Time capsule in finder problems

Dear All
i am being particularly slow with this and would love some guidance. My time capsule has been set up for some time and time machine is backing up automatically as it should. All's good.
My confusion arises because i can see my time capsule in finder under "shared" but during a back up i can also see the time capsule under "devices" and they would appear to have different data on them. 'Shared' has the sparesbundle file while the 'devices' one has backup on it. I spent some time moving data from my mac to the 'devices' disk (to use as an external HD) and then realised that i can only see the devices disk when an actual back up is occuring. So i decided to copy this data to the 'shared' disk as this one was always visible in finder. What exactly am i doing here?
Finally i have plugged another external HD into the time capsule but am unable to see it in finder. i can see it in disk utility though??
PLease help a newbie
Al

Cayman al wrote:
Dear All
i am being particularly slow with this and would love some guidance. My time capsule has been set up for some time and time machine is backing up automatically as it should. All's good.
My confusion arises because i can see my time capsule in finder under "shared" but during a back up i can also see the time capsule under "devices" and they would appear to have different data on them.
That is your Time Machine sparsebundle.
'Shared' has the sparesbundle file while the 'devices' one has backup on it. I spent some time moving data from my mac to the 'devices' disk (to use as an external HD) and then realised that i can only see the devices disk when an actual back up is occuring. So i decided to copy this data to the 'shared' disk as this one was always visible in finder. What exactly am i doing here?
You shouldn't be doing this. Create a separate folder to place those files in.
Anything in the sparsebundle should only be for the TM backup.
Finally i have plugged another external HD into the time capsule but am unable to see it in finder. i can see it in disk utility though??
Click on the Shared -> TC -> TC Disk. It should be there. The HDD should be formatted HFS+ or FAT/FAT32 for it to be view. I do not think it can read/write an NTFS drive.

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