
Michael

It doesn't sound like a port that is used.
From the standard google search.. nope.
Reboot the whole network..
No luck tell me what OS version you are running the utility on and what model and firmware TC???
Note with Yosemite, anything can and will happen.

TS2655 imac can no longer find the time capsule to add it...how do i fix this

my imac can no longer find the time capsule....i had to delete the old network and re add the time capsule to create a new one and now the imac keeps searching for the base and cant locate it

If you mean that Time Machine can't find the Time Capsule, I'd try using the Time Machine panel of System Preferences to redeclare your backup disk. If that's not what you mean, please explain.

Since I upgraded to Mavericks, Time Machine no longer finds the Time Capsule Disk on my network

Hi,
Since I upgraded to Mavericks, Time Machine no longer finds the Time Capsule Disk on my network.
Five minutes before upgrading it however performed successfully a last backup.
I found several posts on this forum and proposed solutions:
- restarted both the mac and capsule
- deleted the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist (twice rebooting in between)
Still have the issue.

What brand of drive is it?
Disks You Can Use
Troubleshooting backup issues
Time Machine Can’t Find Backup Disk

TimeMachine Confused: Can no longer access my external hard disk

Suddenly this morning after 3 days of use time machine can no longer access my external USB 2.0 disk. It states failed to access disk. Although I can access the disk fine via the finder. In the preferences I try to reselect the disk but its not listed. I tried rebooting and it still can't see my usb disk, although again the finder can access it fine.
HELP!

The same thing had happened to me with my new USB2 drive. I found [this fix|http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/leopard-disk-utility-format-issue-screws-w ith-time-machine-but-theres-an-easy-fix-316573.php] on another thread and it worked for me (so far).
Before the fix, Disk Utility showed my USB drive partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), but it showed the volume still as FAT32.
I certainly don't know if this was the problem, but my drive would only randomly work with TM or the Finder. After the fix, at least for the last 12 hours, the drive has worked correctly with both.

Access to Time Capsule Disk via MobileMe Web

I would like to see my Time Capsule Disk appear in my MobileMe account when I'm logged into it via Safari, similar to the way my MobileMe iDisk shows up on my MobileMe login via a browser. Is this possible?

no. You won't be able to access it via mobileme website. although using mobileme login details, you will see it as a drive in your finder window if you set it up right.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/03/03/airportextreme_time_capsule_gain_mobileme_sharingsupport.html
not sure of the details yet.. am trying to do same thing.

Can no longer find my Time Capsule.

My Time capsule, that I bought back of last year in April has been working flawlessly, until a couple of days ago. Now, it con no longer be found on the network.
It is connected via an Ethernet cable and is in another room (it's connected to my iMac, running OS X 10.5 through a router that is working and letting everything else on my network see everything else. ).
I have reset my Time Capsule and the solid green light comes on.
It has been updated with all the latest firmware as it has come out.
WHAT ON EARTH DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET IT SO IT CAN BEEN CONNECTED TO FROM MY IMAC?

Did this happen after updating to 7.4.1?
I know when I updated my TC to 7.4.1 it disappeared on me. I had to revert to previous firmware.
This also happened when I updated and original Airport Extreme (first model released). Had to revert it to 7.3.2.
Every Airport I updated to 7.4.1 became invisible. Had to revert each one.

Powerbook G4 can no longer connect to Time Capsule network

For more than a year, my Powerbook G4 17" was able to access the internet provided wirelessly via my Time Capsule. I recently had to reconfigure the Time Capsule setup to address an unrelated issue, and now I am unable to join the wireless network at all from the Powerbook. I would guess that I inadvertantly changed something about the setup of the Time Capsule, but I can't figure out what. All other wireless devices (iMac, Apple TV, iPad) in the house are able to connect without problem, so I know that it is at least not a password issue. Eventhough I enter the correct password for the network on the G4, I only get a "connection timeout" error.
Any suggestions as to what I might try to get connected again?

I presume you are on Mountain Lion.. it does have some network issues..
Try just rebooting.. and restart everything in the correct order..
Modem.. router/TC.. USB drive.. clients.. 2min gap between each.
If you still have issues do a verify of the drive.
See A5 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

My Mac can no longer find my Time Capsule or my home network.

Hello, having had no problems for the first few months I can no longer get online. My Mac cannot find my network (but can find all of the other networks on my street) and cannot find the Time Capsule. The Time Capsule itself has a green light so I assume is working fine. My daughter knocked the ethernet cable from the the Time Capsule around the time it stopped working - could this be related? We also moved our cordless phone near to the Time Capsule around the same time - could this be the problem? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Message was edited by: marius1

Smokerz, thanks for the help. A couple of very basic questions to clarify (I am clueless about these things).
1. When you say power down the modem you mean unplug it? (I currently get my cable TV and phone through it as well).
2. How do I go about changing the channel on the router? (which I assume is the Time Capsule?).
Apologies for my ignorance and thanks for any help.

How can I manage access to time capsule disc?

Hello,
I use Time Capsule disc to save my pictures and my Aperture Library.
The security of the shared disc is done with the peripherical pasword...
I have a problem and this is that Aperture trash do not have access to the volume disc so I cannot delete any file from Aperture because of an acess problem.
If I see the information of the disc (at the uper level) I can see that there is a forbiden access to "everyone" so I think that the problem is there. When I want to change the authorisations to everyone (to make possible to read&write) I get a message saying that I do not have the required autorisations...
Can anybody help me about this?

You need to login to the TC with main admin account.
Or reset the passwords.. do soft reset so you can change the permissions..
Security on the TC is more apparent than real.. press the reset and the files are unaffected but the permissions return to default.
Reset doco
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728

Accessing shared time capsule disk with two accounts

Hey guys,
I have an airport time capsule (5th gen) and want to access a connected USB disk with my Mavericks macbook. This basically works fine: i can mount it using the finder (usually I do an automatic mount when starting my account, since I put the drive into the Login Items for my user), and the disk is secured with a disk password.
However, I have a quite annoying issue when using two accounts on the same macbook, which is my standard use case as I share the macbook with my wife: Only the user that first accesses the disk can use it, the second user gets a "no access permission" error for the disk. The second user can then disconnect the drive and reconnect, but I find this very annoying, because I have to do it all the time, and I'm wondering if I'm the only user with this problem.
Is there any way to specify access rights for the drive, such that I can access it with both accounts simultaneously? BTW, I've already tried to define specific access rights on the disk (Context Menu > Get Info > Sharing and Permissions), and I tried to change the disk security mode to "With accounts" and "With device password" - none of it made any difference.

Only the user that first accesses the disk can use it, the second user gets a "no access permission" error for the disk. The second user can then disconnect the drive and reconnect, but I find this very annoying, because I have to do it all the time, and I'm wondering if I'm the only user with this problem.
That is how Apple built it. No fixes.. no repairs.. it is a hassle of protected type file systems. Windows you can do all sorts of fudgery.. but the lack of protection (amongst others) is why you use a Mac.
Is there any way to specify access rights for the drive,
This is not a rights issues.. it is that one user at a time is allowed. Each user must logout before the next user can gain access..
I do not know of any workaround.
Pondini recommends using disk image for data on the TC.. since you can otherwise mess up the TM backup. See http://pondini.org/TM/TCQ3.html
His comments don't apply to your usage of the USB drive.. but his workaround may help.
I am wondering if you create the sparsebundle on the USB drive and allow everyone access, once mounted on the computer it might allow two user accounts access at the same time.. Sorry I have no need to try it and I cannot recall anyone attempting.. but it might present a way around the issue.. !!

Time Capsule - can no longer access on MBP Leopard

For the past 6 or 7 weeks I can no longer access my Time Capsule from my MBP Leopard. However, I do not beleive this is a Time Capsule issue as I am still accessing (and backing up) successfully from a MBP running Snow Leopard. Note, the access and backup were running fine for over a year and suddenly just stopped working. I've done the basics like repair permissions, software update, checked everything. For soem reason, when I try to access, I can see the Time Capsule, I can connect until I get to Data then "mylaptop Sparse Bundle". When I choose that disk image backup - just continues for ever and ever with a dialog box that says "trying to connect" or something like that.
Any ideas appreciated ...
thanks

lumiere wrote:
"the current volume could not be mounted". Also "The Current Time Machine backup disk can;t be found".
Has this Mac had any problems since the last successful backup? Such as hardware repairs, especially a new logic board? A full restore?
Is the +sparse bundle+ currently mounted? If so, eject it and try again.
If not, or if that doesn't help, try a "full reset" of Time Machine, per #A4 of Troubleshooting.
Interesting to note that the final backup (7 weeks ago) failed - it looked like hourly backups worked and the final one failed ("says in progress" ?)
Yes, that's the partial, failed backup. Since it's incomplete, it won't appear in the "Star Wars" display, etc. Once Time Machine gets started, it will "recover" it, and convert it into a normal backup, with a new date & Time.
After that long without a backup, Time Machine will have a lot of work to do (including recovering the partial backup), so connect via Ethernet if at all possible. It will still take a while, but be 2-3 times faster than WIFI.

Remote access my time capsule when mobile me is no longer offered? And I do NOT have a static IP?

How can i remote access my time capsule when mobile me is no longer offered iCloud is months away and I do NOT have a static IP?
I feel that apple has crippled the functionality of my time capsule as I can no longer access the files abroad!

Try the advice in this thread.

I can no longer access my Time Capsule disk

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for