Q: The menu on my airport utility does not match that which is described in in this article
I am trying to mount and share a 2TB USB WD drive on an airport extreme. This will be used for time machine backups and large video file storage.
I have successfully (at least the system said it was successful) written and read the graphics files and completed a full time machine backup on the drive.
There was a Time Machine backup on this drive, but Time machine didn't seem to want to use it, so I created another. The one I created is approximately the size of my MAC hard drive data, is called "bfmj9.sparcebundle" and is dated when the full backup completed. There is another folder in the directory called "backups.backupdb" which comprises many files which look like dates. It was last updated before I started to the backup yesterday.
So I called support and was given some instruction and Apple documents which seemed to have a different menu structure than what my AirPort Extreme shows. In particular, one says to:
Manually mounting hard disks using the AirPort Disk menu bar item
- Click the AirPort Disk menu bar icon (
) and select the Base Station with desired USB hard drive. - Select the desired hard disk(s) (AirPort Disk).
- Enter the username and password required to access the AirPort Disk(s).
When I click on the menu item, I do not get the list of hard disks.
Perhaps I have set the disk up incorrectly. The strange part is that both the new time machine backup and my other files are behaving properly.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Barry
AirPort Extreme 802.11n (5th Gen), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Posted on Oct 15, 2012 12:53 PM