Time capsule not working at all. Possible lightning strike ;(

Any ideas how to get the TC to work again? No light displayed in the TC and seems totally dead. Wireless not working either.
Thanks

If not front LED then you should take it to your nearest Apple store for repair.

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If the TC is dead.. then you need to open it to erase the hard disk..
See http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Apple_Time_Capsule
There is nothing you can do in a dead TC to delete your files and if you have info in a TM backup it is a risk.
Apple will exchange the dead one if you buy a new TC.. but they have no return program for the TC itself.
Once you wipe the disk it is safe to put it back and sell on ebay or wherever.

Time capsule not working as wireless base station suddenly

I have been using my time capsule as base station for wireless network in our house for some time and suddenly network is not working for all wireless devices in the house. Desktop imac is connected to internet via ethernet cable through time capsule and works fine so I know problem is not with cable modem or signal coming to house. Laptops appear to be connected to my network fine but when attempting to connect any site through safari or firefox I just get the spinning wheel thingy.

Check that the laptops are getting DNS and router (gateway) from the TC.. if not reset it and do the setup again.
What OS are you actually running on the laptops.. this problem started with Lion and is much worse in ML.. it is actually not a Snow Leopard issue which you list as the OS.

Time Capsule not backup up all of external HDD's Data, only partial.

I cannot get my Time Capsule to back up all of my data spread over two external drives and a internal drive. Can anyone help me to get my TC to back up ALL my data?
EX HDD 150gb
EX HDD 120gb
IN HDD 147 out of 230 gb full.
Total: 417gb
Time Capsule showing 288gb used.
Is it not sensing one external drive? Is it compressing the data and therefore doesn't add up to total. How do I check for a complete back up? Also, can I back disks up as separate images? Or does Time Machine lump everything into one? Anyone who can answer these questions would be greatly appreciated : )

I think that's it. I did some searching for you and found "A USB drive, directly attached to your iMac's USB port, must be formatted in HFS+ and non-booting for Time Machine to "see" it." So if that is your situation... For further reference check: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8924677

Time Capsule not working as a router

I've done a search, but can't find anything that jumps out to me as the same issue.
I've recently ditched all my PC gear. Now have the following:
Mac Mini
2TB Time Capsule
MacBook Air
iPad
My issue is with the internet connectivity of the Time Capsule. I have the mac mini connected via Ethernet. It can get on the internet no problem. None of my wifi devices can at all. My ISP only allows two devices to ping out, and they need to be registered via MAC address. No big deal, except my Time Capsule isn't functioning like a router. So, the MAC address of my Mac Mini is registered, and it's working, but I can't register the Time Capsule. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something easy, but can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Figured instead of banging my head against the wall, I'd see if anyone had something similar happen to them?

Register by MAC address to the first device is generally used by cable companies. But the Modem acts as the first port of call and whatever device first is turned on, picks up the public IP address and the MAC is registered. It just works.
Your issue might be that the first device to register has a very long lease. Since you cannot power cycle you should ask the IT admin of the building who controls this setup to release and renew the IP after you plug in the TC otherwise it will not be recognised.. for days or weeks or however long the lease is set to.
But it could be 24hours.
Plainly you got the Mac Mini working.. how did you do that??
Sometimes you can just try overnight.. remove the Mac and plug in the TC.. but it is far easier to talk to the admin and get him/her to simply renew the lease.
The other method we use is spoof the MAC address of the device currently plugged in. ie grab the MAC address of the Mini and use it in the router.. to pretend it is really the Mini.. the router on the other end is none the wiser.
TC AFAIK, has no ability to spoof, but almost every other broadband router made can do it. Apple designed it for lowest common denominator in terms of networking ability.. to put it mildly.
Note your internet might be already behind a NAT.. if you use the TC or any other router in NAT mode there is an issue of double NAT with every site that requires interactive connection because there is no possible link from the site to your PC by forwarding the port. Double NAT effectively blocks it.
Check the IP you have on the Mini now.. if it is a private address.. ensure it is not 10.0.x.x by the way otherwise the TC will not work due to routing considerations. But any of the private IP address ranges are not routable over the internet and will give you issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

Time Capsule not working with new modem

I have been using my TC with our motorola modem for 2.5 years. On Friday last week, the modem crapped the bed and AT&T sent us a new modem, a netgear. The modem is working fine; when I connect the ethernet cable directly to my laptop the internet work perfectly, however when I try to get the wireless network going through my TC, there is no connection. All the lights on the modem work fine and every time I try to work with the TC, it says that it is working fine as well. It seems like something is not communicating between the modem and the TC.
I've tried restarting both machines numerous times, I've checked and rechecked the WEP password, the IP addresses are fine, and I'm still lost
The modem works. Time Capsule Works. I don't get it!

The new netgear is probably a modem router whereas the old Motorola was pure modem.. not sure but possible.
Reset the TC and set it to bridge modem.. plug into the netgear modem router.. and it should work fine.
If the new netgear is in fact a pure modem.. you need to turn it off and put the TC in place.. wait up to 15min for the ISP to renew the lease on the MAC address then turn on the cable modem.. wait then turn on the TC. But this is not necessary if it is a router.
What is the model number of the netgear so I can check this.. ?

Wifi on time capsule not working!

I have a 500g time capsule that i use mainly as a router and the WiFi isn't working. It is connected to the modem in the kitchen along with my moms computer which is running Windows Vista. I connect to it on my iMac 24' with Mac OS X 10.5.7. I was working fine yesterday and this morning, but all of a sudden the connection disappeared. Ive tried restarting my computer, disconnecting the modem, and the TC. Turning both off. Every time I restart the TC the connection will show up my iMac and I try to connect and it says connection timed out and then the connection disappears again.
If anyone has any idea what to do *plz help!!*

Any chance someone was using the microwave oven in the kitchen? Microwaves are a prime source of WiFi interference in most households along with cordless phones.
Is there any way that the TC could be positioned away from the kitchen area?
Assuming the microwave is not the cause of the difficulties, can you temporarily connect an ethernet cable from your Mac to one of the LAN ports on the TC? You could try this wireless, but may not be able to connect.
Download iStumbler, www.istumbler.net and open the program to get a look at the signal strength and noise on your wireless network. The program will also display other wireless networks in your area which may be interfering with your network.
Not all networks will be displayed as most modern routers allow users the feature of "hiding" their networks so they cannot be seen. So, it's very possible that another network that you cannot identify may be interfering with your wireless.
Specifically, look for other networks that may be using the same channel or a close adjacent channel as your wireless. If you find this to be the case, proceed as follows:
Open Airport Utility and click on Manual Setup. Click the Wireless tab below the icons to display. Look for your Channel setting and change it to a value that is as far away as possible from other networks. Channels 1-11 are available on most wireless networks, so if you are in a dense area, it may be difficult to find the best settings.

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I have a 3TB time capsule that's c. 2 years old. It worked perfectly with my old iMac. I bought a new 27" one when it came out this year and since the time capsule will not work.
I had to clear all the data as a starter. Now it gets a little into the backup taking c. 1 day then resets. It's connected via ethernet cable and has been told to join an existing network.
Currently it says it's backing up 922,498 items, after 2 hours (this is the third attempt, it resets then has no record of the old backup) it says 10kb of 789.44 GB - About 4,664,440 days remaining!!
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You have made a mistake in the setup.
You do not "Join an existing networking" and use ethernet.. they are mutually exclusive.
What you are doing is backing up over double hop wireless which is slowing to a crawl.
You need to put the TC into bridge mode.. and plug it into the main router by ethernet. Then use wiretess to the TC if you are too far away or ethernet if you are close by..
As soon as you put the TC into join a wireless network it deactivates the ethernet.

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I just started using Yosemite on my mac book pro laptop and my mac desktop. Time machine has been fine on my desktop with my external drive which is plugged into the computer. I had no problem with new backups. But, I can't get time machine to work with my laptop and time capsule. I have another external cloud drive as well, and it will not work with that one now either. First, I can no longer just open up my backups from the folders in the finder like I used to be able to. instead all I see is a disk image with my back up and when I click on it I can not open it and get an error message (see below). Also, it will not back up at all, it give me the other error message in this picture. What is going on here? I am so frustrated. I may just have to go to the genius bar but this is so frustrating.
I also can't even access my back ups now from before even if I go in through the finder window and select the hard drive the back up do to go very far back. Only a few days. I am worried that somehow all of my backups are gone but am hoping that is not the case. It all worked fine before I installed Yosemite. I would appreciate any help or guidance.
For the first image, if I try to back up to time capsule I get the exact same message except it says could not back up to the name of my time capsule drive.

A third-party NAS is unsuitable for use with Time Machine, especially if it's your only backup. I know this isn't what you want to hear. I know that Time Machine accepts the NAS as a backup destination. I know that the manufacturer says the device will work with Time Machine, and I also know that it usually seems to work. Except when you try to restore, and find that you can't.
Apple has published a specification for network devices that work with Time Machine. None of the third-party NAS vendors, as far as I know, meets that specification. They all use the incomplete, obsolete Netatalk implementation of Apple Filing Protocol.
If you want network backup, use as the destination either an Apple Time Capsule or an external storage device connected to another Mac or to an 802.11ac AirPort base station. Only the 802.11ac base stations support Time Machine, not any older model.
Otherwise, don't use Time Machine at all. There are other ways to back up, though none of them is anywhere near as efficient or as well integrated with OS X. I don't have a specific recommendation.
If you're determined to keep using the NAS with Time Machine, your only recourse for any problems that result is to the manufacturer (which will blame Apple, or you, or anyone but itself.)

New Air Port Time Capsule Not Working With Old Airport Express

I have been running a home network comprised of a Air Port Time Capsule (A1254) and 5 ea Air Port Express (A1264) for several years with no problem.
The Air Port Time Capsule (A1254) died and I replaced it with an Air Port Time (A1470). Now none of the Air Port Express (A1264) work, all flashing yellow. All other network functions seem to work okay, Time Capsule Backup, Apple TV, Internet …
I am using AirPortUtility 6.3.1 for setup but do not see any way to setup the Air Port Express.

Reset the Express to factory and start over.. they should work.. are you using all 5 in extend wireless mode?
When you reset the Express click on the wifi icon in the top menu area.. and the newly reset AEx will appear in the list.. click it and Airport utility will open and attempt to automagically connect it to the TC.

Time Capsule not working after a restore

I recently had to restore from my TM/TC backup after a standard software update made it so I could no longer log into my account. Now, my TC is not working properly. I can still access all of my past updates on mu TC, but it is not working for making new backups. Instead of backing up the new files, TM wants to do a whole new backup from scratch (all 140 gigs). Worse still, it is unbelievably slow (as in it took over 3 hours just to do 1 gig last night on my wireless.)
If I can still access all my old files on the TC and I restored my Mac using the TC files, why is it that TM wants to start an entire new backup now instead of continuing to update the original one? And, why is the updating crawling along at such a terribly slow speed. Any thoughts/proposed solutions to this very much appreciated.

I found this article which describes a fix:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080128003716101
I'm testing it on my Time Capsule now, I'll let you know how it goes.

Time Capsule not working!

I have an iMac about 3 years old. I have a time capsule about the same. I have Mountain Lion. The Time Capsule keeps wanting to back up 33.44 GB of something. Is says the oldest backup was in April 26, 2012. What do I need to do to get it working?
Thank you
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Mountain Lion seems to generate ghost disks.. I am not sure why but they might or might not delete.
I guess my method would be to start over.. use a better name..
Short no spaces pure alphanumeric. Not "Carl's Time Capsule"
You can put CarlTC
After you make the change reboot everything.. modem router TC client computers. To make sure you have fresh new view of the network.. then delete all the old names.
Redirect TM to the new name.. but the change will not affect the backup which is stored and TM should be able to pick it up and continue.

Time Capsule Not Working With Azureus!

Hi everyone.
I have read every post about this and I am sure I've done everything right, but I STILL cannot pass the NAT/Firewall test on Azureus. I even got an Apple rep to look into it and he worked on it for a week and even he doesn't understand why it isn't working!!! I am running Leopard 10.5.2, and I have a 500 GB Time Capsule. I am using the latest version of Airport Utility and the latest version of Azureus. My ISP is Verizon Fios. Please note that when I was using Airport Extreme with a Powerbook G4 OS 10.4, everything was working swimmingly. The ONLY thing that's changed is that now I'm on Leopard and a Time Capsule. So, Here's a summary of what I've done :
1. In Network Prefs, made sure I am using a manually configured static IP address (10.0.1.201.)
2. In Security prefs, made sure firewall is off.
3. In Airport Utility, made sure I am sharing single IP address using NAT and DHCP.
4. In Port Mapping, checked the NAT enable box and opened these ports: 6881-6889, 49125-65535, and 40156 just for kicks. I've entered these numbers both public and private, both UDP and TCP (filling in all 4 fields, in other words) AND made sure the IP address matched the static one I was using in Network Prefs.
5. Restarted Azureus and my Time Capsule (and even the whole computer, just for good measure).
And guess what? Each and EVERY time, I go back to Azureus, run the NAT/Firewall test using a port I just opened, and am told it failed and that the port is in fact closed. I get the "timed out" error.
***?????? I have been working on this for weeks, literally, and I am totally losing it! Will I never see a green smiley again? Please help!!!!
Thank you in advance for ANY tips you may have...

Here are the settings that work for me.
1. Azureus>Options>Connections>Incoming TCP/UDP listen port:  49125
2. Applications>Utilities>Airport Utility>Time Capsule>Internet>NAT> Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol
3. Applications>Utilities>Airport Utility>Time Capsule>Advanced>Port mapping>
     Public UDP portal: 49125
     Public TCP portal: 49125
    Private IP address: 10.0.1.201
    Private UDP portal: 49125
    Private TCP portal: 49125
4. System Preferences>Network>Advanced>TCP/IP>Configure IPv4: *Using DHCP with Manual Address* (this is choice #2 not #4: Manual)
5. IPv4 address:  10.0.1.201
I think that's all. I fooled around with this for a long time and not everything I did may be necessary but I don't want to mess with success.  Don't know why port 49125 works, but it worked on my Dell computer and Linksys router also. Apple Support was positive I didn't need steps 4 and 5 but 60 seconds later, my smiley faces turned green, and when I tested the port, Azureus message said "+Congratulations, you fixed it."+
The only difference I see, between your settings and mine, is perhaps steps #1 and #4. Hope you get it working. Nothing more frustrating than " little yellow faces".

Time Capsule not working with itunes

Hi, was really excited to get my time capsule in the mail the other day...
My vision: to use it as an extra hard drive for my MAC laptop and my wife's vista laptop to access. To play all our music through a consolidated itunes library on the time capsule.
Problem: As soon as I try to add the songs on my TC to itunes, my itunes freezes up. I tried adding 1 song at a time (i have thousands) and it took 60 seconds to finally add 1 song. Its almost as though its taking forever to access the drive.
Is my goal possible? I watched a movie off of my TC without a problem (not using itunes). Windows media player can play the songs off the TC. I am not sure why itunes will not let me add these mp3s.
Any suggestions? (I have tried both letting itunes organize my folders and not, same difference--the colored circle appears for hours if I add a folder with >10 songs)

Oh and here it is, on this page, Section D, #1:
"Section D. OTHER PROBLEMS RUNNING BACKUPS
D1. Stuck in "Calculating changes" or "Preparing""
and then the Apple supporting doc, as well:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1516
Fabulous. Thank you.

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