What is time capsule for?

I have just bought a Time capsule having been told I could store movies on it. This is not the case it would seem. So what do I do with it. I have installed it and it has backed up etc but the memory of the macair is so small incomparison to the space on the capsule, if its not for storage, what is it for?
P.S. I am not very I.T. lierate.

harpinies wrote:
I have just bought a Time capsule having been told I could store movies on it.
Exactly what form do these movies take?? If you intend to move your itunes library to the TC.. that should be carefully considered.
The TC has no backup mechanism.. it has an extremely slow whole disk archive. During which the operation of the TC is effectively stopped. There is no incremental so each time you do it .. it will take several hours or even days to back up the entire disk again.
Time Machine cannot backup network drives.. so you are going to place files on the TC that you must work out a method to backup which Apple makes no provision for.
The TC has no media extensions.. it does nothing to help you with your media files.
And if you play files over wireless, it can actually cause issues as files still have to be copied from the TC to the computer (or ipad for instance) and then streamed back to the TC and then to whatever device you watch the movies on. This multiple step reading of the movie file over wireless is really going to cause issues.. at least one step should be over ethernet.

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Please review the System Requirements to set up and administer the device.....
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I was being jovial..
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Don't whatever you do update.. that is out of the frying pan into the fire.
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I am looking at purchasing the current MacBook Air but am aware of its limited storage space in terms of files, photos etc.
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You can but it's not recommended, because you can damage the Time Machine structure.
Toffey wrote:
would I be able to store photos and files on the Time Capsule that I do not wish to store on a MacBook Air and be able to retrieve them as and when - or would these be deleted after a period of time? Is there any way of protecting certain files on the Time capsule to prevent them from being deleted?
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Post back when you have all the info.

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defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Hit the enter key once entered into the terminal window.
Delete that whole folder to regain the space.
You might want to download EasyFind as it will find every file or folder you are searching for. The Built in Spotlight won't.
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So new AC model TC??
What modem is it? Pure cable modem .. did you power cycle the modem ( OFF for at least 30min..)??
This is essential to lose the old setup and start afresh.
How have you setup the TC?
Did you try just bridge to existing router? If it doesn't get an IP and you just bought it, possible it is faulty.
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moskovit wrote:
I've done a little research, and it looks like I might be able to wirelessly daisy chain the two routers, using WDS (wireless distribution system), assuming my landlord's router supports it, but that this would drop the speed of the internet significantly: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2623802?start=0&tstart=0
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/iMAC-MAC-Apple-Airport-G3-G4-G5-OS-X-USB-WIRELESS-CAR D-/290538112833?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a56bc741
I have no idea if this works just to show you what I mean. Please do research it yourself.
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Thanks!
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You are very calm.. accepting almost.. of a fairly intolerable situation.
I hope you can still afford to insure your home and contents.
Insurance companies are great at taking your money but they don't hand any back with too much glee and vigour or timeliness.

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I would like to use my time capsule for file storage as well as automatically backing up my mac using time machine. I had my time capsule & time machine set up and it was backing up just fine. I dragged some files over to the time capsule manually through finder and I began to get error messages saying time machine could not back up my mac because it was already in use.

Simply reboot the TC to get access..
But did you drag the files inside the sparsebundle.. that would be very bad.
Any files dragged to TC and deleted on the computer will have no backup and no possiblity of backup by time machine. Things die.. then what happens to the files.
Just answered that question.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4734078?tstart=0
People should learn the TC has limitations.. it is a sealed unit and when things go wrong Apple doesn't help.

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See standard response.
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.
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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

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