

- #APPLE TIME CAPSULE FOR WINDOWS PRO#
- #APPLE TIME CAPSULE FOR WINDOWS PASSWORD#
- #APPLE TIME CAPSULE FOR WINDOWS WINDOWS#
For example, if it prompted me with “Backup device has insufficient space for normal operation. Not so good, and it’s also not so good that Apple just leaves us hanging out to dry with no user-friendly path to solve the problem. My Time Capsule is also a 500GB drive (yeah, it’s too small! That’s a separate issue) and out of nowhere Time Machine stopped backing up and kept complaining that it needed a bigger space for its incremental than I had available.Īpparently while it deletes older backups to keep things in rotation, if you have big enough blocks, it can get into a situation where it’s “stuck” and can’t succeed at backing up the current increment.
#APPLE TIME CAPSULE FOR WINDOWS PRO#
#APPLE TIME CAPSULE FOR WINDOWS WINDOWS#
These instructions were written using Windows 7, older versions of the OS may require variations of the setup process.You should then see the Time Capsule drive when navigating back to “Computer” 4.
#APPLE TIME CAPSULE FOR WINDOWS PASSWORD#
The user should be “admin” and the password whatever you set as the disk password earlier.


Ensure “Enable File Sharing” is checked.You should make a note of the Time Capsule Disk “Name” stated here as it will be required later, for example here it is “Time Capsule”.

The following instructions assume that you have already configured your Time Capsule as a router and that you are assigned a static IP Address by your ISP 3.ĭouble click on your Time Machine in the panel on the left. Setting up the Time Capsule Disk as just a local network drive is fairly easy 2, however there is little instruction on sharing disks over WAN if you’re using Windows. If you are like myself and sitting on the fence between Windows and Apple based products, you may want to communicate between Windows 1 and your Apple Time Capsule Disk both locally (LAN) and via the internet (WAN).
