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I need urgent help with my Time Capsule please

MasterHowl

MasterHowl

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Oct 3, 2010
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Okay, I'll keep this short.

I had my Time Capsule set up to create a wireless network for the past 18 months, and used it for all my backing up.

Yesterday however, I decided I didn't want to use it for a wireless network, since I have a perfectly good router for the job. So I went into Airport Utility and changed the preferences.

Since then, it's just flashing orange, and I can't connect to it at all! Whenever I go into Airport Utility, it prompts me to set up the Time Capsule from scratch! I really can't loose all my back-ups, it'd be the end of my life! :eek:

How can I connect to it just as it was before? :( Please help me!

Edit: I forgot to mention, I restarted it by unplugging it, and whilst holding down the reset button the back, plugged it back in. Please tell me I didn't delete everything :| ?!?!
 
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you no longer need it wirelessly, how do you expect the TM to create further backups? Is the TM wired to your Mac?
 
Yes I have MacBook. I set it up so I could still backup, but it didn't create it's own network.

But my main problem is the fact that Airport Util now thinks it's a brand new Time Capsule :eek: My backups are still on there, because it says there's only 40GB available. But I have no idea how to access them :eek:

please help :(
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5)

Try connecting via hardwire. Also you say it's backups on there... Were you using it as a network drive or is it only backups? If it's just backups it will create a new one once you reconnect.
 
What do I do once I've connected it via ethernet?

I was using it for internet and for backups. I don't want to create a new backup, I want some old files back! :(
 
How is it connected to your router? You should just be able to connect it via Ethernet to one of the LAN<..> ports (don't use the WAN port).

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MasterHowl said:
But that's my problem, I don't want to delete my older backups. I need to access them
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Where did I say to delete them? They should be safe and sound until you do something to delete them. The file sharing tab should tell us something about that.

EDIT: If all you want to do is go back to Jazz as the name, go look at the Airport->Base Station tab.

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MasterHowl said:
So how can I access my old files? If I set it up as a new TC, won't it erase my old files?
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A TC by any other name still contains your data. You should just be able to use the connect as button in Finder to connect to it and access your old backups.

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aaah :( I have no money! I might just unplug it all together and wait 6 months until I can afford a hard drive.

Thank you so much for your help, I really really appreciate it. Have a wonderful 2011.
 
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