Why doesn't Time Capsule appear in Disk Utility anymore?

Time Machine gave me a msg that it was unable to back up yesterday due to a problem with an image on my iMac (21.5") drive. It said to repair the external drive I'm using with Disk Utility. I tried the Time Capsule I'm using and which is hooked up and has worked fine for months does not appear. Why?
Also got a msg today saying: "backup cannot be complete due to unexpected error. Code -6584" Never had such a problem before Mt. Lion.
I see no forum category for Time Machine or Time Capsule.

You need to verify the backup.
Hold the option key while clicking the Time Machine icon on the top right menu area.
But reboot the TC beforehand.. maybe the whole network.
The error is well known.. see
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3123920?tstart=0

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I have the 3TB time capsule just bought last year. It has been working perfectly fine for all of this time when suddenly my internet connection was slowed to a snails pace. I reset the modem, the time capsule, etc. and nothing worked. I called comcast and the guy says the modem is out of sync and he reset it and everything was perfect. Later that day, it slowed again. When I called Comcast he said everything is good from the cable side it must be the router (in this case the time capsule). I opened the airport utility and I was connected to wifi but the time capsule doesnt appear. It says it cant find any base stations.
I googled the web and tried many things including hard reset, updating IPv6 to link-local only, etc. When I am connected hard wire to the modem it works fine but as soon as i disconnect and go wireless it no longer can find the base station. The wireless network and speed work fine I just cant connect to the base station for time machine backups, access my drive etc.
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Do a full factory reset.. this is different to hard reset and is recommended when you run into issues.
Mountain Lion does have a bug with the TC in lossing it. The latest firmware was supposed to fix the problem but I doubt it is working.. ie 7.6.4 ..
I would do the following.
1. Take the firmware back to 7.6.1
You simply hold the option key whilst clicking the number of the version in the airport utility. Select the firmware you want.. and it will do the downgrade.
2. Factory reset.
The Factory Reset Gen1-4.
Unplug your TC. Hold in reset. and power the TC back on.. without releasing reset for about 10sec. When the status light flashes rapidly; release it.
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations.
No files are deleted on the hard disk.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
3. Redo the setup with a completely clean set of names.. which are SMB standard.. ie short, 2-20 characters, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Set wireless 5ghz to a different name.
Set security to WPA2 personal with 8-20 character pure alphanumeric password.
Set wireless channels manually .. use 11, 6, 1 for 2.4ghz try each in turn in that order.
Use around 40 and around 150 for 5ghz.
4. Test with ethernet.. wireless is never a great test. You never know if the issue is somewhere else. Ethernet is more reliable.

Why My TC doesn't appear in Disk Utility Anymore?

Hi and tnxs for reading.
One year ago I bought the last version of TC 2TB.
I created a partition (or a disk image since according to other posts I see that a proper partition cannot be created) by using disk utility, in order to have 500GB of space for my temporary files and 1.5TB for time machine backup.
I used Disk Utility for that and I do not remember what OSX, maybe Mountain Lion.
Now I have noticed that I cannot see Time Capsule anymore from my Disk Utility!! Why? Is this due to Mavericks?
How can I see it again on WiFi as before?
If there is no way, what about the part ion I created, if I want to modify it??
Tnxs, cheers.

So can you confirm I have to go w Finder on the TMachine image on my TC and open with Disk Utility and then on the top right to resize image? I see in this way I can only resize the TC image so as I guess the rest is protected if I need to copy there temporary files instead of using an external HD... is this correct?

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My Time Capsule is right by my stereo and would like to stream my itunes there. But it looks like I would have to add an Airport express station right on top of my time capsule to do this. Which doesn't make sense to have 2 wireless routers on top of each other. Is that the only way?

Well you can't do it with a Time Capsule.
You could get an Apple TV instead of an Air Port Express and then you can get video as well..

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Accurately restore iTunes libraries to their original state ?
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You could get an Apple TV instead of an Air Port Express and then you can get video as well..

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Hi - I have a new Time Capsule and am very excited to get this working. Previously I have used an Airport Express to create a wireless network with very few issues. I worked through all the various setup including updating all my software. I've completed the setup via the airport utility and everything seems to work save my internet connectivity. The odd thing that I know I have a live connection via my ethernet cable given that it works fine with my airport express. I have tried all the recos as regards turning the modem and TC off / on for more than a few times. Does anyone have any advice that might help? Thanks very much, Jeff

Well you can't do it with a Time Capsule.
You could get an Apple TV instead of an Air Port Express and then you can get video as well..

How do I get my Time Capsule to appear in Disk Utility so I can repair it as instructed by Time Machine do to?

Time Machine twice reported it couldn't complete the backup to Time Capsule, and I should do a Repair Permission on Time Capsule. Unfortunately, it fails to appear in Disk Utility - only the iMac hard drive appears. What do I do?

I found this same question in the archives. I followed the instructions to click on New Image, but there is no Shared item on the left as suggested, so don't know what to do next. Cannot understand why Time Capsule fails to appear when it is plugged into the iMac!

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Hi, since a few days my time machine keeps getting confused because time capsule appears twice. It is the same time capsule and the same backup data but occasionally time machine postpones the backup because it can not connect to the disk. When I hover my pointer over these two icons I see the addresses: The top one appears as afp://xxxx-xxxxx-Time-Capsule.local/Data whine the bottom one (with the wifi icon) appears as afp://xxxx%20;AUTH=SPRxxx%20xxxx%20Time%20Capsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Data. Time machine behavior is erratic, sometimes it refuses to connect to the second instance while in other times it does. And this happens also with another Mac backing up on the same time capsule. Any ideas?

Yes please relocate to 10.9 I did not pay attention to the OS version. Now I am using an Apple Time capsule over my home network as I am backing two Macs in it and it has been working flawlessly for almost two years. Having said that it is now working fine switching from one to the other instance (no clue of what drives the selection, I made these two screen captures at a few seconds interval as I was writing this post)
As you can see the "available" disks has changed.
I went back to Time Machine Buddy and pulled up one of the failure reports:
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When I back up my macbook pro to time capsule 3TB, this appears:
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I have a network with two Macs, a PC, a bunch of iPod Touch and iPhone devices, a wireless HP printer, and a Time Capsule on it.
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Have some of the laptops changed to Lion? I think there is an issue with Lion and the TC. But it could affect the TC and all the computers.
Not sure what else could affect it but I suspect the issue could just be age. Since it is a fairly vital piece of hardware to your business, do you have other backup strategies in place? Perhaps it would be worth taking the TC into apple genius and see if they can figure out the issue, although it seems to not be immediate which makes it hard to discover. You should have apple care on it with all those laptops.. i hope.

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Menu Bar > Airport drop-down menu: My Time Capsule's wireless name shows up twice in my list of wifi sources. Once in the group with all the other routers and again in a group called "Devices".
Long story short…
I start with a perfectly functional, WPA/WPA2 password-protected Time Capsule: Over a year old. Two MbP's using it for Time Machine backup. Connected to a 1.5TB MyBook external HD via usb. Doubles as my wifi router. Everything's connected to it, including my wifi-enabled printer. Works great. No issues.
I get this idea in my head that I need to hide my wifi signal. I figure it out and ¡Viola! Hidden. Then I try to add my wifi-enabled printer to the list of allowed devices in "Access Control". I hit a big snag and can't figure out how to get it to connect (btw, don't buy a Brother printer. Pure crap). So, I give up and revert permissions back to visible, password-protected state.
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Stilts McCoy wrote:
Menu Bar > Airport drop-down menu: My Time Capsule's wireless name shows up twice in my list of wifi sources. Once in the group with all the other routers and again in a group called "Devices".
You might find useful advice in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12156248
If you want to post a reply, please do so to this thread, not the other one.

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