Time capsule appeared on Finder on both "shared" and "device". now i can't see it on devices

time capsule appeared on Finder on both "shared" and "device".now i can't see it on devices

It will only appear in devices if you mount the drive. This should happen automatically when Time Machine starts.. but you can manually mount the share by just clicking it.

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Hi, hmmmm i haven't used i tunes in a while and previously i was able to access my music in iCloud, but now i can't seem to find it at all, and from what i can't see you have to purchase an account with match to do so? is this correct?

i dont want to have to purchase and imatch account, is there a nother way of accessing my icloud music?

Purchases you have made from the iTunes Store should in most cases be in the Cloud (unless the rights owner has had it removed or you are in a country which does not permit this). Other music such as CDs you have ripped are only there if you subscribe to iTunes Match.
Downloading (using iOS or computer) past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519 - enabled with iTunes 10.3 and newer; not all media formats are available in all countries (see: iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, and iTunes Radio availability by country - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5085); apps, books (not audiobooks), music, t.v. shows, and movies (some - not all studios have permitted this). Downloading previously purchased movies and TV shows requires iTunes 10.6 or later. Discontinued items not available. For items not included in the iCloud list (e.g., ringtones, audiobooks), or locations or computer systems where iCloud is not (yet?) available, you only get one download per fee paid. Apple recommends, "You always back up your iTunes library in the event that a purchased item is no longer available on the iTunes Store," (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519).

Time Capsule appears twice in Airport drop down menu

Menu Bar > Airport drop-down menu: My Time Capsule's wireless name shows up twice in my list of wifi sources. Once in the group with all the other routers and again in a group called "Devices".
Long story short…
I start with a perfectly functional, WPA/WPA2 password-protected Time Capsule: Over a year old. Two MbP's using it for Time Machine backup. Connected to a 1.5TB MyBook external HD via usb. Doubles as my wifi router. Everything's connected to it, including my wifi-enabled printer. Works great. No issues.
I get this idea in my head that I need to hide my wifi signal. I figure it out and ¡Viola! Hidden. Then I try to add my wifi-enabled printer to the list of allowed devices in "Access Control". I hit a big snag and can't figure out how to get it to connect (btw, don't buy a Brother printer. Pure crap). So, I give up and revert permissions back to visible, password-protected state.
Skipping irrelevant issues that I already resolved, I now have the wireless name of my Time Capsule appearing twice in the airport drop down menu. It appears with all the other wifi sources my machine detects AND appears at the bottom under a new category called "Devices".
All I want is to have things back the way they were and this anomaly in the drop down menu is a constant reminder that I #1 failed and #2 bought a crap printer.
(Long story long, I guess. Sorry.) How do I delete this "Devices" group from the airport drop down menu?

Stilts McCoy wrote:
Menu Bar > Airport drop-down menu: My Time Capsule's wireless name shows up twice in my list of wifi sources. Once in the group with all the other routers and again in a group called "Devices".
You might find useful advice in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12156248
If you want to post a reply, please do so to this thread, not the other one.

Why doesn't time capsule appear in airport utility?

I have the 3TB time capsule just bought last year. It has been working perfectly fine for all of this time when suddenly my internet connection was slowed to a snails pace. I reset the modem, the time capsule, etc. and nothing worked. I called comcast and the guy says the modem is out of sync and he reset it and everything was perfect. Later that day, it slowed again. When I called Comcast he said everything is good from the cable side it must be the router (in this case the time capsule). I opened the airport utility and I was connected to wifi but the time capsule doesnt appear. It says it cant find any base stations.
I googled the web and tried many things including hard reset, updating IPv6 to link-local only, etc. When I am connected hard wire to the modem it works fine but as soon as i disconnect and go wireless it no longer can find the base station. The wireless network and speed work fine I just cant connect to the base station for time machine backups, access my drive etc.
HELP!

Do a full factory reset.. this is different to hard reset and is recommended when you run into issues.
Mountain Lion does have a bug with the TC in lossing it. The latest firmware was supposed to fix the problem but I doubt it is working.. ie 7.6.4 ..
I would do the following.
1. Take the firmware back to 7.6.1
You simply hold the option key whilst clicking the number of the version in the airport utility. Select the firmware you want.. and it will do the downgrade.
2. Factory reset.
The Factory Reset Gen1-4.
Unplug your TC. Hold in reset. and power the TC back on.. without releasing reset for about 10sec. When the status light flashes rapidly; release it.
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations.
No files are deleted on the hard disk.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
3. Redo the setup with a completely clean set of names.. which are SMB standard.. ie short, 2-20 characters, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Set wireless 5ghz to a different name.
Set security to WPA2 personal with 8-20 character pure alphanumeric password.
Set wireless channels manually .. use 11, 6, 1 for 2.4ghz try each in turn in that order.
Use around 40 and around 150 for 5ghz.
4. Test with ethernet.. wireless is never a great test. You never know if the issue is somewhere else. Ethernet is more reliable.

Time Capsule Appears as PC

I have a network with two Macs, a PC, a bunch of iPod Touch and iPhone devices, a wireless HP printer, and a Time Capsule on it.
The Time Capsule appears fine as a Time Capsule in the Finder side bar, however, it does on occasion, as it is now, appears also as a PC named "time-capsule". The Time Capsule's name is just "Time Capsule". I can access the HDD just fine through the "time-capsule".
It's not really anything major or bad, it's just a rather annoying problem that I personally don't think I should be having with an Apple product.
Anybody know why it appears like this, or how to fix it?

Have some of the laptops changed to Lion? I think there is an issue with Lion and the TC. But it could affect the TC and all the computers.
Not sure what else could affect it but I suspect the issue could just be age. Since it is a fairly vital piece of hardware to your business, do you have other backup strategies in place? Perhaps it would be worth taking the TC into apple genius and see if they can figure out the issue, although it seems to not be immediate which makes it hard to discover. You should have apple care on it with all those laptops.. i hope.

Having trouble with time capsule, won't find backups

having trouble with time capsule, won't find backups

Usually a simple reboot will work.. Reboot the TC..
If that is not enough.. Restart the whole network from off.
Mountain Lion and to a lesser extent Lion.. have network issues and lose track of the TC.

Time capsule appears twice on time machine

Hi, since a few days my time machine keeps getting confused because time capsule appears twice. It is the same time capsule and the same backup data but occasionally time machine postpones the backup because it can not connect to the disk. When I hover my pointer over these two icons I see the addresses: The top one appears as afp://xxxx-xxxxx-Time-Capsule.local/Data whine the bottom one (with the wifi icon) appears as afp://xxxx%20;AUTH=SPRxxx%20xxxx%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data. Time machine behavior is erratic, sometimes it refuses to connect to the second instance while in other times it does. And this happens also with another Mac backing up on the same time capsule. Any ideas?

Yes please relocate to 10.9 I did not pay attention to the OS version. Now I am using an Apple Time capsule over my home network as I am backing two Macs in it and it has been working flawlessly for almost two years. Having said that it is now working fine switching from one to the other instance (no clue of what drives the selection, I made these two screen captures at a few seconds interval as I was writing this post)
As you can see the "available" disks has changed.
I went back to Time Machine Buddy and pulled up one of the failure reports:
couldn't determine volume-uuid of mount point: /Volumes/Data-1, error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file “Data-1” doesn’t exist." UserInfo=0x7fdd42714030 {NSURL=file:///Volumes/Data-1, NSFilePath=/Volumes/Data-1}
Failed to get UUID for destination: /Volumes/Data-1
[SnapshotUtilities volumeRefForPath:] FSPathMakeRef failed and returned OSStatus: -43 for path /Volumes/Data-1
Backup failed because the network destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly!
Backup failed with error 26: The connection to the server was interrupted.

I was just wondering if I can use time capsule with my iphone for both back up and to access the hard drive on the capsule?

I was just wondering if I can use time capsule with my iphone for both back up and to access the hard drive on the capsule?

I don't think backup is supported but you may be able to access the TC's internal drive, from the iPhone, with an application like: NetPortal
Note: I haven't actually tried this app, so if someone else has and was successful in accessing the TC's drive they can certainly chime in.
Follow-up. Just downloaded and installed this app ... and I can now verify that it, indeed, can access both my TC's internal and externally attached USB HDD.

New Time Capsule will not back up my 2009 MacBook Pro. I can see and find my last back before Mavericks but cannot backup.

New Time Capsule will not back up my 2009 MacBook Pro. I can see and find my last back before Mavericks but cannot backup. The TC will not allow me to delete or start a new backup disk. My 2024 MacBook Air did the same yesterday but today it backs up.

Seems to be working now. I left the MacBook on all morning trying to back up and now works.

Time Capsule 2TB, use as multi MAC backup and extra HDD partition question

Hi,
I just purchased a 2TB Time Capsule. I have an intel imac and a PPC G4 laptop, both running Leopard. I don't care about having to start a new Time Machine backup and just discard the old individual ones. I just need to know if I am supposed to Partition the Time Capsule HDD to have one Time Machine volume for each computer and another partition to use for a network storage area.
I have not opened the box yet, but read the manual online with a whole bunch of other information, and I don't seem to find the answer to this situation.
Logically it just doesn't seem correct (or neat) to have just one 2TB lump of space and have it used for many variations.
Thank-you in advance.
Mike

Time Machine will automatically create a sparsebundle file on the Time Capsule for each computer that will look something like this:
"nameofcomputerMACaddress.sparsebundle
The Time Capsule will appear in the Finder under the SHARED heading and you can click to open the Time Capsule Folder to reveal the sparsebundle files there.
By clicking the gear shaped icon at the top of the window, you can also "Add New Folder" and rename them as needed. You can create as many folders as you like.

Time Capsule won't accept my user name and password for access - Help!

Hi all,
My Time Capsule seemed to stop working one day and I had to do a hard reset with the little button at the back. After that it worked and I restored my wireless network settings but now I can't access the Time Capsules hard drive with Time Machine.
When I try to choose it as my Backup Disk in the Time Machine preferences it says "Enter your user name and password so Time Machine can access the file server "Our Time Capsule" (the name of my time capsule). However, every time I try to enter my password I get "Sorry, you entered an invalid username or password".
I've already tried several resets of the Time Capsule and I've also tried logging on my computer as the Root user and changing my administrator account password back and forth but no go.
Help! and Thanks.

Norman & Harry,
Consider the following:
*_Time Capsule Keeps Asking Me For a Password_*
It will be important to know what is going on, or what you are doing when it asks for the password. Is it asking for a password only when Time Machine attempts a backup? Consider this:
It is NOT your username and password it wants when you try accessing the Time Capsule. (I know... it SAYS "username and password") But it means the Time Capsule's Name and Password.
You will find that by launching Airport Utility.
Select the TC on the left.
Click "Manual Setup".
Click the "Time Capsule" Tab.
You will see "Time Capsule Name:" and "Time Capsule Password".
Make sure “Remember password in keychain" is checked.
That is the information you need to enter when it asks for "username & password."
*I Don’t Remember What My Time Capsule Password Is*
You can see what your current TC password is by going into Keychain.
Open your Keychain and select "login" from the Keychains pane in the top left. Highlight "Passwords" in the Category pane from the lower left.
Sort all the items by Kind. Note everything labeled "Airport...". How many do you have listed? There should only be one "Airport base station password" for each base station that you have active. Also, there should only be one "Airport network password" for each network you have created. If there are more than these, then delete all but the ones with the most recent Modification date.
To see what passwords are being stored, double-click your Time Capsules' entry. A new window will appear.
Put a check beside "Show Password". You may be asked for your own Admin password so enter that.
Now the Password field will display the password you entered into Airport Utility for your Time Capsule
*It Still Won’t Accept the TC Name and Password*
Launch Airport Utility --> Manual Setup.
Select "Disks" in the tool bar above.
Click the "File Sharing" tab.
Is "File Sharing" checked? It should be.
What is selected beside "Secure Shared Disks"? If it says "With Accounts" or "With a Disk Password" then the system will ask you for a password every time it mounts the TC hard disk. If you switch it to "With Time Capsule Password" then use the password you designated earlier in the “Time Capsule" tab. It should only ask you once and then never again - because you had checked "Remember password in keychain".
If you have made any changes then click "Update".
Let us know if this resolves your issue.
Cheers!

Time capsule deleted old image after factory reset and setting up a new user

Something strange happened and I can't seem to find anyone else having this question. A friend lent me her macbook air for some time so I backed up her current system to my Time Capsule and "restored" a fresh copy of mavericks in my name, (I deleted everything on the computer). Her backup was safe (I thought) on the time capsule, I checked and it was there.
After I was done transferring some files I needed and setting up this new macbook in my name I was going to set it up to the time capsule as well.
It said that the identity of the backup disk had changed and then after making my new copy of my setup hers disappeared. How come the TC erased it? I suppose I can go Data Rescue 3 on the TC, opening it up, people has said that should work reading on the forum, my question is there another way? Why did it erase the other Macbook air copy? It did not have the same name or anything. It would be so frustrating to have to open it up and recover the data. Has this happened to anyone else?
The TC is 3 gen A1355, 1 TB, I updated the time capsule's firmware to 7.6.1 and I use MacBook Air mid 2011 with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks,

It cannot have deleted it from what you have told us.. the only way to erase the disk is to click erase in the airport utility or deliberately select and delete the file in finder..
BUT if you use mavericks I suspect you may be seeing how well its networking really functions.. ie hardly at all.
Please use the Pondini method to open the old sparsebundle.. or do it manually.
Start with Q17 and follow the links. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
You should also see the used space in the TC is a fair bit more than what is used by the MBA and it should show 3 sparsebundles.. your old OS.. the owners version of the OS, and your current version of the OS.. although Mavericks has a nasty habit of messing up the previous ones.
Too late for now.. but you did it the wrong way.. next time use a disk image.. Disk utility can make a full image of the drive.. but it is easier to use bootable clones from Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper etc. TM is hopeless for restoring a whole install.

Airport time capsule 2 TB. All is connected and Wi-Fi is working but light still flashes amber rather than solid green. I have tried to reset but this still happens. Is there a way to fix this or do I need to?

Airport time capsule 2 TB. All is connected and Wi-Fi is working but light still flashes amber rather than solid green. I have tried to reset but this still happens. Is there a way to fix this or do I need to?

You want to see a green light on the Time Capsule.
Once you have set up the Time Capsule initially, a flashing amber light indicates that the Time Capsule has a message for you....possibly about a network condition or notice of an update that is available.
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the amber dot and another window will appear to provide the current status....along with suggested actions to remedy the flashing amber light.

I have activated iCloud on iPad2 and iPhone4S (both on iOS 7) using the same Apple ID and signed into 'Find my iPhone' still my iphone is not visible in my devices. I can only see my iPad.

I have activated iCloud on iPad2 and iPhone4S (both on iOS 7) using the same Apple ID and signed into 'Find my iPhone' still my iphone is not visible in my devices. I can only see my iPad.

On your iPhone, try toggling Find My iPhone off, then back on after a few seconds.

How do I transfer data from one time capsule to new time capsule when TC backs up an iMac and Power Book

How do I transfer data from one time capsule to new time capsule when TC backs up an iMac and MacBookPro

It is generally better to leave the old backups and start again.. unless there is something you particularly need.
But if you desperately want all the old backups you have to copy the sparse bundles.. this will take very long time as it must copy via the computer..
http://pondini.org/TM/18.html
Take particular note of the initial comments.. ie before you read how to do it.. don't do it.

Time capsule appeared on Finder on both "shared" and "device". now i can't see it on devices

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