Unstable! Why are my time capsules so damned unstable under Mountain Lion??

After installing Mountailn lion, two of my time capsules has become critically unstable (file access, not WIFI).
Anyone experiencing the same? Any fixes?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4155485?tstart=0
I think apple have some issues with ML they are not fixing. TM in particular is a problem.
Is your issue TM or something else?? Look in the OS ML area as there are a lot of posts with issues.. I really doubt the TC went from being OK on earlier OS to suddenly unstable..

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    tool wrote:
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    LaPastenague wrote:
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    Message was edited by: Pondini

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