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Time Capsule not backing up

I continually get the message: Time Capsule failed to back up (or something like that). I figured it must be full, so I opened it, highlighted all my folders from 2012 and asked it to ZIP compress those files. For three days now the little pop-up window is telling me "Preparing to compress to "Archive.zip". When is it actually going to compress those files?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Oct 6, 2015 8:07 PM

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Posted on Oct 7, 2015 7:13 PM

Maybe never.. this is not going to work or save any huge amount of space.


Copy the files to a USB drive or archive the whole TC disk .. then erase it and start over.


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Both archive and erase functions are on the disk tab of the airport utility.

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Time Capsule not backing up

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