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Also, when opening up Airport Utility I don't always get to find the airport extreme.  Sometimes I do.   Every time I try I am also able to carry out a backup using timemachine  and can also see the drive on Finder.
In addition,
I have a 1TB drive hooked up to the USB port.  I cannot see it in finder even though I seem to be able to see Time Machine Backups under 'Devices',
I cannot find a way to access the 1TB drive.  I have hooked it to a local USB on my Macbook Pro and it works fine.

Just bought my Time Capsule today and had the same issue, or actually I did see it at first then allowed some software updates but after I restarted my computer, Airport Utility no longer recognized it. Solution: I had to reset my TC to factory settings by pushing the end of a pin into the Reset button (tiny hole in the back of your TC) and holding a few seconds until the amber light starts flashing rapidly. After that try the Airport Utility again and this worked for me. Good luck!

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