Thoroughly fed up and wanting to start from scratch
I am now thoroughly fed up trying to sort out Time Machine / Time Capsule problems that I want to start again from scratch. Does anyone know of a set of instructions to completely wipe a Time Capsule and clean out Time Machine so I can start again.
I have to say this is a real achilles heel product. I've not had problems like this since the bad old days when I wrestled with a Power Computing tower and OS 6/7 trying to find a system conflict with extensions manager. If I wanted to spend hours/days wading through tech forums and system logs trying to debug my computer, I'd have bought a PC. I think Mr Jobs had it right when he announced that the next major iteration of Mac OS would be focused solely on improvements and making things more stable - clearly he knew more than he was letting on. What happened to intuitive, user-friendly computing than allowed you to focus on doing work.
Regards
You can reformat the hard disk in the Time Capsule.
Go to Airport Utility --> Manual Setup --> Disks --> Highlight "Time Capsule Disk" on the left --> Click "Erase" on the right.
Rename the disk and select the level secure erasure. You're done and ready to begin backing up again.
If you start running into error messages again fell free to let us know exactly what they say.
Cheers!
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