Hi Peter, Where do I start ?
Perhaps first I should explain that the Primary Purpose of the USB port on the Time Capsule is to allow users to connect an External Backup drive to the Time Capsule in order to Archive its contents, using the Airport Utility App. This will activate a process in the Time Capsule controller that will transfer data from its internal drive to the external drive over the USB connection, at its maximum speed. In other words, a backup of the backups on the Time Capsule. Or for connecting a USB shared Printer. Also USB drives attached to the TC tend to spin down after about 1 minute of inactivity, hence you noticing the USB drive was not spinning. How is the USB Drive formatted? It should be Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Do you have "File Sharing" enabled on the USB Drive? Airport Utility - Disks - File Sharing - "Enable File Sharing" Also are you using Airport Utility v5.5 (which is only available on the Disc that came with TC). I think I remember you have a Dual-Band 802.11n only (5GHz)-802.11b/g/n) Network. When you go to attach the files into an email, I would imagine you are copying the files from the Networked USB Drive, wirelessly through Time Capsule back to your MacBook. If this is what happens ... it is going to be twice as long as if you copied the files directly to the MacBook (Desktop), or if you directly connected the USB drive to your MacBook. I'll give it some more thought, if I come up with a better solution, I'll let you know. Cheers, Ronni On 11/03/2010, at 12:49 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: > I wanted to know if anyone has had the issue I experienced last night. I had > prepared an email in Mail and then wanted to attach a few documents that were > residing on my USB external drive attached to my Time Capsule. I selected > “Attach” the one with the paper clip, and then I got the “colourful beach > ball”. The Finder look-alike browse panel had presented itself and was set to > my external drive initially I think because that was the last location that I > had browsed to. I walked to the Time Capsule (with External drive attached) > and noted that the external drive was not spinning up ready for business due > to the enquiry to find the files to attach. > > I had to finally crash the Macbook – a very undesirable and uncouth action. > Maybe there was an alternative but I didn’t know what action. In any case, > following a reboot of the Macbook, I was able to use the Finder directly to > browse to the files and successfully located them, copied them to the > desktop, then drag/dropped them into the email. But I should be able to just > Attach these docs directly I feel using the Attach function. > > Is the “Attach” command (for a file located on a Time Capsule external drive) > normally a problem like this for others? What could be going on that prevents > the external drive from waking up and responding to the request? The time > capsule is wirelessly connected to the Macbook (Snow Leopard), and the > external drive attached to the USB port of the TC. > > I cant recall if I had the same issue as this when I used Entourage initially. > > Cheers > > Peter… > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
