Is it possible to store AppleTV movies on a Time Capsule?

I have a 500TB Time Capsule that has plenty of free disk space... I have an AppleTV that is running low. Is there an easy way to have the AppleTV stream / store purchased movies from the Time Capsule?

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If you are meaning can the TC HDD simply be used as an extension to the tv storage, then no this cannot be done.
What you can of course do is use the TC HDD to accommodate some or all of your itunes library, then it's a simple case of transferring purchases from the tv to itunes, thereby freeing up space on the tv. You can then stream this content when you want to watch it, providing itunes is running on your mac/pc.

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You could store your iTunes Library on the Time Capsule (TC), but understand that the TC was primarily designed to be a combination router and target destination for Time Machine (TM) backups. It can perform as a NAS or media server, but these are not its strong suite of features. For example, while a backup is being performed, streaming performance will be affected. Since, TM backs up (at least) once an hour, this could get to be problematic.
2) can i split my time capsule into 2 so i can back up my laptop and mac on it? Or do i need to go with a airport extreme and get an external harddrive?
If your goal is to partition the TC's internal hard drive, you would have to temporarily remove the drive to do so as the AirPort Utility (nor Disk Utility) allows for paritioning this drive when installed.
You CAN backup multiple computers (both Macs & PCs) to the TC, but would have to rely on different backup applications in order to do so. TM backups will NOT overwrite any existing data stored on the TC's hard drive. Another option is to connect one (or more) external USB hard drives to the TC's USB port. You can then dedicate the TC's internal drive for TM backups and use the external drives for other purposes ... like PC backups.
At present, the only issue with going the attached drive to an 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) is that Apple does not support this configuration for TM backups.

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I do not know about iMovie, but the experts in the iPhoto and Aperture support areas strongly advise against trying to install your "working" image library on the Time Capsule.
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Open a Finder window. If you see your Time Capsule in the "Shared" section of the sidebar, clicking on it should show the "Data" volume (or whatever you named it) in the main part of the window. Double-click on it to mount the "Data" volume.
If you don't see your Time Capsule in the Finder sidebar, you may not have enabled "disk sharing" in AirPort Utility. In AirPort Utility do a "manual setup of your Time Capsule, then select the Disks panel, then the "File Sharing" tab, then check "Enable file sharing", select a security method (I use "With a disk password"), fill in the remaining options as desired, then update the Time Capsule. Once it restarts, try again to see your Time Capsule in the Finder's sidebar.

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Can I store an iPhoto library on Time Capsule?

I would like to store my iPhoto library externally. Can I store it on my Time Capsule or do I need an additional, external hard drive?

I would like to store my iPhoto library externally. Can I store it on my Time Capsule
Please do NOT do this.
Access to the library will be very slow, even more so if you are using wireless. More importantly, there is a real danger that any break in communication between iPhoto and the iPhoto library will create a corruption issue that will likely affect the entire library, rendering it useless. Confirm with the experts in the iPhoto support area about this to verify.
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In addition, if you move the iPhoto library to the Time Capsule......have you thought about how you will back up the iPhoto library that is on the Time Capsule? Obviously, you will still need another hard drive to backup the "original" iPhoto library on the Time Capsule.
A much better plan would be to connect a USB or FireWire drive directly to your Mac.....and move the iPhoto library to that hard drive. Access to the library will be fast....just as if the library was on your Mac's hard drive.
Then.....Time Machine can be set up to back up both your Mac and the hard drive to the Time Capsule. That would be a minimum backup plan. Many of us who value our images make additional copies of the library on yet another hard drive on a regular basis.

Is it possible to reserve a space on the time capsule to use to share files like; music, pictures, or documents?

There are 4 Mac's in my house and I'd like to back up all of them to a time capsule, i know it is possible to do this. however i would also like to be able to dump files like; music, pictures, and documents onto the time capsule so that the others mac will be able to access these files when they want to. This will stop the need for me leaving my mac on whilst other macs access my hard drive, or passing USB sticks around the house.

With an ordinary disk you can partition it with Disk Utility to reserve space for various things. With the Time Capsule you cannot partition it because Disk Utility doesn't work on networked drives and AirPort Utility can only format an entire Time Capsule, not paritition it.
You can simply store the files you want to share on the Time Capsule and turn on file sharing, and it will do what you want. The only downside is that because you can't reserve space, eventually the Time Machine backup(s) on it will reduce the amount of available space to zero. This would eventually happen anyway whether you store your files on there or not, and then Time Machine starts deleting the oldest backups, but if you store your files on there and space goes to zero people won't be able to add files.
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Saving movies directly onto time capsule and synching with apple tv

hi all
i've just got hold of a 1tb time capsule. i have a heap of home movies that i want to move from tape to computer, and reckon there is over 100gb of footage. i don't have enough hard drive space for all of them
i had hoped to be able to transfer them via my laptop directly to time capsule. is this possible? And can stuff be saved on time capsule that is not then stored on the hard drive?
to complicate things, i'm hoping to be able to view them on apple tv, and hoped to be able to synch the apple tv with the time capsule
Am i making things very complicated?
Many thanks for any help

mathewprior wrote:
hi all
i've just got hold of a 1tb time capsule. i have a heap of home movies that i want to move from tape to computer, and reckon there is over 100gb of footage. i don't have enough hard drive space for all of them
i had hoped to be able to transfer them via my laptop directly to time capsule. is this possible?
Yes.
And can stuff be saved on time capsule that is not then stored on the hard drive?
Yes.
to complicate things, i'm hoping to be able to view them on apple tv, and hoped to be able to synch the apple tv with the time capsule
I don't know about Apple TV. I don't think you can sync a Time Capsule, but check either in the Time Capsule forum, hidden in the +Digital Life+ section, at: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253 and/or the MobileMe forums, also in +Digital Life,+ at: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=116
One additional consideration is backups. Most backup apps (including Time Machine) won't back up a Time Capsule (Apple's main intention for the Time Capsule is as a destination for backups, not a source). There is a feature in +Airport Utility+ where you can attach an external drive to one and "archive" the TC's disk to the external. So be sure you have a good backup plan.

Is it possible to maintain my iPhoto images on Time Capsule?

As it is, I have 130 GB of images and movie on the hard drive of my MacBook Pro. Everytime I attach my camera by USB to my Mac, by default, the images flood into my hard drive. Is there a way to assign that transfer to a folder on my Time Capsule instead? I have a back up of everything on my Time Capsule. I would like to delete my huge iPhoto folder on my Mac if I can make this work.

Several reasons not to..
When you delete the library on the MBP you also will cause TM to eventually delete it from the backup.
Anything stored on the TC.. is not backed up and there is no way to automate backup from the TC. Your entire library will be sitting there waiting for doomsday!! And make no mistake.. doomsday is coming. I feel like a prophet of doom this morning.
Also it is very easy to corrupt a library on a network drive.. due to the TC nature as a backup device.. you will get continual errors as it takes time to spin up and spin down again. When you start the computer the library will not be available.. and even half way through it is so easy to corrupt a project by sending it to a disk which suffers a wireless glitch.
Generally recommended method is a USB drive plugged into the MBP.. firewire or thunderbolt even better.
TM can still back up the library to TC.
I am not sure what else you can do.. ask in the iphoto section as there are more issues than you know.. and the problem is not just suitability of the TC but how iphoto works.

Apple TV loses Movie links on Time Capsule

I recent bough Apple TV and a Time Capsule. I have put all my films on the Time Capsule and link them in iTunes (files are on Time Capsule not on my Macbook). All works fine for a few days but them some files lose thier link in iTunes and therefore do not show on Apple TV, over a few days they all lose the link.
The only way I can relink them is to goto iTunes and for each movie file choose 'get info.' this then looks for the file on the Time Capsule and it works again.
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Initially I used AirPort Utility 5.6.1 to archive to the USB drive. However, when I switched TM back on, it wanted to do a full backup rather than incremental.
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So it looks like I was wrong on both counts.
I misunderstood AirPort Utility's archive feature. I failed to realise that archiving actually puts the sparse bundle in a separate folder called "Data Archive" on the new drive, so of course TM won't continue using that existing backup.
It would also seem that I was incorrect in thinking that Pondini's method didn't work. When I tried it again, I realised that TM was in fact continuing the backup. Initially it looks like it's going to do a big backup, but actually only backed up a few hundred megabytes, then everything was back to normal.
Incidentally, I've also found that if you do use AirPort Utility to archive the backup, you can effectively using Pondini's "How can I copy my TM backups to a different location?" by mounting the spare bundle in the "Data Archive" folder, then dragging Backups.backupdb to the root of the drive.
I just wanted to post this for completeness and in case it helps anyone in the future.

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