Ok thanks Ronni, responses below. Thanks I'll investigate further the pointers you've noted.
Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH *Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 *Fax + 61 8 9428 5555 *Mob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au Website <http://www.hatch.com.au/> ________________________________ From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 12:21 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Time Capsule - slow response Hi Peter, On 24/02/2010, at 8:02 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: My wife was typing a Word doc on her Macbook last night and was typing for around 20 minutes and then went to Save As (for the first time with this doc). She browsed to try and save the document to the External Hard Drive attached to the USB port of the Time Capsule. In so selecting the destination drive in the Browser selector of Word, it froze. She doesn't think Time Machine was doing a back-up at the same time, but it froze (technicolour spinning ball). Only way out was to force power down the Macbook. Maybe there is a recoverable file somewhere but I have no idea where that might be. As Severin has mentioned "Save" first in Word. Is the USB HD a Single self-powered USB hard disk (with support for Time Machine backups) <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2421> You do understand that, if the drive is connected via USB to the Time Capsule it will NOT be backed up by Time Machine. If the drive is connected via USB to your Mac it will be backed up by Time Machine. Yes, I am aware that being USB connected to the Time Capsule it is NOT backed up. As the Macbook is used and moved around quite a bit, it is not preferable to have the External drive connected to the Macbook with its transformer to lug around as well. I have also noticed that when a back up commences WHILE I am using Safari to look at a web site, Safari freezes too - I suspect due to the Time Capsule activity. NO, this should NOT happen, I can be doing anything on my MacBook Pro and Time Machine just goes about its job backing up every hour in the background. I don't notice any 'slowdown', in fact I would not know that Time Machine is backing up to Time Capsule unless I glance & notice the 'Time Machine Backups' icon on my desktop. When opening a Finder window and selecting "....Time Capsule", it takes some time before the next panel to the right reflects the Time Capsule drives' existence and the externally attached HD. Sometimes it doesn't even establish a connection - and then the spinning wheel of death - for what should really be a very simple process for it to respond to. Something is going on here. Again this should NOT happen. Do you have File Sharing set on the USB Drive attached to Time Capsule & on Time Capsule? I will check this, thanks for the prompt. Mount the USB drive on your Time Capsule, then launch AirPort Utility and enter "manual setup" mode with your Time Capsule. You should see a Disks panel. Select that. You should now see the USB drive. Select the "File Sharing" tab and "Enable file sharing". Select the security you want, then update the Time Capsule. You should now be able to connect to the disk via the sidebar of a Finder window, assuming you have the Finder configured to show networked drives there. To Enter Time Machine, you go to the icon at the top of your Menu Bar - Enter Time Machine. Is this normal behaviour? Do others have this same behaviour? It's NOT normal behaviour, and I have not encountered it. I am set to "n" and 5Ghz and generally Time Machine backups are reliable albeit very slow. The transmit rate varies from 54 up to 144mbps My Time Machine hourly backups to 1TB Time Capsule are fairly fast o wireless backup. I haven't checked the speed for awhile so I'm unable to tell you exactly at this time. Machine is a Macbook (Dec, 2009) with Snow Leopard and 1TB Time Capsule with Maxtor 1TB external HD attached. 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