My time capsule disappear suddenly

my time capsule suddenly disappeared from the network, no green nor amber light in the front, but in the rear, the all the hardwire ports blinking a tiny little green light. it has no change even i try to restore to factory setting.
i just connect it wirelessly to my home network, no cable patched to it except the power cable. it was fine in the first few days, until it suddenly pass out

Do a full factory reset of the TC..
ie hold in reset whilst powering on.. and keep holding in reset until front LED flashes.. this will do nothing to the files.
It is easier to setup with ethernet.. sorry.. you don't have one on the air.. Apple sell a usb to ethernet fairly cheap. Or use another computer.
Use all SMB names.. that is, short, no spaces, pure alphanumeric.
eg
TC name TC
wireless name TC24ghz and TC5ghz (use different name for 5ghz to force it to stay still).
Hard drive name.. data
Use only WPA2 Personal wireless security..
Set to 5ghz if possible and you are close as it is much faster.

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I've just had the same experience, suddenly discovering that my Time Machine volume on my external hard disk had become a read only volume.
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I have a question regarding the use of VPNs and the availability of a network (ethernet) connected Time Capsule. I'm using a Time Capsule (3TB from early 2013) that is solely used for Time Machine backups. I have disabled all Time Capsule router settings, and instead rely on my Asus RT-N66U wireless router for all wireless and wired connections - I also have a 10/100/1000 switch for extra ethernet connections (Time Capsule is directly connected to the switch). My MacBook Pro currently uses wi-fi to connect to my local network - I have several network printers and a NAS, and everything works perfectly when I am not VPN'd into my company network.
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Routing is being messed up by the VPN or the DNS is not working properly.. either of which amount to the same thing.
Mount the TC in finder using its IP.
Go, Connect to server.
AFP://10.0.1.1 (or whatever IP you have). The complex bit is you are going to need dhcp reservation on the main router to stop the TC from bouncing around its IP address.
Set that in your Asus main router.. but test it immediately before worrying too much.. if you get it mounted in Finder by IP address.. you can also discover it in Airport utility by using its IP directly..
You simply need to manually control things.. type in the IP to help it out.
Also don't forget the ipv6 setup to link-local only on the wireless/ethernet on the computer..
Tell me how this goes.
Once you have the TC mounted in Finder.. have another go with TM.. if it still has issues.. change the name of the TC, make it short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. see if that helps.
BTW the windows method of fixing this would be simply edit the hosts file..
Looking it up there is a Mac equivalent.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-edit-the-mac-os-x-hosts-file-and-why-you-mig ht-want-to/
Of course it is essential that the TC does not change IP.. so fix that in the asus as I said and make sure if you shut down and restart the TC it does actually pick up the IP.. you can also try using static IP on the TC as an alternative to bridge this actually works well but is a little more involved to setup..
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Franz
PS: Please excuse my bad english.

Hi Jay,
1. start the Airport-Utility
2. click on „Manual Setup“
3. click on „Version“ („Overview“ Sreen –> third row)
4. choose the Firmware Version you want to install
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Although I am not an english native speaker I hope that the guidance is understandable.
Greetings from Cologne, Germany
Franz

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I'm running a Mac Mini with 10.7, Lion Server, and Server Admin Tools along with a Time Capsule 802.11n (1st Generation).
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Clicked on the add button ("+") and Added the information manually, set a shared secret, and let the Time Capsule restart, it shows up in the list, but when the list is refreshed, the Time Capsule no longer appears in the list.
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Hello, I am having the same exact problem. Have you figured out a solution?
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When I toggle wireless on and off, either via profile or Airport > Wireless, sometimes my base station disappears from the list of devices in Airport Utility:
Has anyone else seen this? My Time Capsule reappears after I close and reopen Airport Utility.

I may not be understanding what you mean but unless you have the TC connected via ethernet it will disappear when you turn airport off, it would come back up when you turn it on but it may take a few minutes.

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Time capsule disappears in Finder

For the past 4 years, I've had 2 Time Capsules setup up to use with my Macbook Pro. One Time Capsule was used as the router and for the Time Machine backups, the other was used exclusively for an external hard drive. Recently, the Time Capsule that served as the router/Time Machine crashed, and I replaced it with a current model Time Capsule.
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Thank you.

Do a clean new setup.
Do not use old settings at all.
Reset the TC to factory and start over in the airport utility setup.
Make sure the TC has a name like TCgen5
It should be short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Make sure wireless also has a name like TCwifi
Make sure the wireless and ethernet in the computer have ipv6 set to link-local.. this is now essential.
In Finder, manually mount the TC disk.
Go Connect to server from the top menu.
Type in, AFP://TCgen5.local (use your name plus the local domain which is local by default)
Or even better.
AFP://10.0.1.1 or whatever is the IP address of the TC. Since it is then not going to get lost by ARP tables and DNS problems.
This is only useful if the TC is router.. or you can set static IP in the main router to the TC.
Much of these problems have started from Mavericks. But there are plenty of issues between the 6121 motorola modem and the new TC as well.. you may find multiple issues here.

When I remove ethernet cable time capsule disappears again

setting up time capsule again as disappeared, if I disconnect ethernet cable it disappears again!!

If you use "Join a wireless network" then the ethernet ports of the TC are cut off.. that is standard apple setup.
Is that the setting you are using?
I strongly recommend you don't do that.. keep the ethernet from router to the WAN of the TC.. that is what the TC is designed to do. Join a wireless network is a hidden option and unsupported.
But I am still unclear on your intention..
Describe exactly what you want to achieve.
Or give some screen shots of the setup on the TC you are using.. and what you were hoping it would do.

Time Capsule disappears from network, but still routes. Forced to reboot.

My Time Capsule (approx 3 months old) operating properly for about 2 months, routing and Time Machine for 2 Macs.
Recently it has started disappearing from the network, Airport Util and Time Machine. After a reboot, everything will appear fine, but after a 5-15 days or so, it will just vanish again. It will still route network traffic just fine, but is not accessible.
7.5.1
WPA2 Personal
1 USB printer attached
Internet is standard sharing, no DHCP issues
TC disk is available and working
Only odd things:
I did play around with the workgroup on the TC a few times, as Windows comps were having major problems talking to eachother. No longer an issue (winpc's off network) and should not be related.
In the DHCP clients list, there are 2 IPs assigned to clients with the name of the Time Capsule. They both have MAC addresses too (huh?). All other machines connected to the network are accounted for already. I'm assuming this is some function of the TM backup process, as the TC is backing up 2 machines on that network.
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change the channel your network is using as far away as possible from those.

Time Capsule disappears from network

Hi,
I'm using a 2Tb Time Capsule (version 7.6.4), both for backing up my Mac mini and the iMac of my wife, as well as to create the LAN/WLAN at home. I never experienced any problems with it, until starting a few days ago the TC disappears from the network every now and then.
The funny thing is that the green LED is still on while the TC is 'gone', as well as internet access works without problems. After a couple of minutes the TC returns as if nothing would have happened. In case a scheduled backup is initiated while the TC is 'absent', I get an error message from the Time Machine, saying that it didn't find the backup disk. I restarted the TC once, but it didn't help.
Cheers
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I have reset each device several times.
Tonight I ran Airport Utility and left it on and the Airport TC alternately reports "Device Not Found" (Internet light is green, Airport light is orange) and then a minute or two later "Reading Settings on Airport" (with both lights green). It then reverts to Device not Found.
This TC has been working just fine for the last 8 or 9 months since I bought it.
Is there a utility of some sort that I could run to check the integrity of the hardware?

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Is there anything else to try, or do I assume it's broken?

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Time Capsule disappears after back up

Hi
I run and iMac 27 with the latest version of Lion on it and I have been having trouble with a new Time Capsule. My TC is connected to my wireless Belkin router via an Ethernet cable. After some initial set up problems (during which I upgraded the firmware on the TC to the latest version) I finally managed to get the IMac to see the TC and then commenced the first back up. This was scheduled to take a number of hours so after baby sitting it when there were no problems, I left it overnight, setting the screen to switch off but the machine to remain on. When I checked the next day the TC drive had disappeared. The only way I could get the TC to reappear was to reboot both router and TC, at which point I then restarted the back up which appeared to pick up from where it stopped (in terms of time to complete). Having to leave it overnight once more, I was disappointed to discover the same thing happened again. So rebooted again and recommenced the process. This time I managed to see it through to the end and was amazed to see the process complete and then the TC icon on the desk top disappear. Clicking on the TC icon on the toolbar and selecting back up now the system reported a message that the back up was delayed as it could not find the back up drive. All the time the router was connected to the Internet and the green light on the TC was solid.
I have had a look at a number of threads and can see a number of people having connection problems but nothing exactly like mine so I am hoping it is just a setting. Any help or ideas would be gratefully appreciated
regards
Keith

mfez wrote:
I did a restore,
If you mean you restored your entire system from your backups, that's why TM is doing a new full backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338 (although some of the TM engineers claim this doesn't happen anymore in Snow Leopard, it does -- I tried it).
My hard drive is 285.48 GB with 24.11 GB available. Not sure how big the TC is. The message says I need 300 something GB for the backup, but only 128 mb is available. Should I erase it and start over?
That means you have about 261 gb used on your internal; TM adds 20% for workspace and "padding" when making room, so that's why it needs over 300 gb.
TC's used to be 500 gb, recently only 1 tb and 2 tb models are available.
So if it's a 500 gb model, there isn't room for two full backups.
Do you have anything else on the TC besides TM backups? If so, then delete the sparse bundle via the Finder.
If not, you can just erase the TC:
Use the +*Airport Utility+* app, in your Applications/Utilities folder.
Select +*Base Station > Manual Set-Up+* from the Menubar, then Disks in the tool Bar, then Erase.

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I use a Time capsule with a variety of wireless and wired Macs and have continous problems with the wireless Macs using time machine.   A reboot of the Time Capsule will fix the issue for a few days but then it will disappear when Time Machine tries to connect,   The wired machines have no problem and can always get connection to the Time Capsule wen Time Machine wants to backup.
It appears to be an issue with the AFP server on the Time Capsule. When connecting to the Time Capsule using "Go To Server" from finder, the wireless machines can always connect using smb, but when Time Machine is not working they fail to connect using afp.
Has anyone else seen this behaviour. Given I can always connect using smb, it does appear to be some form of software issue on the Time Capsule. The
Time Capsule is running the latest version of firmware 7.6.1 and the Macs are 10.8.2.   The issue has been the same since 10.7.

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delay 2
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select row 2 in table 1 in scroll area 1
                              delay 1
                              click button "Manual Setup"
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end tell
delay 10
tell application "AirPort Utility 5.6" to quit
Anyone more familiar with Applescript, improvements welcome. The script does appear to have problem reliably performing the click on the menu. It appears to work some of the time!?
The along with a calendar event as will as a scheduled on/off using Energy Saver should allow for a regular reboot - giving the script works!

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