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Why would it not at least keep the history for you in a different directory or something?īefore, explaining how to fix the second error, I’ll step back a bit and explain how I Should have attempted to fix the original problem. It is the most absurd resolution - if it creates a new backup, it says it will delete the old history.

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I know – that isn’t a good habit… and behold, this time it didn’t work! I received a subsequent error about ‘Time Machine completed a verification of your backup… Time Machine must create a new backup for you’. I had received this error before, and I usually just shut my NAS off and after rebooting, it just works. The first sign of a problem was a popup on my machine about ‘Time Machine couldn’t complete backup….

I’m running OSX Yosemite – that’s 4 versions later… I’m documenting everything I went through to get my backups working again so that someone else can save their time! If you find these instructions valuable, please add comments or likes. Some sites claim that it has to do with an error introduced with OSX Snow Lepeord. The sad part is that the error I received has been reported as far back as 2010 - Apple still hasn’t fixed it, or explained the cause. It took me a bit of effort to dig through various websites to figure it all out. I’ve had a couple of old laptops that had had met untimely deaths and still needed to have everything copied from their respective hard drives, I had a bunch of different photo libraries and outlook PST files sitting around that needed to be consolidated, all of them more tedious than difficult, but when my Mac Time Machine crashed – that was a pain to deal with.Īpple, being true to their delusions that ‘things just work’, really means that when things do actually fail, it is that much more difficult to determine how to fix it.Ī couple of weeks ago, my Time Machine back up to my Synology DS 412+ NAS started to give me errors. This past couple months have been a time of experimenting and cleaning up household ‘tech debt’. I haven't had any problems using the Time Capsule this way, and it really is a nice way to re-use a networked hard drive that you may already own.If you find these instructions valuable, please provide some feedback and/or comments so that I can feel good about myself 🙂 It's almost four weeks since I first wrote this article, and I'm about to get away from writing for a little while, so I wanted to note that the Apple Time Capsule continues to work fine as both a Time Machine backup device, as well as serving as a Mac network drive/share that I can use for my Mac OS X systems.

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I'll update this article with more information as I learn it, but so far, so good.Īpple Time Capsule as a Mac network share - update

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That being said, it is ideal in that (a) it's already there, (b) it has plenty of free disk space, (c) I don't have to go out and buy another Mac network drive device. The reason I say it's not ideal is that the Time Capsule seems to go to sleep when it's not in use, so there is a pause when I first access it after not using it for a while. I'm not sure if it's an 'ideal' Mac network drive, but it works well for my limited needs. So far my Apple Time Capsule has worked well as a Mac network drive (network share). You can see this when you look at the Time Capsule from the Mac Finder, where these Time Machine backups appear as files with the filename extension 'sparsebundle'.Īpple Time Capsule as a Mac network drive/share - summary I dropped 100 videos from my life in Alaska into the folder from my older MacBook Pro, and then picked them up from my newer iMac, and a short while later I had a decent video created in iMovie.Īs you can see from that Finder image, I already use the Apple Time Capsule to back up my two Mac systems. It didn't take much to find out I just opened the Finder on my MacBook Pro, navigated to my Apple Time Capsule device (see below), and created a folder on the Time Capsule named 'Shared'. Setting up an Apple Time Capsule as a Mac network drive (network share) Hmm, I thought, could an Apple Time Capsule work as a Mac network drive? I now have a small network of Apple/Mac systems here at the world headquarters, and as I'm starting to feel the need for a network, I looked around the office, and lo-and-behold, I found my old Apple Time Capsule. Mac Time Capsule backup FAQ: Can I use an Apple Time Capsule drive to make Mac backups, and as a Mac network share (drive)?