Q: Time Capsule flashes amber in middle of the night?
Is it a normal maintenance thing for the Time Capsule to flash amber in the middle of the night?
I woke up at about 3:30am this morning and noticed my Time Capsule was flashing an amber light. I prepared myself mentally to have to do some troubleshooting in the morning. But when I woke up, it was back to a solid green light as if nothing had happened.
Thanks for any insights.
Time Capsule, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on May 21, 2012 9:14 PM
It is not important.. it is just the TC can get lonely.. I have seen other people complain about amber flashing LED when they do not have a connection active.. and there was nothing much we could do about it. Put a piece of tape over it.. what you don't know...!!
To see the log, if you use Lion, for sure download the airport utility 5.6 although you have listed SL as OS.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Go to advanced tab in manual setup.
Click on logging and statistics.. and down the bottom the button with almost the same name.. which is kind of dumb,
Nothing much probably shows up.. but worth a look.
Posted on May 22, 2012 3:16 PM