Macbook to Time Capsule question

I have redirected my music folder to be on my time capsule, therefore freeing up space. My problem is at least once a week when I open itunes the fodler has reverted back to my macbook and i have to reconnect to the time capsule in order to find the files to play music or watch a movie. I also get a server interuption pop up and it asks to to ignore or continue. How can I get my macbook to always hold that connection????

Can I use Time Machine to back up my files on the networked time capsule to another external hardrive?
No, but ChronoSync can do this and I believe that Carbon Copy Cloner can now do this as well.
http://econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
http://www.bombich.com/

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Connecting Macbook with Time Capsule via Ethernet

Hello!
I have a time capsule and a macbook. I used to backup my data with the time capsule via ethernet. Now there was an update to airport I guess and since then the menue to configure the time capsule looks different and now I have trouble finding out how to set up the connection between macbook and time capsule via ethernet. I dont want the WLAN to be used so I want the ethernet be the connecting part of both esp because i want to backup lots of data now but Im missing the setting that said use use time capsule via ethernet. I just dont know how to set it up now.
I have the ethernet cable in the very left ethernet slot next to the reset button of the time capsule and its also plugged in to the ethernet slot on the macbook. But what are the settings for this connection.
Can someone help please otherwise i think my 23GB backup will take 3 days...
Thanks in advance
Dine

Open the network preferences and make sure the ethernet is getting an IP from the TC.. you do not need to change any settings .. all you need is network connection.. if the ethernet is working just turn off airport for the time the backup is going on. Once you turn off airport in the MBP the connection will be forced to ethernet. You can do it more correctly by rearranging the order of preference for network connection.. but for now.. just turn off airport.

Macbook/Time Capsule Question

Hello all,
So here is my dilemma. I have all of my iTunes media stored on my time capsule rather than my Macbook to help conserve space. The problem arrives when I loose my network connection. Often, (and seemingly for no reason at all) the connection between my MB and Time Capsule breaks, and I am forced to re-do (i.e. iTunes-Preferences-advanced-Change location) every time this happens. Is there a way to keep my connection constant, or adjust iTunes to do a similar thing? I'm thinking I may be able to do it with Automator or some other type of script edit.
Thanks!

Kapper,
You don;t need the TC drive icon to be on your desktop for a backup to successfully occur. A proper Time Machine backup will mount the TC hard disk (green drive icon with clock), then mount the Disk Image (white drive icon). Then when the backup is complete, Time Machine will eject (unmount) the disk image (white drive icon), and then eject (unmount) the TC hard disk (green dirve icon with clock).
It will NOT unmount the TC Hard disk (green drive icon with clock) if you already had the hard disk mounted on your desktop. But it should ALWAYS unmount the disk image (white drive icon). Otherwise you may begin experiencing backup failures the next time one is initiated.
So next time you arrive at the office, try initiating a backup WITHOUT mounting the TC hard disk. Time Machine is smart enough to know when the disk is available or not. If you get error messages when you try, let us know exactly what they say.
Also, make sure that, when you close your MacBook to sleep at the end of the day, you have ejected any drives you see on the desktop first. Doing so cleanly severs the connection. Not doing so leaves the Mac OS hanging wondering where they are next time you wake it from sleep. On the other hand, if you shut down each time, that accomplishes the same thing.
Hope this clarifies things.
Cheers!

MacBook Air + Time Capsule frequently dropping internet connection

I too have been having frequently dropped wireless connections between my MacBook Air (MBA) and my Time Capsule(TC). My TC is connected to a cable modem and I also have an Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) at a different part of my house which is used to extend my network connecting via ethernet to a PC running VISTA, and wirelessly to a printer and an older MacBook. I also connect wirelessly to my home network with two iPhones, a Squeezebox 3 with a server running on the PC. I have an Apple TV and a Squeezebox 2 connected to my TC via ethernet.
When my connection drops I will either see a Time Capsule disconnect message or if I am surfing the web, the browser just hangs. The wireless ICON strength is still pegged a the max level. None of my other devices (wireless or ethernet) connected to the TC or the other AEBS seem to drop their internet connections. I can re-establish the connection on my MBA by either turning off my MBA's Airport wireless and then turning it back on or by running the network diagnostics. The latter method usually shows green lights for all but the "Internet" and the "Server" which will have yellow lights. Usually when I select my wireless network and press continue, it will prompt for my WPA2 password which I have to reenter even though I always check the box for it to remember the password in the keychain.
After reading the various discussions on disconnect problems and trying the various "solutions" I was still having the disconnect problem.
Last night, I decided to turn off my Time Capsule and was then able to maintain an internet connection for considerably longer than before. Perhaps it was one of the other "solutions" that caused that. After turning my TC back on, the disconnect problem reoccurred within about 5 minutes.
Next, I did my too frequent Time Capsule remedy which was to disconnect the power and then reconnect the power. (Seems like some of these devices (APPLE TV included) could use power switches.) I then deleted the .sparsebundle backup file on the Time Capsule. I was then able to restart Time Capsule backup and things have been running uninterrupted for over 12 hours...still backing up (20GB in 12 hours? Doesn't seem very fast!). I can report back later if this actually "fixes" my disconnect problems in the future. I am dubious that it will.
I have several questions about the MBA and the TC/Time Machine backup operation.
1.) I often forget about the TC when I close the lid on my MBA and haul it off to work. At work (connecting via ethernet), I will eventually get a TC disconnect error. But I am wondering if there are points in the backup process where a random disconnect will cause some sort of TC corruption. What is the recommended way of handling this? Should I always stop the Time Machine backup before turning off my MBA? (A nuisance if so!)
2.) What is happening when the TC backup operation stops functioning and hangs up the MBA's internet connection? (I see lots of messages logged in the system log when this happens; but, of course, I don't have much of a clue of which ones are normal and which are not normal. I could send a copy of the logs when it happens next (I am assuming it will).
Also one other anecdote. A few months back, I had taken another AEBS to my work to use during a training conference. My MBA kept dropping its connection while the other PC laptops in the room maintained their connections...(very embarrassing!). Maybe one of the other "solutions" would have fixed the problem or maybe if I had just turned off my Time Machine backup it would not have disconnected. I will repeat that exercise when I get a chance now that I have some things to try.
It seems pretty clear to me from my own experiences and the discussion reports of others that the disconnect problem lies in the MBA's wireless internet connection software or the configuration of it. It seems like it is having difficulty recovering from various wireless connection "mishaps".

Folks, I was having a very similar problem for the last 6 months. My connection was fine until June 2008, after which my Macbook and my Time Capsule would constantly conflict. If I rebooted or reset the TC, or the MB, things would be fine for a few minutes or sometimes a few hours and the problem would recur soon thereafter. About a month ago, I had to do a clean reinstall and the problem vanished for about 5 days, after which it reappeared. My MB never had a problem at work, or at someone else's home or with other routers, only with TC. Apple sent me a new TC, then they replaced my Airport card but the situation did not change ... UNTIL ABOUT AN HOUR AGO.
An hour ago, I called Apple for the nth time in the last 6 months, and the rep heard me out (just like the previous n-1 reps). He then asked me to to System Preferences --> Accounts --> Login Items and asked if Real Player Downloader showed up in my list. Indeed it did. He asked me to remove it, and told me that Apple had just figured out that the Real Player downloader was recently found to be causing a drop in the connection between Macbooks and the TC (as well Airport Express).
The problem I've been having baffled everyone. All the previous reps, the guys at the Genius Bars, nobody had a clue. Joe (the rep I spoke with this morning) seemed very confident that the removal of the Real Player Downloader from the list of login items would resolve the problem. So far, so good. My connection seems solid (its only been an hour, but earlier it would drop after 5 minutes of use).
I hope my problem that (literally!) used up hundreds of hours of my time has been finally resolved. I hope this solution will work for at least some of you as well. What gives me hope is that this solution is logically consistent with the history of my problems. I probably first downloaded Real Player in June 2008. And when I did a clean install, I remember downloading Real Player a few days after the reinstall. So I'm pretty hopeful that my issue has been finally resolved.
Shame on Real Player for putting out a defective piece of software. And thank you Joe!

How to manage a MacBook Pro + Time Capsule + Apple TV combo?

Hi, everyone. I'm a new user to Mac techonology and I have a few doubts I'd like to clear before I acquire some new stuff and avoid a useless expense.
I just bought a 500 GB 15" MacBook Pro, and I've always used several external USB hard drives for backup (one HDD) and releasing space from my computer (two HDD). So you can imagine how much I have to juggle with since I'm an avid iTunes store customer for TV shows, movies and music, on a weekly basis. So, you can imagine also a 500GB internal HDD will fill up eventually with all the rest of the data I have.
I'm thinking about buying a 2TB Time Capsule to get rid of all the cables, countless copy/drags/syncs, and reduce the number of external HDD's. And I just got a new Apple TV as a birthday gift (don't have it yet with me) so I can enjoy all my media in the living room.
So, would Time Capsule be the best option? To backup my MacBook AND use it as a data storage external HDD for files that fill up the MacBook (movies and tv episodes)? Also, can both options be accessed remotely for sharing purposes and for Apple TV playing?
I hope I'm making myself clear enough. Does anyone have an accurate idea if what I'm trying to go for is possible? I'd hate to spend 500 bucks on a Time Capsule and not defeat my current "management" of data.
Please help.
Best regards,
Martin V.F.

martinvfraga wrote:
I'm a new user to Mac technology
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
So, would Time Capsule be the best option? To backup my MacBook AND use it as a data storage external HDD for files that fill up the MacBook (movies and tv episodes)?
You don't want to mix Time Machine backups and other types of files on the Time Capsule disk. By design Time Machine will eventually fill up the Time Capsule disk, making it hard to manage your other files. Instead, connect a USB disk drive to the Time Capsule and put those other files there. Size the Time Capsule disk strictly for Time Machine backups. Since Time Machine won't back up the files on that external Time Capsule drive, you'll have to arrange for that some other way.
Also, can both options be accessed remotely for sharing purposes and for Apple TV playing?
If you want to share the Time Machine backups, why?? If iTunes can find the files on the Time Capsule external drive, then the AppleTV should be able to access them.

MacBook AIR + Time Capsule + AppleTV

Hi everyone
These are my 3 Apple components (plus an ipod classic 80G)
My idea was to keep all my music and movies in the Time Capsule (in a music and pictures folder previously created) and only my pictures in the MacBook AIR, due to its limited space... I would then tell itunes to add media from the Time Capsule (or I would drag to itunes)
Everything seemed to work just fine for a few months, but lately I´m having quite some trouble
It happens that sometimes I open itunes and it doesn´t find some or all of my media, when everything was fine when I previously closed itunes
In preferences, I have the itunes music folder this way:
Macintosh HD:users:xxx:music:itunes (all though as I said before music and movies are in the TC)
The funny thing is that itunes can´t find the media (I get that sign to the left of the song´s name), but if I press play it does play it
It wouldn´t bother me so much if it did also sync my apple tv and ipod without problem, but I get problems everytime
Is ther a solution to this?
Thanks for your help and time

I don´t know what afp is, I will investigate on that, but it did work fine for a while and is working fine now (hope it lasts).... it got messed up with no reason a couple of weeks ago, I changed nothing, and it was a nightmare fixing everything because it takes forever to create a library with all this wifi going on, and then bucking up apple tv again, and go through that endless process about the "playing without pause"
I just couldn´t go through all that again
I´m really afraid this could happen again... Do you think mounting the TC using afp could be the solution?
Thank you very much

My macbook and time capsule all died within the week. I can't turn the power on. any idea? is there a reset button?

My time capsule is dead. When I plug it in, there is no power.
The macbook just died yesterday before I could get another backup & wifi. It won't turn the power on any more. Is there a reset/reboot button hidden somewhere? Or do I have to bring it in and try to get all my info back?
Thanks.

TC die at around 3years.. earlier models generally faster.. so most a dead already.
There is nothing you can do.. either repair or dispose of it. Apple will not assist unless it is less than 3years old and you have applecare on a computer.
Even then they will replace with a refurbished of the same model.
Some of us do not like the throw away model Apple has adopted.. but if it is Gen 1 or even Gen 2 it could be time for update.
https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modem s
Macbook
These are seldom worth the expense of repairing. Once they are over 3years.. the cost of parts is a significant percentage of the new items.. the hard drive can be pulled to recover your files. Ask a tech in a repair centre for help doing that.

Can I turn off Macbook while Time Capsule is archiving Time Machine backup to a USB drive?

My Time Capsule is archiving my Time Machine backup to a USB drive attached to it. I have initiated this process on my macbook (on the same lan with the Time Capsule), on which I am monitoring the archiving progress on the Airport Utility. Still almost a couple of days to go... Can I turn off my Macbook, or will that interrupt the process of archiving?

If LaPastenague is willing to do a "test", then we will all know more.
Opened my big mouth.
The archive is happening.. I turned off the computer it was setup from.. running Mavericks and latest utility once I got it started. I have been checking from v6 utility on Mountain Lion.. and it is excruciatingly slow. But is running.
I can check the progress but v6 utility is utterly and completely useless.. it continually shows the same numbers.
v5 utility does show it is crawling along.
v6
20min later..
Look, look, there is a tiny blue fleck in the progress bar!!
v5 utility shows the actual progress. Actually tells you total and amount backed up so far.
Amazing how advanced v5 utility is over v6.
The estimate of 10hours is probably correct at the present rate of progress. I suppose for 500GB, around 50GB/hr is about what we expect from TM backups etc.
I will post another picture in an hour and probably kill it then before I die of watching paint dry.

MacBook and Time Capsule Network Drops!

Hi All,
I Owned my MacBook for 1 year now it is running 10.5.4 and everything is up to date and recently I bought Time Capsule, Well ever since my mac drops the connection randomly every day, just out of the blue. It trys to reconnect but drops and fails multiple times until all of a sudden it work normally again. I don't understand it. I have a Motorola Router/Modem connected to my Time Capsule. I have Road Runner. I also have noticed a significant decrease in speed of the internet when connected to Time Capsule using my MacBook, eMac, iPhone, iPod touch, and other computers. It should have been faster supposedly 5x faster. Now im not discounting Apple, I think there is an issue with mine. Please any suggestions would help.
Thank You

Hello I had the same issue with TC then just to try things out I scanned for wireless networks around my home and I picked a channel on TC that no other network around had; in my case channel 9. Ever since, I have had no disconnects from TC and no other problems. hope this helps.

1 macbook, 2 time capsules, how to alternate backups?

Hi
I have a Macbook Pro that I use in 2 locations. I spend a week in one place then a week in the other, alternating. I have a Time Capsule in each but at the moment I am only backing up to one of the Time Capsules.
If I start to backup to the other Time Capsule will the Macbook do a complete backup from scratch and then maintain two separate sets of backup data, recognising each TC as I change disks each time I change location or will switching now mess up everything causing my earlier data to be forgotten?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

You can do this, but there are some considerations.
The first time you switch to a new drive it will do a complete backup. It will continue to backing up regularly to that drive.
When you switch back to the previous drive, the next backup there will include everything that changed from the last time you backed on the drive (the previous one).
So what you have in effect is a somewhat discontinuous set of backups. By that I mean that at each location you'll have the hourly backups of changes made at one location each week interspersed with a single weeks worth of changes in a single update from the other location.
It is possible to copy/transport the sparesbundle files that contain the backup between Time Capsules, but that more or less equates to hauling the TC or an equivalent drive back and forth.

IMac Time Capsule OK, Macbook Air Time Capsule Very Slow, both 10.9.5

I am struggling for more than a week trying to find an answer, but failed, hope someone can help me out
It seems after I upgraded to 10.9.5, a message on my Macbook appeared that I believe advised me to do a new full back-up on my Time Capsule. I did, it was slow, few MB after 1 hour or so, so I cancelled it. Whatever I tried, it remains a problem, I am now backing up 180GB to a 2TB Time Capsule, and it is at 53GB after 10 hours, now running at about 1GB/3 hours. My iMac, also on 10.9.5, connected to the very same Time Capsule on the same network runs smoothly, backing up 850GB in 8 hours or so.
What I have done so far, that did not help:
- Reformatted my Time Capsule completely,
- Run Disk Utility on Macbook, Repair Disk permission, Repair Disk.
- After Repair Disk Permissions it completes OK, but when I immediately run it again if finds the same problems, which it says have been corrected, see screenshot
- Disconnected my iMac from the network, sticked the very same network cable in my MacBook, ran Time Machine again, no difference
My set up:
1x Macbook Air, mid 2002, 250GB of which 70GB free space, 10.9.5, no anti-virus, clean-up apps etc
1x iMac, beginning 2009, 1TB of which 150GB free space, 10.9.5, no anti-virus, clean-up apps etc
1x Time Capsule 2TB, running latest firmware 7.6.4
All networked to the same network, no wireless connections
Prior to 10.9.5 I did not have this problem. I am pretty much lost. Anybody?

USB to ethernet has never been great.. although why it is worse with 10.9.5 is typical quality of apple upgrades these days.
7GB/hr sure aint fast.. it will go fairly slowly over the small files but should speed up on the larger ones.
I would take another step.. since you have come this far..
Check your wireless link speed. Depending on the age of the TC (yours in gen4) and the air.. you link speed should show 450mbps in the wifi on the mac.
Check it now..
Transmit rate should show 450.. you might need to setup close to the TC to get it.
But I achieve that by setting different names for the two bands.. TC24ghz and TC5ghz.
By default my mac will choose 2.4ghz .. because it is based on the best signal not the best speed. On 2.4ghz it can achieve 217Mbps max. Usually it will drop to 130. So by using a different name I can force the connection to the highest speed.
As you can probably tell.. IMHO using auto for everything is a great way to get things to work.. but how well they work is optimised by a committee.
Setting all the factors myself I set what I want and produce a racehorse instead of a camel.
(It is a typical joke.. camel is a horse designed by a committee!!).

Powerbook G4 OSX 10.5.8 Time Capsule Questions

I just purchased a a TC, and am excited to use it. I have a few questions:
I only have 16gb of my 120gb? hard drive left to use. Will the Time Capsule "mirror" my hard drive or can I "move" some of my large files (iTunes and iPhoto) over to the TC to free up space on my G4's hard drive?
I also have an Apple TV. Will this be a problem being connected too?
I am a little confused as to how to do this. My G4 is getting pretty sluggish, and I want to clean it up some. What program can use to help get rid of the old programs I have that are not using and trash them? Do I just drag them to the trash?
Thanks to anyone who can help me out. I'm saving up for a new MBP, but don't want to lose my very important iTunes and iPhoto stuff in the meantime!

jp6940 wrote:
I only have 16gb of my 120gb? hard drive left to use. Will the Time Capsule "mirror" my hard drive or can I "move" some of my large files (iTunes and iPhoto) over to the TC to free up space on my G4's hard drive?
If you use Time Capsule with Time Machine, almost all of your computer's disk drive contents (except what you exclude) will be backed up to the Time Capsule disk. If you don't use Time Machine, you can put whatever you want to on the Time Capsule disk.
You can also attach an external USB drive to your Time Capsule and move anything you want to that.
I also have an Apple TV. Will this be a problem being connected too?
No.
I am a little confused as to how to do this. My G4 is getting pretty sluggish, and I want to clean it up some. What program can use to help get rid of the old programs I have that are not using and trash them? Do I just drag them to the trash?
For the most part, dragging programs to the trash will eliminate all but "preference" files. To locate those, look in <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences.

Slow transfer from MacBook to time capsule.

Hi all,
I want to copy my iphoto library to my time capsule, I have only just set up my time capsule and it is connected to my wifi network and all seems to be functioning correctly. The iphoto library is about 70 gig and when I perform a simple copy and paste function in finder the finder window says that it will take 3 days to complete, this is obviously far slower than expected. I have tried it both with the tc plugged into my router (so just a wireless connection) and directly to my MacBook via ethernet so with the latter especially I would expect pretty quick data transfer. Am I correct in saying that I should just go directly from any of the ethernet ports on the tc to my mac and don't need to change any of the ethernet settings in the network preferences?
I suppose I want to know firstly why is the data transfer so slow and secondly what is the best and quickest way for me copy the iphoto library?
Thanks in advance

Would you recommend anything cheap ish that will do the job?
I am in Australia.. so the other side of the world.. and all our ISP allow or use exclusively PPPoE.. but I deal with many many UK users in forum in Australia, whirlpool.
Who is your ISP? Do they allow pppoe?? I have noticed a creeping acceptance that BT made a bad choice in using PPPoA exclusively in the early days of ADSL. which was followed like sheep in herd by the minor ISP.
If you can use pppoe.. then you bridge the modem.. not the TC.. and use the pppoe client in the TC.. which is really the only other connection method offered than ethernet and dhcp.
Even an old modem can be fine in bridge.. but netgear.. being the ratbags they are.. made bridging on their modems a total pain. Still there are at least 5 different versions of the DG834G.. with 3 completely different chipsets. So check by google quickly your version.. eg DG834G v3 bridge and see what comes up.
As for other brands.. TP-Link are very popular world wide now.. I guess you will have them in the UK. If you want a modem to bridge they are cheap and generally fine.
A much better brand is draytek.. they build one model, which is designed specifically for the UK .. it is single port bridged modem.. 120.. it is expensive.. but it does one neat trick.. pppoe to pppoa translation.. so you can use it bridged to your ISP.. and use the pppoe client in the TC without having it actually use pppoe. There are a handful of modems that use this trick.
A speedtouch / Thomson / Technicolor 536 is another favourite.. but I am pretty sure you will have to bridge the TC.
Should I still change all the details that you have mentioned anyway (network name and tc name)?
Yes, why not give it a go.. in bridge on the TC.. the name is more important.. it will appear to the Netgear with that illegal name.. just try and see. If it doesn't work it is no biggie. But I advise people generally do not use illegal networking names even if Apple thinks it is ok.. Apple is 10% of the network world.. you have just made yourself part of exclusive club.. which is fine if Apple built modems, ran exclusive ISP for apple users only and the internet.. but they don't. Microsoft tried that and fell on their faces. Why setup names that will be illegal to the rest of the world is beyond me. Why not tell people to stick to SMB compatible names and how important that is.. ?? How much pain Apple has caused people with network issues that stem directly from their illegal naming conventions. if you have to deal with the rest of the world.. which pardon me.. is everyone.
Also you have mentioned that you would normally advise bridging it in a different way, is the way that I have done it ok or does this also need changing?
Thanks
Yeah that is bridge the modem .. see above.

MacBook to Time Capsule gigabit connection

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I recently bought a 500GB Time Capsule to go on a mixed client home network and I have to say I love it. I tried a cheap alternative of a Belkin Network USB Hub first but that just didn't cut the mustard. The Time Capsule does everything I want. Having gotten to that point, I was happy for about a day, then I got to thinking...
Though my Netgear router only supports 100mbit/s wired, my MacBook supports 1000mbit/s and that connects to the Time Capsule which also supports 1000mbit/s. The MacBook connects to the router using the Time Capsule as a relay so if I'm just transferring files between the MacBook and the Time Capsule, surely I can take advantage of the gigabit connection between them, right?
I changed my cat5 cable for a cat6 one (I was looking for a cat5e but came across the cat6 one first, so what the heck). In System Profiler on the MacBook, I saw it was only showing 100mbit/s on the ethernet connection so I went into System Preferences -> Network -> Built-in Ethernet -> Advanced -> Ethernet and changed the default 100mbit/s to 1000baseT, full-duplex, flow-control, with a MTU of standard(1500) whatever the heck that is. I saved the settings, rebooted the MacBook and Time Machine (not straight away but eventually, you get where this is going) and tried my speed test again.
The test was to copy a 700MB Ubuntu iso file from the Time Capsule to the desktop. For comparison, I did the same test from the Time Capsule onto my (gasp) PC which only has 100mbps network card. On the PC, this transfer took around 4:45. On the MacBook (which I was hoping would be around 30-60 seconds) it took 4:30, the same as before I changed the ethernet settings to the gigabit option.
For reference, the MacBook is a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I had a look around the Time Capsule console to see if I could find anything about setting it to work at 1000mbit/s but couldn't see any options and so assume it handles that automatically.
Am I missing something blindingly obvious or do I just have crazy expectations?
Any help is gratefully received.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm fortunate enough to have an Apple store that just opened in my town a couple of weeks ago so I popped in there on my lunchbreak and had a chat with someone at the genius bar. The suggestion was a not too surprising 'disconnect everything else from the network' so it's just the MacBook connected to the Time Capsule with no other complicating factors and take it from there. This is something which should have (but didn't) occur to me last night.
On trying that suggestion this evening though, it's not quite that simple. I removed all the other connections and promptly couldn't connect to the Time Capsule. Not surprising really because my Netgear router (now not plugged in) is acting as the DHCP server. So I plugged the router back into the Time Capsule, tried again and the connection was restored. Unfortunately so was the transfer rate.
I assume that the Time Capsule has the capability of acting as the DHCP server on the network, but I'd rather not redesign the whole network architecture to find a way around this.
The thought occurred, if both the MacBook and the Time Capsule had static IP addresses, they'd connect to each other without the router being connected, wouldn't they? Well, it was a nice idea, but it didn't work. Even though I'd set the IP address of the Time Capsule and knew what it was, when I tried to ping it from the MacBook, it couldn't be found. I'm sure for the more network aware of you out there that would be blatantly obvious, but it seemed like a reasonable hypothesis to me.
It's beginning to look a lot like the cure is going to be a lot more painful than putting up with a slower network connection than I should have.

Crashed OS MacBook Lion Time Machine Question

I have an older back up of my MacBook in Time Machine on a external hardrive.
Is is possible to add to the backup in target mode? The computer will not boot right now, but I can get to the volumes via target. I can access the revovery HD when I hold down the option key starting up.
The MacBook has some sort of infixable sibling error, which is getting pregressivly worse. Additionally I've up graded to Lion since the Origional back up and partioned the drive, so it wouldn't really match the origional Time Machine back-up.

I really appreciate both your efforts but let me clarify a few things here before you continue posting incorrect information.
#1 - I have not done anything in the Finder that will hurt anything. Opening a folder in finder is like going to the terminal and running a "ls" command.
#2 - The reason for my original post is becaue this is def. a bug or undocumented feature. Time Machine backups should be backwards compatible.
There is no reason for me to open Time Machine and not be able to open an older backup done in Snow Leopard, UNLESS, it is an expected issue. If this is the expected behavior, the first time one connects the drive, the system should provide some type of warning.
Time Machine displays my older backup dates in Time Machine, but I can't select them to read, restore or anything. Then I went to the finder to open the connected USB drive to confirm if the files were there or not, as my hard drive space is still occupied.
You CAN manually copy files from a Time Machine backup drive. This causes NO ISSUES, unless you start messing with the files that Time Machine uses to organize the data being displayed on the app.
I am a systems engineer, web developer, and systems analyst. I work on multiple operating systems (Unix, Windows, Solaris, Linux all flavors, and Mac OS). I have been working with operating systems since the MS-DOS no-Windows era. There is a very slim chance that I will mess up any operating system, especially OS X.
So, let me re-phrase my question: Is OS X Lion Time Machine backwards compatible or can it not ready Snow Leopard Time Machine generated backup files?
Thank you for any well informed replies.

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