hi - I am trying to mount a hard drive to an airport extreme automatically which, according to the support pages can be done via Airport Disk Utility - I cannot find Airport Disk Utility, however. Can someone point me to it please
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), iOS 8.3
Must be a typo or something like that, since AirPort Disk Utility does not exist.
AirPort Utility does exist and once you open up AirPort Utility, there is a Disk tab to set up a hard drive to allow it to share to the network.
In the example above, there is a drive named 500 GB Drive connected to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme.
AirPort Utility is on your Mac.......Finder > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
AirPort Disk Utility is referenced in AirPort: How to mount an AirPort Extreme USB hard disk volume in Mac OS X and Windows - Apple Support. Apparently that's an oversight on their part, since it was discontinued ages ago. Probably with Tiger.
In any event its functions are now incorporated in AirPort Utility.
Tiger......I can't remember that far back. 😉
tthanks that explains it!
I have managed to mount one drive but for some reason it will not recognise the second - More trial and error needed, I think
The USB port on the AirPort is expecting a drive that is formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled).....highly recommended......FAT16 or FAT32.
It will not work with a drive that has been formatted for Windows in NTFS or exFAT.
airport disk utility
