HT201405: Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later: Time Machine - "Backup volume could not be mounted" after changing network volume's password

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Andrewkh
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Q: Time Capsule not available

Time capsule is running fine (green light on) and is recognised on network, but won't allow backups to be made. Error message "Backup disc is not available"

Time capsule

Posted on Jun 11, 2012 7:45 AM

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Andrewkh

Q: Time Capsule not available

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  • by Ms Zoidberg,

    Ms Zoidberg Ms Zoidberg Aug 26, 2012 10:55 AM in response to Andrewkh
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    Aug 26, 2012 10:55 AM in response to Andrewkh

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1170

     

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  • by applefan32,

    applefan32 applefan32 Oct 12, 2012 2:12 AM in response to Ms Zoidberg
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    Oct 12, 2012 2:12 AM in response to Ms Zoidberg

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1170

    This is bullsh.... They write it down to have some "slution" to show. I don't thik enybody has a name longer than 27 characters

  • by Ms Zoidberg,

    Ms Zoidberg Ms Zoidberg Oct 16, 2012 2:28 PM in response to applefan32
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    Oct 16, 2012 2:28 PM in response to applefan32

    At least that were the first step I did last time. Despite my name were short already.

     

    Not worked on Air right now.

     

    The second step I recall , I clean the key chain access:

    http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-6708.html

     

    Anyhow the entry referred to the disk as old name and I changed under SL since ML does not offered the manual setup. I tried to let all access, but won't make a difference for me in keychain. Once Snow Lion asked again for the password due to the deleted keychain entries and I typed (note down that before I deleted the entry using show password checkbox) connection is succeed and now verify backup is in progress. So that works at least, without the power down of the capsule. Once the Pro is complete the capsule backup I enable the Air disk with new name since disk is now mounting under OSX, expected to mount for all OSX device. Hope it will ask for the password as well, than I knew the latest(renamed) backup disk is in use. I kept the Capsule base station password since that worked, just removed the disk entry from the chain.

     

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  • by bikeralex,

    bikeralex bikeralex Jun 20, 2013 11:50 AM in response to Andrewkh
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    Jun 20, 2013 11:50 AM in response to Andrewkh

    I had this problem with my time capsule briefly, and it was cause by my setting up the disk on the time capsule with a differnet password than the accesspoint. I wanted the disk to have a different password to that the disk would not be accessible to everyone on my wifi network, but this prevented time machine from working with the disk, even though I configured the password from the same mac as I was trying to back up. I set it back to the accesspoint pw, and it worked fine.