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Time Capsule Blinking Yellow Light

I have a relatively new 1 TB Time Capsule. I have it set up Time Machine two of my hard drives with a total storage of about 650 GB. The TC works fine; it backs up everything and then proceeds to add and subtract whenever I make changes to either of the primary drives. What drives me nuts is the fact that the "blinking yellow light" starts pulsing about a week after erasing the TC drive and starting over. I KNOW the cause of the blinking yellow light - the drive is getting full. However, TC is set to delete previous days whenever it gets too full. Is there no way to turn off the warning? The only way I know to get it to go away is to erase and reformat the TC drive, which then starts the backup process over again and within a few days of completing the backup, the light starts blinking again. I've let it run for weeks with the blinking light and I know that it just deletes previous backups to make room for new changes. My total content on the two drives has never exceeded 700 GB.

This isn't a crisis; it isn't even really a problem. It is just downright annoying and it should be possible to note the drive being close to full and move on.

Anyone have a solution to this problem?

Mac Pro (2008) 3.0 Octo, MBP 2.4, new MBP 2.8, iMac 2.8, Unibody Whitebook, Mac OS X (10.6.4), More iPods than people, a new 32 GB Touch and 16 GB 3G iPhone

Posted on Jun 22, 2010 12:20 PM

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Jun 22, 2010 2:43 PM in response to Marc Feldesman

Marc Feldesman wrote:
the "blinking yellow light" starts pulsing about a week after erasing the TC drive and starting over. I KNOW the cause of the blinking yellow light - the drive is getting full.


What tells you that? Launch AirPort Utility, enter "manual setup" mode for the Time Capsule, and click on the status light on the "Summary" panel. What does that show you?

Time Capsule Blinking Yellow Light

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