Save photos on my time capsule, not on my laptop.

I own a mcbook air. Since the harddrive is relatively small i want to use my timecapsule as a external harddrive. With pictures iphoto doesnot work then. so my question is. How can I configure iPhoto to see my time capsule as hard drive.
regards, degroapple

Terrence and Bob, use of an attached external hd makes sense over a networked hd, due to dropouts, and the editing we enjoy doing (creating albums, moving photos, enhancing, etc). But I've grown tired of continually having an external hd attached to my MBPro. We look at our photos quite often on the laptop but tire of moving from rom-to-room w/ the external hd. We feel that there should be a solution to be able to look at our photos separate of an attached external hd. And, admittedly we've not used our attached external hd as a true backup device, but instead as storage to hold all our photos since the laptop's internal hd is fairly small. So we actually have mo backuo for out photos at the moment.
Alternatives to having an external hd attached to the laptop:
We could buy a new laptop w/ a bigger internal hd, i suppose. Or, we could replace the internal hd w/ a larger one. Or, as many have suggested to me, we could move our photos to a networked external drive. The TC seemed to be the ideal solution to this method, but I read too many stories about TC reliability. But regardless of whether I use TC or another networked external drive, it is clear to me you don't support any use due to dropouts. I need to go back and ask these people why they so staunchly support the networked external hd if dropouts are such a danger.
Given our desire to untether from the attached external hd, what would you guys suggest I do for unattached photo storage? Obviously, I need to begin, in some manner, truly backing up whatever device I choose to store photos on.
Thanks so much guys. This decision has been weighing on me.

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How do i save photos directly to time capsule

I want to use time capsule as a hard drive primarily for photos and I am unsure how to do this. Thank you for any assistance.

Let's start over here, please. I'm sure that the Apple folks meant well, but I doubt that they really understood what you were asking.
The "originals" are on your Mac now, correct? And you want to move these "originals" to the Time Capsule, correct?
If you do this....your "originals" will be on the Time Capsule. When...not if...the Time Capsule has a problem, you have no backups for your photos and you lose everything.
For valuable data that you do not want to lose, you need at least 2 copies of everything. Originals are on one disk and backups are on another. When....not if....one disk has a problem, you at least have another copy of your valuable images.
We have seen numerous posts from users who are trying to do what you plan to do. All too often, we hear that there has been a problem with the drive...a loss of power...a mistake...any of a number of different things....and the user has lost all of their valuable data....because they had no backups.
I would never consider something like this for my images. Are you OK with having no backups? If yes, we can tell you how to move the images over.....if you will not hold us responsible for the consequences.

Why can I not view photos from my Time Capsule on Apple TV?

All of my media files are on my Time Capsule and I have no difficulty watching movies or listening to music through Apple TV. I am however, not able to view any photos from my Time Capsule in Apple TV. If I select a Time Capsule folder either part of my iTunes media files or not, I just receive a message on screen with Apple TV to say that it is loading from my library and this can message does not change, even after 24 hrs.
Having looked on the Apple support pages they tell me that I can do what I am trying to do, but for some reason I am only able to see photos in Apple TV that are in folders on my MacBook and not my Time Capsule.\
A solution would be extremely welcome?

If you are using Safari then you can't as Safari doesn't support the uploading of content, but there are a number of Facebook apps which you should be able to use to upload photos e.g. the 'official' Facebook app

How do I back up videos or photos to the time capsule outside of utilizing time machine as well?

I was told when I purchased the time capsule that I could use it for Time Machine purposes but also use it as personal storage of files. How do I back up my personal videos and photos to the time capsule outside of using the time machine as well?

If the MBP is already connecting to the network via the TC it is just being difficult. (It is incredibly difficult at the moment as apple have some built in bugs in Lion and ML).
Use finder and go, go to server. Type in the actual TC name. Thusly..
AFP://TCname
If the MBP still cannot find the TC.. reboot it.. it should then work.. it is like olden day electronics .. sometimes you need to give it a swift kick to get it going.
(Please do not actually physically kick anything.. I was being metaphorical!!)

Can i access my photos saved on time capsule using my pad via my home wifi?

Can i access my photos saved on time capsule using my pad via my home wifi? I would like to edit my pictures on my ipad instead of my mac mini and have them stored on my time capsule.

Sad that people steal stuff.. and..
Sorry but there is no way windows can recover a TM backup. You have to use another Mac.
TM is uniquely Mac.

Airport time capsule not found error message

HI,
My time capsule is blinking orange.
I open aiport, sometimes airport finds the TC, sometimes not.
When not, get message:
"airport time capsule not found"
When TC is found, aiport utitily shows an error with the extended network I am setting up. I press 'edit', the settings all seem good. Re-type passwords etc and update.
The problem remains.
I have updated the firmware. An apple shop near me has reset TC using the recessed button on back of TC, and then I have re-configured at home.
BTW, TC was working fine in my old house with same laptop, so prob not simply a basic user issue...
4 other devices on my wifi network all have reliable connection, visitors' phones and laptops too, so shouln't be a wifi netowrk issue, ie network outside TC.
Any thoughts out there?
HOpe so!
mana

yes, running airport 6.1, OS 10.7.5
OK.. I failed to ask enough questions.. I think your comment it all used to work threw me.
1. You are trying to extend wireless network of what router. This will only work with another Apple router.. the way apple built it is in the family only. So please spell out what is the primary router??
If you did have it working to extend the wireless of a non-apple router in your previous house I simply don't know how.. according to Apple it isn't possible. You can use WDS.. that is slow and reduces everything to G wireless.. that is the only way.
2. When you say in the first post..
4 other devices on my wifi network all have reliable connection, visitors' phones and laptops too, so shouln't be a wifi netowrk issue, ie network outside TC.
I presume if you turn off the TC, these devices still have wireless network because they are connected to the primary router.. not the TC.. again my bad reading.. I assumed they are connected to the TC.
So please spell out the whole network..
Broadband modem.. type, model, make.
Main router.. type model make
Any other network devices.
And how was it setup in your old place and how is it different now.

Can i access my old macbook pro's 'Time machine' saved on time capsule with a new laptop

How can i access my old macbook pro's 'Time machine' saved on time capsule with a new laptop.
Also why can i only EITHER have the capsule attched to the internet OR have it as my backup external hard drive?? Things are not running smoothly can someone please help?
Many thanks,
Cirsflan

Answered in your other thread.. keep to one. Just confusing running two threads with the same question.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4863146?tstart=0

How to monitor Time Capsules that backup multiple laptops?

Hello,
I have two 3Tb Time Capsules that backup 3 laptops each. Those laptops travel and are not always plugged into our network. I'd like to have a way to know if a laptop hasn't been backuped since n days.
Is there a way to do that?
Can Remote Desktop be of any help for that?
Thanks for your help!

You could write a script that looks at the directory in Time Capsule and see what the last updated file for each Mac's folder is.
If this is a business setup and you start to run out of Time Capsule space you may want to look at a NAS and moving Time Machine backups to that instead of Time Capsule.
You could then easily see the access logins for the backups as well as get encrypted backups, ability to recover if the backup drive fails, etc.

Time Capsule not found ... and yet I know exactly where it is.

I've installed ML on both my MBPro and my iMac, both recent models (late 2010 iMac; late 2011 MBPro). I use my Time Capsule as my WiFi hub as well. Since the upgrade, two things that I know of are not working properly: Time Capsule backups and Home Sharing in iTunes. I'll save the Home Sharing for another thread.
I frequently look up at the menu bar and see an exclamation point in the center of the Time Capsule backup indicator, and when I click on it, I get a message saying that the backup disc can't be found. This will happen throughout the day, and then, though I've done nothing, not even unplugging and re-plugging the router, it'll be back and ready for back up. When I select Back Up Now, it will, but it takes several minutes. The latest 10.8.1 update doesn't even address this.
Any insight from anyone? Does it have to do with 5ghz v.s 2.4ghz? Have my walls gotten thicker in my apartment? And, by the way, the network itself is fine - I never lose connection to the internet, and even when home sharing isn't working, I can still pick up other shared libraries.

I don't know how it got there, but dwarvenhut is correct—it's an extension that doesn't seem to do anything, and it uses a non-existent component (components/f8bd48d8.dll in my case).
To delete it from the extensions list, delete the folder in the Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\extensions directory; mine was called "{39fdc2ab-b323-a8a8-a497-763ced813cae}".

Restore from time capsule not working

Like many others I received this email last week:
Dear iMac owner,
Apple has determined that certain 1TB Seagate hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems may fail. These systems were sold between October 2009 and July 2011.
My imac is backed up every day to my time capsule. When they replaced my hard drive they suggested that since I was using time capsule that i do a complete restore and not copy info from my old hard drive since there was a problem with it. After doing a complete restore I find there are many applications that did not get restored, like iPhoto, Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Photoshop, and many others. I can see individual photos that are in iPhoto, just not the application. When I go into time machine I see none of these programs. Needless to say I am in near panic mode, having no idea how this could happen or how I can get them reinstalled. Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Gary in Oregon

You can erase & install the system again, and when finished migrate your data within the setup assistant from the backup volume. With this method the system files are installed fresh from disc and not transferred from the backup.

Time capsule not visible on network

I'm trying to troubleshoot this situation for a colleague.
Situation: macbook air, synchronized wirelessly via time capsule. The time capsule is connected to the fixed network also. This is on our corporate network (both fixed and wifi networks). Backups via time capsule were working fine until yesterday (I see the last backup listed as yesterday).
Yesterday itunes prompted him to update his iphone to OS 5. After the update, the photo's were not synchronized. Upon synchronizing the photo's, the wrong button was clicked (my mistake, oops), and now all photo's are gone in iphoto. Now we're trying to get them back from the time capsule.
The time capsule is not visible in the network, not wired, not wireless. Connecting the macbook air via the fixed or wireless network doesn't reveal it. Airport utility says it cannot find anything. The time capsule is connected to power and network and the green light is on. I tried powercycling it, but this didn't make it appear.
How can I resolve this?

Getting access to stuff in Time Machine is sometimes difficult.. it sounds like something has shredded the files..
Look at the info pondini gave to access the iphoto in particular.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/15.html
Upgrading to latest OS particularly Lion in the Mac or ios5 is having all sorts of nasty consequences..
The thing is, if you have photos in there that will need recovery.. you should not use Time Machine or copy files to the TC until you have restored them. In fact the disk may need to be removed to see if they have been deleted but I have no experience with this and others might be able to give more info.

Brand New Time Capsule Not Saving Applications

I have a brand new T2 Time Capsule that I set up less than one week ago. All the settings appear to be fine, however when I went to restore an email client application today from the Time Capsule, I could not find any applications. My application folder in the Time Capsule does not have any applications inside the folder. I checked my TC preferences, and there is nothing listed in the backup exceptions.
Please instruct me as to how to save my applications via the Time Capsule backup process and how to access and restore them to my MacBook.

This is not normal.. TM is supposed to backup everything on the computer except what you deliberately exclude.. there is nothing you have to do to make it backup your applications.
There was a bug however in Mountain Lion.. where certain things were not backed up.
Look at D10 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
As is often the case.. bugs are not fixed between versions rather they just carry on in different forms and new ones are added.. so far Mavericks has not been kind to TM.
My recommendation is that it is unreliable.. do not trust TM to make full complete backups.
Buy CCC or another backup software.

Time Capsule not visible in disk utility

i'm trying to create a disk image on my time capsule to so i can store some seperate media files and the time capsule is not available in the disk utility when its connected via the network. do I need to be connected through and ethernet cord for this to work?
Thanks.

When you click New Image, a setup box will appear.
Make sure that the little arrow in the top box next to Save As appears in the "up" position
Look for your Time Capsule under the SHARED heading in the Finder window on the left
Click the Time Capsule icon
Then double click on the Time Capsule folder to the right
Type a name in the Save As box at the top
Name the Disk Image
Select the size of image that you want
Keep the format of Mac OS Extended Journaled and single partition and read/write disk image
Click Create
It takes about an hour for a 25-30 GB disk image to be created, so do this using Ethernet. Allow 3-5 times longer if you do this using wireless
Some users find it easier to save the Disk Image to the desktop and then move it over the Time Capsule disk, but this takes longer.

Time Capsule not work with appletalk printers connected via ethernet?

I have seen no definitive answers to this problem posted here or on support forum. Some have suggested (but Apple refuses to confirm) that Time Capsule does not support AppleTalk devices (particularly printers) connected via Ethernet to Time Capsule. Even the "Genius Bar" guys can't tell you for sure, but this is what they suspect also.
I am a 25 year Macintosh user. I have conducted numerous experiments on this problem. What follows is my analysis and work around.
I have found no way to connect AppleTalk printers to Time Capsule by an Ethernet network connected to the back of the Time Capsule. It just doesn't work. Forget all the posts about what to try. Especially forget about resetting your printer settings. Waste of time. This leads me to conclude that those who suspect that Time Capsule does not support AppleTalk printers connected on an Ethernet network are absolutely correct. It is a hardware or software deficiency. I do not know why Apple won't just publish this in their technical specs. It would save us users a lot of time and frustration.
Now the work around. The only thing that I have found that will work is to set up an Airport Extreme to extend the wireless network created with the Time Capsule. Plug your ethernet network into the Airport Extreme, NOT into the Time Capsule. I presume (but have not tested) that this works with an Airport Express as well. I did this with my old Airport Extreme that I had left over after buying my new Time Capsule. Now the printers show up again and print fine.
Please let me know what your results are if you try this.

The problem is caused by an interaction between the Airport Extreme Update 2008-004 and the TC 7.3 firmware. I swapped out my TC for my AirPort Extreme (which sat on a shelf unused since I bought the TC). It has version 6.xx of the firmware. Immediately I could see my printer when I wirelessly connect with my MBPro and can print from it. I put the TC back and then did an Archive and Install of 7.5 on my MBPro. I did every software update except the Airport Extreme Update 2008-004. I could see my printer and print to it! After cloning my HD, I then applied the 2008-004 update to 7.5.5. That broke the wireless printing again! I tried TC firmware 7.3, 7.3.1, and 7.3.2 but not go. It is clear that my computer is trying to communicate with the printer (lots of flashing lights on my LAN switch) but no successful handshaking. I restored my hard drive from the clone and I now I can print again. Final word: if you want to print from a wireless computer connection to an AppleTalk printer connected to TC's LAN do not apply the 2008-004 update to your computer. Apple: please fix this problem.

Cannot stream photos stored in Time Capsule to ATV2. Why?

I cannot get the ATV2 to stream photos stored in the Time Capsule. I have all the obvious settings turned on in iTunes- home sharing, and the photos folder stored in Time Capsule selected, but for some reason the ATV2 get's stuck on the loading library screen. I am able to stream HD movies stored in Time Capsule to ATV2 with no problems but not photos. Can someone explain why or suggest a good way to view photos stored in TC to ATV2? Should I report this as a bug to Apple? Thnx.

Yes. As a test, I created a folder in Time Capsule and put just a hand full of photos in it. I redefined the path for photo sharing in iTunes to that folder, and voila! they show up on ATV2. But when I select the folder with a bit more photos then the ATV2 gets stuck on the loading page. Hmmm?

Save photos on my time capsule, not on my laptop.

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