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I am most vexed with Apple

March 11, 2010 by

I got home last night to find that my Time Capsule, purchased almost two years ago, was dead as a doornail, refusing to power on.

This is not an uncommon occurrence with the Time Capsule from what I understand, but as I’d passed the eighteen month mark where this apparently tended to happen I’d begun to think that maybe – just maybe – I was in the clear.

Apparently not.

Luckily, just two weeks ago I bought a nice big mac mini (a 1TB model that can be used as a server as well) to use partly as storage, partly as a media device and partly as a computer – and maybe as a server for this place if I pull my finger out and work out how that works.

Of course now, I can’t connect to the internet wirelessly and all my backups of my Macbook are from all accounts irretrievable on the Time Capsule.

Apple, you vex me!

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3 Responses to I am most vexed with Apple

  1. Darius Whiteplume on March 11, 2010 at 10:47 am

    I wonder if you can remove the drive from the timecapsule and offload the files via an external drive bay, like http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/a7ea/

    I’d have to look at a timecapsule’s specs, but I imagine it is a SATA drive… I’ll see what I can see.

  2. Darius Whiteplume on March 11, 2010 at 11:06 am

    It does appear to be SATA, but file permissions might be an issue. I am not a Mac guy, but have toyed with them. Since OSX is very Linux styled, you may be able to mount and access files as root, perhaps?

    I guess it depends on if the data is worth the $40 for the external bay, on the chance that it will not work. The timecapsule certainly runs some low-level OS, but since it is not booting in the drive bay the entire disk should be accessible. I doubt that the files are being compressed/modified in some strange way, as I gather it is used as a network storage device, and not just for backups? From the way it is described on Apple’s site, I gather that it backs up file-by-file, rather than taking a snapshot.

    Good luck. Tweet at me if you think I can lend a hand or explain my bad jargon ;-) @d_whiteplume

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