Time Capsule 3rd Gen no longer sees External USB drive

Airport Utility 7.6.4 installed and no other updates are specified as avaiable.
For a while the external drive with two 1T Mac formatted partitions cannot be seen by network nor appears in Disk section of Airport Utility.
Mavericks used and all fully up to date.
Connecting drive to iMac and MBP directly allows use of the drive fine.
I think the firmware has stopped the external drive from being recognised. Did have the "USB Power" amber light occur some time ago but selected to ignore. External drive is powered of course.
Any ideas?

A Gen3 TC the USB port is seriously underpowered.
A powered hub is the first essential item to get this working. The fact that your disk is powered is insufficient.. I think also because of the limited number of USB devices the airport utility can work with.. even some powered hubs are simply not recognised.
For a while the external drive with two 1T Mac formatted partitions cannot be seen by network nor appears in Disk section of Airport Utility.
Mavericks used and all fully up to date.
The disk must appear in airport utility.
From there getting disks mounted in Mavericks can add another level of pain.. but recognition comes first.
The latest firmware is more likely a step backwards than anything.. I would downgrade the firmware to 7.6.1. Factory reset. Use all SMB naming, ie short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.

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It depends on what you already have equipment wise..
Just bridge the TC..
I cannot walk you through it either if you use v6 airport utility.. due to my refusing to run Lion until it gets network issues sorted.
Download and run the real utility http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Go to manual setup..
Internet tab
Connection sharing.. select off bridge mode in the drop down box.
You can then if you like turn off wireless under airport wireless.. The TC is now a plain network client with hard disk.
Personally I would keep the wireless on but sort the channels manually if you already have a wireless AP or router.

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I want to add more capacity on hard drive of time capsule. Can i add a normal usb driver? I will see it as an external drive in the time capsule network? It will work as fast than time capsule? Thanks

Can i add a normal usb driver?
Yes, but be sure that the drive is formatted correctly for Mac in Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
I will see it as an external drive in the time capsule network?
The drive will appear as a shared network drive, like the Time Capsule.
It will work as fast than time capsule?
No, the drive will operate at about half or 50% of the speed of the Time Capsule.

Can a time capsule store a movie from an external hard drive then allow that movie to be played on an iPad on the network?

Can a time capsule store a movie from an external hard drive then allow that movie to be played on an iPad on the network?

I don't use ipad for this so i am just googling.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/media-player-playerxtreme/id456584471?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/oplayerhd-lite-best-free-video/id385896088?mt=8
http://www.freemake.com/blog/5-free-video-players-for-ipad/
Anything that will play from Samba network file store..
You will probably also need filebrowser loaded on the ipad to find the files.
Is the ipad necessary btw.. ?? If you only want to play the file to your TV you can buy a WD Live TV.. unlike the Apple TV it is a media player.. and can play files of almost any format direct from the TC.

After receiving "identical" Time Capsule 3rd gen replacement, my iMac no longer sees my HP LaserJet2420 that my previous Time Capsule enabled seeing

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A printer that is directly connected has to be recognised to be installed..
I guess the first thing to do is open system profiler and check that the USB is recognising the printer.. If so then the issue is purely drivers.. if not it is bad usb cable.. bad usb port.. bad printer. Plug it into the computer via a powered usb hub.
If the USB does see the printer but the drivers don't work.. I stand by the comment.. delete all printers and start again.. multiple printers can mess things up equally as well as old drivers.. especially if you did an upgrade install.
What a shame you didn't buy the network version.. in the future.. never buy usb.. always buy network printers. Any printer called a workgroup printer without network is a contradiction in terms.
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I use Time Capsule, 802.11n (3rd Gen) 7.6.1 (1Tb) as a wireless router and a network drive. I do not use Time Machine at all. How do I create a backup of the files housed on the Time Capsule to an external drive?
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erinblythe

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Then these drives can be mounted using finder and files copied between them as needed.
The main advantage of time-machine is - automation(like you mentioned) + to be able to go back in time - i.e. ability to restore files from a certain date/time. Multiple versions are available for restore.
Also in Mountain Lion - You can restore your mac from a time machine backup very easily - it is one of the options when you boot to the Recovery Partition (ditto when you boot ML from DVD/USB)
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I moved my FireWire attached HD from a direct attachment to my Mac Pro to attached via the USB port on my Time Capsule. Time Machine now wants to start over, and does not see the previous backups.
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SRJaynes wrote:
I moved my FireWire attached HD from a direct attachment to my Mac Pro to attached via the USB port on my Time Capsule.
unfortunately, it's not that simple. TM treats backups to directly attached drives differently vs. networked ones.
see this for more information and possible solutions: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/18.html
JGG

Apple TV 3rd Gen no longer sees Airport Express 1st gen in Airplay after update

Apple TV 3rd gen was connected to AirPort Express 1st gen via WiFi, drove a video device via HDMI
and sent audio to the AirPort using Airplay and selecting the AirPort Express under Speakers.
I could adjust the volume with the AppleTV remote.
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Check AirPlay is turned on on the Apple TV (turn it off and on if it already is)
Check that both devices are on the same network (Settings > Wifi, on the mobile device and Settings > General > Network, on the Apple TV).
Restart the Apple TV (Settings > General > Restart).
Restart the Apple TV by removing ALL the cables for 30 seconds.
Restart your router. (Also try removing it’s power cord for at least 30 seconds)
Restart your mobile device.
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I can connect to the internet via the modem but when I try to connect via the time capsule (both wired and wireless) AirPort Utility tells me 1) I have an internet connection problem: invalid IP address adn 2) I don't have DNS server address
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It sounds like you are using Lion with v6 utility.. and that is at least partly the cause of the trouble.
Download and install 5.6 if you use Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Now you need to decide which device will be the main router.. as there should be only one router in the network.. either the modem has a router.. most do now.. or the TC will be the router.. don't use two. Something has to be bridged.
So if you have cable modem.. pure modem that is excellent. TC will be the router.
If you have adsl it is generally also a router.. that can either be bridged or you can run the TC as pppoe client.
Tell me exactly what you have for broadband.. and if it is working as router or not.
Assuming it is working as router.. you need to bridge the TC.
Reset the TC to start.. we want to get a fresh go at this.
As stated.. in the 5.6 utility.. go to manual setup.. select the internet tab.
On the bottom of the page select connection sharing.
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Update the TC.
It is best to do this with ethernet.. direct to the TC.. you don't need any other connections to set it up.
But if you normally use wireless then setup wireless as well.. much easier when connected NOT by wireless to setup wireless. Otherwise it is like sawing off the branch you are sitting on.
I recommend wireless name.. short, pure alphanumeric with no spaces.
Separate name for 2.4 and go to the advanced wireless page and give a different name to 5ghz.
Lock channels to 1, 6, or 11 for 2.4 ghz .. 5ghz does not matter so much.
Set wpa2 personal security with passkey.. 8-12 characters pure alphanumeric.. no spaces.
Once selected and updated.. plug the TC into the main modem - router with ethernet.
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Unfortunately I won't be able to tell you too much about time machine. I don't use it. I use another utility to clone my internal HD once a day. I use Carbon Copy Cloner which is scheduled to do an "incremental backup" (only what's changed since the last sync) every day at 4 pm. You could do this same sort of thing via Time Machine. It's just a slightly different paradigm as far as back up strategies go. So it's sort of an either/or: Time Machine vs. CCC.
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That'll work as well, just not as convenient when you are on the go. You may want to pick one of these up as well. (not sure which plug you need, but there are a bunch of different ones on ebay).

Is my time capsule take the place of an external hard drive? I need to make space on my MacBook Pro.

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1) iTunes generates a file error with trying playing the video from iTunes,
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3) attempting to play the file from Finder generates an unrecognisable file error in QuickTime,
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Took me a long time to find a solution to this.
I came to make an archive of my Time Machine backup with a WD My Book 1TB drive connected to the USB Port on the TC. This WD drive has a large partition (MAC OS Extended Journaled) for the TC Archives and a smaller (FAT 32) partition for my Windows files (I have Vista running under VM Ware Fusion 3.1.1). I had done this twice last year with no problems and my Windows data still backs up using WD Backup Application to the Windows partition with no issues., however this time in Air Port Utility there was no USB disc available to archive to and when I looked in Finder only the Windows Partition was visible. I disconnected the WD drive from the TC and connected it to the iMac direct and both partitions were there but not when I connected it to the TC. Eventually I decided to downgrade the TC to firmware rev 7.4.1 and everything is now working fine.
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