Time Capsule folders?

Hi all!
So I had previously used a Western Digital portable HD as my Time Machine backup and it would always mount in my finder as folders that I could access. I would always use this was to get older files rather than use the "Time Machine" app. Just never needed to view in that way. For me its just more straight forward accessing finder folders. I've upgraded to a Time Capsule unit and those finder backup folders never show up. Just a data folder with a bundle in it. It forces me to use "Time Machine". Am I missing a setting or a preference somewhere that will just allow me to view the backups as finder folders like when I used my WD HD?
Thanks!
George

TM backs up to network drives inside a container which is the sparsebundle.
You can though still mount the actual backup in finder.
See Q15 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

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I found out that Time Capsule manages these rights. This is how I fixed my problem:
Enabled 'AirPort disk Guest Access' in the AirPort Utility, set it to 'read' and connected to the Time Capsule as 'Guest'. Now all users can approach the Time Capsule folders through FTP.
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I just got off the phone with 2 people at apple care (a technician and product specialist) and i explained to them my problem with time capsule and itunes and they both stated "we dont support the itunes folder being on time capsule and this isnt something we can offer support for." i have a feeling this should have been mentioned in the specs seeing that most people are using it for exactly that.
anyone else have this problem with apple care people completely brushing you off on problems with itunes/time capsule?

sorry i had posted another topic with one of the problems i was having and hadnt received any help which led me to call apple support. im not the only one that has discovered this and if you call apple they will tell you flat out as they did myself and others on this board that time capsule doesnt support having an itunes folder on it. you can do it, but they told me "time machine cannot manage the itunes folder properly over any sort of air disk". while yes you can move your library and yes it will play the music their are alot of bugs that they cant offer support for. apparently most of the problems stem from the permissions and scripts itunes uses to manage and update the files in your library. for example if you import a song you already have into itunes once its on your time machine and hit the "replace existing" option it will replace it in itunes but it will double up on the songs in the time capsule folders. another problem is in deleting and/or moving itunes files/folders on time capsule. while sometimes it allows it, most of the time the files "cannot be completed due to being in use". which you then have to close itunes, eject time capsule, re mount, and try again. im a huge fan of apple and have been for many many years and this is the first time ive ever been disappointed in an apple product. its a great product its just not meant for what myself and many others on this board were intending on using it for. and its a little unfair that they dont express this conflict in the description. but hey if you dont believe me then call apple and ask them yourself. i did. just wanted to notify others is all.
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Can I create separate folders to save media on my Airport Time Capsule? Issue is I have a 256GB HDD Mac Pro Retina which is almost full. TC will only take backup of my HDD. So where would I save my photos and videos from my iPhone and iPad?

Can I create separate folders to save media on my Airport Time Capsule? Issue is I have a 256GB HDD Mac Pro Retina which is almost full. TC will only take backup of my HDD. So where would I save my photos and videos from my iPhone and iPad?

It is a hard one.. laptops with small drives are a pain.
What you need is a home media server.
Some people use a PC running itunes for cost.. but that is nothing like as good as using a Mac mini.. they make great little HTPC device.. you can plug in large hard disks and store all your files and media. And share it with the network.. Read up apple's instructions on home sharing.
https://www.apple.com/au/support/homesharing/
For cost you can buy a mini from 2011 or 2012.. I would not recommend earlier ones.. the advantage of 2012 is they have USB3 ports. But you will pay more for them.. new mini is not as useful.. they have soldered in memory and you cannot upgrade.. the old mini was the most easily modified mac in the whole range. Uses little power and can be bought for a $300US for a good one second hand.. maybe less.

Can't change permission on Time Capsule files and folders

I am using my Time Capsule as a storage device that everyone on my network can access, and I also have a fairly small (~5000 songs) iTunes Library as well. This was all working fine, until I decided to try to get a second computer, beside my MacBook Pro (8,1) to connect to the iTunes Library. Suddenly strange things started happening, like the network dropping at seemingly completely random times, certain people being kicked of the network, etc. So then I thought "well maybe its because of the iTunes Library." So I did a 'Get Info' to the Library folder, named iTunes Library, and it showed this:
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Verify volume failed with error Could not unmount disk (-10000)
That could happen if there is another process that is presently accessing the volume. I don't think it related to the volume having data corruption. The fact that is it a "server" may be relevant.
In the time that you have had this problem, has it been shut down and restarted?
You can also try restarting it with the Shift key held down. That should do a Safe Mode startup, if an Xserve acts like a regular Mac.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
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Edit: If the volume being tested is NOT the startup disk, then Repair Disk Permissions will be disabled. It only applies when there is a system installed on that volume.

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You can but the TC is the worst possible location. The design is slow to start and quick to stop data connections.. that will cause trouble.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364
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You cannot.. Time Machine works differently on local and network drives.. see Pondini for the difference in operation.
http://pondini.org/TM/Works.html

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Hi,
This is my first time backing up with Time Capsule / Time Machine. I excluded quite a lot of stuff that I have backed up elsewhere -- I have a 140 gb drive and the TM settings say "Total Included: 75 gb." However, when I start my backup, the progress bar always says "XX out of 131 gb."
It could be that the progress indicator is wrong, and it will quit once it reaches the needed 75 gb. But it's going REALLY slow - like 8 gb in an hour - and I don't want to wait that long. If it's going this slow, I've read I may want to re-format the drive. But it's my friend's TC and I don't want to mess with her files already on the drive so I'm not going to do that.
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I searched for solutions to this problem and found Pondini's suggestion of deleting the Time Capusule .plist file. I did this, and deleted my whole sparsebundle file as well for good measure, but it didn't fix the problem.
I can't let Time Machine back up my whole computer because I have a VMware Windows virtual machine and Time Machine would try to back up the whole ~15 GB file every hour every time I go into Windows.
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None that I know about.. you just have to open them..
But the issue is Yosemite more than TC in all likelihood.
Files are often hidden as Yosemite has poor poor networking.
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I understand a TC will allow me to backup using Time Machine. But will it also allow me to set up seperate folders, one for an Aperture Vault, and another for storing documents or other material outside of my Mac's hard drive? I also backup incrementally using Superduper and a portanle USB HD. Does anyone know if I could do additional Superduper incremental backups onto a TC? (That's a lot of backing up, I know, but I'm paranoid about losing my stuff)
OSX 10.9.1
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The TC will have exactly the same issues as the WD NAS.. it is designed specifically for Time Machine.
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You can use the TC to mix files and backups..
See Q3 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
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Are you sure you followed the instructions completely?
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If not, or if Time Machine is trying to back up everything, see #D7 there.
Message was edited by: Pondini -- a typo: it should be #D7, not #B7.

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I only use time capsule as a hard drive source. But after i upgraded to mavericks i cannot access any folders I saved in my time capsule disk cause they just won't appear on finder. I have a picture to help you genius understand a bit clearer. Can anyone please help??? Thanks in advance.

I have NOT upgraded.. and will not until it has done a few updates.. due to exactly the fun and games you are having..
There is a major issue with the change in Mavericks to using SMB as preferred protocol.
Eject the TC..
Manually mount the TC.. using go, connect to server.
AFP://TCname or APF://TCIPaddress
Or use
CIFS://TCname etc.
Is your TC available via airport utility? Is it on 7.6.4 firmware.. if not update??

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Cannot access folders on my Time Capsule

I have been using my Time capsule for backups via Time Machine, but also as an external disk where I would manually drop some folders.
It has now started behaving crazy.
I can no longer access some of these folders I placed on it. They keep appearing and disappearing.
Difficult to explain, please take a look at the short YouTube video I created:
https://youtu.be/1Vaupg6pfLs
I've tried restarting it, mounting it via WiFi and via ethernet cable, accessing it from my iPhone, nothing.
Can no longer open up these folders.
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Or is my data lost?
Thank you.

This is pretty standard behaviour from Yosemite. Did you just upgrade or did you install the latest patch of yosemite which triggered it.
You might find permissions are messed up. But fixing them on a network drive is not easy..
The usual way you get around these kind of things.. copy the files to a different location via command line in terminal. You log in as SU and you should be able to do it.. rsync is a very powerful tool and I have tried to help someone else with the commands. It works for me but I am not sure if the poster was successful.
Just google for the rsync commands.. they are fairly simple to do.. you can copy all the directories that are hidden now, once you login as SU.
Or use the built in archive of the airport utility.. to a USB drive.. then you can plug that drive into the computer and fix the permissions..
Sorry I cannot give you a simpler way to fix it.. if you have any apple care left ring apple support and check if they have some simple method.. I have not seen one come up around here yet.

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