Time capsule set up fine but time machine hangs up when accessed

hi,
i just bought my mac book pro this year. then, purchased 1TB Time capsule. i had set up the time cap after 2 days with the time machine. it worked well but i cannot print when the printer cable is attached to the time cap. then, i missed several scheduled back ups due to electricity interruptions and even resorted to deleting the sparsebundle to start anew. when i enter time machine, i can see the outerspace background but the finder window and everything else could not be accessed. it just freezes. i brought my time cap to istore (reseller store here in the phil) and fortunately, they facilitated to replace my time cap with a new one.
with the new time cap, i rushed to set it up. initial back up has been done. my problems are:
1. i can enter time machine, but i could not access anything. the time line freezes and so with the finder window. i even resorted to ctrl option esc to get out of time machine; and
2. i still could not print via time capsule.
please help me. the discussion portion of apple website is the only direct line of help available as i am located far from the apple reseller. i don't have the landline telephone so i could not directly call apple support.
help me please....
just_je

I had this problem with my Time Machine drive very recently. I wasn't using a Time Capsule but it sounds exactly like my problem.
Time Machine would backup to my external drive with no problems but every time I wanted to go into the program, it would freeze. It would be fine in the current time, (when you first enter Time Machine) but if I tried to go back in time, the animation would happen, but I wouldn't be able to click on anything in the finder Window. The only way to get out of it was, as you said, to press Apple, Option and Escape.
The way I solved this was to use Disk Utility on my external drive. I had tried before but when I clicked on verify or repair disk it just sat there for ages doing nothing. What you need to do is select the Time Capsule drive in Disk Utility and then do a repair on it.
Warning though, it will take about an hour to complete. It took probably about 20 minutes for mine to even start repairing. But it does work, I did it on mine and now Time Machine is fully working again.
Hope this helps
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