Q: I stopped my initial backup in order to connect an ethernet cable.
My Time Capsule is not mounting on the desktop. I made a mistake by interrupting the initial backup in order to plug in an ethernet cable to speed things up. Do I start over by erasing what is on the Time Capsule or just start over without erasing? I am using Time Capsule as a router, as well.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012 4:52 PM
If you are asking about Time Machine backups, the Time Capsule disk will only "mount" briefly on the desktop during a backup and it will "unmount" at the end of the backup. This is normal.
There would normally be no need to "mount" the Time Capsule disk on the desktop manually, but it is possible to do if you need to do that for some reason.
If everything seems to be backing up normally on a regular basis, you have nothing to worry about at this point.
You can always check your backups by clicking the Time Machine "clock" icon on the dock and waiting a few minutes for everything to load. Use the timeline scale at the right of the screen to select a few different dates to make sure that you have backups stored for each date.
Click Cancel at the lower right of the Time Machine "Star Wars" display to return to the present.
Posted on Oct 5, 2012 12:08 PM