Time capsule error 6584

i was formatting my timecapsule with a 35 pass format when a huge blackout happened in my town and it didnt finish, the airport utility said that disk needed repair, when i enter time machine i cant do it because an errror window saying unexpected error -6584 took place, and i dont know what to do, i really dont care about my back ups i just want the time machine to be ready for the things i want it to do, (start over again with an empty disk so i can back up what i have in my macbook)
how do i do this?

Factory reset the TC..
Plug it into a computer by ethernet and turn off the wireless in the computer.. so this is completely isolated from the internet.. no other connection to the TC.. no other connection on the computer.
Open the airport utility and erase the hard disk.. quick erase this time.
A 35 pass erase would take aprox one month.. it is for when you have the launch codes for ICBM missles silos in your backyard.. not for standard use.. never ever do more than one pass. EVER!!
No luck! Then, if the TC is new enough get Apple to fix it under warranty or Applecare.
If no warranty or apple care left.. then pull out the hard disk and put it in a USB holder.. and redo the partition and format from a Mac. If it fails replace the drive.
Instructions here for removing the disk.
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Apple_Time_Capsule

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Time Capsule Error Code 6584

What is Time Capsule Error Code 6584? What is the corrective action to clear it?

On the More Like This.. see the various very common complaints.. just to the right >>>
First one is good.. anything Pondini responds to listen. https://discussions.apple.com/message/17748380#17748380
A simple reboot of the whole network.. from off.. modem .. router/TC.. clients.. 2min gap will probably fix it.
If it keeps happening, tell us your OS. (Most likely Mountain Lion.. which has networking ability of wet string and a pair of tin cans).

Why does my time capsule error code -6584

time capsule error code -6584

There are a few causes..
Using the More Like This..
the top reference is helpful.. but you can see this is a regular problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17748380#17748380
Basically reboot the whole network.. restart in correct order.. modem.. router/TC...Clients.. 2min gap
Half the time will fix it.
It can also be the backup is corrupt and needs repair.
Are you aware of the supplement to 10.7.5 to fix TM??
This is not related to your problem,, rather it is slow backups.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1599

I keep getting a Time Capsule Error, how do I resolve?

I keep getting a Time Capsule Error, how do I resolve?

Start with #C3 in Time Machine guru Pondini's excellent support document......Time Machine -- Troubleshooting.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Time Capsule error 22 - My time capsule was working fine and didn't notice anything wrong with it until it stopped backing up about two weeks ago. I never changed anything like computer names or the Airport settings. All I get is the following: The backup

Time Capsule error 22 - My time capsule was working fine and didn't notice anything wrong with it until it stopped backing up about two weeks ago. I never changed anything like computer names or the Airport settings. All I get is the following:
The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Linda's Computer 1.sparsebundle" could not be created (error 22).
I tried resetting the Time Capsule and connecting with an ethernet cable, although the Ariport Utility says everything is working fine through WiFi.

If the light will not turn on the TC is dead. No matter that the hard disk is running.. it should only run at start up or when it is accessed not constantly.. that means the board in the TC has failed. Apple do not repair them.. They will replace it under warranty or applecare.
If you have gone over the 12month warranty it will still be covered if you have applecare on any computer or an Apple TV. In fact the cost of the apple TV plus apple care is still cheaper than buying a new TC.. so it is a route some people are taking.. certainly depends.. in some places like Europe or Australia now, there is a recognition that statutory warranty must be longer on a product that is premium to the market. 12months is not good enough. Apple will sometimes listen.
They might be fixable but I do not know how.

Time capsule error 111

hey
im having a problem with my time capsule error 111
worked fine until last week and i heard it was an error with lion which i upgraded 6 months ago and worked fine until last week.
I've tried some of the things said on these discussion boards but until now nothing....any other suggestions??
thanks in advance

I bought MacBook air last June 2011 with snow leopard os, then bought 3rd Gen time capsule 2tb. Tried to use it as backup but error 109 appeared. Then, I tried all tips in the net but nothing happened. I upgraded to lion os, tried to reinstall and back up again but error 111 appeared. Now my time capsule is just a router and one big paper weight. This apple product is an epic fail. It's really frustrating.

I can't connect to Time Capsule- error message: Backup disk is not available. Was working fine before.

I can't connect to Time Capsule- error message: Backup disk is not available. Was working fine before.

Restart it.. Does this all the time with Lion and even worse ML.
Restart the whole network if that doesn't work.. do it in correct order.. from off.. modem.. TC.. clients 2min gap.

Time Capsule Error: Unable to complete backup...

For the past two days I've been getting the following Time Capsule Error message whenever it attempts to back up my system, "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup directory." I can't get any more information about the error than that. If I reset my TC, will it lose all of my previous backups? Restarting my Mac didn't help. All other functions are fine, i.e. WiFi is good and I can still print to my printer hooked up to it. Any ideas?

I'm having the exact same problem. If a b/u does kick off, it shuts down the Mac. I get the darkened screen with the window that says a reset is required.
Anyone know how to fix this?

Time Machine error -6584 can't run the programme, using new time capsule. Help please!

Bought a new time capsule and it appears to be OK, my Macbook has backed up nicely. Tried to get my imac 27" intel to do the same. Can seee the capsule and can save to the capsule but Time Machine won't run. I just get the error message -6584 .... any ideas anyone?

The problem seems to be common. Time Machine won't start: i.e. "it"... or the "Stars Wars" thing...
The following process eliminated the "error -6584"
Brand new out of the box, 2TB Time Capsule 4th Gen, backed up my iMac 24/4GB/10.7.2 over ethernet with no problems or errors. Time Machine did several incementals over night while I slept. When I returned from work, ready to reimage the OS, I discovered TC hung on an hourly incremental. When I tried to re-establish connection, no dice (error -6584) .
Several attempts to open the volume failed. I could manage all the preferences and configure the Time Capsule. I just couldn't open the back up or start Time Machine (app).
I dropped the %HOSTNAME file from the archive folder in Finder into the Disk Utilities image window to verify and repair, but received "file in use".
Restarting ("reset") the TC oddly resulted in renaming the volume label to "Unamed". I open Airport Utilities and renamed the archive folder to "Data" as before...
Now able to mount (login into) the volume... But it shows "--" in available volume space and no "Oldest" or "Latest" backups are displayed... Not a good sign. Waiting for backup to start..... Looking for backup....
Odd, instead of failing now, it started an incremental. Done!
I am now able to open Time Machine (or that cool Star Wars thingy that takes you off somewhere) and review all the backups starting with the first one I created before I went to bed last night.
The question seems to be what created the problem. I suspect my iMac went to sleep (shut down HDD) in the middle of an incremental. That may have set the "in use" flag on the archive and OS X didn't know how to handle that when I woke the machine up.
I hope this helps, and corrects my problem permanently.

Time machine error 6584

Just upgraded to Mountain Lion. It had a problem and the Apple store did a wipe and install. I restored all my data and apps by ethernet from Time Capsule. I had to find and reinstall Java. Things appear to work ok except launching Time Machine gets a warning "Unexpected error occurred (error code -6584)." I've not yet recovered an old document so cannot say if it works.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/17748380#17748380

Time Machine / Time Capsule Error: Backup disk image could not be mounted

So I'm trying to back up to time machine, which used to be working fine, but I have this problem happening on two computers now (which probably means the error is in my Time Capsule.)
The Time Capsule shows up on my "shared" list in my finder windows.
I can connect to it, and open the folder inside, and SEE my two disk image files in there.
But Time Machine gives me a "The Backup Disk Image Could Not Be Mounted" error. No other information.
If I double-click on the disk image file directly, I get an error "The Following disk images failed to mount" and then it lists the file and says "Resource temporarily unavailable."
Help, please.

I'm caught in the same loop, with no end in sight. I've only been using Time Machine and Time Capsule for 2 months. This week it stopped working. First error message:
"Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume."
Checking the Time Machine preferences, "Last backup" would read "backup failed"
When I got this error, all the wireless functions went offline, even thought the TC light was still green.
I would shut down, shut down the Time Capsule, shut off my modem reboot everything in order.
Next error message:
"Disk repair. The disk 'Backup of [my computer]' was not repairable by this computer. It is being made available to you with limited functionality. You must backup your data and reformat the drive."
Then: "Time Machine Error: The backup volume is read only. To select a different volume ... Time Machine preferences ... "
I spoke to someone at Apple, who sent me the Time Machine Troubleshooting page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275?viewlocale=en_US
I went through:
1. updated my system software
2. updated the TC firmware to 7.4.1
3. dragged the sparsebundle to DiskUtility. It took a while (more than an hour?) but said the disk could not be repaired. When I tried again, the repair function wouldn't run.
4. tried to delete the sparsebundle, but it would choke at almost the end, sometimes it would just crash the finder, sometimes say "Sorry, an unexpected error occurred," sometimes "Operation cannot be completed because the item 'bands' is in use." I even tried to Stuff the bundle with 'delete original' checked, but the stuffing, after about 15 hours, jammed near the end (stuffed 20 gigs of 35 gigs).
5. tried to reselect the TC, and run backup anyways ... now it can't find the volume, back to the error messages and crashing Finder
6. checked password in Keychain, all ok.
Now what??
Do I use Airport Utility to erase it? At least TC is still showing up there. Or press the rest button on the back of the Time Capsule to reset to factory defaults?
I've resigned myself to losing my backups. Now I would just like to get it up and running again.
In hopes,
Linda

Time Capsule Error - Disk not Avalable

Just got a new 1TB Dual band Time Capsule. Wireless works, can see the disk on the time capsule, and use Time Machine to select the disk to use for backup. Thing is, when I enter the password and click ok, the fields like "Available, Oldest backup, etc., fill in, then go blank. When it try to back up it errors out. Then the icon in the menu bar shows an triangle with and exclamation point in it. Any ideas how to fix it?

Figured it out.
It seems as though you have to tell the time machine which user accounts have access to the time capsule. Specify the account name, as listed in your user accounts, with password. If you do this it will allow the time capsule to work.

Time Capsule error when interrupting a regular hourly backup

Okay... So it's supposedly common knowledge that if you interrupt an hourly Time Capsule backup (not the big initial one) by putting your Macbook to sleep, the next time you wake your computer up Time Machine is supposed to just pick up where it left off. Right?
Not for me. I got Time Capsule right when it was released and it worked like a charm for a whole entire month... Until one day I made the mistake of interrupting one of its backups. When I got back to my computer I got an error saying the backup could not be completed. I thought it was no big deal until I actually tried to start a backup again. First it stayed on "Preparing" for a long time... Then a similar error message. I tried again and again and got nothing but error messages. Nothing I tried worked.
I decided to erase the Time Capsule disk and start over, essentially losing a month's worth of backups. Once again it worked for a few days until once again I put my Mac to sleep while it was doing a regular backup. Once again, coming back to my computer resulted in an error message. Once again it couldn't recover no matter what I did. I decided to try again from scratch, erased the drive, did the big backup.
Today, after three days of it working just fine, I had to leave my house in the middle of a backup. I paused for a moment wondering if I should do it, but then thought, what the ****, you're SUPPOSED to be able to interrupt it.
Um, no. Error message again. Except today I decided to run Disk Utility on it, which did work in reviving its backup abilities... HOWEVER something very strange happened. Spotlight started indexing the backup disk image-- something I'm pretty sure is not supposed to happen. It insisted on doing this every time I mounted the disk image, and only when it was finished indexing would it agree to dismount itself after backing up (like it's supposed to). Aside from that, Time Machine no longer asks for my password when I choose the Time Capsule disk... It just chooses it. It also doesn't alert me when I delete a file stored inside the Time Capsule disk (to tell me it will be permanently deleted) but instead sends it to the trash. And when recovering a file from Time Machine, the disk image doesn't dismount itself once it's done-- I have to do it manually.
In short, it's not acting normal, as far as I can tell.
So my question is twofold:
1) why the **** can't I interrupt the backup without getting an error? It's not supposed to work this way. Does this work for anyone else?
2) What the **** happened to the disk image now that I've got it to work again? It backs up fine and everything but it's acting weird.
Thanks... Hope someone has any clue what this all means!

I have a very similar issue. Spotlight is now indexing the backup volume on Time Capsule, and it is taking forever.
Nobody else using Time Machine / Time Capsule here? I can't believe that.
-Erik

Time Capsule, error 67

Hi,
I'm experiencing an issue with the Time Capsule I use in my office to share files between an iMac, a MacBook, my PC Windows Vista and another PC.
For a few days, when I try to login on the Time Capsule hard drive, I just got an error message (in French, please apologize for my translation) :
"User unknown, wrong password or opening session is disabled. [etc.] (67)."
I've used the Airport manager to check the configuration, everything is ok, the password is correct, both the Macs and the other Vista PC connect without problem.
There is probably nothing to do with this, but the problem appeared the same day I installed my brand new Adobe CS4 package (Web Premium licence).
It's a big problem for me, since all this is in my office, and I can't share files anymore with my associates...
I would appreciate any help, thanks for your support,
Nicolas.

Having the same problem in my Bootcamp partition running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. I've removed the spaces in the time capsules's name and removed the hyphens in the network name as well. Never had a problem with them on our Macs, but can't get connected in Bootcamp. Just gives me the same error 67 message quoted above. The Time Capsule firmware is up to date as is the Airport Utility. I can connect fine using the Airport Utility as a matter of fact. I made the changes noted above in Windows using that utility. Still works great from all Mac machines using the new settings, just not in this new Bootcamp partition.

Time Capsule Error 51

Hi everyone,
I have i time capsule of 500GB, it is plugged in a USB 2.0 Hub an than in a 1TB disk.
When I tried to copy my files to the 1TB disk, it gives me error 51.
does anyone have got this problem?
PS: My time capsule is very hot on those days, so i tried to measure the temperature with on of those clocks with thermometer and it gives me 48º Ceusius, can it be the problem? except this everything is working fine on my time capsule. I´m using FAT32 format in my disks.
Thanks for helping

Complex issue requiring a complex "fix"
Pull the power cord from the back of the Time Capsule
Count to ten
Plug the power cord back into the back of the Time Capsule
Wait a few minutes, then try a backup again

Time capsule error 6584

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