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• After several years of functioning, my Time Capsule shows a yellow flashing light instead of solid green light.  He always seems to be working, but watch the blinking light.  An update is necessary?

  Time Capsule.   After six years of good operation, my Time Capsule shows a yellow light flashing instead of green light solid.  It seems to work fine, and I tried l ' switch off and restart, nothing helps.  An update is necessary?

  The Capsule of time... and other Apple routers... flashing orange when they have a message for you. To see what it is...

  Open AirPort Utility on your Mac... (Finder > Applications > utilities > AirPort Utility)

  Click on the image of the Time Capsuleand a small window will appear

  If you see an Update button, then new firmware is available for the Capsule of time if you want to install this package. To do this, click on the Update button

  Otherwise, find the Status parameter and then click on the little orange dot it for more information on why the status light flashes, with a suggestion to fix whatever may be the cause

• Why not Time Capsule shows under "other devices" in the Finder?

  Why not Time Capsule shows under "other devices" in the Finder on my MAC?

  "Devices" are connected directly to a Mac and would include things like USB hard drive, FireWire drive and Thunderbolt drive, etc.

  The Capsule is a "network" connected to a network drive... If the operating system on your Mac behave, Time Capsule will appear in the Shared section.

  If you have added a NAS (Network Attached Storage) disk, this product would also appear in the Shared section.

  A wireless printer can also appear under shared.

• Time Capsule as a secondary backup location

  I have six computers on a network, each with its own hard drive dedicated to the Time Machine backups. Could I, on each of my computers, precise Time Capsule as a secondary backup in addition to the hard disk location dedicated to the computer?

  Yes, you can.  But 6 Macs backup on a single Capsule of time begins to push the limits.  For a secondary backup, you should be OK.

• The fastest way to remove a sparsebundle on a Time Capsule with two top backups

  I have a time Capsule 2 TB that I currently use to save an iMac and a MacBook Pro.  I recently bought a new iMac and I decided to go back on this new computer. I moved all the files I need and installed all the apps that I used on the other.  After spending a day and a half, make a backup of the sparsebundle on my old iMac (just in case), I am now ready to get rid of this sparsebundle out of my Time Capsule, so I can start back up my new iMac to it.

  Because I also backup my MBP on it, erasing everything simply is not an option at this point. I need to be able to just remove this a sparsebundle, which, of course, must be huge... I think that it is about 890 concerts at this stage.

  I have been looking online for the best way to delete the sparsebundle, but don't know which method is the best and most of the answers are from 2011 or 2012, so I want to be sure there is not something new, I should try.

  Here are the options that I've seen, and I hope someone can point me to one that suits, or give me another suggestion. If it happens that the best, it takes days to complete, so be it, but it would be good to know that the time goes in.

  1. Change the extension of the sparsebundle and then delete this file. This seems little risk to me, but maybe I'm overthinking it. One person said they changed from iMacbackup.sparsebundle to just iMacbackup.s and was able to remove it.  It would actually remove faster? Do not change the size, so I don't know how it works.
  2. Mount the sparsebundle by using the IP address and then delete the sparsebundle like that. This was part of a post that said in fact the best way to remove first had to access it through Windows Explorer, and then delete it. This isn't an option for me, so in the comments I post, I saw someone say to connect via SMB and delete this one. Someone said he worked within a minute for them, but I see not a lot more answers.
  3. Display content of the sparsebundle, then delete the contents of the folder-Band 5, 000-8, 000 at the same time. I just watched showed a guy do that but it took something like 4 days to remove them, and he had to reload between each 5 000 videos a YouTube it deleted. Currently I have about 102 000 items in my folder of bands, so if it takes a day to remove 10,000 of them (according to, I'm looking for both ridiculously long to remove these.)

  Alternative suggestions that someone has more would be welcome.  I just want to be able to get this old one deleted and start backup to my new one, without losing my MBP backup.

  I also found this link, which speaks by using Terminal Server.

  https://jwopitz.WordPress.com/2014/02/07/easy-way-to-delete-a-sparsebundle-from-Temps-machine /.

• How to make a Time Capsule external hard drive backup

  Hi I just got a time capsule airport which I backed up on my iMac.  I have an external seagate HD plugged on my mac via USB.  I have a catalog photo large library and adobe lightroom on the external hard drive I use and change almost every day. These files are NOT stored on my computer because they take so much space that I would like to keep the separate external disk.  It was my hope to keep a backup on my time capsule on a regular basis with my backup of the iMac.  I have time machine configured to backup from my mac, and then under options, I have seen the drive seagate showing as excluded.  I removed excluded readers and click Save. However I don't think during backup that he actually saved these files because the capsule still shows as have plenty of available disk space.  When I opened the options again shows seagate always excluded.

  so question is can I save the iMac and the external hard drive at the same time?

  If this is not the case, what is the work around for this thing saved?

  thnx

  The Seagate disk should be in Mac Mac OS extended (journaled)format, also known as HFS +, if you want that Time Machine to back up your Mac.

  Do you know how the Seagate drive is formatted?  If it isn't... . Right click on on the icon of the Seagate drive which is mounted on the Mac desktop, and then click read the information. In the window that appears, look for the Format.

  What do you see when you check the Format?

• Time Capsule - problem with the backup

  Hej!

  I get the message "an error occurred during the file copying. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use disk utility to repair the backup drive. "A bit of research on Google, it seems that to restart the time capsule actually perform a repair disk. So I did it. The problem comes back, and sometimes she disappears, if I restart the backup, which confuses me. Is it possible to view the error logs and check what is the problem? I'm afraid that the backup drive may have hardware problems. I bought time capsule airport little for more than a year (in Sweden).

  Someone else has encountered this, and what was your solution?

  Johannes

  Most of the questions is network... and the error messages may not clearly identify between a network and disk problem problem.

  I bought time capsule airport little for more than a year (in Sweden).

  How long this problem has been going since then?

  In Europe the warranty period may be 2 or 3 years by law.

  Certainly if you have AppleCare on a supported product... computer, ipad, or apple TV the TC will be replaced by Apple under warranty. Just explain your problem to them.

  If you do not have access to the warranty or replacement.

  I highly recommend that you check your drive TC if there is nothing on what you need... then do a single pass low level format. It's utilitarian airport disk tab Archive is here... then the clear operation.

  

  Erase use the single-pass option.

  

  It is a low level disk format. (Don't bother with 7 and never even dream of using 35).

  If the problem persists when you restart the backup I suspect network problems... or the TC is a failure... mine (a 3rd in 3 years) comes from the same way... I pulled the drive and replaced it with a better brand than the basic model known problem seagate used Apple.

• How to encrypt time capsule after being 1st backups have clear?

  Hello world

  If I backed up my data on my Time Capsule form decrypted and changed my mind, can I I now encrypt the Capsule of time without having to format it and do it again?

  Thank you very much!

  If you are still using the OS X Mavericks (10.9.x)... as you enter... so you can have Time existing Machine to encrypt the backup file that you already have. It will take a long time... probably 3 or 4 times longer that it took to execute the first backup without encryption. Once this has been done, all future backups will be encrypted.

  However, if you have a newer OS on your Mac as El Capitan and Yosemite, Apple removed the ability to encrypt existing backups in these systems, so you will need to start over, wipe the drive, and then choose the option to encrypt your backups, then rerun the first backup with active encryption.

  If possible, connect your Mac directly on the Time Capsule using a wired Ethernet connection... (and turn off the WiFi on Mac)... for the first backup help to speed things along. Even in this case, you should expect the first backup to take at least 2 - 3 times longer than a backup not encrypted.

• How can I find missing backups time capsule?

  Installation of El Capitan in September caused my incoming mail to stop after a certain point, although he showed millions of so-called items waiting to be downloaded. After many attempts of troubleshooting, I went with my last resort for fitness and do a clean install of El Capitan.

  When I went to my Time Capsule to restore my documents and applications showed none of my previous backups using the Star Wars. There are available dates in the timeline view, and the time Capsule shows my oldest as backup being December 1, 2015 after I ran the backup check, but I don't see anything beyond yesterday.

  Backups must be present on the Time Capsule, because it shows "tuberculosis 1.14 2 TB available." My sparsebundle (only 13.2 MB) indicated no mountable file system when I double click on it. It also has . tmp.sparsebundle as the extension. There is no other sparsebundle showing.

  I was looking for answers online and this forum and have yet to find a resolution. My first care in disk utility failed after a few hours, then immediately when I tried again. Any suggestions? Is it useful to fitness again? I did not choose the time Capsule to restore initially. I wanted to see if the mail would work before putting the time restore everything.

  Thank you

  Linda

  MacBook Pro (early 2011) El Capitan 10.11.3

  Time Machine, please press the shift-command-C key combination. The windshield will show the mounted volumes. All snapshots should now be accessible. Select the one you want and search for files to restore.

  If you need to restore from a backup of the hidden user library folder, first select a snapshot, and then press shift-command-G. A go to the folder dialog box opens. In this document, you enter the path to the folder. The dialog box will help you by automatically filling parts of the path when you start typing.

  The path starts with the slash character ("/"). Enter that. The rest of the parts is separated by slashes.

  The next part is the date and time of the current snapshot. Enter a '2', and the rest of the date should be filled in automatically. Press the right arrow key to access the end of the path. Enter a slash to start the next game.

  Next is the volume name (usually "Macintosh HD" unless you assigned a different name.) Start typing, then jump to the end and enter a slash.

  The next part is 'Users', followed by a slash.

  Then is your short user name. It is also the name of your home folder, which is represented by an icon of the House in the sidebar of a Finder window.

  Finally, enter "Library", and then press return. You should now be in the library folder. From there, you can move like in the Finder. You can also select another snapshot of the same folder.

• Utilities airport shows a triangle Orange on Time Capsule, Wifi working

  Recently, my Time capsule is showing an orange triangle in AP-utility. By clicking on it, it shows the message: AP Time capsule found, with the possibility to forget.

  Time capsule shows a steady green light. Wifi is good job and my two other airports Express are being lit in the utility.

  I've read other discussions with similar problems. So, I did the following things:

  (1) soft reset of time capsule,

  (2) Changed link local IPv6 settings

  (3) disabled firewall

  (4) settings saved and restarted.

  It did not help for long after a few minutes the triangle orange has shown once again.

  In Time Machine, time capsule HD is not recognized or the other.

  But the wifi works perfectly.

  Please notify.

  I think that the problem is resolved.

  In this link, I found a solutionTime capsule will appear but the WIFI connection works

  He is working on 2 hours >.

• My Airport utility showing other peoples time Capsules

  When I rebooted my Mac the other day, open AirPort Utility and devices that aren't mine, I saw appear in the preview.  In the screen below, the only one that should be there is one on the right "of AirPo... ase station", the other 3 are NOT mine.  One time capsules shows actually need an update, so it seems to me, of course, that these are physical devices and not a virus/hack on my network.  I live in a fairly secluded, so he of course doesn't seem like I'm picking up these some near my house, so the only other 2 options I can think are something that crosses my ISP, otherwise a kind of Virus/Hack which "looks like" a Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme.  I'm sure that this is the first, but I wanted to see if anyone has seen this particular situation/behaviour?

  

  I have never seen it before.

  What happens when you select one of the other devices?  They open with a popup and can you go into Edit?

• Step by step instructions using airport Time Capsule as backup for my Mac

  Step by step instructions using airport Time Capsule 2 TB as backup for my Mac

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support

• How to solve my Time Capsule that does not show a green light?

  Installed my Time Capsule in a new home. My service is xfinity that has WiFi built into the modem. Time Capsule also has active WiFi. The two WiFi options work perfectly. However, my Time Capsule shows a light yellow rather than green light, so I know that something is wrong with the system. I disconnected Time Capsule and restarted - does not solve the problem. What is the Protocol for troubleshooting to solve the problem?

  You have to open the summary in airport utility page... It is enough to click the icon of the TC and read the problem in the list.

  for example

  

  Tell us what each question is and we can help you to solve this... but if you click on each of them will be offered a cure... or you can ignore the error.

• Reconfiguration of Time Capsule, a disk hard only Wi - Fi

  My Airport Time Capsule has been previously configured as my main network wireless via an ethernet connection in my router Xfinity. To my new home, there is no place for the Capsule of time beside the Xfinity router so I would use the Xfinity wireless as my single router and back to use only time Capsule as a hard drive wireless for time machine and individual backups. I have it configured in Bridge mode with the wireless off, but it will not appear anywhere. How can I reconfigure it as a hard drive wireless only?

  Unfortunately, what you want to do is not possible unless you have an older version of "flat or square" of the time Capsule... et... you have a Mac with an older operating system such as Leopard (10.5.x) or Snow Leopard (10.6.x), or a PC with the AirPort for Windows utility installed on the device.

  But... even if the terms above can be met... I recommend strongly that the time Capsule does not set up as a hard drive wireless.  Apple has abandoned this option + 3 years for a good reason, namely that it is a very slow and unreliable way to backup your data.

• question of Time capsule

  My time capsule shows a flashing orange light.  When I disconnect my wireless router and disconnect time capsule he does not restore the time capsule.  I keep having a flashing orange light.

  Oddly, I can still access all the files stored on this drive, I just can't tell if it successfully connects to my home network.  And, it saved correctly automatically today periodically throughout the afternoon.

  I am running OSX 10.9.5.

  Any suggestions on how to reset it without losing all my backups?

  On your Mac... Please go to Finder > Applications > utilities > utility AiPort

  Click on the image of the time capsules

  In the window that appears, look for the status

  What is the message next to status?