Can i use my airport time capsule as a external HD

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Can i use my airport time capsule as a external HD

Im very new to the apple/ ios/ macbook pro OS. I understand a few things but not as much as i did on windows. Im still trying to reformat myself to IOS. My question is: Can i use my airport time capsule express as an external HD? As a way to store media. i just dont want to jam up space on my macbook pro HD. I have tons of downloads of music and picture? Sorry to be such a noobie but any help is appreciated. thanks

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 5, 2013 8:45 AM

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Bob Timmons

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Dec 5, 2013 9:35 AM in response to Cosme11

While you can certainly store media on the Time Capsule, you might want to think about how you plan to back up that important data to another hard drive.

I would not recommend that you try to locate a "working" library on the Time Capsule though. Access will be slow, and the application will tend to "lose" the library more oftern that you might like.

A better plan would be to connect a USB or FireWire drive to the Mac and move the media over to that drive. Then, Then Time Machine can back up both the Mac and the data on the hard drive to the Time Capsule.

You much faster access to your libraries this way, and everything on your Mac and hard drive gets backed up.

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Cosme11 Author

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Dec 5, 2013 11:13 AM in response to Bob Timmons

Thank you Bob,

Currently i have a 32gb usb sandisk connected in the port on the TC. Should i leave it there or plug it in my MAC? I thought putting it into the TC would give me access for computers to connect.

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