Time Capsule Hard Drive - Disk Repair and NAT

When the "original item" can't be found on the time capsule hard drive, how does one go about connecting TC to a computer to run a disk utility to repair the TC hard drive? By the way, I was merrily rolling along with TC until this morning. Suddenly, there is a network issue and I can't connect to the internet because of the DHCP range and the hard drive can't be found. Talk about the double whammy!

"because of the DHCP range" means weak signal or interference

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Time capsule Hard drive was disconnected and now cannot retreive critical information...?

The hard drive is not even recognised ..

Hi,
"The hard drive is not even recognised"?
I am presuming from this statement that it is not showing up in the Finder application?
Is your Mac connecting to it via Wifi?
What happens if you try and enter Time machine? or Try to back up to it?
If you cannot do either, open Airport Utility, click on the Time Capsule, choose "edit", click the disks tab, un-tick "enable file sharing", then click update. Next re-tick "enable file sharing" and click update.
I'm afraid that the reset button on the device is purely for resetting the network settings on it and has no effect whatsoever on it's internal hard drive.
I hope this helps

Time capsule hard drive - maintenance and repair/

Is there any way to do check, maintenance and repair on the Time Capsule Hard drive? Drive Utility and Disk Warrior, etc. don't show the drive.

"because of the DHCP range" means weak signal or interference

Can Time Capsule hard drive be accessed with Disk Utility? I'm having issues...

How does one mount , inspect , verify , and possibly repair a Time Capsule hard drive with Disk Utility ?
My 500Gb 1st gen Time Capsule ( used wireless with Airport) has quit backing up new data . ( iMac Core2Duo, Snow Leopard) . TC says it needs 238 Gb of available space, but only has 35 Gb available. So it quit doing new incremental backup altogether. It's almost like it wants to start over.
Airport connection seems good. Time Capsule seems healthy enough ( for being 3.5 years old) . I really dont want to lose the data on the existing backup.
What is the nature of this glitch ?

I'm sorry , LaP , but " Time Capsule become too full " is not the cause of my problem .
In fact, I just got done pruning the iMac system hard drive a little to free up some 10 Gb of new space , yet created only maybe 1-2 Gb of new data to archive. The TC had been doing regular daily backups without issue and Time Machine was showing me stuff from about ten days back.
The TC informed me it needed 235 Gb of space but only had 34 Gb available. That 235 Gb needed is totally in error. My problem more resembles corrupt hard disk directories . Maybe Permissions ? which is why I asked about using Disk Utility.
Yes, I do need a newer larger TC, but pigs don't fly and money does not grow on trees to make tha happen. The backup I have now is fine and should work if I need to restore anything in the forseeable. New data will not be archived, alas.

How can I access the time capsule hard drive via ethernet?

I recently bought a new laptop, as my old one was sadly stolen. I'm trying to connect to my backed up time capsule hard drive via ethernet to retrieve my files, but it doesn't seem to work. Oddly enough I have no issues over wifi. When I switch from wifi to ethernet, it gives me an error message stating that the disk was not found in the network. I have a MacBook Air with an ethernet adapter if that makes any difference. I'm also running the latest OS X and firmware. Wifi is simply too slow for this restoration process, so any suggestions?
Could I possibly connect via USB? What kind of cable would that require? Is the ethernet issue a problem with my settings?
Help greatly appreciated

manzalawy7 wrote:
I'm trying to connect to my backed up time capsule hard drive via ethernet to retrieve my files, but it doesn't seem to work.
In the Network panel of System Preferences do you have an Ethernet connection item on the left? If not, authenticate if necessary by clicking on the lock, then click the plus sign at the bottom of that column and add an Ethernet item.
When I switch from wifi to ethernet, it gives me an error message stating that the disk was not found in the network.
How are you doing that switching? When you switch to Ethernet do you have connectivity to the Internet? If not, do you see a tiny green light on the Time Capsule next to the Ethernet socket you're using?
Could I possibly connect via USB?
No.

Playing media files from Time Capsule hard drive

Hello folks,
I am using my 3TB Time Capsule to host all of my video files, most of which are MKV files. I also have an external hard drive connected to the USB port on Time Capsule and there are few video files on it as well.
I am using Time Capsule as a router sitting between the cable modem (WAN) and my locan network (LAN). I have an Argosy HV355T digital media player hooked up to my home theater and TV via HDMI. It is connected to Time Capsule via Ethernet.
On Argosy media player, I am able to connect to Time Capsule (login is successful) but I can neither see the hard drives nor their contents.
When I connect the external hard drive to the USB port on Argosy, the hard drive is recognized and files from it can be read and played. Thus I have ruled out the possibility of Argosy being unable to read Mac formats.
I try to use uPnP on Argosy to connect as uPnP client to Time Capsule, but nothing happens. I thought uPnP is turned ON by default on Time Capsule.
Why am I not able to see the Time Capsule hard drive from my media player?
What am I missing in my setup?
Do I need to install a media server device to read files from hard drives and storage, and stream to media player (Argosy)?
How are you folks using Time Capsule to play video from its hard drive on to TV?
Thanks.

I try to use uPnP on Argosy to connect as uPnP client to Time Capsule, but nothing happens. I thought uPnP is turned ON by default on Time Capsule.
Why am I not able to see the Time Capsule hard drive from my media player?
What am I missing in my setup?
Do I need to install a media server device to read files from hard drives and storage, and stream to media player (Argosy)?
How are you folks using Time Capsule to play video from its hard drive on to TV?
The TC has no upnp.. no Apple device does.. Apple refused to join and went off in a huff, sat in the corner and created their own.. NAT-PMP.. which as you can imagine.. doesn't work with anything else but Apple stuff.
So first issue.. no upnp but that isn't a biggie.
SMB file protocol which the rest of the world uses.. has rules which Apple also breaks.
Make sure your TC is setup with all short names. no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
On the file sharing page of the airport utility.. (you may need to use 5.6 from Mac or Windows), ensure that you set a workgroup.. generally now WORKGROUP. And make sure you turn on the guest account to full read and write permissions.
It would be good to ensure a normal windows computer can access the TC..
In windows explorer type in the address bar
\\TCname or \\TCIPaddress (where you replace with actual name or IP).
I do not know the Argosy player but I will look it up.
My hacked ATV1 can see and play files from the TC. That is running XMBC of course.

Time Capsule Hard Drive Problems

I attempted to erase the free space on our Time Capsule using disk utility. The process froze at the stage "creating secondary temporary file". At this point I force quitted disk utility and restarted both the computer and time capsule. After, I found that Time Capsule was reporting it had only 1.14gb free when it actually has 1.3tb free, and the existing backup images, although available, can be mounted but the files are not available. Moreover, when I have an image mounted from time capsule disk utility will not open, so I cannot verify the drive.
When I attempt to mount an image from Time Capsule I get the error log:
14/09/2012 16:56:05.595 com.apple.Finder: AFPFSMapIDName afpfsMapIDNameFSCTL returned -1, errno: 2
Any ideas why time machine is behaving this way? Can anyone think of some remedies? I dont want to wipe the time capsules hard drive because it has years worth of backups on it.

I would try and copy the sparsebundle/s to another drive.
This will take an age 2 ages and half an age.
http://pondini.org/TM/18.html
Then erase the TC entirely from airport utility.
I would recommend you then start over.. keep the copy of the sparsebundle as archive version.
You do know you should have archived the disk before you started playing don't you!!

Time Capsule Hard Drive not showing up in Windows machine

I have Time Capsule showing up perfectly on my two Macooks, but my windows laptop from work cannot see the Time Capsule hard drive at all. I have successfully logged onto Time Capsule as a wireless network and am able to use the Internet fine, but I still can't see time capsule anywhere in Windows Explorer or my network places?
I turned off Windows firewall and re-install Bonjour for Windows, but that didn't help either. I thought Time Capsule was just supposed to show up in my system after I access the network? Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any help.

I set up my TC and installed Airport Utility on two PCs running Windows XP. On the first machine, the hard disk didn't show up, but on the second PC it showed up automatically mapped to Z:\. To fix this problem, I just opened the Airport Utility on the problem PC and looked up the IP address of the TC. I typed in the URL based on the IP address and it came up fine as \\10.0.0.1 showing another folder called 'Time Capsule'. You can easily map a drive to this folder by going to the start menu, right-click on My Computer, and select map network drive.

Time capsule hard drive starts/stops every 5 min: problem?

Every five minutes, whether or not a time machine backup is due, my 1 TB time capsule hard drive starts, spools up, then stops (I used a stopwatch to time the interval). Is this a problem? Never happened when unit was new (late 2010), or before Lion.

Yes, it is a problem..
Firstly check the log if there is a lot of instances of AFP getting logged in and off again.
Try disconnecting everything that is ethernet connected to the TC.. does it still happen.. if yes, turn off all the wireless stuff and see if it still happens.
If it still happens disconnect the wan.
There simply may not be anything you can do about it.. Lion has altered the setting for spotlight to analyse the drive.. but the new firmware also seems to make it worse. Not sure if you can stop it or not.. but it will cause issues over time.. in fact it would be better if the hard disk never spun down than to do it on 5min interval especially if the disk is also parking the heads.
How desperately do you want to pursue the problem??
I would suggest wiping the current setup. And even erase the drive after copying anything you need off it. So you get it back to scratch. You can ring applecare if it is still under warranty. I am not sure they will treat it seriously.

HT1178 How do I encrypt my Time Capsule hard drive?

I would like to secure my Time Capsule hard drive. How do i go about encrypting it?

You cannot access the TC directly.. USB cannot be plugged into a computer.. It is for now and forevermore a network drive.
Read Q3 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
He covers how to create a DMG file which is a file that works as a virtual disk.
This has limitations although from your point of view it is probably good. Only one computer can access the dmg at a time. That includes multiple users on the same computer. So it is only mounted in one place and for one user.
You can also do the same thing with a sparsebundle although I am not sure if there is any advantage over dmg files.
http://alex.seeholzer.de/2012/09/setting-up-smbafpcifs-network-drive-for-time-ma chine-on-osx-10-8-mountain-lion/
There is no need to make it usable by Time Machine. You simply use Sparsebundle as DMG.. it is just that it might co-exist with the TM backup better.
You can set fixed size to the sparsebundle.. or DMG files.
You can then mount the file on your computer.
Please note that storing files in encrypted format on the TC makes backing them up a pain.. figure out how you intend to do this.. Time Machine cannot backup network drives. And most backup software will have issues with encypted files.. unless you have them mounted in a way you can read.

I cant access time capsule hard drive.

I cant access time capsule hard drive. Everything was working before but all of a sudden i get an error msg when double clicking on my network drive which states ' The local device name is already in use'. The time capsule wireless network works fine though. I am using Vista 64.

Reboot the entire network.. everything must go off.. all stuff off.
Restart in order.. modem.. router.. TC (maybe also working as router).. other network stuff.. clients.
Can vista now open the disk?
If not try doing it manually.. in windows explorer type the TC address \\10.0.1.1 for instance.. whatever IP it has. I just used default as example.
If no good, open the airport utility which I hope you have installed.
Make sure the TC name is short no spaces pure alphanumeric.
Make sure workgroup is correct and guest access is on with read and write permissions.
If still no good.. press and hold the reset.. redo the setup.
Later TC firmware is useless for windows users.. the best was 7.5.2 which you should go back to.
Do you have other clients using the TC? Are they all ok?
vista.. shudder.. has one virtue.. it made me give up windows and move to Mac OS.

Erase Time Capsule Hard Drive

I want to restore my time capsule hard drive to factory defaults and erase all of the information. I know how to reset the settings but the hard drive itself is different. What steps do I need to take? Simply delete it all through finder or is there another, better, way?

Hard Drive > Applications > Utilities > Airport Utility
Select "Manual Setup", then click the "Disks" icon at the top of Airport Utility window.
In the next window, make sure that "Disks" is highlighted in the "Disks - File Sharing" box
click "Erase".

Airport Time capsule internal drive need repair

Airport Time capsule "internal drive needs repair". brand new out of the box.
ModelA1470 Running one newish mac mini mountan lion. Airport utility 6.3
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Take it straight back to the store for replacement. It is faulty.. there is no fix you can do from outside. Even if there was, I would still say it is Apple's problem.. and a disk should never go bad in that length of time..
You would think after the debacle with Seagate drives in the imacs they would never touch them again.

I have a time machine backup file on a USB hard drive. I bought a time capsule / airport extreme, flat 3TB. I wish to transfer the backup file from the usb hard drive to the time capsule hard drive. 10.6.8

I have a time machine backup file on a USB hard drive. I bought a time capsule / airport extreme, flat 3TB. I wish to transfer the backup file from the usb hard drive to the time capsule hard drive. 10.6.8

Unfortunately, Time Machine backups that are stored on a drive that has been connected directly to a Mac are completely different than Time Machine backups that are stored on a Time Capsule.
Frankly, it is not worth the effort and trouble to try to transfer the old backups to the new Time Capsule.....my opinion....having done this in the past.
It is possible though, but I would not recommend it due to the complexity and downsides involved with this. To give you an idea of how to do this, check out this support article.
http://pondini.org/TM/18.html
Even if you transfer the "old" backups over to the Time Capsule successfully, Time Machine will not simply "add on" to the old backups.
Time Machine will make a new complete backup of your Mac and then add incremental backups from that point.
My advice.....start a new backup on the Time Capsule and move forward. Keep the USB hard drive around for a month, maybe 2 or 3 in case you need to go back to an old backup for some reason. At that time, you will not likely need the old backups at all since you will have a current 2-3 month history of new backups. At that point, you can erase the USB drive and use it for another purpose.

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