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Q: where to get Airport Disk Utility

I have El Capitan but I do not have nor have I ever seen a copy of Airport Disk Utility App in the utilities folder or Apps folder.

 

Where can I get a copy?

 

I cannot access the Hard drive via Disk Utility  or Airport Utility>Disks (Except to erase/Archive), or via the finder

 

I am assuming the Airport Disk Utility will do that but I don't see a way to get it.  I would have assumed that software would have detected the Airport Extreme and automatically updated it or supplied the required software

Mac Pro (Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11), Airport Time capsule

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 4:06 PM

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  • by Bob Timmons,

    Bob Timmons Bob Timmons Oct 5, 2015 5:33 PM in response to benbog
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    Oct 5, 2015 5:33 PM in response to benbog

    AirPort Disk Utility has not been used for a number of years.

     

    The disk on the AirPort Time Capsule cannot be accessed using Disk Utility, but it can be erased using AirPort Utility if that is what you are attempting to do.

  • by PDP8User,

    PDP8User PDP8User Feb 23, 2016 2:09 AM in response to Bob Timmons
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    Feb 23, 2016 2:09 AM in response to Bob Timmons

    There's an Apple support article (AirPort: How to mount an AirPort Extreme USB hard disk volume in Mac OS X and Windows - Apple Support), last updated May 5, 2015, that explicitly refers to the Airport Disk Utility. But I've not seen it recently, either.

     

    If I connect a disk to my Airport Extreme (AC variant) when that has been newly formatted with Disk Utility while USB-connected to the Mac, the disk will show up in the "partitions" list under the "Disks" tab. But I can't see any way to reformat it from there.

  • by Bob Timmons,

    Bob Timmons Bob Timmons Feb 23, 2016 6:27 AM in response to PDP8User
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    Feb 23, 2016 6:27 AM in response to PDP8User

    There's an Apple support article (AirPort: How to mount an AirPort Extreme USB hard disk volume in Mac OS X and Windows - Apple Support), last updated May 5, 2015, that explicitly refers to the Airport Disk Utility.

    And yet, AirPort Disk Utility has not been used for a number of years, so the article is wrong.

     

    If I connect a disk to my Airport Extreme (AC variant) when that has been newly formatted with Disk Utility while USB-connected to the Mac, the disk will show up in the "partitions" list under the "Disks" tab. But I can't see any way to reformat it from there.

    As noted above, I said that the disk could be erased using AirPort Utility.

     

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    If you want to format a hard drive, then you must connect the drive directly to your Mac and use Disk Utility for the operation.  (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility). A format of Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is recommended.