Time Capsule internal disk "cannot be found"

Yesterday I stopped being able to connect to my Time Capsule's shared disk; I see my Time Capsule in Finder but when I double-click on the disk folder, it says "The operation cannot be completed because the original item for 'Storage' cannot be found." I've tried installing all software updates, restarting my computer (Mac mini), resetting the Time Capsule, and tried every different file sharing setting, all without any difference. I'm thinking it may be related to the recent software update for .Mac>MobileMe because I noticed there are new icons for this in Finder the same time the Time Capsule disk stopped working.

Mac with Lion is about vista standard as far as networking goes.. did you turn it off and on again??
Turn off the whole network.. off not sleep.. reboot in the right order.. modem.. router.. TC if different to router.. then clients.. I think the TC should reappear.. if not connect to it by ethernet.. do not use extended wireless.. it is too flakey.
If it still doesn't appear press reset and do the setup again.
For lion make sure you download, install and use the tool utility.. not the toy utilty built into windows lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Tell me if the hard disk appears.. if so you know the procedure the next time.. in a few days when it happens again. It will happen again btw.. it is windows.. lion

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    I have four Mac Laptops set up to back up to a time capsule.
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    This is asked several times a day.. obviously people are struggling with their latest SSD being too small.
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