I have one of the new 2TB vertical Apple TCs. Plugged into it is a 1TB USB HDD with two partitions. My MBP backs up to it regularly and I have a mapped share on my Windows 7 desktop to one of the USB drive's partitions.
Everything is nice and works...... until suddenly, it doesn't. It seems that sometimes, if my MBP is backing up that my Windows 7 machine loses connection to the TC. Windows Explorer locks up when I try to browse it (or my computer since it returns space on that drive) and if I force a reboot, it just gives me black screen with a cursor. When this happens, I can't even browse the TC from my Mac. Nothing works until I unplug the TC and plug it back in.
Seems to me that my TC gets hung up since neither my Windows 7 PC, my MBP, or my Mac Pro can access it when it's doing this. Power cycling always corrects the issue.
Any ideas?
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It's currently flaking out again. My MBP was at about 3gb of 7gb on it's TM backup and the Windows share on my W7 PC stopped showing drive details and I can no longer browse the drive. The share is the USB drive, but I also cannot connect the the main TC drive either.
The MBP is still backing up, however.
When I try to access it from my MP, it tells me:
"<TC Name>" can't be opened because the original item can't be found.
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Now that the MBP's TM backup is complete, neither the MBP, MP, or W7 machines can browse either of the TC's drives or the TC itself.
I can ping it from all 3. The MBP is connected to my network wirelessly though the TC.
Very frustrating.
Everything is nice and works...... until suddenly, it doesn't. It seems that sometimes, if my MBP is backing up that my Windows 7 machine loses connection to the TC. Windows Explorer locks up when I try to browse it (or my computer since it returns space on that drive) and if I force a reboot, it just gives me black screen with a cursor. When this happens, I can't even browse the TC from my Mac. Nothing works until I unplug the TC and plug it back in.
Seems to me that my TC gets hung up since neither my Windows 7 PC, my MBP, or my Mac Pro can access it when it's doing this. Power cycling always corrects the issue.
Any ideas?
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It's currently flaking out again. My MBP was at about 3gb of 7gb on it's TM backup and the Windows share on my W7 PC stopped showing drive details and I can no longer browse the drive. The share is the USB drive, but I also cannot connect the the main TC drive either.
The MBP is still backing up, however.
When I try to access it from my MP, it tells me:
"<TC Name>" can't be opened because the original item can't be found.
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Now that the MBP's TM backup is complete, neither the MBP, MP, or W7 machines can browse either of the TC's drives or the TC itself.
I can ping it from all 3. The MBP is connected to my network wirelessly though the TC.
Very frustrating.