Switcheasy Capsule Rebel Case

I have been looking for a good case for my new 3GS and on the in net I keep seeing this Switcheasy case coming up. Does anyone have any personal experience with this case? It looks nice but I want to know if it provides good protection.
I have also heard about the Otterbox defender series but that looks really big and bulky.
Thank you in advance for your responses.

I have the rebel for my 3G. It’s a great case. Covers the phone really well and will protect it. Many users, including myself have experience the "saggy bottom" issue, where the bottom portion of the case sags exposing the bezel. This can be fixed via a google search, or you can contact Switcheasy customer support. I've heard they are very good about replacing cases with this issue as long as you provide pictures. I was going to try out the Neo but thought that a saggy bottom was better than a snapped off part of the case, so your call

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I have been using the Switcheasy Capsule Rebel for some time now, and absolutely love it. I bought 2 when I had the 3G, but only used 1. So I'm using the unused one for my 3GS now and can't love it more. I ended up selling the 3G, and the buyer was extremely happy with the condition of my 3G. It was practically kept in as new condition. Strongly recommend Switcheasy products!!

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I tried Pondini's tip from here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018#18
"18. How can I copy my TM backups to a different location?"
"To copy LOCAL BACKUPS to be used on a NETWORK:
SNOW LEOPARD: First, configure Time Machine to back up to the network location, and start a backup. As soon as the sparse bundle is created, cancel the backup. Then, if possible, connect the new drive directly to your Mac. Use the Finder to mount the new sparse bundle, and delete the Backups.backupdb folder inside it. Then drag the Backups.backupdb folder from the old volume to the new sparse bundle."
My problem comes when I get to this point. I get an error message...
"the volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup".
..and it won't let me drag the Backups.backupdb folder.
The source is a Western Digital usb MyBook originally set up under Leopard but now being used under Snow Leopard. The target is a new Time Capsule.
Thanks for any help you can offer.

Bob Mayo wrote:
Given this sudden issue, can the Time Machine backup on the MyBook drive be saved -- and is it still a reliable to use as the base for future backups on the Time Capsule?
I wouldn't waste any more time on it; I'd recommend putting it "on the shelf," in case you find you need something from it, and let Time Machine start fresh on the TC.
You can always access the old backups, via the +*Browse Other Time Machine Disks+* option, per #17 in the FAQ Tip.
By the way, I've been working on the copy procedure. Here's a draft of the new version of the part you'd use, if you decide to:
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_*3. To copy LOCAL BACKUPS to be used on a NETWORK_*
*SNOW LEOPARD only; you cannot convert Local Backups to Network on Leopard.*
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If you're copying to a Time Capsule, configure your Time Capsule for your network. (See the documentation that came with your Time Capsule for information about setting it up on your network.)
If you're copying to a USB drive to be connected to a Time Capsule, Airport Extreme, or other Mac, connect it directly to your Mac and format it with either the GUID or APM *Partition Map Scheme,* and either +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ or +Mac OS Extended Case-sensitive, journaled)+ Format. See item #5 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* if you need detailed instructions.
a. Configure Time Machine to back up to the network location, and start a backup.
b. As soon as the +sparse bundle+ is created, cancel the backup (that may take a few moments).
c. If possible, connect the new drive directly to your Mac (or a Time Capsule via Ethernet).
d. Use the Finder to mount the new sparse bundle.
e. Double-click it to mount the +Time Machine Backups+ partition inside it.
f. Click the +Time Machine Backups+ partition to open it, and delete the Backups.backupdb folder inside it.
g. If the old backups are case-ignorant (per the yellow box above), you must change the new sparse bundle to be case-ignorant, too:
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1. Select the +Time Machine Backups+ partition in Disk Utility's sidebar and click Erase.
2. Select the +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ Format, and click the Erase button. That may take a few moments (to unmount, erase, and mount the partition again).
3. Via the Finder, do a +Get Info+ on the +Time Machine Backups+ partition.
4. Click the padlock at the lower right and enter your Admin password at the prompt.
5. Remove the check from the +Ignore ownership on this volume+ box and close the window.
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h. Via the Finder, drag the Backups.backupdb folder from the old volume to the new +Time Machine Backups+ partition. Enter your Admin password when prompted. After a few moments, you may also get a prompt saying that you'll need to enter it again later: click Continue.

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Ok, so. If you want a REALLY strong case, look at http://otterbox.com. They're Commuter Series case is the slimmest. I have the black and white one. They are around $25 on Amazon.
Another case that I have seen great reviews on is the Switcheasy Capsule Rebel. I guess it is slimmer than the Commuter series and is around $27. Oh, and by the way. The Otterbox cases come with a free screen protector.And the Rebel comes with 2 screen protecters, a video stand, and more. Hope this helps!

Which Iskin Belt clip for SwitchEasy CapsuleRebel

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I just got an Iphone 3g this past weekend and Im looking at cases. I think I am going to go with the SwitchEasy Capsule Rebel. I read that one of the Iskin Clips fits it nicely. Could someone tell me which one? The one for the Revo or the one for the Solo? I dont want to get the wrong one. Thank you
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The iSkin revoClip (not the one for the iSkin Solo) fits the SwitchEasy Rebel and Neo. Unfortunately, Switcheasy never made a version of their visionClip for their 3G cases.
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I want to make a copy of my Time Capsule backups

Good day.
I have 2 directors with Macbook Pro's. They both back up via Time Machine to a Time Capsule.
Basically they wanted me to in a sense 'archive' a backup from time to time of the Time Capsule...the reason for this:
1. The time capsule automatically deletes old information when the drive gets full
2. They want a 'monthly' backup of the backups on the Time Capsule in case the capsule crashes tomorrow and one of the MAC the next day, they want to be able to get another capsule, copy the archive back and restore from it.
I know this seems very improbable but I am in South Africa and with the power / electricity issues we have here, I have seen my fair share of the weird and simply "whats the changes" scenarois to understand their concern.
All the posts I've come across all explain how to MOVE the time machine backups to a new destination - to create a new time capsule or time machine backup to a larger drive, etc etc. All I want to do is simply copy whatever is on the time capsule to another drive, but keep using the time capsule as per normal..kind of like a simple file copied backup of whatever is on the capsule.
Let me know if this is possible? My best guess would be to follow the process of changing the backup as per the posts I have come across to point to a new drive...let it copy, and then point the backup back to the original time capsule again.
My only fear is that its going to them do the copy process twice...which when 1Tb could be laboursome to say the least...especially to and from a time capsule on a 10/100 network!
Thanks!

My best guess would be to follow the process of changing the backup as per the posts I have come across to point to a new drive...let it copy, and then point the backup back to the original time capsule again.
My only fear is that its going to them do the copy process twice...which when 1Tb could be laboursome to say the least...especially to and from a time capsule on a 10/100 network!
Thanks!
Mountain Lion allows TM to backup to two different locations.. You can use the TC and a USB disk plugged into the TC.
It can then swap itself around or you can physically move disks around when you want to retain data.
Your guess.. of using the copy the backup to another location will also work.
Let me suggest it is no bad idea to backup.. a disk image with a different utility.. superduper does disk images only for free.. and you can do it from disk utility itself. A disk image can be far easier to recover from then TM which can be several hours and even then lots of stuff seems to need manual moving around.

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I would like to get a wireless update solution (to work with time machine) and I am considering the following options:
1. Time Capsule 1TB
2. Time Capsule 500GB + USB external hard drive attached to the time capsule (in case I need more storage than the 500GB on the Time Capsule)
3. Airport Extreme Base Station + USB external hard drive attached (to use with Time Machine)
I am wondering what the opinions are in this forum. What is cheaper? More reliable? Better?
Any other suggestions? Thanks!
I am running Mac OS X 10.5.5 on an iMac

Yeah, I've seen your explaination that those are glasses before. But I can see why some might be confused. (First laugh of the day!)
No I hadn't tried that yet because my 2 external HDs are Firewire. But it just so happens that I picked up a USB WD500Gig yesterday and am starting an initial TM backup to it now via USB - after having reformatted it of course.
I am assuming, though, that as soon as I move it from my MB Pro to the TC that the TM backups will be broken and I'll have to start a new set of backups to create the disk image (sparsebundle). However, it will give me an opportunity to see if backups created locally (USB) can be viewed via "Browse Other TM Disks" when they are connected to a TC.
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Hi - we are a small UK charity. We have 6 macs all backed up to a 2TB Time Capsule located in the office.
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TC can be archived to a USB drive.. you might not be able to access it from the toyland airport utility in Mountain Lion though.. do any of the computers still use Lion or even better Snow Leopard??
Download and install the 5.6 utility.
You need a disk with at least the size of all the files used..
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Hi, hoping that someone will be able to talk me through this process.
I currently have a Netopia wireless modem which provides our internet connection and the wireless set up for the house. Using the wireless system is are 2 iMac's,macbook pro,a windows PC,wireless printer,playstation,Wii, nintendo DS's and iphone and itouch.
I have bought a time capsule to back up photos,itunes etc.
I do not have any great understanding of how everything works so I am reluctant to go ahead and set up the Time Capsule in case I mess up the way things are currently running because I would not have the knowledge to solve it.
So from the research I have done, I think that given that the Netopia Router is currently not strong enough to reach all areas of the house ,my best bet is to use the time capsule as the router and let the netopia just be the modem?
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Last night we installed a 2TB TC in place of a Netgear WNR2000 router linked to Virgin Media modem.
We have 2 Imacs, a Macbook, and two PC laptops, iPhones, games console etc.
The TC was simply swapped with the WNR2000, then when the TC was installed a new network password was set, we backed up our Imacs which took hours and now we have our HDs backed up on the TC, Airport & ethernet working fine at this time. My son did all of this and to be honest it seemed very quick.
The longest part is the initial backup of our hard drives to the TC which started off as being painfully slow, but after some Google research we stopped Spotlight from indexing the TC and everything accelerated 10x. I hope this is useful and will encourage you to make the change.
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I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 on an iMac and recently added Time Capsule a couple months ago. Everything had been running VERY smoothly on my iMac for over a year. About a week ago I noticed that I was getting a lot of unresponsiveness / delays and the "spinning wheel." At one point, my Parallels desktop started getting unresponsive and then the entire system. I was not able to shut down no matter what I did - Force Quitting applications etc. - first time that's ever happened. Used the only option available to me at that point - powered down then back up. When I powered back up, my application menu - which is usually docked at the bottom - disappeared. Went into system preferences, made sure the right options were selected - no luck. The only way I could run an application was to do a "Go" in Finder.
Did some online research and information seemed to be pointing to a corrupted "Preferences" folder in Library. Aha! First chance to use Time Machine to save the day.
Went into Time Machine, selected the Preferences folder from about 9 days ago and then selected Restore. It said that it was preparing to copy 6,955 items but before it apparently started copying, I received the pop-up error:
You can't copy "Preferences" because it has the same name as another item on the destination volume, and that volume doesn't distinguish between upper- and lowercase letters in filenames.
Went into the Disk Utility and sure enough, Time Capsule is case sensitive, journaled; my HD is just journaled (so apparently case insensitive.)
If the data came from my HD in the first place and that is where it is going back - I can't imagine that this is a real problem... and nevertheless I am stuck with a system limping along and no apparent way to do a restore of Preferences - which is the whole reason I acquired Time Capsule. Any suggestions?

You are amazing! Thank you VERY much!!!
As you suggested, I went into list view. Out of the roughly 7,000 items in the folder, I successfully copied everything in the ~/Library/Preferences folder from 9 days ago with just a few exceptions:
1. It would not let me copy the "ByHost" folder - said I had no permission.
2. I didn't copy the Parallels preferences since I uninstalled the application anyway.
3. There were two very suspect files. They both started with the prefix ".chc" followed by about 30 digits. One file ended in ".1" and the other file ended in ".1.plist" I did not even try to copy either of those. Reading some other background stuff, I wonder if the case sensitive problem had something to do with not ejecting a device properly like a camera card or something like that. In any case, it became part of the backup and is PROBABLY the item(s) that prevented me from doing the restore.
I don't know what trashed my Preferences folder in the first place other than I installed an auto-downloaded Parallels update about the same time the problems started... and then the hard power-off which I hate to do.
Needless to say, when I rebooted my iMac, EVERYTHING came up properly including the app bar, startup applications, Mac Outlook etc. All the application preferences look fine.
Thanks again and I hope someone else can learn from this thread too!
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Thank you for your attention.

You might find this article interesting:
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Hello, I have two questions on time capsule I can only have it on my external hd files and free up my internal memory to my mac I can use an external hard drive, in my case a lacie rugged as shared memory for my two computers

Hello, I have two questions on time capsule I can only have it on my external hd files and free up my internal memory to my mac I can use an external hard drive, in my case a lacie rugged as shared memory for my two computers

I have a mackbook pro and an iMac if I buy a time capsule 2tb airport, I can use it with time machine and what would be the best way to use it.
There is no particular setup required for TM.. both computers will create their own backup sparsebundle which is like a virtual disk.. Pondini explains the whole thing if you read the reference I gave you.
and how to use time capsule airport whit other external hd to use my old lacie airport with the new time capsule
Up to you.. you can plug the external drive into the TC and enjoy really slow file transfers or you can plug it into your computer and use it as external drive.. which is faster than the TC.. and TM can include it in the backup.
Again everything is explained in the reference.. you are not reading it.

S.O.S. - The case of the missing TIme Capsule icon

I am trying to connect my MacBook Pro to a local network.
Our Macbook Air, iPad and three iPhones all have WiFi. No problem.
My Macbook Pro has solid black radiating bars in the main menu. In Airport Utility, it shows the "Internet Globe" with a green circle below. Below that, however all I get is a spinning wheel. At the same time, the Macbook Air shows the icon of the time capsule with a green circle below.
Is there a setting I am missing? Some said to turn off Mac Access, but I do not know where to do that. In System Preferences, Wi-Fi is green, and it says WiFi is connected.
I ran all of the maintenance (rebuilt Directory, optimized the drive, weekly/monthly scripts, etc) All of the hardware checks out.
Has anyone had this happen? Help would be greatly appreciated.
Paul Kirtley

This is typical Yosemite.. please confirm OS on Pro and Air.. Yosemite, has the network ability of a pair of tin cans with wet string. (that dried and snapped).
The odd thing of course is the MBP is on the internet.. but perhaps just too stupid to figure out the local network.
So here is the first few things to try.
1. Factory reset the TC.. sounds odd when it is working already .. but please do the setup with the computer that is having the most trouble.
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
2. After a reset it should suddenly show up as new device.. please run the setup utility from the pro.
Use short names, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. eg TCgenx and TCwifi. Base station and wireless names respectively.
3. Use WPA2 Personal security only. Use pure alphanumeric mixed case and numbers password.
4. If you have issues plug in by ethernet.
5. Set ipv6 in network preference for wireless and if used, ethernet. to link-local only.
Tell me how this goes.. if it works in the pro you can then pick it up in the Air etc.

Hi, I have an issue with my Aperture, I recently had a Samsung HD with 225 gb Aperture library fail. As per the instructions I moved the library to a new hard drive, in this case a 2tb Time Capsule. Now Aperture opens but no pictures

Hi, I had a Samsung 1tb hard drive fail with a 225gb Aperture library on it, as per onscreen instructions I transferred the library to another hard drive in this case a 2tb Time Capsule. Now when I open the Aperture library I see the file structure and the white outline of the photos but no photos. When I try to export photo I get a pop up saying, 'selected master version offline'. The metadata is showing the photo details and size but no pic, and the aperture library is still showing it as 225gb
If anyone has any suggestions or a way of finding the master files I would deeply appreciate it.
Many thanks

When a drive reports failed the data on that drive should be suspected to be corrupt. Initially one should assume any copies made of data after the drive starts reporting failing will also be corrupt.
After a drive reports failure:
When a drive reports to be failing our first concern should be the integrity of the existing backup of the data on that drive. It is easy to manage to corrupt the backup data during efforts to retrieve the failing-drive data.
Step one should be to back up the back up of the failed drive. The known-good backups should be carefully quarantined from the likely-corrupt data.
Step two (which should only happen after step one is complete and verified) is to make post-drive-failure copies of data from the failing HDD and make efforts to verify the accuracy of the data copied from the failed drive.
Before a drive reports failure:
Originals from the camera card should be separately backed up prior to import into Aperture or any other images management application. Always.
HTH
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