When resuming use after the screen has been asleep my Time Capsule claims not to know my username and password. It works fine again when I then manually elect to run a backup but it seems to backup 16GB of 'changes'. How can I fix this?

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When resuming use after the screen has been asleep my Time Capsule claims not to know my username and password. It works fine again when I then manually elect to run a backup but it seems to backup 16GB of 'changes'. How can I fix this?

My Time Capsule works fine when my mac is in use but when I let the screen sleep (the mac doesn't sleep as it mines bitcoins when I am not using it) the TC loses the ability to be connected to, claiming a username / password error.

Is this something to do with my mac itself being 'locked' ie it needs a username / password for me to wake up the screen saver? How can I set it to backup while the screen is asleep?

I realise that not much will change while the screen is asleep but it's still it's annoying to see the error message every time I come back to my mac.

cheers

d

Message was edited by: Dave Sag

Time Capsule-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8), new 3TB time capsule & new 27" iMac

Posted on Jul 2, 2011 11:32 PM

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Jul 2, 2011 11:34 PM in response to Dave Sag

I see this has also been reported before but never answered

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1927667

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Jul 2, 2011 11:42 PM in response to Dave Sag

Here's the error message I get.

Note the TC is connected to my Airport Extreme via ethernet and my iMac is also connected to the AX via ethernet so it's not a wifi issue.

I can see the TC in the finder so it's not 'gone' from the network either.

Also note that just then the TM system pref pane was claiming a backup error, citing my 'network password' and still refusing to backup. I waited 5 minutes and did some tidying of my office while I pondered this and then tried again and voila it worked ok.

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