Time Capsule filling up unexpectantly

I do my weekly backup of my macbook pro using one seagate backup plus for mac and another seagate backup plus for SuperDuper and I see I have about 12 gigs to back up. No problem I try backing up to my timeCapsule and it proceeds to try and backup 190 gigs. It has been 6 days sine my last backup. What gives? Now my Time capsule is almost full. It's a Time Capsule 802.11n 3rd Gen.
Thanks.

Do you have..
Bootcamp partition.. that will cause trouble.
Parallels .. that will cause trouble.
Offline cloud storage.. that will cause trouble.
Find out what TM is doing..
A1.. install the widget.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
A2 to see what files are included.
D4 for why your backups are too big.
This can just be TM especially on Mavericks where occasionally it goes beserk.
It could have corrupted some stuff and need to recopy them.. there is heaps and heaps of stuff that goes wrong.
TM is far too complicated.

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  • 5th gen time capsule powers down unexpectedly

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    We have seen a number of reports of the Time Capsule powering down unexpectedly. You should have Apple replace the defective Time Capsule as soon as possible.

  • 2TB Time Capsule getting "An unexpected error occurred. Try again" error

    Hi,
    I have been using 2TB Time Capsule as wireless hotspot and for Time Machine for about one year but all of a sudden it stopped doing backups. When trying to do a backup Time Machine said it couldn't find a disk to make the backup.
    Airpot Utility is still able to see my time capsule:
    However when trying to configure it using the utility first it spends some time at this point:
    And after 2 or 3 minutes I get this error message:
    Things I have tried with the same results:
    - Setting my network preferences to change the "Configure IPV6" value on TCP/IP advanced setting to "link-local only" as suggested by a post I read but no luck.
    - Also tried doing a hard reset of the device by pressing the reset button with a pen for 5 seconds until the led blinked fast. But I get the same error when using the Airport Utility.
    -I even tried doing a factory-reset by unplugging the Time Capsule from power, pressing the reset button with a pen, plugging back the power and waited until the LED blinked fast. But I got the same error message when trying to configure with the Airpot Utility.
    There are a few occasions (about 10% of my tries) where I am able to get one step further: I get to the point where it asks me for a password and for a name for the Time Capsule, however when clicking next it seems that it starts to configure some things and I even get internet access via the Time Capsule, however the Airport Utility shows the same unexpected error message after a few minutes. In this scenario Time Capsule works fine as access point, but it the disk still shows as unavailable for backups. I haven't found what conditions make me be able to get to this single further step. It seems to be related to the hard-reset. But it is confusing because most of the times I do the hard-reset procedure it doesn't allow me getting to the password and name setting step. 90% of the tries get stuck in the previous step.
    Any thoughts about how to solve this problem? I am worries about not been able to backup my Mac. By the way, my Mac is a MabBook Pro running Mountain Lion.

    There is some bug with the TC disk and Mountain Lion..
    Look at Pondini section C .. much of it relates to later OS .. Lion and ML.
    Some things are obvious and others are just a mess.
    Note C9.. that is important. Use short names.. no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
    Try manually mounting the disk.. in Finder.. use Go, Connect to server.. and type in the address,
    AFP://TCname or TCIPaddress (replaced with actual name or actual IP). eg at default, AFP://10.0.1.1
    Any failure to connect try another factory reset and use ethernet.. and do it in full isolation from the network.. ie just the MBP and the TC with ethernet between them.
    What version is the TC.. A1xxx from the base please??
    What firmware revision?
    Using v5 utility can sometimes get around things but you cannot use it on Gen5 TC.
    You can load v5 utility into ML with a trick.
    How to load 5.6 into ML.
    1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
    Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
    Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg
    2. Download and install unpkg.
    http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
    Run unpkg on the desktop.. If your Mac refuses to run the software, because it wasn’t downloaded from the Apple store, go to security in preferences and allow other software to work.. this is limitation of trade methinks. You can set back later if you like.
    Now drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. in finder, open the new directory, drill down.. applications, utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
    You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.
    For screen shots see this post.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

  • 2TB Time Capsule getting "An unexpected error occurred. Try again" error after a hard reset

    Hi,
    I'm working with a brand new 2TB Airport Time Capsule and after I performed a Hard reset as expalined in the forums I'm not able to configure it any more.  I receive "An unexpected error occurred. Try again" from the AirPort Utility.
    I'm running Mavericks in my Mac and I'm not sure what else to do.  Any suggestions?

    Completely isolate the Mac and the TC from the network.. plug the TC lan port by ethernet to the Mac.
    Factory reset the TC.
    Factory reset TC Gen 5 or AE Gen 6
    Unplug your AE/TC .. hold in reset and power the TC/AE back on.. without releasing the reset.. wait until status led flashes rapidly.
    Make sure in the ethernet settings you have ipv6 set to link local and the dhcp set for ip. It should give you an address of 10.0.1.2
    Open the airport utility, using the top menu.. File, Configure Other.
    Type in the address, 10.0.1.1 .. no password is required at this stage.
    Click ok and the main setup will open.
    Set all the names short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
    Set the TC to the right mode .. dhcp+nat for router or off (bridge mode) for bridge.
    Set wireless to create a wireless network.
    No luck then the TC is faulty and needs to be returned.

  • Trouble with Time Capsule & Mountain Lion - unexpected error occurr when setting up connection to an existing network

    Hi,
    My TC was working perfectly fine until 2 weeks ago...
    I have 2 MacBook Pro 2009 & 2012, I used the TC has wireles external hard disk for Time Machine.
    I installed Mountain Lion on my oldest MacBook Pro (the newest has already Mountain Lion installed) 2 weeks ago. The installation was not straight forward... I tried to perform a clean installation, but I had difficulties with some applications.. anyway after a few days, everything went fine and smooth, I had to reconnect my TC with but it works fine, I could perform a few back-up with Time Machine.
    But ... since 5 days ago, my TC is not find any more when I enter Time Machine... I went to Utility Airport and the TC was not connected, just circeld with dashed line and I cannot enter the set up mode.. I tried several things that did not worked and finally performed a reinitialisation of my TC with restauration of factory setting. This helped a bit because I could finally see my TC in utility arport in the wifi connected devices. I tried to et up my TC and connect it to an existing network. It went fine when specifying on whch network I want to connect, chossing a name for the TC and its password.
    But then...  I got an error message: An unexpected error has occured. Retry. I never get the window asking for the password for the network.
    I retried but, It did not help, now the airport is no more visible in the wifi connected devices in airport utility...
    Any thoughts, ideas?
    Thanks,
    Yvan

    If you have a clean install of Mountain Lion it will remove the 5.6 utility.. but this is still better for setups than the new one. .. certainly for Gen4 TC or earlier.
    The setup of the TC manually from v5 utility.
    Make sure you use all short names.. for the TC itself and for wireless.. I recommend different name for 5ghz as well.
    Use WPA2 Personal security and fix wireless channels.. check 11, 6, 1 in that order.
    For 5ghz try around 40 and around 150.. doesn't matter which one.
    Use ethernet if wireless fails..
    You will hate me but older Mac with ML upgrade that went badly.. sorry get some help to clean install. the wireless in the Mac itself is then the issue.

  • Time capsule filling up

    So TC has warned me that it is filling up and something about deleting older backups to make room for newer ones. Fine, but does it delete them on a day by day basis or how much will it delete to make the room? It's just a generic message.
    I have excluded a few folders but the total included amount is 210.5gb to back up. So why is my sparsebundle on TC only 48.96gb? Seems like it is missing an awful lot. Any insights?

    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1828063
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15137.html

  • Aperture Vault & Time Capsule

    If your machine is regularly backed up with TC, do you need to create and backup Aperture with Vault(s)?

    Hi...... Now if I get this right... I am sure the good people of this forum will correct me if not........ Aperture is backed up to time capsule regularly, but when your time capsule fills up.... older back-up's are deleted to make more space.... so older photo's...documents.. etc are deleted. Therefore it is better to have Aperture back up seperately to an external hard drive...using vault's... so that you never loose valuable photographs.
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  • I get this message "The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)" when I try and add any files to my Time Capsule

    I get this message "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)" when I try and add or delete any files to my Time Capsule.  It just started happening a week ago.

    I would get an external drive today and copy all your stuff off the TC.. forget trying to load more onto it. There is a good chance after 3years (A 2TB should be only about 2years tops), the disk or the TC itself is on the way out. Do it immediately. If TM is also failing to backup you need to recognise symtoms of impending doom.
    Unfortunately the error messages are archane and it is hard to discover their meaning.
    You also cannot verify a network drive.. you can verify the TM sparsebundle though so do that.
    A5. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
    Reboot the whole network from off.. certainly if you run later OS it can simply lose the drive..
    If you still fail to be able to copy to the TC.. then get that external and copy off it. Tell us if you can do that.

  • I keep on getting this error when i try to copy files to my 2T Time Capsule, Please help im running out of space on my MacBook Pro.... The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)

    I keep on getting this error when i try to copy files to my 2T Time Capsule, Please help im running out of space on my MacBook Pro....
    The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)

    I would get an external drive today and copy all your stuff off the TC.. forget trying to load more onto it. There is a good chance after 3years (A 2TB should be only about 2years tops), the disk or the TC itself is on the way out. Do it immediately. If TM is also failing to backup you need to recognise symtoms of impending doom.
    Unfortunately the error messages are archane and it is hard to discover their meaning.
    You also cannot verify a network drive.. you can verify the TM sparsebundle though so do that.
    A5. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
    Reboot the whole network from off.. certainly if you run later OS it can simply lose the drive..
    If you still fail to be able to copy to the TC.. then get that external and copy off it. Tell us if you can do that.

  • Initial time machine backup to Time Capsule failed unexpectedly

    Hi everyone,
    New MacBook Pro retina, clean install of Mountain Lion, no previous backup to 1 TB third-generation Time Capsule (I deleted the previous .sparsebundle file because it had grown too large). Power Nap enabled in Energy Saver. The initial backup stopped:
    Sep  3 00:09:17 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 9.1 GB of 119.55 GB, 223769 of 931533 items
    Sep  3 01:15:55 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 10.9 GB of 119.55 GB, 308247 of 931533 items
    Sep  3 02:32:25 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 14.15 GB of 119.55 GB, 467275 of 931533 items
    Sep  3 02:32:25 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Backup failed because the network destination disk was ejected or disconnected unexpectedly!
    Sep  3 02:32:26 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Copied 467294 files (14.15 GB) from volume GigaFlash.
    Sep  3 02:32:27 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Backup canceled.
    Sep  3 02:32:32 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Share-1/Musa.sparsebundle
    Sep  3 02:32:32 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: [SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
    Sep  3 02:32:32 Musa.local com.apple.backupd[8097]: Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -159; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
    Why?

    Any or all of the following third-party system modifications may be contributing to your problem:
    LaCie drive software
    VirusBarrier
    I suggest you uninstall them according to the developers' instructions, reboot, and see whether there's any improvement. If there is, you can experiment with putting them back, one at a time, to identify which one is at fault. "VirusBarrier" is harmful and should not be reinstalled in any case.
    If there's no improvement after making the suggested changes, post again.

  • After hard reset of time capsule, airport utility cannot setup again. "an unexpected error occurred. try again"

    After starting airport utility, it searches and i select my time capsule. AU grinds for a minute and comes back with "An unexpected error occured. Try again."

    Hi Philjp,
    If you are having issues connecting to your Airport Time Capsule, even after a factory reset, you may find the following article helpful:
    Apple Support: AirPort base station not seen or "An unexpected error occurred" appears in AirPort Utility 6.3
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4597
    Regards,
    - Brenden

  • Help?  I keep getting "Unexpected Error" everytime I try to use my new Airport Express to extend my network from my 500GB Time Capsule.

    I am trying to extend my network from my 500GB Time Capsule using the new Airport Express I just bought, but no matter what I try I keep getting "Unexpected Error.  Try again".  The Express is still flashing Amber.  I cannot get it to turn green.  What am I doing wrong here?  Please help me.

    Locate the AirPort Express in the same room as the Time Capsule for the setup.
    Power off and restart the Time Capsule
    Shut down and restart the Mac. Turn on the wireless on the Mac and temporarily disconnect the Ethernet cable from the Mac to the AirPort Express. In other words, you want to set up the AirPort Express using wireless, since that is the way that it will be used.
    Hold in the reset button on the AirPort Express for 9-10 seconds and release. Allow a full minute for the Express to restart.
    Click the AirPort icon at the top of the Mac's screen and wait a few seconds for a listing of New AirPort Base Station to appear. Just below that, click directly on AirPort Express.
    AirPort Setup will open up and take a minute to analyze the network, then announce that the Express will be configured to extend the Time Capsule network.
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    Wait a minute while AirPort Setup configures everything, and hopefully announces a message of Setup Complete. Click Done.
    Now move the AirPort Express to a location that is about half way between the Time Capsule and the area that needs more wireless coverage. Avoid obstructions in the signal path between the Time Capsule and AirPort Express as much as possible. 
    Walls, ceilings, mirrors, heavy furniture, etc. just kill the wireless signal quality. Keep any cordless phones as far away from either router as possible.
    It would be much better if you could plan to connect the Time Capsule and AirPort Express using an Ethernet cable, as best case.....you will be losing about half of the network speed trying to use wireless to extend.

  • HT3728 When I reconnect my Time Capsule after a factory reset, the Airport Utility shows ther message"Unexpected error. Try again." I also get this if I redo the factory reset.

    The Time Capsule is not providing a wireless connection.
    When I reconnect my Time Capsule after a factory reset, the Airport Utility shows ther message"Unexpected error. Try again." I also get this if  I cancel the Airport Utility app and restart it. I performed the factory reset again, restarted the Airport Utility and received the same error. What are the steps to debug and fix the wireless problem?
    My Time Capsule is connected to my FIOS router and to my Mac Mini. I am still able to connect to the Internet from the Mini via ethernet. It seems that the Time Capsule acts as a bridge for the ethernet connections between Internet to FIOS, FIOS to Time Capsule, and Time Capsule to Mac Mini.

    Which model TC is this? The A1xxx number from the base please.
    Try the setup in full isolation from the network.. so unplug the TC from the network.. and turn off wireless in the mini.. so you have mini--ethernet--lan port TC.. and nothing else.
    Do the factory reset.
    Now check if TC comes up in airport utility..
    If it fails, turn on ipv6 local link.. if you are using 6.3 utility this could be necessary.
    Still fails, try loading the v5 utility.. you will need to plug the computer back into the FIOS to get internet. Then depending on OS.. Lion according to your profile.. you can just down the utility.. ML takes more steps.
    See below.
    Do you have an iphone or ipad.. download the airport utility app and use those for the setup.. that can sometimes work better.
    How to load 5.6 into ML.
    1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
    Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
    2. Download and install unpkg.
    http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
    Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
    You cannot uninstall 6.1 (now 6.2 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.
    For screen shots see this post.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

  • Adding second backup client to time capsule after first has filled drive?

    I'm trying to add a second Time Machine client to my Time Capsule. I've had it for a while and the first client has filled the drive. The problem is there isn't enough space free on the Time Capsule for the second client. Is there a way to free up some space so I can add the second client? How do I manage how much space gets allocated to each?

    Hi swills. First, click the Time Machine Dock icon and enter the TM 'star field' interface. Then go all the way back to the oldest backups. Go up to the action menu (gear icon) and select "Delete Backup". Do this with several of the oldest backups. This will free up needed space.
    Then you need to compact the existing disk image.
    First, turn OFF Time Machine Backups on all Macs backing up to the Time Capsule (TC).
    Next, open a Finder window and click on your TC in the Sidebar.
    If you don't see a blue share folder, you may need to click the "Connect As..." button and enter your Time Capsules password. (Note: NOT your own username and password.)
    Double-click the blue folder that appears in the finder window. The sparsebundle should now be visible. DO NOT mount it, just leave the window open.
    Now, launch Terminal from the Utilities folder.
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    ...and then hit the Space bar so that there is a space after +hdiutil compact+.
    Next, drag the sparsebundle in question from the Finder window into the Terminal window. This will complete the command.
    Now, with the Terminal window in focus, hit Enter.
    Eventually, you will see something like this...
    +Starting to compact…+
    +Reclaiming free space…+
    +Finishing compaction…+
    +Reclaimed 5.4 GB out of 217.9 GB possible.+
    Repeat this procedure for each sparsebundle contained on your TC.
    Finally, remember to turn Time Machine backups back ON on all Macs backing up to the TC.
    Obviously, if the other Mac still does not have enough space for it's first backup then you will need to repeat the above to free up further space. let us know if this resolves your issue. Cheers!

  • HT3728 I keep getting 'an unexpected error occurred. Try again.' error message when trying to reconnect to my AirPort Time Capsule. I have soft and hard reset and, eventually, factory reset the device. What do I do to correct the error?

    I keep getting 'an unexpected error occurred. Try again.' error message when trying to reconnect to my AirPort Time Capsule. I have soft and hard reset and, eventually, factory reset the device. What do I do to correct the error?

    Hi Philjp,
    If you are having issues connecting to your Airport Time Capsule, even after a factory reset, you may find the following article helpful:
    Apple Support: AirPort base station not seen or "An unexpected error occurred" appears in AirPort Utility 6.3
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4597
    Regards,
    - Brenden

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