Time capsule not found

I tried installing a new 1T Time Capsule.
Airport Utility 5.3.1 will not find the TC.
Rebooted MBP, unplugged and re-plugged the TC
I have been trying for 3 hours. nothing works.
MY MBP will cannot find the TC and the TC cannot find the MBP
Please help.

Plugged able into MBP then into TC1 WAN port, green light shows, MBP will not find TC1.
is there a step I am missing?
Should the MBP auto locate the device?

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Airport time capsule not found error message

HI,
My time capsule is blinking orange.
I open aiport, sometimes airport finds the TC, sometimes not.
When not, get message:
"airport time capsule not found"
When TC is found, aiport utitily shows an error with the extended network I am setting up. I press 'edit', the settings all seem good. Re-type passwords etc and update.
The problem remains.
I have updated the firmware. An apple shop near me has reset TC using the recessed button on back of TC, and then I have re-configured at home.
BTW, TC was working fine in my old house with same laptop, so prob not simply a basic user issue...
4 other devices on my wifi network all have reliable connection, visitors' phones and laptops too, so shouln't be a wifi netowrk issue, ie network outside TC.
Any thoughts out there?
HOpe so!
mana

yes, running airport 6.1, OS 10.7.5
OK.. I failed to ask enough questions.. I think your comment it all used to work threw me.
1. You are trying to extend wireless network of what router. This will only work with another Apple router.. the way apple built it is in the family only. So please spell out what is the primary router??
If you did have it working to extend the wireless of a non-apple router in your previous house I simply don't know how.. according to Apple it isn't possible. You can use WDS.. that is slow and reduces everything to G wireless.. that is the only way.
2. When you say in the first post..
4 other devices on my wifi network all have reliable connection, visitors' phones and laptops too, so shouln't be a wifi netowrk issue, ie network outside TC.
I presume if you turn off the TC, these devices still have wireless network because they are connected to the primary router.. not the TC.. again my bad reading.. I assumed they are connected to the TC.
So please spell out the whole network..
Broadband modem.. type, model, make.
Main router.. type model make
Any other network devices.
And how was it setup in your old place and how is it different now.

Time Capsule not found ... and yet I know exactly where it is.

I've installed ML on both my MBPro and my iMac, both recent models (late 2010 iMac; late 2011 MBPro). I use my Time Capsule as my WiFi hub as well. Since the upgrade, two things that I know of are not working properly: Time Capsule backups and Home Sharing in iTunes. I'll save the Home Sharing for another thread.
I frequently look up at the menu bar and see an exclamation point in the center of the Time Capsule backup indicator, and when I click on it, I get a message saying that the backup disc can't be found. This will happen throughout the day, and then, though I've done nothing, not even unplugging and re-plugging the router, it'll be back and ready for back up. When I select Back Up Now, it will, but it takes several minutes. The latest 10.8.1 update doesn't even address this.
Any insight from anyone? Does it have to do with 5ghz v.s 2.4ghz? Have my walls gotten thicker in my apartment? And, by the way, the network itself is fine - I never lose connection to the internet, and even when home sharing isn't working, I can still pick up other shared libraries.

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I have a time capsule that I do not use as a router, just for time machine. It worked fine for a year wirelessly backing up my macs but then I moved and have a new router. Airport no longer finds the time capsule and it says I can't back it up my macs because the backup disk cannot be found. I tried plugging the TC in to my modem but no luck.
Thoughts?
Thank you!
Beth

Plug the TC into a computer by ethernet directly.. press and hold the reset until it starts to flash rapidly.. about 10sec. Then the utility should be able to find it and simply set it up in bridge mode..
You should download the 5.6 airport utility for lion as v6 is a toy. You can run both side by side and keep 6 for pretty network pictures.

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My time capsule is reporting normal operation. It is connected directly to ethernet, not wireless and it is not an access point. here is the message
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So I turned time machine off some time ago,( got fed up with it constantly saving whilst recording music and slowing down stuff), now although i was happy (ish) as it was before, i can no longer find in preferences a drive to use as backup.
the alert box tells me that airport cannot locate, when i previously, and still do, have ethernet cabling connected .
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Can i find back up drives without airport utility being used?

Thanks for th response, i have upgraded to lion some time back and as i recall i've had this prob before and had to do a verification of some kind using the clean up disc utility.
I have already done...
the verification again without success, I did a repair disc permission on the Mac HDD,i did a restart of TC by unplugging and replugging without success.
I use TC for backup only, using ethernet and my router is wireless.
i'm reluctant to reset although I would if I could be sure.
What is the 5.6 utility?
My version 11.5.2, should i install the 5.6? if this is indeed an upgrade?
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Airport Time Capsule not found

Hi,
I'm tying to setup Time Machine backup on a new Macbook Pro (well, the laptop is Mid 2010 but I got it new ;-) ).
I have an existing Airport Time Capsule which I already use for another Mac as a backup device which is working fine.
In Time Machine setup I can't select the Time Capsule volume, neither can I see it in the Airport Utility although I am actully connected over WLAN to this Airport TC.I can use Airport Utility just fine on my other Mac and also on iPad without problem.
MacBook is running 10.8.4, Airport Utility is 6.3.1 TC has newest firmware as well.
Any hints?
Regards
Chris

Manually mount the hard disk of the TC.
In Finder, use the top menu.. Go, Connect to server.
AFP://TCname or TCIPaddress eg AFP://10.0.1.1 if the TC is at default.. you obviously substitute the actual name.. and that is network name.. not as it appears but as apple reads it.. much easier therefore to use names that already conform.. so short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Reset TM and see if you can find the hard disk you now have mounted.
See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Time Capsule not found as base station, but green light?

When plugging in my time capsule, the green light appeared. However, Airport utility said it could no devices could be found. I did a hard reset so that the flashing amber light was flashing, but to no avail. Thoughts?

How close is the AirPort Utility to the TC? What is blocking it if you drew a straight-line from the TC to the computer the Utility is on?

Time Capsule not found in airport utility

I have a 2nd gen time capsule that is having some difficulties. It seems like it has been since the latest (7.6.1) update.
After a while, my wireless clients cannot connect to it, and it won't show up in the AirPort utility. If I power cycle it, it shows up again, and clients can connect.
When it isn't listed, the light on it is still green.
It ALSO seems that the time machine can back up to it still .
Any ideas?

It may help to power cycle the entire network if you have not already done so. This will get everything back in the right sequence on your network.
Just power everything off in any order that you want
Wait a minute or two
Start the modem first and let it run a minute by itself
Start the next device connected to the modem the same way
Keep starting devices one at a time a minute apart until everything is powered back up

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I have had a time capsule for while now and I just got a new PC. This is my first PC in years. I am having trouble connecting to the internet. But more so, I am having trouble even connecting to the time capsule. Windows does not even find it.
I am using a wired connection. Not wireless. I just do not understand why it does not even show up with a wired connection.
Please, can anyone help me!?
Thank you

PC has to use SMB with the TC..
SMB has rules which Apple default configuration breaks.. one would hope NOT deliberately.
Change the TC name and wireless names, to short, no spaces, especially no apostrophe .. just pure alphanumeric.. ie mix of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Set 5ghz to a different name to 2.4ghz.. this also helps things.
Now go to the disk / file sharing page.
Turn on the guest account.. give it read and write permissions.. at least to start with.
Put the workgroup name in correctly .. generally WORKGROUP
Now on windows download and install the airport utility for windows and bonjour.. it should be part of the package.
You might find as soon as bonjour is loaded the disk will be available and ask for username and password.. username just use admin.. it is not used on the Mac side.. for password use public which is the default.
If no disk shows up, go to windows explorer and type the address of the TC into the address bar.
\\TCName.. or \\TCIPaddress

Airport Time capsule not found on mac when using AirPort Utility

I just purchased an AirPort Time Capsule to back up my files from my Mac. I have been able to set up the wireless portion, but when trying to access the backup portion through TimeMachine I cannot select my base. I am able to see it on my iPhone, but not on Mac. I have updated everything. Is this a known problem with the transition to Yosemite? Any suggestions?

Dead spot on.. Yosemite is pain plus..
I recommend you start over in your TC setup..
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
Setup the TC again.
ie Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.
Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg TCgen5 and TCwifi for basestation and wireless respectively.
Even better if the issue is more wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round.
2. Use all passwords that also comply but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking. If the TC is main router it will not be an issue.
4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. but this change will mess up your TM backup.. so be prepared to do a new full backup. Sorry.. keep this one for second round if you want to avoid a new backup.
5. Mount the TC disk in the computer manually.
In Finder, Go, Connect to server from the top menu,
Type in SMB://192.168.0.254 (or whatever the TC ip is which you have now made static. As a router by default it is 10.0.1.1 and I encourage people to stick with that unless you know what you are doing).
You can use name.. SMB://TCgen5.local where you replace TCgen5 with your TC name.. local is the default domain of the TC and doesn't change.
However names are not so easy as IP address.. nor as reliable. At least not in Yosemite they aren't. The domain can also be an issue if you are not plugged or wireless directly to the TC.
6. Make sure IPv6 is set to link-local only in the computer. For example wireless open the network preferences, wireless and advanced / TCP/IP.. and fix the IPv6. to link-local only.
There is a lot more jiggery pokery you can try but the above is a good start.. if you find it still unreliable.. don't be surprised.
You might need to do some more work on the laptop itself. eg Reset the PRAM.. has helped some people. Clean install of the OS is also helpful if you upgrade installed.
Tell us how you go.

HT3728 Time Capsule not found

After resetting my time capsule I still cannot see the device on my mac book pro, but I do get WiFi.

Likely, Mavericks bugs.
On your Mac.....
Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock)
Open Network
Click on WiFi on the left to highlight it, then click Advanced on the lower right
Click the TCP/IP tab
Make sure that the setting for Configure iPv6 is set to Link Local Only
Click OK, then click Apply in the next window
Then, click Ethernet and repeat the same process as above
Restart the Mac
Then, pull the power plug on the Time Capsule, count to ten, then plug it back in
Wait a full minute for the Time Capsule to restart, then see if AirPort Utility can see the Time Capsule

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Time Capsule Not Recognized by PC

I've replaced my old router with a new Time Capsule (TC). The router is connected to a Motorola SB6120 cable modem for internet access via my cable TV company. Set up of the TC seemed to go smoothly, the network still has the same SSID and WEP security code as it did before, picked up automagically from the old router during the set up. My wireless devices are a Macbook Pro (that I used to do the setup), an iMac, an iPad2, two iPhone4s (plural iPhones, not to be confused with the new iPhone4S), an HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One printer, and the problem - a Dell Inspiron N5010 PC running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1.
After completing the set up I had to re-enter the WEP security code on each Apple device and the printer when they first tried to connect to the network, even though the code had not changed, but other than that one-time minor inconvenience they all connect fine.*
The problem is with the Dell PC. It can 'see' the network - the SSID shows in the list of available networks - and it sees excellent signal strength, but it connects with only "Limited Access". Neither disconnecting from the network and reconnecting, nor disabling and re-enabling the network card, changes that. Initially, running the Network Troubleshooting routine produced the following result:
- The 1st (and only) stopping point was a request to confirm the WEP security code. The code shown was correct, but I re-entered it and continued.
- The troubleshooting routine then went through a series of other checks without stopping for user input or confirmation.
- The troubleshooting routine ended by showing 2 Problems Found:
1) the security code confirmation
2) 'IP problem' (not the exact wording, but something about an IP address problem).
After doing some research on the internet, I downloaded and installed Airport Utility on the Dell PC and tried to run it. On launching Airport Utility I got this message on the screen, "Unable to find any Airport wireless device".
Again I tried to run the Windows Network Troubleshooting routine. Again the 1st item is to confirm the WEP security code after which the routine runs to completion without stopping. Now there are 2 different problems found:
1) Problem with wireless adapter of access point - Detected - triangle with ! inside
2) Windows cannot connect to [SSID network name] - Fixed - circle with checkmark inside
Any suggestions for what might be going on? What hardware or settings I ought to check and report back on?
Thanks in advance for and suggestions anyone can offer.
* Aside: my iMac shows that the network security type is WPA2, not WEP, but it connects just fine anyway!

Thanks again for your suggestions and instructions, now wish me luck!
Yes, I do!!
Never mind - Google is my friend!
Sure is.
2. how do I determine which of the two networks to use?
Easy.. pick the best one. ie best signal strength and speed. 5ghz is better speed and poor range. 2.4ghz the opposite. At any point pick the best. Best signal / speed. Close to the router, it will be 5ghz.. further away 2.4ghz will be better. Try both.. it is a 10sec effort.
The reason to do this manually is the TC is designed to swap channels automatically when there is interference.. It is also so the client on the computer (mac only) will auto swap between 2.4ghz and 5ghz for whichever is faster. So you have auto channels on top of auto band.. and even the Mac gets confused .. the PC has no idea.
3. What channel should I set for the 5 ghz network? (If I recall correctly, the TC is presently using channel 6 - does that apply to both networks?)
No.. 2.4ghz uses channels 1-11 in USA.. 1-13 in Europe Australia..
There are 3 non-overlapping channels, 1, 6, 11.. pick one and try it. Better still on the PC download the application inssider.. and you will see which channels are in use.. usually all of them if you live in a city in USA or moderately weathly country. Pick the channel with the lowest signal and use that. Since only those three channels are non-overlapping picking channel 9 for instance because nobody is using it, is pointless. Wireless on both channel 6 and channel 11 will then interfere with it. Use the lowest signal channel, out of the three, 1, 6, 11. (13 in Europe 14 in Japan).
5ghz has a large range of channels, beginning from 36 up to 151 (at least in Australia) .. your country if different will vary. Use the lower channels if possible.. but there is not much interference yet on 5ghz. Usually you can just use 40 which meets lower end equipment. eg early versions of the AEBS and TC do not offer a large range of channels.
4. Can I leave the security as WEP until I get everything working? I understand that WPA2 is better
WEP is equal to a strong door on a tent.. it is next to useless. It keeps out people who are not trying to get in. And offers 1min of difficulty to the guy with the knife. Use no security to do setup.. then use WPA2.. if something doesn't work with wpa2 you can use wpa at a pinch. Throw away any item not compliant with at least WPA. WEP is not a rated security for N wireless.. it could well not work or fall back to G wireless. So for testing just turn off security.. when it is working jump straight to wpa2.
5. Why turn on the Guest account? I don't see that it's used in the subsequent steps.
If you ever want to write to or read the hard disk from PC.. you will have issues with security on Windows not matching the TC.. You do not need to use guest account (this is hard disk access not wireless btw).. if you never want to use hard disk. I added it for completeness. You can also fight your way through the difference in security between a Mac and a PC with win7 in particular.. loads of fun. If the disk is going to be on a private network and the TC has to be really, then use guest network. If anyone wants to break in it is no more difficult than holding down the reset for 1sec and it will reset all the passwords. So what more security do you need. Guest is fine.
6. Will do. I do have a workgroup specified on the 3 computers, but it's one that I created and it's not named <WORKGROUP>
SMB uses workgroup name.. what name you use is irrelevant.. again this is for hard disk access. If you just want internet it is not necessary to worry about. Put into the workgroup name the name of YOUR workgroup. But it makes it appear in the windows networking as a network drive and that can be helpful.
Somewhere on the Dell PC I've seen that both ipv6 and ipv4 show as not used, don't recall where I saw it though, and there did not appear to be any way to change it.
You have internet connection it MUST use TCP/IP which has to be either ipv4 or ipv6 or both. That is how the internet works.. you cannot have neither. You change the settings in TCP/IP properties box associated with the wireless card.. go to device manager and the wireless device. Click on it and go to properties.. see TCP/IP and go the advanced.
You need to learn to use the networking tools.
The key tool is ping.. that allows you to see if a device is available and responding on the network.
Command window is same as terminal on the Mac.. (well near enough). You do low level commands.. both will do ping.
You can also get all the settings in the network.
Simple one is ipconfig in windows.. ifconfig in the mac.. that will show the IP address of all the network clients. In windows there is a full description if you do ipconfig /all
These commands are very important to use and learn about.

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Hi everyone.
I have what seems like a silly question. When my computer is doing backuos to the Time Capsule (over a wifi network), the disk does not appear to be getting smaller in size. What I mean is that the time capsule drive I use is still saying "26.51 GB available." My last backup was a relatively large one (~9 GB). In looking at the Console, and verifying this by entering the Time Machine, all the backups have completed successfully, so I'm not all that concerned about it.
What started this was that I needed space on the drive, so I was fiddling with things, at first moving to another drive, but realized that didn't have enough space on the drive, so I switched back to the old drive, deleting files on the drive (not from Time Machine) that I no longer needed, as they were taking up the most space.
Here's the code from the last 2 backups.
7/25/13 6:30:45.489 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
7/25/13 6:30:46.043 PM com.apple.backupd: Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
7/25/13 6:31:12.020 PM com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
7/25/13 6:31:15.671 PM com.apple.backupd: Disk image /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Michael’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1
7/25/13 6:31:15.717 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb
7/25/13 6:33:38.972 PM com.apple.backupd: 11.19 GB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 7:31:49.752 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 6.0 GB of 9.2 GB, 3035 of 3035 items
7/25/13 7:59:53.893 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 3064 files (9.2 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:01:02.591 PM com.apple.backupd: 226.6 MB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 8:02:47.490 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 1586 files (10.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:03:20.976 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
7/25/13 8:03:20.977 PM com.apple.backupd: Found partially deleted backup - trying again to delete: 2013-07-11-173054
7/25/13 8:08:17.373 PM com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb/Michael’s MacBook Pro/2013-07-11-173054 (196.9 MB)
7/25/13 8:13:57.279 PM com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb/Michael’s MacBook Pro/2013-07-23-230340 (11.2 MB)
7/25/13 8:13:57.279 PM com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
7/25/13 8:13:58.597 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
7/25/13 8:14:32.035 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
7/25/13 8:14:32.463 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
7/25/13 8:30:44.670 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
7/25/13 8:30:45.986 PM com.apple.backupd: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Michael%20Payne@Extreme%20Pleasantville._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Mac hine%20Backups
7/25/13 8:30:46.722 PM com.apple.backupd: Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups using URL: afp://Michael%20Payne@Extreme%20Pleasantville._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Mac hine%20Backups
7/25/13 8:31:13.196 PM com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
7/25/13 8:31:17.883 PM com.apple.backupd: Disk image /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Michael’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1
7/25/13 8:31:17.894 PM com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1/Backups.backupdb
7/25/13 8:32:43.664 PM com.apple.backupd: 226.6 MB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 8:33:54.800 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 945 files (10.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:33:54.964 PM com.apple.backupd: 215.9 MB required (including padding), 26.51 GB available
7/25/13 8:34:31.278 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 821 files (7.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
7/25/13 8:34:38.722 PM com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
7/25/13 8:34:38.722 PM com.apple.backupd: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
7/25/13 8:34:38.744 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
7/25/13 8:34:50.291 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
7/25/13 8:34:50.546 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume.

The inside and outside of the sparsebundle are two different things.. when you delete old backups they remove space from inside the sparsebundle but that space is not recovered to the TC.. nor is space used on the TC until the space is used up again inside the sparsebundle.
Pondini has some info about it.
http://pondini.org/TM/A8.html

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