Time capsule crash when i add external drive

Hi all:
I have a time capsule that is running out of disk space. When I plug in a usb external drive, the time cap turns amber and all the wireless functions go off line.
Time capsule firm ware is up to date. Does anyone know what is wrong?

Is the drive 3 TB or less?
Is the external hard drive formatted correctly in Mac OS Exended (Journaled) or FAT32?
(Your Mac can read other formats, but the Time Capsule USB port will only read and write to the Mac format and FAT32).
If yes to both questions above, have you tried using a powered USB hub with the drive?

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I've not searched through the postings here to see if other people have seen a similar problem. I've not attempted to repeat the problem I've seen here so I'm not very clear about the cause.
I'm using a MacBook Pro with OS 10.5.4 connected via a network cabled directly to a Time Capsule which is connected to a DSL/Cable modem. The Time Capsule is updated with v 7.3.2 of the firmware. I've got Time Machine enabled but I'm also using the Time Capsule disk (1TB) to store photos that I've previously archived to CD. I'm in the process of copying all the data from CD to the Time Capsule.
Having copied some photo data to the Time Capsule I was trying out some photo cataloguing SW to see if it was any good (iPhoto is no good to me as I don't want to store photos on the local drive of my machine) - Kodak EasyShare v6.1. Having loaded some images into EasyShare I tried to use finder to search for the file names of some of the images to check that EasyShare was not copying images to my local drive. While I was doing this I think Time Machine tried to kick in and start doing a backup. I believe that Time Capsule crashed at this point. Finder froze and after I restarted it (via Force Quit not a re-boot) I discovered that I had no network connection and Mac OS couldn't see the Time Capsule under FInder or via AirPort Utility (the Time Machine backup also timed out and failed). Time Capsule just sat there with the disk spinning and a green light on the front as if all was OK. Actually - the disk just kept spinning (Time Capsule normally shuts down the drive after it is idle for a while). Because of this I'm pretty sure that Time Capsule had crashed.
I experimented with re-booting my Mac but still no network etc so I tried power cycling the Time Capsule and everything came back to life.
I'm guessing that my doing a search (or some other drive activity on Time Capsule) at the same time as Time Machine kicking in with a backup caused Time Capsule to crash.
Perhaps this is not a very interesting point if this problem is not repeatable but - well, I'd be interested to know if others have seen similar behavior...

I'm having a very similar problem and it is detrimental.
Here is the scenario: I have a 1TB Time Capsule as my primary router. I am able to perform backups on all but one of my machines. My iMac backs up via 1GB ethernet to the TC, my MacBookAir (60GB,SS) backs up via wireless N (270mb) and my other MacBookAir (80GB,IDE) also backs up via wireless N without any problems.
I used to use a 500mb external drive to backup my iMac but outgrew it, so I started backing up to the TC instead. No problems at all.
I also used to back up my Intel MacMini running Mac OS X Server 10.5.5 to a similar external hard-drive but haven't in a while.
I decided it finally made sense to backup ALL my Mac's to the same 1TB TimeCapsule but it's just not working out!
On the MacMini; I turn on TimeMachine, the TimeCapsule has been chosen as a backup location, it prepares backup for a moment, mounts the backup drive and then appears to begin backup up... No...! First I get a message the the TimeCapsule closed the connection, next I lose Internet connection across my entire network both wired and wireless and then the TimeCapsule light turns amber, flashes and essentially does a completel crash / reset and then comes back to life a few moments later. I can backup any other computer except the MacMini to the TimeCapsule without "crashing" it and it makes no sense! Every computer is completely up to date with all the latest patches and the TimeCapsule is running 7.3.2
I sure hope this gets resolved, seems like other people are pretty disgusted with the performance of the TimeCapsule with problems that have no resolution.

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So that we don't have to use two seperate back-up drives on each computer.
Is this possible?

The following quote is from: https://www.apple.com/airport-time-capsule/
Have multiple Mac computers in your home or office? AirPort Time Capsule can back up and store files for each Mac on your wireless network. No longer do you have to attach an external drive to each Mac every time you want to back up. AirPort Time Capsule spares you the work. Your computers are always backed up — automatically and wirelessly.

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The external HDD showed up under Airport Utility as well as as a partition under Time Capsule in the finder. The problem is whenever I tried to access the HDD it would freeze and crash the Time capsule which needed to be rebooted and restarted to work again. The funny thing is that on occasion I actually got the disk to work and I copied a few files across but within like a couple of minutes the Time Capsule hung and I got messaged that the file server in the Time Capsule and the External HDD was disconnected. Reconnection was only possible by powering off and restarting.
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Is time capsule is backing up my external drive?

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I have my iTunes Library and my iPhoto Library on my Time Capsule.
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I use time capsule as a hard drive and back up disk. When working on a file that is saved on the time capsule, especially Adobe Photoshop, it freezes on spinning wheel and I have to do a hard restart.
The whole point in using time capsule as a hard drive is to free up as much space on my mac hard drive. I don't want to keep dragging and dropping whole folders to the desktop just to do small amendments.
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I am afraid that you will not like the answer here, so maybe some other users will offer different opinions.
The Time Capsule is designed for your backups. It will not function well if you try to make it an everyday hard drive since it is a network drive. Access is much slower with this type of drive.
When working on a file that is saved on the time capsule, especially Adobe Photoshop, it freezes on spinning wheel and I have to do a hard restart.
Hopefully, these are not your "original" files. If so, can we ask how you are making backups of these files?
I don't know about Photoshop, but the experts in the iPhoto forum strongly warn against storing any "original" files on the Time Capsule disk because of the slow access and chances of corruption errors, which can damage the entire image library.
I do use Photoshop Elements, and would simply not consider locating the image library on my Time Capsule for the same reasons.
The whole point in using time capsule as a hard drive is to free up as much space on my mac hard drive.
Again, this unfortunately sounds like you have moved "original" files on your Mac over the Time Capsule drive.
When....not if...the Time Capsule drive has a problem, you will lose all of these files unless you are making backups of them on yet another hard drive.
But, since you need to have another hard drive anyway, you might consider this plan:
Move all of the image files and other data that you need for "everyday" use to the hard drive that is connected directly to your Mac. Access will be much faster and the errors will go away.
Plus....you can configure Time Machine to backup both your Mac and the hard drive.....so you have "originals" on one drive and backups on another. That would be a safe backup strategy.

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Time Machine can backup an external drive that is connected directly to your Mac via USB or Firewire, but it cannot backup a network drive.
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Greetings, I have a spare 1TB older Time Capsule that I would like to give to a friend who would like to use it as an external hard drive w/time machine. They currently have a current iMac with Comcast internet and router which they would prefer to continue using for internet access. My question is: can a time capsule be set up to be used as an external backup drive without using the router capability.Thanks for any advise.
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My question is: can a time capsule be set up to be used as an external backup drive without using the router capability
Yes
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Today my question is this:
I have a imac with snow leopard running and i have 1tb hdd. I wanted to start using time machine but the only external drive that i have avaiable has only 500gb... so i was thinking if it is possible to split my hdd in 2 particions (500gb each) and use only one partition to back up through time machine?

Bad Idea. Time Machine is for Backing up your complete system to some other hard drive, usually an External drive. If you partition the internal drive and use one of those partitions for Time Machine backups if that internal drive fails you LOSE EVERTHING. Your OS X system and all of the Time Machine backups you stored on the second partition.
Partitions or just that, a Segment of one physical disk. Partitions don't fail. Physical disks do fail and when they do all partitions are lost.
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I upgraded it to Lion today, and now, after trying to repair disk (the external one) whenever I plug it the vent start to run, the system gets stuck, and without doing nothing the black screen with the 5 languages come back up and tells me to shut down the computer.
I don't know what to do ... and frustrated, I would love some help.
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I recently got a Time Capsule, and successfully set it up to back up my iMac's primary drive, but for some reason Time Machine won't back up my external drive to the Time Capsule.
I removed the external drive from the exclusion list in System Preferences > Time Machine > Options, and from what I've read this should be sufficient to make Time Machine back up the drive.
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The reason I believe the external drive is not being backed up is because when I click the Time Machine icon in the upper-right status bar and choose "Enter Time Machine", none of the folders on external drive show any older versions.
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Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I don't see anything you have done wrong.. perhaps it does backup in a different way.
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I would also try rebooting the computer.. exclude the drive again.. reboot.. and remove the exclusion.
You should be able to check the actual settings of TM in plist file.
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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

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?
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