Time Capsule permanently connected as a wireless hard drive?

I am having an issue with my Time Capsule as a hard drive. I have weekly backups scheduled to backup to the TC, but I find that unless I go into Finder and select the TC and then Connect to it so that I can see the Data drive, it fails to back up.
Surely there is a way that the data drive is always connected, ala my iDisk. Seems a little pointless to have a "hassle free back up solution" when it is far from hassle free.

I don't think that's really going to solve his problem. It sounds like the OP has a regular (non Time Machine) backup schedule, and if his TC isn't mounted it doesn't work. At the moment he has to do what you're saying every time he restarts or his system goes to sleep/loses wireless connectivity.

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I have a new AirPort Time Capsule 3TB, now I want to use my AirPort Time Capsule 2TB as an external storage hard drive only, how do I it?
I would like to connect the AirPort Time Capsule 2TB directly to my Mac Pro. using OS X 10.7.5.
I have erase disk and reset the 2TB to factory default, after that, I cannot make it to connect to my Mac. Please help.

The 2TB Time Capsule needs to connect to your 3TB Time Capsule using a wired Ethernet connection.
Connect from a LAN <--> port on the 3 TB Time Capsule to the WAN "O" port on the 2 TB Time Capsule and configure the 2TB Time Capsule in Bridge Mode and turn off the wireless function on the device as well.
Once that is done, you can connect your Mac directly to the 2TB Time Capsule using another Ethernet cable, or your Mac can connect to the network using the normal wireless network, if you prefer.

After I configure my time capsule to my newly replaced macbook hard drive, are my old backups still available?

After I configure my time capsule to my newly replaced macbook hard drive, are my old backups still available?

How old was this backup? It sounds like it was at least several weeks old.
You can look directly in the TM backup for the music.
1. Connect to the external HDD the backup is kept on.
2. Open a Finder window and select the backup drive in the left hand panel. Double click into the folders until you see a list of folders with dates.
These are the incremental backups. You can start at the top or the bottom of the list but I suggest you double Latest/<HDD Name>/Users/<Account Name>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music. From this location you can start looking for the "missing" music. When/if you find it you can simply drag-n-drop to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music on the internal HDD.
If the music is actually not in the backups (for whatever reason) then you've got a problem.
You can download the uploaded files from the cloud by deleting the affected tracks from the iTunes library (but not the cloud!), highlighting multiple tracks at once, right-clicking and choosing "download."

How can I move (copy) my Time Capsule date to a new 2T hard drive and then wipe the TC and start as a new (clean) Time MACHINE backup?

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Just use the archive utility on the disk page of the airport utility manual setup..
If you have lion and v6 airport utility.. it missed out. On lots of things.
Download and install the real.. UTILITY
5.6 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

Can the time capsule be used as an external hard drive

Can the time capsule be used as an external hard drive

If you mean by usb to a computer no.. it is a network device only and has to be used via ethernet or wireless.
It can be used standalone,, ie not plugged into an existing network.. but there are some steps required to make it work if you want internet connection at the same time. It is generally much easier to have the TC bridged into the network.

Can Time Capsule Be Used Only as a Hard Drive, Not as a Router?

I have been using a Time Capsule as a router and as a wireless backup system for a year, but had endless trouble with the dual use, since my personal Macbook is on the second floor of my house and the router must reside in the basement, where we have other computers. Wireless backups are much too slow. So I replaced the Time Capsule with an Airport Extreme Base Station, which works fine. I'd like to continue using the Time Capsule, but solely for backups and not as a router, and connect the TC by ethernet or usb directly to the MacBook. Can this be done, and if so, how? Thanks!

Hello JohnFrancis. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I'd like to continue using the Time Capsule, but solely for backups and not as a router, and connect the TC by ethernet or usb directly to the MacBook. Can this be done, and if so, how?
Yes it can. You would just need to disable its wireless radio. You will also need to connect it by Ethernet as the TC's USB port is only for connecting it to USB hard drives, printers, and/or hubs.
To disable the radio: AirPort Utility > Manual Setup > Time Capsule > Wireless tab > Wireless Mode = Off

How do I get Time Capsule to back up an external hard drive?

I need Time Capsule/Time Machine to back up my external hard drive. How do I do this?

The external drive is plugged into the Mac??
Just open the Time Machine preferences, Options, and include the external drive.. done!! (The menu is exclude.. so just ensure it is not excluded.. don't use no double negatives.. is grammar rule apple could learn).
You cannot backup the external drive if plugged into the TC directly.

Time capsule - internet connection problem via wireless

Hi all - I've browsed around many other similar threads about people having difficulties with their Time Capsules, and although some of the problems I'm experiencing are similar, there's a few interesting oddities that other questions don't address or solve.
I have a 1TB Time Capsule that's acting as a router for my network. It's connected via the WAN port to a Netgear DG632 modem/router (in modem mode) that is set up with a static IP address and the DNS server for my ISP. The TC is also set up with these same static IP/DNS details, and is set to share the one public IP address.
The TC serves up DHCP addresses to the LAN devices via a mixture of ethernet (to a G4 Mac mini and to a Linux-based MythTV machine) and wireless (to a couple of 802.11g Airport expresses, a C2D Macbook using OSX Leopard and Windows XP, an iPhone and a Wii).
Everything on the LAN is happy, gets a unique IP address, can see the other devices, and can see the USB hard drives that are connected to the TC.
The weird behaviour comes when things try to actually connect to the internet.
Anything that connects via ethernet to the TC works perfectly. Connecting wirelessly however doesn't work properly - but not in a simple binary working/not-working manner...
If I connect wirelessly, I can do any of the usual network diagnostic things - e.g. Ping, Traceroute, etc. and data gets through and back, using IP address or actual site names.
I can download mail (via the standard Mail application, v3.5, from Gmail using IMAP)
I can even load secure webpages (i.e. those that use https, such as https://mail.google.com)
What I CANNOT do however is load any "normal" webpages (e.g. http://mail.google.com)
When loading a webpage, there is a brief period of data transfer (e.g. Camino reports "looking up ...", "connecting to ...", "waiting for ...") and then it just stops, and eventually the browser times out.
Other problems that people have reported have been solved by changing the DNS servers used - either to specify their ISP ones directly, or to use something like OpenDNS. My problem doesn't seem to be related to the DNS servers - to my mind, this sounds like some kind of outgoing port-blocking, but there ain't no such beastie on the TC as far as I'm aware, and since it is only happening on any device that connects wirelessly I'm pretty confident that I can rule out any local settings on a particular machine, or any settings on the modem.
I've tried several things to try and fix this, as follows:
Reset TC and modem
Factory-reset TC and set up again
Downgrade TC to 7.3.1 and set up again
Re-upgrade TC to 7.3.2 and set up again
Remove all wireless security (usually use WPA/WPA2 Personal)
Change wireless mode from 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible) to 802.11n only (2.4GHz)
Change wireless mode from 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible) to 802.11n only (5GHz)
Change wireless channel (Automatic, 6, 11)
Obviously none of that worked, so can anyone think of anything else that I can try and change to get this working?
For what it's worth, everything was happy until Thursday last week (11th Dec) and the only thing that I changed was an upgrade to Safari on the Mac mini, which seems extremely unlikely to have been responsible for causing such pain and anguish!
Thanks for bearing with me through all this - hopefully I've covered off all of the basics already, but I'm now not sure where that leaves me...
Cheers!

Something somehow fixed the problem a couple of days after my post - although I didn't know what triggered it (like I don't know what triggered the failure). I changed my set-up so that the Time Capsule was just a wireless bridge, and used the DG632 as the router and DHCP server - and obviously something worked OK.
Unfortunately the same problem happened again the day before yesterday, and after roping in the help of my ISP I determined that there wasn't a problem with the connection outside my LAN, so it was obviously something weird with my set-up.
After much frustration, rebooting, resetting, and fiddling, I spotted that occasionally a small burst of data would be received - perhaps enough to load an icon or small image - before everything froze up. On a hunch, I started playing with the MTU - and glory be! After the MTU is reduced from the default/automatic 1500 to 1458 everything works perfectly... except the Time Capsule no longer shows up!!! ARGH!!
I don't even recall ever seeing an MTU setting on the Time Capsule, and there definitely isn't one on the DG632 (don't most recent devices not require MTU tweaks? They just pass on the whole packet as-is?) so I've got no idea how to get around this issue now.
So much for stuff just working

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I've just bought the dual band 2TB time capsule to be added to my current network as a wireless backup device. It's connected to my existing network just fine, on my 5GHz network (I run both a 5GHz and a 2GHz network, for laptops and iphones respectively).
However when I go into my router and look at the attached devices, the MAC address of the time capsule that appears is that of it's 2.4GHz network. Does this mean that it's actually connecting to my network as an 'a/b/g' device rather than an 'n' device? And if this is the case, how do I force it to connect as an 'n' device?

Bob thanks for the reply.
The Time Capsule is in the same room, about a metre and a half away from the router at present (as I've not figured out where I actually want to put it yet).
Also it is connected to the 5Ghz network (as the networks have different SSIDs), it's just that the MAC address that appears in my routers 'attached devices' screen for the Time Capsule is the same as the MAC address of the time capsules 2.4GHz network when I start up the Aiport Utility.
I guess what I'm trying to get to the bottom of is if this is normal and in actual fact it's connecting at 5GHz, but that the Time Capsule's MAC address, when used as a normal device connecting to a network, is the same as it's 2.4GHz network MAC address (if that makes sense).

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I have a 160-gb Western Digital hard drive in an external enclosure that I use to use on my PC. I want to access the drive via Time Capsule through the USB port in the pack. Currently I have a USB hub with a printer and the hard drive plugged into the port in TC. I can print remotely from TC, but the hard drive is not visible as an assessable drive. The only way I can even see it is through a manual setup and review the disk setup of TC. How do I need to setup the TC to recognize the USB external harddrive? Just plugging it in doesn't work.
This is my first Macbook, as well as first Time Capsule. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If your drive only has NTFS on it, then I don't think Time Capsule is equiped to deal with that partition. Time Capsule will tell you that the drive needs to be checked. If the drive has another partition on it that Time Capsule can see (FAT32), it will set up a connection to that drive. You can tell Time capsule to ignore errors on that drive (eg the fact that it can't deal with NTFS) and the blinking amber light will go away and you'll get the green light.
The thing is Vista no longer has FAT32 even as a format option, you've got either NTFS or their new eFAT which is not backward compatible with FAT32. A third party program needs to be used to format your external drive. For example I use a program from Ridgecrop. Below are its available options for formatting.
C:\Users\voigtstr\Documents>fat32format.exe
Usage Fat32Format X:
Erase all data on disk X:, format it for FAT32
It is also possible to specify a cluster size for the disk, e.g
Fat32Format -c1 X: - use 1 sector per cluster ( max size 137GB for 512 bytes pe
r sect)
Fat32Format -c2 X: - use 2 sectors per cluster ( max size 274GB for 512 bytes p
er sect )
Fat32Format -c4 X: - use 4 sectors per cluster ( max size 549GB ... )
Fat32Format -c8 X: - use 8 sectors per cluster ( max size 1TB ... )
Fat32Format -c16 X: - use 16 sectors per cluster
Fat32Format -c32 X: - use 32 sectors per cluster
Fat32Format -c64 X: - use 64 sectors per cluster
Fat32Format -c128 X: - use 128 sectors per cluster (64K clusters)
Version 1.03, see http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm
This software is covered by the GPL
Use with care - Ridgecrop are not liable for data lost using this tool
Now is Apple equipped to deal with all these cluster sizes. Have Apple defined anywhere what FAT32 is for them?
I can copy a small file to the external drive when its connected to Time Capsule, but if I try to copy a 700Mb movie to Time Capsule, Time Capsule gets confused and drops the network. It not only drops the network but if you try copying a large file from Time Capsule's internal disk to the attached USB drive, even that is enough to hang the machine. So it stops its network, it stops it USB connection, however the wireless carrier is still strong (it just cant transmit any TCPIP)
So is this a firmware issue that they can correct? Or do I have a dud Time Capsule? To compare your situation to mine the discussion must focus around FAT32 I believe. I suspect that Apple's own journaled file system works flawlessly with large files (but as yet do not own a mac to test this). Furthermore the point of having a large external drive is to be able to take it places and share files (which will have to be less that 4gig if I use FAT32) with non mac owning friends. Either Apple needs to support NTFS, or they need to specify or even provide a FAT32 format utility that will work with both Windows and Mac
Cheers
The Voigtstr

Can an Apple Time capsule be used as a external hard drive?

Hello I have a 4th Generation time capsule and I've had it for some time now and never used it and I was wondering if it could be used as a external hard drive instead of just a back up disk. Also I am planning to install a copy of Windows 7 on my Mid 2011 21.5" iMac and I was wondering if Windows would recognize the TC as a external hard drive and would alow me to use it as such.

It is not an external hard disk.. you cannot use it via USB if that is what you mean.
It is now and forever more a Network drive. You can store files on it as a network drive.. with the following provisos.
Store files on the TC.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24380694#24380694
This is asked several times a day.. obviously people are struggling with their latest SSD being too small.
The TC is not suitable for network file server.. but many people having no choice press it into service as such.
It cannot be partitioned. It was and is and ever shall be a backup device for Time Machine.
Major issues.
1. No backup.. no way Time Machine can backup a network drive. No place to backup to.. So all your files will be at risk. And you will need to buy a third party like CCC to do backup.
2. The TC cannot be partitioned and mixing TM backups and data is not great.
3. The drive is slow to spin up and quick to spin down.. there is no controls.
4. iPhoto in particular can easily corrupt its entire library with wireless networking causing a disconnection to one photo. Even if you do this;;; do not move your photo library... you have been warned!!
5. iTunes will constantly lose connection to the library. The disk is too slow to respond.. itunes on the computer will constantly spit out errors. Even in the midst of streaming the TC can spin down the disk due to caching.
6. Do not use any live files on the TC no matter what else you do.. if you edit files in whatever program the file must be on the local hard disk.
7. The only suitable location for most libraries is a computer. You can plug in an external hard disk.
Read pondini for some work arounds.
Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
Windows can also use the TC for files. Much the same warnings apply.

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Under the same network, I do use it as a music server (iTunes library) and files to share.
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Trying to access Time Capsule on Windows8 pc as a hard drive?

Hi everybody,
I bought a time capsule to go with my pc and my MBPR. So I hard wired the pc to the time capsule, and it allows me to use time machine on my macbook pro through wireless, but I cannot access the TC from my windows 8 pc? I have tried a few fixes, but most of them were for older windows versions. Anybody got any ideas on how to fix this? Thanx!

You can still load the airport utility for win7 onto the win8 install. It is about time Apple released the new version but for now just use the earlier one.. it can be ratty, and take a few goes.. don't give up. It does install and I have it running on a win8 computer.
Remember this is windows so keep the naming of the TC nice and simple.. all names, short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
In windows explorer type the network drive location, into the address bar.
\\TCname or \\TCIPaddress where you replace with the actual name (now correctly SMB compliant) or IP address.
No luck, turn off the firewall and ensure the PC is in the local Lan set as home.. not work or public.
Still no luck bring up a command window and ping the TC by name and by IP.
If it doesn't respond tell me.. i presume you are getting internet through it though??
In the windows version of the airport utility you can set a windows workgroup and turn on the guest account. How signifcant that is for the latest Gen5 TC I do not know. They help on the older ones.

Can Time Capsule act as just a network hard drive?

I need a hard drive somehow just "on" our home network. I.e. I need to be able to access files wirelessly that are too many to be on my laptop (i.e. a seperate repository).
Does Time Capsule do this, or is it really just for backup? If the latter, can anyone please recommend a solution? I, of course, would not like to have to invest in computer that is always on just to get at files on a drive.
Thanks.

Time Capsule is a NAS. You can use it as such. The advantage of TC over a regular NAS is that is is Apple-supported for use with Time Machine.
Note that TC is not easy to partition without removing the HDD from the case. Therefore, if you paln to use it for backups and other file storage, they will share the same partition and will be formatted HFS+.

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I have a Mac Book Pro. I work with large video files, which I sometimes want to save on a Time Capsule - or another external hard drive, as well as the cloud.
I sometime want to access the videos when I travel - and really want a no-nonsense solution which allows me to store the videos on the external HD, but access them through the cloud when traveling - even when the power is down and my external HD at home is switched off (I live in The Bahamas, where this frequently happens.)
Any Suggestions?

You didn't have a backup of your MacBook's hard drive when it had to be replaced? If you do look in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder to see if the Doman.sites2 file is there. If it is drag it to the same folder on your new hard drive and open with iWeb. That should give you your old sites back.
If you don't have a backup then you'll have to do what QTKirt pointed out. However, Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing files, image, audio, video, etc., from the published site in the creation of the new site.
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