PC can read time capsule but can't write

Do you have the airport utility for windows installed??

I would give it a try.. might not work or do anything.. but at least load bonjour for windows if you don't have it..

How are you accessing the TC disk in explorer?

Try using it by IP address.. so type..

\\10.0.1.1 in the explorer address bar..

No luck turn off all the firewalls and anti-virus and make sure the computer is located home.. private .. not work or public.

Otherwise it is simply that wonder.. WinX which is causing loads of problems..

Can you remove all password protection from the TC..

You can do this directly from the windows version of the utility.

Go to the disk tab.. and go to the file sharing. I am using the Mac version utility but it will look very similar.

Make sure workgroup name is correct.. make sure the guest access is full read and write.

My command to manually access the TC disk.. (mount in unix terminology) will only work if the TC is at defaults.. if not find the IP of the TC first.

So in my case it is

\\192.168.2.206

If it doesn't work something strange is happening.

When you say..

When try to manually copy and paste a file from my C Drive to the time capsule using Windows explorer I get an error: can't read from the source file or disk.

I don't understand why it says source.. that is the disk on your computer.. not that it would be anything new for errors in windows to make no sense.

Can you please format a USB stick to FAT32 and plug it into the TC and see if you can copy files to it.

Otherwise this is just good old windows.. up to its usual tricks.. No rhyme or reason to anything.. just loads of voodoo.

Try creating a directory.. don't copy and paste files.. create the directory first.. then see if you can drop files into that directory.

No luck factory reset the TC and start over.

No files are lost doing this.

Give the TC a very short name, no spaces and pure alphanumerics.. eg TCgen3

Very short name for the wireless eg TCwifi

Password pure alphanumeric but longer for wireless.

Do not change the password for admin access.. ie leave it default.. That means the local disk access is left with password, public.

Ignore all the errors.

i am out of ideas... it is too strange for words..

You are helping to really put me off trying Windows X though.

I tried to reformat it using my PC and the only options were NTSF and exFAT formats.

It has to be straight FAT32.. so plug it into a Mac and format it there..

If you don't have a Mac in the house.. get a friend with Macbook to help you.. or use Linux or anything.. as long as it isn't windows..

Actually you should be able to even format it FAT32 as long as you do it from command window.. ie DOS.. Since underneath every windows there still lurks the DOS heritage.

(if you don't have a Mac why not use a proper NAS.. much the easier solution than spend the rest of your life fighting apple).

I am doing my TM backup to a Synology NAS .. it is faster.. not just a bit.. it is hugely faster from a PC.. and faster from a Mac as well.

So far it has proven to work really well.

Course, I could revert to just plugging it in directly to the PC when I want to do a backup, but my whole goal in using the time capsule is to have the backup located elsewhere in the house and done automatically.

Sure but there is more than one way to skin that cat.

Apple is working on an update. I also contacted Apple and they confirmed that this is a known issue with Windows 10 and they are working on an update.

Thanks for that update.. I wonder we haven't heard from lots more win10 users if this is such a well known issue..

And I also wonder how quickly apple are going to be providing updates.. hmmm... !!

Brian, just came across your post this morning. I also upgraded to Windows 10 last week. And I have a Time Capsule. If I understand your problem correctly, I can Read & Write to it from Win 10, as follows:.

This first screenshot is what I see after opening This PC from the desktop, depicting Time Capsule on my network.

After double clicking that TC icon, I see the Time Machine backup files, two sparsebundles from my wife's MacBook's.

Now then, I simply perform a Copy and Paste, from Win 10 to TC, in this case a picture.

I have not overtly or consciously changed any settings, post Windows 10 Update, to enable this Read/Write capability. It just works.

Brian, I wish I could tell you what you need to do to fix it. It just works for me. If there is any value in this post at all I'm thinking it would be that Win 10 can indeed Read and Write to the TC. Your challenge is to figure out what happened during/after Update that is getting in your way.

My TC is Gen3 and I am running 7.6.4. Same as you so that is not the culprit.

This is just a guessing game for me.....but I just checked my Firewall. It is On and by going into Advanced Settings, In Bound Rules, I see Airport Utility listed as Enabled.

P.S.: I need to leave the house for a couple hours. If you have additional questions of me, I'll be glad to help but it will be later in the day. I'll check in then

Hello,

I am having the same issues as Brian. I bought a new Dell and upgraded to Windows 10.

I have tried everything excep to format the TC's hard drive to exFat. Since I am at work and can't check my PC's drive, I am assuming it is NTFS. I know that NTFS and Mac OS drives won't talk to each other. So I figure what I will try is to format the TC's drive to exFat and see if I can copy back and forth. Of course I am at work so I can't check that out until later but will keep you all posted.

Another problem I have is with my external drive and TC. It is a WD drive and is formatted to exFat. I did this again because NTFS and Mac OS file systems don't play well together. But when I connect to the router via the USB port I get an error on the Air Port Utility on my mac that there is something wrong with my drive and the router cannot connect to it.

I am at a loss as to what has happened. I am using the WD drive to hold misc files the family can pass back and forth on the network and the TC's drive for backups. My wife and I use PC's (for me it is work related) and I, and daughters have macs. So I thought that would be a great solution to have our backups on the TC's drive and our misc files on the WD drive.

I would hate to lose all my data on the WD drive just to reformat it again. UGH.