Will a time capsule help?
I have a Mac air from 2009 and I want to move to maverics. I have no way to back up my drive so I bought a time capsule (it won't be shipped for like 3 days). I have like 2gb available on my 120gb drive on the Mac air. My question is will the time capsule free up space... or only mirror my 118sh gb data on my HD thus buying a TC pointless? Can I just keep all my video footage stored on the TC to remove it off of my max air??? Please and thank you
Daniel
Not sure I understand your question. The Time Capsule is for your backup copies of data.
If you move all of your video footage on the MacBook Air to the Time Capsule....and then delete the video footage data from the MacBook.....the only copy of your video footage will be on the Time Capsule.
How will you back up the data on the Time Capsule?
Answer.....you will have to add yet another hard drive to back up the video on the Time Capsule......unless you want to gamble and not have a backup. That's a huge gamble if your data is valuable.
A better plan might be to add a USB or FireWire drive to the MacBook Air and move your video data over to that drive. That will free up space on the MacBook Air.
Then, the Time Capsule will back up everything on your MacBook Air and the hard drive attached to the MacBook Air. So, you have "original" copies of your data at one location and backups of that important data at another location.
When....not if...a drive fails, you at least have a spare copy on another drive.
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I just bought a time capsule to use as my modem and now my existing game adapter will no longer connect my PS3 to the internet. I have no idea how to fix this. Support forums tell me to type 198.250.1.1 or something like that in the address bar of safari and it never finds my adapter. Can someone please help me? I am totally lost!
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I have an ATT Uverse 2 Wire 3800HGV-B internet wireless router (wireless turnedd off), 2 Airport Expresses (1st generation), an Airport Time Capsule (4th Generation), a new iMac running 10.8.4, a Mac Mini running 10.7.5, iPhone 5's, iPhone 4, iPad 2nd gen, IPad 3rd gen. The U Verse acts as the router and the TC is set to bridge mode. The TC is set to transmit 802.11n 2.4ghz & 5ghz, both AE's are set to 802.11n 2.4 ghz only. The TC and both AE's have same wireless network name for the 2.4ghz network and braodcast on different channels. I currently have each device set to "create a wireless network". Two story home with R Foil construction seems to inhibit the Wi Fi signal. In my backyard I get my neighbors Wi Fi and not my own. How do I set up the airport express devices? Extend or Create? Each airport express currently is plugged into a Cat5e ethernet jack which connects to a switch which in turn connects to the Uverse Router. the TC is connected to the cat5 jack which connects to the Uverse Router in the basement, I am confused about extending, creating, maybe setting up roaming? Should the Airport Express Devices be connected to my ethernet network?? Please help!Leave the TC alone.
Close AirPort Utility if it is open.
Turn off one of the AirPort Express devices and work with just one for now. With the Express powered on, hold in the reset button on the device for 7-8 seconds and release. Then allow a full minute for the Express to restart to a slow, blinking amber light.
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I am planning to buy 2TB time capsule which is [2TB hard drive + Airport Extreme] and two Airport Express to extend the range of my wifi network. we have a large family & because of that we have 1 macbook, 2 laptops , 2 desktops, 4 iphones, 2 ipads, 3 android phones, 2 apple tvs, 2 ps3's. all of these devices are on my Wifi network but some of them are off usually ps3, apple tv and desktops computers r off but still their is alot of traffic. Now i am buying this 2TB time capsule instead of Airport Extreme so that i can save money by getting 2TB hard drive for me only & not the whole family so i want to know if i can keep the hard drive private & at the same time i want to share my internet connection with all of these devices which belongs to my family members, will this be okay ? and they wont be able to access my hard drive ? & will i be able to access my hard drive if i m connected to any of those two airport express & not the main time capsule. indirectly i will be connected to time capsule by using airport expresses in client mode correct me if i am wrong
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You can certainly keep it private for your own access only.. simply set a disk password only you know. Easy.
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Hi everyone
This is been killing me for about 2 months. Currently living in an annex down the end of my girlfriends fathers garden. The wifi doesn't reach so I got a Time Capsule so I could use it as a router.
We've got a cable and it's run from the Time Capsule, down the garden, into the house and plugged into router in the house.
That's where I'm now stuck. I've messed about with it and now my Macbook AirPort won't even recognise my Time Capsule.
This really needs to be in moron terms as I'm clueless. I've spent all this money and can't get it to do what I wanted it to do.
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Thanks for the reply. My MacBook won't even recognise the Time Capsule, I've messed about with the netowrk settings too much I think.
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