Time Capsule mount disappears

I can connect, via the Shared section in finder, to my Time Capsule and browse folders. But if I then look at a different disk in finder and try to go back to my Time Capsule I'm presented with just a folder icon and Name TimeCapsule Kind Sharepoint underneath. I have to unmount my timecapsule and re-mount it to be able to access the folders again.
Any assistance appreciated.

Hello everyone,
I can confirm this problem. I have two Macs that both mount a hard drive attached to an Airport Extreme (Version 7.4.2) via AFP.
I can access the hard drive once. When I close the finder window and open a new one the finder can't open the drive. Additionally, the alias on the desktop doesn't work. I get an error message that the destination can't be found.
Interesstingly, if i use the terminal and change to the mounted hard drive below /Volumes/[hard-drive-name] there are no problems. I can browse the folders and the content.
I have my iTunes library on that drive. iTunes works fine with the media on the mounted drive even if it is no longer accessable with the finder. In addition, I run ChronoSync for backups with that drive with no problems. So, the problem seem to be related to the new finder in 10.6.
Probably the problem is realy about the rights of the mounted volume. They are something like:
drwx------@ [username] staff ...
What does the @ in the output mean? What rights/user/group do mounted volumes normaly have?
Any help appriciated!
Thanks,
Daniel

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I'm having a strange issue with my Time Capsule, when I list all mounted volumes in the terminal I get this:
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total 0
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Ok fixed it, if anyone wants to know
In Finder, type “Apple-Shift-G” it will prompt you for a location, type “/Volumes” and hit go. Trash extra Time Capsule mounts and disconnect/reconnect Time Capsule.

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I have an iMac (intel, OSX10.6.7) and Time Capsule [TC]. I have set up Time Machine to use the TC. I also use the TC for additional storage - Photos and Music - to keep the iMac drive fairly free. There are 5 users of this setup (2 Admin). The TC is also accessed from windows machines and so I can not use a sparse bundle for it.
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dobrian,
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/time_capsule
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Hi, glad you solved it.
There should be a warning message pop up when you activate USER accounts that all previous backup are going to disappear.. Of course in Lion.. anything can happen.
New Issue: I can only access the TC from my iMac. I removed it from the Home Router (Motorola Surfboard) because they did not want to play nice together. I could not use it as Extened or Create a new network (not sure if that makes sense). I have not tried to link it as neither though....
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
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Cheers
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I have a 2TB Time Capsule to backup the data from my MacBook Pro (2.53GHz Core 2 Duo). A couple of days ago, I needed to look for a backed up file, so I ran to my TC backups, but they were all gone. I have absolutely no idea what happened. The error message was that the backup disk could not be found. I don't think the data was erased, because the space available in the TC is the same as before, but I just can't find anything there. When I enter Time Machine, all it shows is the Today (Now) backup. I tried to select the backup disk again and click the "Backup Now" option, but all it did was a new backup with all the data in my computer (as if it was my 1st backup), so I am 200GB short now.
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Make sure wireless also has a name like TCwifi
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Go Connect to server from the top menu.
Type in, AFP://TCgen5.local (use your name plus the local domain which is local by default)
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ie hold in reset whilst powering on.. and keep holding in reset until front LED flashes.. this will do nothing to the files.
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[http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8331907&#8331907]
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Backups WAY Too Large
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I have the same problem as well. I did an archive and install with OSX, then updated to 10.5.5 and now all the TC does is spin and say preparing. A sample from the console is
Nov 12 09:46:11 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
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Nov 12 16:01:05 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Nov 12 16:01:06 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Nov 12 16:02:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Nov 12 16:04:10 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule/Erik Elie’s Computer_0017f2ccba9f.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 60)
Nov 12 16:04:10 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Giving up after 3 retries.
Nov 12 16:04:16 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Backup failed with error: 21
Nov 12 16:43:53 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Starting standard backup
Nov 12 16:43:53 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Nov 12 16:44:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule/Erik Elie’s Computer_0017f2ccba9f.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
Nov 12 16:44:08 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Waiting 60 seconds and trying again.
Nov 12 16:44:09 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Nov 12 16:45:10 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule
Nov 12 22:09:24 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Failed to mount disk image /Volumes/Erik Elie's Time Capsule/Erik Elie’s Computer_0017f2ccba9f.sparsebundle (DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 109)
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Nov 12 22:09:25 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[204]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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I'm in a similar situation with 3 Apple laptops (Macbook Pro 15" 1 week old, Macbook Pro 17" 2.5 yrs old and iBook G4 4 years old) and Time Capsule 500GB (latest model dual WIFI, bought 2 weeks ago).
Macbook Pro and iBook did backups without problems, iBook on the 2.4GHz and the other on the 5GHz band. The Macbook Pro 17" is 5 to 10 times slower in the backups than the iBook. But - still - it works.
When I connect the second Macbook Pro (15"), Time Capsule become instable and reboot casually without reasons. It reboots casually, and frequently (from 5minutes to 30 minutes intervals).
Now: turned off the iBook and connected the computers via cable LAN to TC and the problem remain the same. These 2 Macbook Pro backing up at the same time : Time Capsule become instable. Strangely only with the 2 macbook pros, not the iBook.
I really don't manage to understand why, and from where to begin to search to solve the error. The only think I did was checking the logfile in the Time Capsule but no bessages about errors. Simply the message when it restarts.
I never arrive to complete one backup. BUT only when the 2 Macbooks Pro are doing the backup at the same time! One at time works. Slow, but works.
TC worked well during these 2 weeks until I added the Macbook Pro 15" to the WIFI net. Someone knows if one "maybe somewere faulty" computer can hang TC ?
Other infos:
All the macs are on 10.5.7, all updates done. TC is on the 7.4.1 firmware. All the units are in the same (small) room. Except for these backups, all the computers works well (internet browsing, email, printing via TC, downloads, ...).
Appreciate any help / question that can help me to investigate
...sorry for my spaghetti english (-:
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