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Airport Overheating - with fix

Airport Time Capsule version 7.9.1. Yellow light, no network connection, overheating warning.

Crazy enough, the answers in earlier messages about turning off file sharing worked instantly. Would be nice for Apple to see if they could patch this rather annoying issue.

Posted on Sep 12, 2019 6:14 PM

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