Time Capsule Icon No Longer Appears on Desktop

Two weeks ago I had AT&T U-verse cable, internet, & phone installed. As part of that installation they installed an AT&T router/wireless combination. The ethernet cable that was previously connected to Time Capsule is now connected to the AT&T device. There is no longer any ethernet connection to Time Capsule. The Time Capsule icon still appeared on my desktop and I manually performed back-ups from my Windows applications to Time Capsule. Time Capsule went from displaying a constant green light to displaying a flashing yellow light. That worked for several days. After about a week of that there appeared on my screen a 'wizard' of some sort recognizing the status of Time Capsule. It said this 'wizard' would eliminate the flashing yellow light. I followed the steps through the 'wizard' and at one point the flashing yellow light turned to constant green. There were a few more steps in the 'wizard' and when it was finished the flashing yellow light reappeared. The next time I tried saving files from Windows I could not connect to my w: drive, and the Time Capsule icon no longer appeared on my Mac desktop. I went into Airport Utilities and there is a box checked that should display the icon properly. Any ideas what's happening? How do I restore Time Capsule so I can back-up my files. Thank you.

Welcome to the discussions!
I don't have 10.6.1 yet, but have noticed this happens very occasionally on my MacBook Pro, but not on my iMac. Simply resetting Time Machine on my laptop has done the trick.
Open System Preferences
Click on Time Machine
Click your Time Capsule to highlight it
Click Use for Backups
If that does not do it then delete the "com.apple.TimeMachine.plist" file. It's located as follows:
Macintosh HD > Library > Preferences
Restart your computer
Then perform the same steps as above to setup Time Machine again.
The resets will not affect any of your backups.

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cybergroupie wrote:
my Time Capsule icon isn't showing up on my desktop.
Presuming you mean the volume of the Time Capsule's internal disk, mount that, open the Accounts panel of System Preferences, authenticate by clicking on the lock if it's "closed", select your account, select the "Login Items" tab, then drag the icon of that drive to the login items list.
Note that this will cause a window of that drive to appear each time you log in. If you search these discussions, you may find some older threads that discuss ways around that.

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Hi,
On my iMac, the TC capsule is only visible during backups (or after I entered the Time Machine). It disappears automatically as soon as the backup is made, and only appears again when the next backup is to be made.
On my wife's MacBook, on the other hand, the TC icon remains on the desktop after the first backup of that day. Several times an hour, the MacBook seems to want to check if the TC volume is still present (which my iMac doesn't do).
Is there a way to make Time Capsule / Time Machine clear that I only need to see the TC icon when backups are made? And that there's no need to poll the TC volume every 10 or 15 minutes or so?
BTW: we are talking about 1 and the same Time capsule used by both the iMac and the MacBook.
Any help would be highly welcomed.
Thanks
J.

Amenhotep,
I believe the TCs icon is there because you have manually mounted it once before. When the dialogue box opened asking for a password you clicked "Remember password in my keychain".
Try the suggestion in the second paragraph below...
*Authentication Issues* (For Time Capsule / AirDisk Users) #
Open your Keychain and select "login" from the Keychains pane in the top left. Highlight "Passwords" in the Category pane from the lower left. Sort all the items by Kind. Note everything labeled "Airport...". How many do you have listed? There should only be one "Airport base station password" for each base station that you have active. Also, there should only be one "Airport network password" for each network you have created. If there are more than these, then delete all but the ones with the most recent Modification date.
Also you may see an item with the name of your Time Capsule. It will have a little blue "@" icon and the KIND will be "Network Password". This Keychain item is only created if you have physically connected to your Time Capsule via the "Connect As..." function in the Finder window. Delete this entry. It will be recreated next time you manually mount your Time Capsule.
Now, go to the Desktop and Ctrl-Click the Time Capsule icon. A contextual menu will appear. Select "Eject". The TC icon will disappear. If you MUST mount the drive again in the future, do not select "Remember password in my keychain" and remember to manually Eject it when you are done.
Let us know if this resolved your issue.
Cheers!

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Yes....It happens all the time. I also erased my HD and installed Snow Leopard but with no success. Tried lots of REBOOTING but nothing worked for me.As I have already installed the new OSX I think there is no need to go through the below procedure. What do you suggest?
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4. Click "Perform actions" button (lower right of window).
5. Reboot (possibly the Reboot NOW button will work, if not just do a normal reboot).
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Hello, I have a question with the different Time Capsule icons that show up on The Desktop, in the Finder Sidebar, and in Time Capsule preferences.
They change constantly. Should I be concerned with it?
Could someone tell me what they all mean?
One looks Greenish and has the Time capsule arrow on it,
Another is Light Blue and has three people,
And another that is Aqua Blue and has the AirPort logo on it
Forgive me for not using specific terms but i don't know the names.

One looks Greenish and has the Time capsule arrow on it, > Time Machine usage for backup
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I was having problems connecting to the internet and called AppleCare. They had me reset my time capsule and set it up again from scratch. All was well last night but this morning when I woke my iMac up there are now 2 Time Capsule icons in the Finder. One looks like the normal TC icon and says Mac server and the other looks like a PC and says PC server. Anyone know what's going on? This thing worked flawlessly until yesterday.

honestly I went through the settings on the TC and was not able to find anything that would specifically effect windows SMB filesharing. My thought is that it, by default, has that particular protocol enabled. From looking around the other forums, it appears that other users are having PC servers popping up when networked with other Apple devices (computers specifically). My thought is that it is a small "bug" in leopards expanded Windows networking abilities. Many people claim to not have had the issue with older Mac OSX versions and that it only arose when upgrading to leopard.
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The fact that all SMB enabled apple devices don't show up on other Macs as PC servers indicates to me that it is likely a bug (either all or none should show up), as my MacPro does not show up as a PC server on the Macbook.
Go figure. At least this isn't terribly intrusive (maybe just a little ugly to have that blue screen of death lingering in the finder sidebar!)

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I have a 500G Time Capsule (single band, I think) that I want to partition (just into disk images, not volumes) so that I can maintain separate-sized locations for my family's music library, photos, and Time Machine backups for the non-media files on each of a Mac Mini and 4 laptops. But I will ask more about that later.
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If I open the 215G Disk Image in the right Finder panel then, after a while, it shows up as a Disk Image in the right Finder panel when my Mac is selected under Devices in the left panel. I can create folders in the Disk Image and copy documents to those folders, at least.
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Same problem after 10.8.2 update yesterday,
Time Machine functions but disk does not mount in finder.
The disk also shows up in disk utility when TM is running
as mounted (beneath a sparse image file) but not visible.
Is this a bug, or a feature?
LW
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I recommend you do a factory reset and use short names.. not apple recommended names.
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No spaces.
Pure alphanumeric.
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Read the thread here.. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3123920?tstart=0
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And check his troubleshooting for methods of doing things like verify.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
A5

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Why does the The Time Capsule of my neighbour appears and not mine? I tried everything.
Can I use the Capsule as merely a back up without making use of Wifi? By connecting by cable to the computer?

Why does the The Time Capsule of my neighbour appears and not mine? I tried everything.
What generation is your neighbour's and what generation is yours??
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